Lost isotope chemist now in geography @SwanseaUni! Palaeoclimatologist, mine remediation, hydrology, biochar. Ex-Pres @treeringsociety. Voluntary CFR. Own views
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3 Jul 2025
We want to hear about your exciting research using biochar to help resolve environmental problems! Please consider submitting a paper to this special issue of Sustainability: mdpi.com/si/246969 #mdpisustainability via @Sus_MDPI
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
7 Nov 2024
The NHS might be struggling right now, but thank goodness no one in the UK will be asked to pay $807.96 for insulin.
We must never stop fighting to keep it that way.
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9 Aug 2024
Alas, plastic waste is everywhere! There's an amazing opportunity for a postdoc to join our team @swanseageog @SUSciEng investigating promising ways of removing nano- & micro-plastics from water on a 3-year @LeverhulmeTrust project. DDL: 25 August 2024:
swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…
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6 Jun 2024
Amazing PhD on "Refining the chronology and palaeoclimatology of Chaco Canyon using stable isotope chronology" - some eligibilty requirements - deadline 8 July 2024 @treeringsociety @TreeRingATR @TreeRingLabUA @SUSciEng
tinyurl.com/PhD-Chaco-Canyon
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
21 Mar 2024
Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the tree’s native home. newscientist.com/article/242…
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
19 Mar 2024
Three different mines, three different histories, one thing in common - sustained input of metals into rivers. My latest paper is now out in the Journal of Hydrology, looking at #Nantymwyn, #Frongoch and #ParysMountain metal mines:
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
We’re recruiting! 👷♀️We have a number of exciting opportunities between May & September for people to come & join our Environmental monitoring teams across Wales and assist with their monitoring programmes this summer 🐟
Send your CV to: Debra.Davies@pertemps.co.uk
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5 Mar 2024
Sunny dendro-day @WythamWoods - shame the squirrels like the dendrometers as much as we do @SUSciEng @swanseageog
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
26 Feb 2024
Interested in reconstructing past explosive volcanism then come to work with us…..
Research Officer - Tephrochronology/Volcanology at Swansea University jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ914/resear…
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17 Feb 2024
Water, water everywhere... great day @BIFoRUoB collecting samples and checking on dendrometers! So it rains a lot in the UK! @SUSciEng @swanseageog
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Delighted to see my first paper of 2024 in @EnvSciRSC Water Research & Technology, on tracing metal sources in the abandoned #Nantymwyn lead mine. Thanks to my excellent co-authors, @DocIsotopes, Patrick Byrne, Rory Walsh, @aspectsofwales & Tom Williams doi.org/10.1039/D3EW00194F
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🚨NEW: Two in three research staff in UK universities are employed on fixed-term contracts
Today's report exposes the widespread use of gig-economy style contracts for the staff who prop up university research departments.
Read the full report here: ucu.org.uk/article/13444/New…
ALT 66% of research staff on insecure contracts
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
4 Jan 2024
💚🌳Our latest mega-team paper, involving lots of the EU isotope dendro community, came out over the hols. d18O VPD changes in recent centuries show anthropogenic atmospheric drying across an EU tree ring network. Superbly led by @KerstinTreydte 🌳💚 ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
27 Dec 2023
😀Also extremely happy about the final outcome of this long-lasting, tree-ring oxygen isotope and earth system model based work on unprecedented atmospheric drying across Europe. Read more here: rdcu.be/duzAw @NatureGeosci.
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21 Dec 2023
Festive fun @swanseageog @SwanseaUni - pollution monitoring in Wales. If you're looking for a dissertation topic, DM me. tinyurl.com/PGT-geography
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
13 Dec 2023
1/2 Interested in a funded PhD for 2024?
Get in touch about potential topics: multi-isotopes & diet & mobility, isotope zooarchaeology, palaeoecology & palaeoclimate reconstruction, isoscapes, palaeoproteomics, ZooMS of bone fragments or artefacts, isotope archaeobotany
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
20 Nov 2023
After today's High Court ruling that govt and @EnvAgency are acting illegally is this a good time to remind you the SoS for @DefraGovUK is married to an executive at @AnglianWater a WC guilty of 72 environmental permit breaches over the last 10 years?
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Iain Robertson (inactive) retweeted
10 Nov 2023
It's a pleasure to announce the new @treeringsociety Executive Council for 2024-2026. We thank the existing council for all their hard work and welcome the new team when they start on 1 January 2024. Details at:
treeringsociety.org/Election…
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AN URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL UCU HE MEMBERS👇
Don't let the vice-chancellors win.
Post your YES vote today.
#ucuRISING
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It's Saturday. Have you been working today? If you want a better work-life balance, to reduce workloads, and have proper time to put your mental health first, then get that YES vote posted back today.
Time's nearly up.
#ucuRISING
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