Great to share our sediment coring #scicomm brochures with other Quaternary scientists at #AQUA22 - you can check out this resource online too at epicaustralia.org.au/resource/sedim…

We're preparing to launch a new #CitizenScience project — VegeMap — and create a network of pollen traps to learn more about Australia’s vegetation. How do you trap pollen? You tape a filter inside a funnel and place it on a star picket in the bush. 📸 Alex F Wall

One prescribed burn nearly wipes out a population of critically endangered ngwayir, and another escapes to incinerate quokka core habitat. The common factor is bad fire science; we need to change. theconversation.com/bad-fire-scien…

Having fun with #phytoliths and ChatGPT

Introducing VegeMap! We’re connecting researchers with schools to learn more about #plants & #pollen and we want you! 🫵 Find out more here ➡️ bit.ly/3TgpZn9 A collaboration between CABAH & TERN

Thanks for your help and company Dr Emma Rehn and @FabTwiHan ! Great to finally get away from the microscope and into some sediment cores 👩‍🔬

Our new review paper celebrates phytolith (plant silica opals) research in Australasia and advocates for more research to unpack our unique vegetation and plant-use histories 🏜🌾🌲🔬 protect-au.mimecast.com/s/12E6C6XQ88i3…

Extremely excited about these 3D printed phytoliths I generated a while ago using a confocal microscope. Thank you VUB Fablab for printing them! The red one is from the inflorescence bracts of common barley (Hordeum vulgare) and the grey one is from rye (Secale cereale).

Watching #TheFirstInventors and wondering how sediment coring works and what scientists can learn from it? Here's a little graphic explainer by Kelsey Boyd @HaideeCadd and Dr Emma Rehn epicaustralia.org.au/resource/sedim…

The subtle beauty and diversity of grasses is easy to miss but easy to appreciate when you take the time.

If you’ve made it to the last day of #INQUARoma2023 come check out my poster at 003 in MUST 1 🌾🌾

Images from overnight of the buffel grass wildfire on the edge of Mparntwe Alice Springs. Ominous times with huge fuel loads across Central Australia. A huge warning of what may await if drying and warming conditions continue across the region going into summer. Tanya Plibersek

Huge congratulations to my favourite palynologist @HaideeCadd on her successful DECRA 2024 fellowship!! 🔥

This fire simulation game by Indigenous Desert Alliance & Charles Darwin University helps users understand how to manage desert fires under different conditions such as changes in weather, wind speed and amount of spinifex & buffel grass: 🔗 bit.ly/48Tb8pb

A recent study using climate models & ancient climate data from CABAH’s SahulSED & SahulArch databases shows that Australia was mostly wetter during the last Ice Age & human populations remained stable during the Ice Age & the unstable climates that followed.

⚠️Our new #research about past fuels for #fires 🌳 🔥 in southeastern #Australia is out today on Science Magazine! Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…