John Quinton
@john_quinton
John is Professor of Soil Science at Lancaster University he mostly tweets about soil and water
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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/john-quinton 08-06-2010 15:59:29
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Paddlers needed for #BigWindermereSurvey on 12th May 2024 🛶🏄. Get involved! Help assess the ecological health of #Windermere. No experience required. Sign up by emailing us at [email protected] or visit fba.org.uk/volunteer/the-… for more info #CitizenScience #WaterQuality
Spectacular backdrop to our Lancaster Environment Centre volcanology field course today as we explore the 2003 eruption #etna2044
While our Lancaster Environment Centre volcanology students have been looking at lava, I've been taking a look at some of the plants found on Etna's slopes. The orchids are on 1 cm of tephra, probably deposited in 1992 - soils and plant communities developing together
Good day out surveying soils as part of our Innovate UK ktp Lake District Farmers project. Interesting soils plus my first soil sinkhole! Jess Davies Lancaster Environment Centre The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
You have to love a podzol, even when it is a mini one like this on Great Calva Lake District UK. Who says all soils are brown?
Tropical grasslands support livestock. And the soils they grow on influence their resilience and productivity. But who is monitoring the soils? At #Kapiti research station, it's scientists from Lancaster University, TU München & ILRI on a 'soil safari'. ilri.org/news/soil-safa…
Are Soil Hotels the ticket to a circular pathway in the construction sector? Our new report "Potential for a Soil Reuse and Storage System in England" is live! soilstaskforce.com/reports Environment Agency Circular Economy Centre for Construction Minerals John Quinton Jess Davies Lancaster Environment Centre
This week in Transforming Tomorrow - Jan and Paul Turner talk to Jess Davies + John Quinton about #soil + the amazing job it does keeping us fed + storing carbon and how that relates to work with Lake District Farmers. @LancasterUniLEC Lancaster University Management School buff.ly/3QVwgo9
Remarkable story that certainly puts my soil surveying activities into perspective!!! D-day’s secret weapon: how wetland science stopped the Normandy landings from getting bogged down theconversation.com/d-days-secret-… via The Conversation
Our next Zoom into Soil webinar is on Wednesday 14 August from 4-5pm (UK time). Join Rachel Boulderstone, from the Defra Soils & Peat team, and Irene Heuser, from the IUCN, as they discuss International Governance on Soil. Jack Hannam REGISTER FOR FREE: ow.ly/Ot2O50SGClV
Congratulations to Alex Waterer who we awarded the Lancaster Environment Centre British Society of Soil Science prize for the best second year Soil Science Student Lancaster University today. Congratulations Alex ! Prof Phil Haygarth
Help Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and Lancaster Environment Centre collect robust data on the stage of Windermere's water quality
Great day out soil sampling in the Lakes, despite the bracken with our freinds Lake District Farmers Lancaster Environment Centre Jess Davies Laura Giles
