How smart were dinosaurs? How did their brains, intelligence, and senses change over time? Come to Edinburgh and do a PhD with me (& WitmerLab @OrnellaBertrand & colleagues) and figure it out! Applications open now E4 Doctoral Training Partnership School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh! ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-…

New paper for #CharcoalTuesday! 🔥 @richardsvachula and I modelled how blocky and elongated charcoal disperse Elongated particles appear to travel much further - this makes things tricky for #palaeofire reconstruction Online now in The Holocene - doi.org/10.1177/095968…

Fantastic paper yielding some really important insights into charcoal dispersal!

Chuffed to announce that I passed my PhD viva examination yesterday! A massive thank you to my examiners, everyone at School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, and especially my supervisors Dave Muirhead, Prof. David Jolley, and Dr Dmitri Mauquoy!

Almost 25,000 wildfires fought in England during summer bbc.in/3WTO4ko

While we were busy thinking about rain, this beautiful winter weather sneaked up on us and took us completely by surprise! It's been so fun to see Uist blanketed in a layer of white fluffy snow and a community of snowmen (women, cats, and even a sheep) pop up along the roadsides!

Awesome discovery today - a new outcrop of a young pyroclastic flow deposit (this one prob around 250 yrs old) on Taranaki - destroyed entire forest and charcoalised it

Ponga (nz tree fern) log carbonised in pyroclastic flow deposits of western Mt Taranaki (around 250 years old or less)

Multiple active #wildfires have been detected in #Chile since Feb 2. The total area affected so far is 270,000 ha. The smoke from the #fires is also visible via Sentinel-3A. Over 3000 firefighters and 60 aircraft are battling the flame nonstop for the last 4 days. #PrayForChile🙏

🟠 Fires🔥 in the Iberá Wetlands, Corrientes, #Argentina🇦🇷 17 February 2023 #Copernicus🇪🇺 #Sentinel-2🛰️ Full-size ➡️ flic.kr/p/2ohyE2e #OpenData #SciComm #RemoteSensing #fire #wildfire Image is about 58 kilometers wide

For those that missed it, this is the pyroclastic flow from Semeru , Dec 4th last year. I was watching the livestream when it happened. It broke the camera 😱👀 Scary stuff!!! Video: CCTV Semeru on YT #Semeru #gunung #erupsi #volcano

The clearest picture ever taken from the surface of Venus (1981)

Congratulations to ⁦University of Aberdeen⁩ ⁦UoA Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition⁩ #PhD student Katie for winning Poster Blitz prize ⁦@TheBACR⁩ Early Career Award. Co-supervised by ⁦Rasha Abu-Eid⁩ & ⁦Dave Muirhead⁩ 👏 🎉

Biggest Ginkgo leaves I have ever seen! Nine-inch-wide (22.9 cm) lamina. These long shoot leaves were produced along a beefy sucker off a street tree in Ghent, Belgium. #mesozoic #fossil #paleobotany #ginkgo

Highlights from a visit to Bristol Botanic Garden - particularly enjoying the focus on plant evolution 🌱🌿🌵🌴🌲

Congratulations to all our Graduates from School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen today! Well done everyone, great to be there and celebrate alongside you all.

Call to top engineering graduates wanting to complete a PhD degree with Imperial Hazelab on the wide range of *fire issues in energy systems*. These include batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, hydrogen systems, and powerlines in wildfires.

The largest wildfires on Earth are burning again in South East Asia. Smouldering peatlands. Peat is ancient organic matter and when it burns it instantaneously becomes net carbon emissions. It is like burning fossil fuels but without any of the benefits. Total destruction.

Having a great time AGU (American Geophysical Union) #AGU23. Super work this morning from Dr. Tom Theurer presenting his poster on #peatland #wildfires and heat flux using #raman of #carbon. Great to meet some new awesome people too!