Abi Stone
@abistone.bsky.social
Reader Physical #Geography | #Quaternary #Drylands | #Geoarchaeology | #Luminescence | #USeries | #Hydrogeology | #cyclist | #swimmer |🏳️🌈 | parent | (she/her) 🌐 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/abi.stone PANS & RivER https://shorturl.at/p2iNi
Happy International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms! What better a day to kick off the International Conference on Aeolian Research? www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms | United Nations
The GA, in its resolution 77/294, declared 12 July as International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms to recognize that sand and dust storms cause numerous human health problems in different regio...
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If you’re fond of sand #dunes… …then keep your eyes peeled for the arrival of this sandy tome. (proofs will arrive with the wonderful Frank Eckardt in Sept) It was brilliant working with Heike Wanke & Shoopala Uugulu on soggy sand dunes & Rachel Bynoe on the #archaeology in #dunefields
2026 field season, Namib Sand Sea with these wonderful humans for @leverhulme.ac.uk funded P.A.N.S. project - part of S.A.N.D.S. (Survey and Archaeology of the Namib Desert Surface) gratitude to Gobabeb Namib Research Institute for the warm welcome & all their help in making this research happen!
Huge congratulations to Shashank for successfully defending his PhD on Monday! 🥳 We are so proud of you and everything you’ve achieved in your research here in Geography @uomseed.bsky.social With many thanks to Ann Rowan and Pete Ryan for examining and to Angela Harris as external chair.
Packing up the office for the downsize really sucks! I’ve parted with >half the contents. So many books, notes, thank you cards and pictures that were part of the fabric of my everyday work life. Yet, I still have too much for the allotted packing boxes. #lostmysenseofplace #disorientated
Curious about the hidden imprints of the Ice Ages and what they reveal about the world today? Want to dig deeper? Join us at the Universally Manchester Festival www.universallymanchester.com 📍 Oxford Road Campus, @officialuom.bsky.social 🗓️ 13 June 🕒 11am – 4:30pm @abistone.bsky.social
🚨 Shashank Nitundil’s 1st PhD paper output. Congrats! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #himalayas #EasternHimalayas #DibangValley #glaciation #QuaternaryScience #chronology With thanks to @rgs.org GeologistsAssociation & Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust for funding @uomseed.bsky.social
headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/03/02/a... Interesting piece for #GeohazardsInDryPlaces students and first year #DynamicEarth
A Call for Cross-Border Dust Weather Solutions
by Siyu Chen et al. Key Messages From Where is the Dust Source of 2023 Several Severe Dust Events in China? by Yu Chen (Lanzhou University), Siyu Chen, Hongru Bi, Jie Zhou, and Yue Zhang.
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A huge thanks to Troy Sternberg for his guest lecture today in #GeohazardsInDryplaces on a fascinating and exploration of #dzud
Another research angle on the timing of shifting #sanddunes at the #coast at #formbybeach for the Y3 geography #geohazards unit coursework @uomseed.bsky.social This ‘unearthed’ buried crisp packet is from 1983! And look at that wonderful 007 watch you could have sent off for! #plasticpollution
It’s Formby #fieldtrip day. Today we employ our powers of imagination & analogy: imagining we are in a dryland dune region. Measuring velocity profiles of the wind with height, looking out for saltation under today’s wind & moisture conditions & observing drifting dunes and their stratigraphy.
📣 Calling #dryland #Quaternary scientists. INQUA 2027 abstract deadline approaching fast (15th Feb) Please consider S_056 “Dryland landscape-climate dynamics from the Quaternary to the Anthropocene…” (allocated into ‘Anthropocene theme’) info on how to submit www.inquaindia2027.in
@peatbloke.bsky.social closing the conference, presenting on fen-bog transitions since the LGM. A meta analysis of 93 northern hemisphere studies/cores #QRA2026ADM
Andi Smith explored examples of the phosphorus cycle via analysis of phosphate oxygen isotopes @bgs.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM
And then to SE Australia to explore Holocene vegetation change and which models to employ for facilitating quantitative reconstructions with Alastair Wills #QRA2026ADM
We moved from geoarchaeologists engaging with landscape recovery with Hannah Fluck @nationaltrust.org.uk to a Welsh record of ecological change designed to help inform habitat restoration by Helen Essell #QRA2026ADM
And updates from Danielle Schreve about prey choice of the wolf during environmental change #QRA2026ADM
Enjoyed seeing the faunal record during MIS5 in Guela Cave from @meirzooarch.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM
Impressive advancements in isotopic analysis of biogenic silica using microfluorination presented by @jacklacey.bsky.social from @bgs.ac.uk #QRA2026ADM
And now to Diss Mere and Holocene records with Ian Candy from @rhulgeography.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM
Session 5 #QRA2026ADM starts with Helen Roe, presenting work from David Hatton’s PhD research on cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Harvey
A huge thanks to Nick for his talk here #QRA2026ADM about inclusive fieldworking for LGBTQ+ researchers @quaternaryra.bsky.social
And now our 2nd @quaternaryra.bsky.social keynote speaker Prof Becky Briant on Quaternary Landscape studies and Ground Engineering. Becky is someone who has shown amazing leadership across different discipline sectors. 🦣❄️🌉 #QRA2026ADM
Congratulations Marc!! 👋👋🦣 @marcdickinson.bsky.social for winning the Lewis Penny Medal for his fab tooth enamel dating work from @quaternaryra.bsky.social. @chemistryatyork.bsky.social
Day 2 of #QRA2026ADM took us into the world of #Quaternary glaciation and Sedimentary Archives from glaciers, tsunamis & Quaternary sediments more generally
