Amy Pickard
@ames_e_p
Biogeochemist @UK_CEH | Research Leader Fellow @H2ONationChair. General fan of nature but particularly keen on peatlands & freshwatersπ§Views are my own.
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04-11-2011 13:33:08
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Delighted to have two opportunities available to come and work here in School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Trinity Geography on the EPA Ireland funded ICONEEx -A 2-year funded MSc. -A 3-year funded Post Doc position Details here: jcresearch.wixsite.com/website-2/oppoβ¦
Fascinating to hear the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's early thoughts from his visit to Svalbard. More to come later this year via BBC Radio 4. His visit to the NERC Arctic Research Station has coincided with fieldwork by UKCEH scientists working on the BIOPOLE programme βοΈ
A fantastic weekend spent with Simon Armatige, the poet laureate, recording for BBC Radio 4. We saw some amazing icebergs and our first polar bear of the trip! Lots more to do for the rest of the month. BIOPOLE UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology British Antarctic Survey π§ NERC Arctic Research Station
Like ditches*? Going to AGU? Then you should submit an abstract to this session led by Chelsea Clifford *who doesn't? agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/preliβ¦
Was great to see a BIOPOLE science talk by Prof Bryan Spears from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Prof Kate Hendry from British Antarctic Survey π§ while in Ny Alesund last week. The talk was open to all in the community and was very well attended. Thanks to @NorskPolar for organising it! @KRHendry
'Knowing what's in Scotland's rivers can help us to take better care of them' - great opinion piece in The Press and Journal by Dr Eulyn Pagaling environmental microbiologist James Hutton Institute - partners with our Motts4Rivers project' pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/588β¦
Water quality sensors on my UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology #ARCboat! A YSI EXO and a spectrometer plus depth sounderβ¦! For Natural Environment Research Council Greenhouse Gas Aqua project. Too busy driving to get an action video, but all seemed to workβ¦! Huge potential for mapping water quality & pollution as well as GHG
Sunny field day learning about #peatmotioncameras at the Wou bog earlier this week. Now to get a pair installed at our @euMERLINproject peatland restoration monitoring site #twinning Jonay Jovani UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Timely new paper from UKCEH Paper Alerts+ others, considering it's #Power2Peatlandsweek. Shows large uncertainty about how and if peat catchment management will alter DOM quality + quantity. A brief thread. 1/6 bg.copernicus.org/articles/20/37β¦ #PeatTwitter
The GHG legacy of coal mining explored in this new paper - the third paper from Alison Brown's recently finished IAPETUS DTP PhD. Linked below π UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
π’PhD opportunity!π· Interested in the dynamics of black carbon in fluvial networks? Check out our new fully funded IAPETUS DTP project, based at the University of Glasgow to learn more. Please share with networks and any potential applicants! iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/bβ¦
#GreenhouseGasAqua boat meet #GHGAqua flux towerβ¦! Fabulous morning testing boat mounted water quality & bathymetry sensors on Esthwaite Water with @DrEllie_Mackay, Gareth McShane & Nick Chappell. Natural Environment Research Council UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology innovation in actionβ¦!
If you're attending Arctic Science Summit Week in Edinburgh, come along to our BIOPOLE session on Friday! Learn more about our work assessing the effects of a changing cryosphere on nutrient transport from land to sea in polar ecosystems. British Antarctic Survey π§ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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