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drloessismore.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environmental Change @liverpooluni.bsky.social Interested in anything loessy, dusty, Quaternary, luminescence dating, and geochemistry. Happiest outside or in the dark lab. www.kajafenn.com
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Global RIver Topology (GRIT) is a new and improved global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-thread channels and canals. Great to see this important output from the NERC-funded EVOFLOOD project. See more here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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The largest temperature anomalies were found over the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere again in April 2025. Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 reference period.

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Thrilled to see this paper out in the world! Huge credit to Ioannis for the incredible effort in pulling together so many proxies and areas of expertise to reconstruct the record from Ararat Cave. Glad to have contributed the OSL chronology for this work.

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Huge congratulations to Mark Green of the GDSL on being awarded the Back Award 🏆 by @rgsibg.bsky.social for an outstanding contribution to the development of national or international public policy! 🎉 🎉 🎉

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Getting up at 5:45am was totally worth it we found — two gorgeous profiles. Plus a third small one #LoessISMore

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A double whammy from the research gods today 1) Found a perfect section for sampling; thick, well preserved, clear contact with the units below, bones and ceramics popping out of the section. But farmer did not allow us to sample 😭 2) another grant rejection

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Fieldwork day 1. "In a village in la Mancha, whose name I do not care to remember..."

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After a lunch interlude to mark some assignments, I’m back with the broadcast—this time from the Natural History Museum.

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Dear reader, This, of course, was no mere pit stop. 2.5 hours later and I’m just leaving—feeling like I could’ve easily spent another 2.5h there

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On my way to a café for some work and last minute field planning, and stumbled across this. Obviously making a quick pit stop

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It's fieldwork time again; part loess hunt, part pilot sampling, 100% weather regret. Naturally, the weather in Liverpool looks better than Madrid for the next week. #LoessIsMore

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#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

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100th rapid attribution study @wwattribution.bsky.social - Climate change made South Korean wildfire weather ~2x as likely. 4x the previous record burnt area, 32 people dead. Impacts would have been much worse if it wasn't for the good early warning. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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Thousands of hectares of farmland in northern Ukraine that were considered too dangerous for cultivation following the Chornobyl disaster almost 40 years ago can safely return to agricultural production, according to new research. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

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At the airport putting the final touches to my talk at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Earth Sciences tomorrow — all about loess geochemistry, chronology, and chasing ancient dust across continents. Slide attached for a sneak peek. Looking forward to the discussion! #AcademicLife #LoessIsMore

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The cover of this week’s Economist.

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Scales of toolstone transport in the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3: The contribution of Ararat-1 Cave (Ararat Depression) to reconstructing opportunities for social interactions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eolian Deposition! Kelso Dunes, Mojave Desert!!! #geology #teaching #desert #depositionalenvironments

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Classic geographers… Give them a little free time, a cliff, some dirt, a bit of vegetation— and they’ll spontaneously prod, poke, and point. Because any time outside is basically fieldwork @livunigeog.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social

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Day 2 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social field class to the Lake District. Today our students meausured lichens at multiple locations to look at how aspect, position, and human activity (e.g. air pollution) affect lichen growth.

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Cloudy start to the day here in the Algarve—hoping the rain holds off as students kick off their first day of data collection on the residential trip. @livunisoes.bsky.social #fieldtrip #Algarve

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