🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands
You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...
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Year 12s at UK state schools: Apply for the FREE @suttontrust.bsky.social UK Summer School at Cambridge!
Experience life at Cambridge & dive into Geography—all for free.
Deadline: 12 Feb (Midday)
Apply: summerschools.suttontrust.com/course/university-of-cambridge/geography-4/
Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating.
Apply below now!
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Made by MA students @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social, this film features volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer exploring the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on Earth.
@camunigeography.bsky.social
Session abstract: Tephrochronology is one of the most effective tools for building precise and independent chronological frameworks that link archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and geological archives. By relating tephra layers to eruptive events, it establishes isochrons – time-synchronous surfaces that enable stratigraphic sequences to be correlated across regions with exceptional precision. In recent years, the study of cryptotephra – fine-grained (<125 μm) volcanic glass shards preserved in sediments far from their source – has profoundly expanded the potential of this approach. The identification and geochemical fingerprinting of these invisible ash layers now allow long-distance correlations, extending the applicability of tephrochronology to regions and contexts once considered beyond its reach. This session focuses on how the integration of tephra studies into archaeological research is transforming our ability to correlate, date, and interpret the complex relationships between human activity, archaeological cultures, landscape evolution, and volcanic events across space and time. By bringing together examples from different regions and periods—from prehistoric to historical contexts—the session will highlight the diversity of applications and the growing analytical precision that characterise this rapidly evolving field. We welcome contributions demonstrating how both visible tephra and cryptotephra layers have been used to refine archaeological chronologies, synchronise cultural and environmental sequences, or strengthen the chronological control of multiproxy datasets. Methodological and case-study papers are equally encouraged, especially those integrating tephrochronology with geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental methods such as micromorphology, sedimentology, and palaeoecological analyses. Research from regions traditionally considered “tephra-poor”, where cryptotephra discoveries are revealing new temporal anchors, is particularly welcome.
📣 Studying tephra in archaeology?
Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”.
👉5th Feb deadline👈
More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy
Session abstract: Tephrochronology is one of the most effective tools for building precise and independent chronological frameworks that link archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and geological archives. By relating tephra layers to eruptive events, it establishes isochrons – time-synchronous surfaces that enable stratigraphic sequences to be correlated across regions with exceptional precision. In recent years, the study of cryptotephra – fine-grained (<125 μm) volcanic glass shards preserved in sediments far from their source – has profoundly expanded the potential of this approach. The identification and geochemical fingerprinting of these invisible ash layers now allow long-distance correlations, extending the applicability of tephrochronology to regions and contexts once considered beyond its reach. This session focuses on how the integration of tephra studies into archaeological research is transforming our ability to correlate, date, and interpret the complex relationships between human activity, archaeological cultures, landscape evolution, and volcanic events across space and time. By bringing together examples from different regions and periods—from prehistoric to historical contexts—the session will highlight the diversity of applications and the growing analytical precision that characterise this rapidly evolving field. We welcome contributions demonstrating how both visible tephra and cryptotephra layers have been used to refine archaeological chronologies, synchronise cultural and environmental sequences, or strengthen the chronological control of multiproxy datasets. Methodological and case-study papers are equally encouraged, especially those integrating tephrochronology with geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental methods such as micromorphology, sedimentology, and palaeoecological analyses. Research from regions traditionally considered “tephra-poor”, where cryptotephra discoveries are revealing new temporal anchors, is particularly welcome.
📣 Studying tephra in archaeology?
Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”.
👉5th Feb deadline👈
More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy
A screenshot of the title of a PhD project: “New insights into the timing and scale of past Mediterranean volcanism and climate change from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) Swansea University Crocus DLA”
#Tephratastic PhD alert!!
Study the record of volcanism hidden in the sediments of Lake Ohrid with the brilliant @pgalbert.bsky.social…and even better, you’d live on the Welsh coastline 🏴🌊☀️
Bad news: deadline is Monday 12th Jan!! 🧑💻
More info: bit.ly/4pu3FVu
Lots of offshore Quaternary talks today, and an inspiring keynote from Professor Becky Briant on the benefits that Quaternary scientists can deliver during ground engineering design: if any of this floats your boat (sic), we're hiring at Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB... #QRA2026ADM
A man in smart casual navy clothes shakes hands with a women in white and green, standing on a stage in front of a lit projector screen. They both smile. You can just see the edge of a little black box that contains a medal.
Couldn’t be happier to see Phil Barker win the QRA Croll Medal today. He ended his thanks with some wise words: “Collaboration is better than competition to advance Quaternary Science”.
Thanks Phil for all the wisdom and guidance you’ve shared with so many 👏👏
#QRA2026ADM
👀 A postdoc position working with the incredible @fegbutcher.bsky.social on Martian glaciology!
(prepping my CV right away 🤩🤩)
Enjoyed every word of Dr @abistone.bsky.social ‘s Wiley Lecture today at Day 1 of #QRA2026ADM in Brighton. On a cold winter’s day she took us to the warmth of the Namib to search for ancient hominin landscapes.
#QRA2026ADM is go!
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...
Aha, nice! Maybe I was overthinking it…
Quaternary science themed models: 3 hand made ceramic tephra shards, a small plastic mammoth and two big jars full with bright yellow 3D printed models of pollen grains. The jars tower over the mammoth in the foreground and the tephra is about 1/4 the size of the grains.
My end of year brain cannot find a caption for this image that I took when I’d borrowed these awesome 3D printed pollen grains from Matthew @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social, but it’s begging for a joke about modeling and scale in Quaternary Science.
Your suggestions?
👀 Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies @auarcher.bsky.social
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Given what we all work in, it has to be “a core of geographers”!
Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'.
Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.
A brown rock with a slightly sparkley surface. It has been sawn through with a cutting disk.
A brown rock which has been sawn through with a cutting disk to reveal metamorphic flow banding. Deep burial (perhaps at over 30 km) of what might have started as a mudstone or schist protolith but the minerals and texture have now been reorganised into a gneiss. The wavy structures indicate plastic deformation under heat and pressure.
The outside of a grey rock, showing several large feldspar crystals. The right side of the specimen has been sliced with a cutter.
The inside of the grey rock looking like a dog's dinner of black, pink and white minerals. The mineral composition looks intermediate in character, so this is probably a granodiorite. It may come from the Charnwood Forest area.
Suffolk ploughsoil is rich in far-travelled wonders. One could teach a geology course using just one field in Gislingham! Thanks @megwildflowers.bsky.social for specimen cutting & pictures. Perhaps some from Charnwood @charnwoodforest.bsky.social, others from Scotland.
A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back
Awesome!
Does anyone else feel they are just too disorganised for their jobs? Why does sorting field kit and printing handouts fill so much time? 🤯 Maybe it’s just that point in term 🤷♀️
@geographicalassoc.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social
This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application.
Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican
A (chocolate) cake decorated to look like a section through a tree, with mint leaves around the edge for decoration.
Celebrations in the PhD office as another fantastic @camunigeography.bsky.social student comes out of their viva smiling. Congratulations Ciara Greaves!!
(and 10/10 for the tree ring cake🤩)
📢 Workshop CALL: Deep CHB (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project
WHEN 📆 June 30th – July 3rd, 2026
CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...
MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
A grey, unoccupied lab with sink, centrifuge and shelves
A hand holding a tally counter with 294 showing, next to the stage of a microscope. There is a slide on the microscope
A row of labelled centrifuge tubes, with white caps, in a test tube rack.
A few platy fragments of glass viewed under high powered optical microscopy.
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas.
Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
