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Congratulation to Annika Herbert, @palaeoworks.bsky.social and @ciehf.bsky.social postdoc fellow, on her first sole-author publication! A review of the potential of using magnetic susceptibility to create records of ancient Australian bushfires. Enjoy! www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24093

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#Australian #ornithologists, can you see benefits in collaboration with a palynologist to better understand bird habitats, movement, migration, diet/feeding strategies, by using pollen analysis? (dm me for the paper, if you can't get past paywall) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🦉🦆🦅🦜

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Who wants to go hunting for ancient forests with me in the Canadian Rockies? 🧪⚒️https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ancient-forest-melting-ice-1.7443094

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Still can’t shake the sneezing and wheezing this summer? One of the reasons may be the onset of She Oak (Casuarina) and Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) summer pollen season - a very CBR phenomenon. This year (and last year) we saw a much earlier onset of these allergenic tree pollen in Canberra

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New paper just published in Data Science Journal led by Annika Herbert “Collaborative Effort Towards a FAIR and OPEN Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD)” The IPPD is a collection of Australian, Southeast Asian, and Oceanian Quaternary pollen records datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

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Chinese Elm tree or Ulmus parvifolia pollen is increasing in Canberra this week marking the beginning of the late summer-autumn pollen season. If you are experiencing hay fever symptoms this might be the culprit!

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Congratulations to Madeleine Bessell-Koprek on the publication of her 2024 honours project through the Palaeoworks Lab at the School Of Culture, History & Language and Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University (ANU) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Wildfires are currently impacting air quality for workers across the Los Angeles region. Exposure to wildfire smoke can cause a range of adverse health effects such as fatigue, coughing, and chronic bronchitis.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

We reconstructed 300 yrs of fire history in transverse ranges of CA from fire scars in the Bigcone Douglas-fir. The fire history of chaparral/BCDF may reflect fire history in the LA Basin, to some degree. A paper from Keith Lombardo’s dissertation is here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct | by Sam Arman theconversation.com/new-study-ch...

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LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city? By David Bowman theconversation.com/la-is-on-fir...

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Pollen and sub-pollen particles: External interactions shaping the allergic potential of pollen | by Sudharsun Venkatesan et al. - Source, chemical and biological interactions, such as changes in soil pH, influence pollen allergenicity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Canberra's 'forever' hayfever season causing headaches | in CanberraTimes

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A 🎄Christmas Eve🎄 update on the pollen and spores counts for 2024. The grass pollen season continues to be of low intensity The combined impact of LOW to MODERATE grass pollen, plus Alternaria spores will cause wheezing and sneezing from Christmas Day onwards into January

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Great to see the December 2024 issue of Quaternary Australasia out. Lots of great content related to academic staff and student projects, conferences, field trips, and reflections on Quaternary research in Australasia. See more here: aqua.org.au

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The increase in heat and moisture over the next few days in Canberra will no doubt exacerbate the rising Alternaria spore counts following recent rains. If you are allergic to airborne spores, take precautions by staying inside, wear a mask and seek advice from your GP and/or pharmacist.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Hay fever and asthma can be triggered by a range of pollen and spores that might be in the air during the spring and summer months. In Canberra the combined impact of grass pollen plus the rise of Alternaria spores can create a cocktail of allergenic particles affecting people across our city.

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Great privilege to be a part of launch of “The Landbridge” project held at the State Theatre in Hobart last night. The short film is beautifully produced by Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks of Wind and Sky Productions and enabled by the generous support of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

The warmer and wetter weather predicted for the summer months is likely to be conducive to a protracted hay fever season. The warmer and wetter may result in a boost in grass growth plus elevated fungal spore (Alternaria) production. the-riotact.com/warmer-night...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Rheum ribes Polygonaceae Iran

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Conversation piece on Raja Ampat excavations showing 50-55ka settlement in Pacific theconversation.com/new-evidence... Also covered in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2443... Original article www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thanks to Callan Morse (nit.com.au/posts/author...) from National Indigenous Times for covering our recent study on fire in Lutruwita/Tasmania - “Study suggests Tasmanian Aboriginal people managed Country using fire thousands of years earlier than first thought” nit.com.au/20-11-2024/1...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a sedimentary geologist interested in sediment routing systems and their response to changes in climate/tectonics. ⚒️🧪🌊⛰️🏔️ Examples of our work from the Amazon River+fan: Andean mountain building www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hydroclimate + sea-level pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The first Australians used fire to help populate Tasmania 41,000 years ago www.scimex.org/newsfeed/the...

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Great news article in the Smithsonian Magazine covering our recent paper in Science Advances - “Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known” www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

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Canberra is going through a severe dry spell with rainfall levels well below average for the period from August to October (according to www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au). This has led to drying off of grasslands and a reduction in pollen production during the peak period of the grass pollen seasoon.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

SARS_CoV_2 maybe the most important biological invasion of our lifetime But infectious human diseases are rarely treated as Biological Invasions Collaborations between medical researchers & ecologists are vital to preventing future outbreaks #bioinvasions #biosecurity #onehealth #covid

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

Is thunderstorm asthma becoming more common? By Kira Morgan Hughes, Deakin University theconversation.com/is-thunderst...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Well you know November has come… when the grass pollen reaches peak levels… though this year something else is going on. The "November rise" in grass pollen began in late October, but by mid November a major dip occurred in the daily grass pollen count.

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The "November Rise" in Grass Pollen counts is underway in Canberra. - Elevated grass pollen counts were observed as early as mid-September this year - The "November rise" in grass pollen has begun as HIGH pollen days are recorded - The cumulative grass pollen count is tracking around average

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It was such a pleasure to be interviewed for the National Indigenous TV ! Thank you for having me and for spreading our new research 🔥🙌 (PS excuse the wrong affiliation😅) #culturalburning #australia #newresearch

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

It's been a long time coming and taken years of hard work from many people to see it to fruition, but we finally made it! This week the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) was launched on the Nguma-bada campus of James Cook University.

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Fire data shifts human arrival in Tasmania back 2,000 years cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

⚠️Our new #research about past fuels for #fires 🌳 🔥 in southeastern #Australia is out today ! Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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