Staff and students on the summit of Helvellyn

Weather observations on Helvellyn

River flow measurements in Glenridding

Cold front passing through on Skiddaw

That’s a wrap on our inaugural 2nd-year @earthscista.bsky.social undergraduate field trip to the Lake District!

We were blessed with predominantly glorious weather ☀️ which made measuring water quality & transport, carbon flux and boundary layer properties all the more fun 😁

Thirlmere Reservoir on an overcast day in June 2025 looking toward Helvellyn

Final prep underway for our inaugural 2nd-year undergrad Environmental Earth Science field trip to the Lake District next week! @earthscista.bsky.social

We'll be exploring boundary layer meteorology, soil erosion, nutrient transport, water quality & carbon flux. Hoping the weather is on our side...

Final call for our opening in @earthscista.bsky.social - chair in Earth Sciences, closes Monday.

Fancy escaping to a great University in a lovely wee country? Need a wee weekend project?! Then get your applications in!

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A fantastic day at Cambo House for our School's Postgraduate Research Away Day – a beautiful setting for science, sunshine, and smiles.

Excellent to see all our research students presenting their work through talks and posters, showcasing a great standard of diverse research.

Well done all! ⭐

IPCC in a Changing Climate: great event yesterday hosted by @earthscista.bsky.social and featuring current IPCC Chair Jim Skea. I gave a talk highlighting major contributions of St Andrews science to the IPCC process @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ipcc.bsky.social

University of St Andrews Earth and Environmental Sciences Chair in Earth Sciences

Deadline fast approaching (23 March) to apply to our exciting Chair in Earth Sciences (Full Professor) position!

Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Climate Dynamics Lab is visiting Schloss Ringberg this week for the inaugural "EUCLIDYAN" workshop, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology! Lots of science, collaboration + building lasting connections with groups working on similar topics @earthscista.bsky.social

We are hiring a Chair in Earth Sci (Full Prof) @earthscista.bsky.social! Very limited teaching/admin for (at least) first 5 years. Atmosphere/oceans/climate firmly in remit. Reach out if you have questions! Deadline 23 March 2026

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Our third years headed to Arbroath to explore incredible fluvial sediments! 🌊🪨 From channels and point bars to paleosols, debris flows and crevasse splay deposits — stunning fluvial architecture on display 👏📚 The only drama? A fast-moving tide that left a few soggy feet! 🌊👟😅

Just over a month left to apply ⬇️

Well done everyone! Wonderful news to share. [8/8]

VOLTESSO will explore how volcanic eruptions shaped climate during the onset of the Little Ice Age, using cutting-edge geochemistry and polar ice core science 🧪🧊 [7/8]

Congratulations to Seokhyun Ro on securing a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship for the project "VOLTESSO" VOlcanic climate forcing over the onset of the Little Ice Age through TEphra geochemistry and Stratospheric Sulfate isotope analyses in polar ice cOres) 🌋❄️ 👏 [6/8]

NITRO-MET will fund laboratory and field research, conference participation, and a 12-month laboratory technician at St Andrews. [5/8]

Congratulations to Sami Mikhail and Eva Stüeken on being awarded a £911k NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant entitled “NITRO-MET: Reactive Nitrogen Supply Driven by Orogenic Metamorphism" as co-Investigators with colleagues from Oxford Earth Sciences. 🌍👏 [4/8]

This three-year award will fund a new postdoc, support isotope analyses in the STAIG lab, ion probe work in Edinburgh, and the acquisition of a computer-controlled microdrill. 🔬 [3/8]

Congratulations to Bob Steele on securing a £650k 3-year STFC grant for his project, “Unlocking the isotopic evolution of the early Solar System: evidence from chondrules.” 🌌👏 [2/8]

Lots of exciting School news with some big successes to celebrate! A thread of updates 🧵 🌍🧪💻 [1/8]

Image of papers, writing implements, and an electronic device laid out ready for use.

🚀Launching a new blog series for #LoveData26!

🌟Cornerstone your project with good research practice: Data management plans = small document, big impact 💪🎉 tinyurl.com/dsofdata

#OpenResearch #RDM #FAIRdata @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

Job alert: #PhD position, fully funded on phosphorus cycling across the GOE, University of St Andrews (UK). Apply by 20 March.
More info: buff.ly/pG71lDE
@earthscista.bsky.social

📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field.

🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026

Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Are you interested in climate? Do you have a background in maths, physics, climate science, or a related field?
Would you like an office half a mile from the beach?

If the answer to most of those is yes, you might be interested in this PhD project at St Andrews.

@earthscista.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ed Stephens, who has been offered a position as Honorary Professor!

Ed joined St Andrews in 1972 and “retired” in 2005. But since then, his work on applying geochemical methods to tobacco research and exploring the health impacts of vaping, has had outstanding impact.

Screenshot of part of our paper "Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble" in GRL

📣 New paper with Lorenzo Polvani published in @agu.org GRL!

Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble

Open access: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

@earthscista.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu

Welcome to Bluesky @geobus-sta.bsky.social! 👋

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements? What rare earths have been found in Greenland, and why do we want them?

Our very own Prof. Adrian Finch (www.adrianfinch.co.uk) has been visiting Greenland for more than 3 decades.

With Greenland and its mineral wealth now thrust into the spotlight, listen to Adrian talk about Greenland's 'rare earth elements' on BBC Inside Science www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Open full Professor position in beautiful Scotland…

Ice and snow warning for most of Scotland as hundreds of schools remain closed The Met Office warning covering all of Scotland apart from Shetland is from 22:00 on Wednesday until noon on Thursday.

Heavy snowfall events will occur throughout the 21st century, despite global warming ❄️⛄⛷️

Reason is non-intuitive and relates to the existence of an 'optimal' temp for heavy snow that is insensitive to warming (details: www.nature.com/articles/nat...)

#climate #snow

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tropical Temperature Distributions Over a Wide Range of Climates 🌡️🥵

Using theory + sims, we explore how temperature PDFs respond to climate change over land vs ocean. Work led by Josh Duffield! @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ametsoc.org

journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Waves breaking onto the beach at East Sands, St Andrews, under a pastel-coloured winter sky at sunset

Fancy working somewhere with views like this less than a 10 min walk from your office?

Are you an outstanding scholar of international standing within the field of Earth and environmental sciences?

This could be the job for you: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...