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#PhD viva? Completed it! ☑️ Very happy to share that I passed my viva this week with only a few minor corrections! 🌍 I’d like to thank my supervisors, friends, and family for all the encouragement over the past four years!🌴 Stay tuned for the next chapter in Blue Carbon 👀

I can vouch that these peat swamps are indeed difficult to traverse… Congo fieldwork is very gruelling! 🌴

🏝️Exciting fully-funded 3-year #PhD with me and Hannah Cooper 🌴Assessing carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics in the Pantanal, the world's largest #wetland 🦜Opportunities for fieldwork 🌱Work with great partners across the UK and Brazil Apply here: tinyurl.com/bddh7hun

Read March 2024 CongoPeat newsletter, featuring project update, publication summaries & reports on our field campaigns. ➡️ bit.ly/4c2Px0a (Eng) ➡️bit.ly/48EzLW0 (Fre) Simon Lewis UNEP-WCMC St Andrews Geography & SD Geography at Leeds Charlie Hackforth Dianna Kopansky Shona Jenkins

💡George Elliot Biddulph has created a website 💻 for UN Ocean Decade Programme for #BlueCarbon (GO-BC) w/ help from SGSD alumna Ailsa Macdonald. Take a look here! go-bc.co.uk

Following the Polar Ocean Mitigation Project (POMP) kick off meeting, Prof. Bill Austin, POMP consortium member and Chair of GO-BC, shares his view on the project: "the rapidly warming Arctic provides a critical research environment to understand the interlinkages between... 1/n

📢Don't miss out on an exciting satellite event at #OceanDecade24 conference, co-hosted by UNESCO Ocean, GOA-ON, OARS Ocean Decade, and GO-BC official 🔊"Ocean Carbon: The Knowns and Unknowns" 🕣Time: 08:30-09:45 🏙️Location: Barcelona Convention Centre

A powerful statement from Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of #UNESCO, who highlights the importance of #bluecarbon ecosystems, and our collective need to protect and effectively manage our mangroves, seagrasses, and saltmarshes. #OceanDecade #OceanDecade24

“Policy will always be about people” A great sentiment from #DEFRA’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Gideon Henderson, who drove the message home surrounding the significance of fundamental science in developing fundamental policies. #OceanDecade #OceanDecade24

An important message from Jacqueline Uku, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research, who highlights the need for greater involvement of the Global South with Sustainable Ocean Planning. #Decade_SOP #OceanDecade

Encouraging words from the Sustainable Ocean Planning panel, including GO-BC chair Bill Austin, who are driving home the vital message that “we must consider local and indigenous knowledges if we are to produce a sustainable and equitable ocean plan” #Decade_SOP #OceanDecade

📢We are excited to announce a new international partnership between WWF and GO-BC 📢 This partnership will promote equitable access to educational opportunities in #bluecarbon science across the globe, and increase capacity in regions where these ecosystems are at risk.

"Stepping back to pause and preserve what already exists in the ocean can help the planet, and us, build resilience and create a healthier and more sustainable marine environment." Prof Bill Austin St Andrews Geography & SD writes for The Conversation. ow.ly/ofOT50Rf0MB #EvertoExcel

GO-BC and Scottish Blue Carbon Forum chair Prof. Bill Austin has been on the Island of Barra this week, to engage with community groups and P7 primary school-age children as a #STEM ambassador for #BlueCarbon St Andrews Geography & SD #UHISTEM #outreach

Beautiful aurora display this evening!

We have a new paper on NPP in Peruvian peatlands, just published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… #PeatPaper #PeatTwitter Jhon del Aguila Pasquel Katy Roucoux Simon Lewis Ed Mitchard 🛰️ Adam Hastie Tim Baker Freddie Draper

New pre-print available online for discussion: "Old Carbon, New Insights: Thermal Reactivity and Bioavailability of Saltmarsh Soils". egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024… SUPER Doctoral Training Partnership St Andrews Geography & SD Biogeosciences BluECR University of St Andrews Research & Impact

Vanessa Hatje, Ines Mazarrasa, Pere Masqué , and Bill Austin have been supporting a blue carbon technical meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria this week. The IAEA are supporting technical capacity building in #bluecarbon science in partnership with GO-BC.

Bill Austin is in Longyearbyen, Svalbard to represent GO-BC at the ARC-BON (Arctic Biodiversity) meeting, expanding #bluecarbon concepts of a rapidly warming #Arctic Check out the ARC-BON website at: ARCBON.com

📣Join us on Thursday at #oosc for the townhall event: "Blue Carbon in the Global Ocean" We have an exciting panel of speakers from UNESCO Ocean , IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ , WWF UK , KAUST , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , and more 📍Room 7 🕑12:45-13:45 CEST