Jennifer McElwain
@JenniferMcElwa3
Professor of Botany @tcddublin Member @RIAdawson. Author of Tropical Arctic @uchicagopress Research in paleobotany/climate change. Director @TCBotanicgarden
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The deadline for this Teaching Fellow position School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin is very soon - 29th March.
Wind down from a week of high activity
for a #mentalhealthwellness tour for the senses: 3pm rain or shine let the #plants #revive and #inspire you 🌿🌺🌵🌹🌴🌸🪴🌻🌳
#HealthyPlanetHealthyPeople
trinitybotanicgarden.ie/sensory-trail-…
School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
TCD Botanical Society
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity Enviromental Society
my latest research on #cycads has been published by
Springer Nature in Communications Biology.
Looking at cycad #leaves through time, we found they are FAR from living #fossils !
This was funded by FWF at Universität Wien.
Check it out for free! #openaccess
nature.com/articles/s4200…
A year ago today we launched #PlantAtlas2020 : the most in-depth survey ever undertaken of the British & Irish flora.
Website free to browse for info on 3,495 wild plant species: plantatlas2020.org
Book published by Princeton Nature
Find out more: bsbi.org/plant-atlas-20…
I’m happy to announce that my project ISO-TAISE: Isotopic Tracing of Atmospheric Rivers and Irish Storm Extremes was funded by EPA Research News as part of their Research Call 2023. This project will gain insight into extreme Irish precipitation events through water isotopes. 1/6
Jennifer McElwain Jennifer McElwain and colleagues outline an approach for the tantalising prospect of bringing fossil plants ‘back to life’ using a functional trait-based approach. Tansley review: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…
We're looking for 2 x interns to join the the Kew #Herbarium Curation team for 8 weeks this summer to work with the Fern collections 🌿 apply via the Kew website: careers.kew.org/vacancy/scienc…
Kew Africa team Kew Asia Kew Americas Kew Science
World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast. 35 years searching for the oldest forests and they were only 20 miles away! You live and learn. Great to work with Seds group and William McMahon on this project. theguardian.com/science/2024/m…
I'm hiring a Post Doc Research Fellow to new Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water Co-Centre for Climate+ Biodiversity + Water. Projections of vegetation responses to climate, land use & applying these projections to enable population risk forecasting.
Deadline 20/3/24. bit.ly/4bTpWXn
Great to work with Jennifer McElwain and the team on this #Tansleyreview on functional traits of fossil plants. My part was thinking about how we might infer plant life history strategy from fossils New Phytologist
My time working on Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment #ICCA has come to an end!
Thank you to all the report funders SEAI An Roinn Iompair - Department of Transport Science Foundation Ireland Dept. Environment, Climate and Communications EPA Ireland and all those who contributed to the steering committees for this massive undertaking (1/5)
