Lovely article featuring wonderful Western Australian 🕷️ and scientists, including the pioneering and inspiring work by the late Professor Barbara York Main www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

How 50 years of research turned this town into WA's trapdoor spider capital

Tammin residents are celebrating a 50-year study into trapdoor spiders that unearthed the world's oldest recorded arachnid, and is still going strong.

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SahulCHAR a paleo fire database for Aus/PNG/Nz is now published. @ausquaternary.bsky.social

The SahulCHAR collection: a palaeofire database for Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand

Abstract. Recent global fire activity has highlighted the importance of understanding fire dynamics across time and space, with records of past fire (palaeofire) providing valuable insights to inform ...

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I was excited today to visit the Uni Adelaide metal isotope lab 🤓. But I was even more excited to see my fellow woman in science and colleague Naomi Tucker front and centre as a famous Antarctic scientist in the Mawson Building 🙌

A stunning (but bit warm) day teaching on Rottnest Island yesterday. UWA GEOG1106 students undertook activities on measuring microclimate, the impacts of boat moorings on sea grass, Quaternary landscape change and water quality of salt lakes and importance of their microbial ecosystems

Today I post an astonishing figure. Fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion in 2022 or 7.1 percent of global GDP says the International Monetary Fund. How long can we afford to subsidise #fossilfuels? #greenhousegases #biodiversity #geoscience #IMF www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

IMF Fossil Fuel Subsidies Data: 2023 Update

This paper provides a comprehensive global, regional, and country-level update of: (i) efficient fossil fuel prices to reflect supply and environmental costs; and (ii) subsidies implied by charging be...

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Happy #IWD2025! From the women of CRAR+M and to all the amazing women in our field! 'March Forward: For ALL Women and Girls' reminds us of the diverse and inspiring women we engage with—Elders, rangers, community leaders, researchers, academics, industry partners, and many more

Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Job alert @ The University of Western Australia Lecturer/Snr Lecturer in Soil-Plant Interactions. More details and how to apply: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/51967... Applications close 30 Mar 2025. Please re-post!

🌿 Postdoc Opportunity: Environmental Time-Series Modelling 📍 Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country 📅 Closing: 16 March 2025 💰 Salary: $86,423 – $104,734 + 17% super For full details go to the the link below: flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinde...

Research Associate in Environmental Time-Series Modelling

Position Details: Fixed term until March 2028 | full time (part-time arrangements considered) Academic Level A | $86,423 – $104,734 p.a. + 17% superannuation Location: Bedford Park, Kaurna Country Vie...

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I had a great time at the WISH workshop at Uni Canterbury field station. Australian and NZ researchers got together to discuss warm intervals in the southern hemisphere and how we can progress our knowledge on interglacials, rates of change and impacts on people #climatechange #palaeoclimatology

Did you know that giant clam shells are excellent high-resolution past climate archives? Check out the first publication from Bohao Dong's PhD! A review of giant clam sclerochronology #ProudSupervisor #palaeoclimate @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advances in giant clam (Tridacnidae spp.) sclerochronology and sclerochemistry as a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental archive

Reconstructions of Quaternary environmental change using high-resolution proxies are important for testing and refining climate models to enable bette…

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