Vincent Gauci
@gaucigauci.bsky.social
Exploring ecosystem interactions with the atmosphere and nature-based climate solutions. Forests, trees, peat, wetlands & all things methane. Art, gardening & #CFC enthusiast. My own opinions (may differ from yours). https://bio.site/Gauci
Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship: applications are now open! Please share www.pnnl.gov/projects/lin...
Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
PNNL's Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed for the next generation of scientists and engineers who will push the boundaries of science to world-recognized discoveries.
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All set and ready for #ISME20 in Auckland, NZ. Excited to present my research on oak microbiome and tree disease suppression (Session AS29) and on methanotrophy in tree stems (Poster PS3.15.091) 🌳🔬
At #biogeomon a collaegue called our 2015 hydrological feedbacks paper a peatlands classic. So that got me thinking what dozen or so papers would be on the 'must read' for #peatland researchers. I'll start with one of my faves. @andybairdj.bsky.social Belyea and Baird, 2006 (Ecol. Mongr.)
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I refer to degrowth’s thin scholarship base every year in lectures. This backs up my view that it is activism, laundered as serious scholarship through opinions pieces in big science journals. *90% of degrowth literature is opinion* www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cutting methane emissions is sometimes called the climate “emergency brake” - But a @unep.org report at #COP30 today shows the world is not pulling it: emissions are still rising (tho at a slower rate) #climatecrisis post by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates
As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes
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My colleague @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate rhizosphere processes influencing methane (CH₄) dynamics in northern peatlands! Super cool opening -- please circulate careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/11061?l...
Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL is hiring a Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Join us at the University of Birmingham to take up one of these prestigious positions. Very happy to have a private conversation with those interested and with specialisms in forest science, methane, wetlands or related areas www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs/125th-a...
125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs - University of Birmingham
125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs
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Fantastic paper from Loft, @ymalhi.bsky.social and others. The ecological energetics approach offers a way to better integrate animals into Earth system modelling of major biogeochemical cycles, as well as yielding important insights on ecosystem function as laid out by Yadvinder, below.
Yadvinder Malhi@ymalhi.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com
🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome
Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...
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Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective
Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech
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I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.
MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet
MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.
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Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index. @naturerecovery.bsky.social
Erle Ellis@erleellis.bsky.social · last yr.Can Nature & People Thrive Together? 🌍🧑🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵♀️🍄🌐👍 An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures' www.nature.com/articles/s41... "We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world". youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…
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Vincent Gauci@gaucigauci.bsky.social · last yr.My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j
My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j
Tree methane exchange in a changing world
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Tree methane exchange is an important component of the terrestrial and global methane budget. This Perspective explores the mechanisms underlying why...
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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment@natrevearthenviron.nature.com · last yr.New online! Tree methane exchange in a changing world
1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature
Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...
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We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...
Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling at University of Birmingham
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵
The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…
Pep Canadell@pepcanadell.bsky.social · last yr.1/3 The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊 Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this @natureportfolio.nature.com
Yadvinder Malhi@ymalhi.bsky.social · last yr.Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Eleanor Scerri@elliescerri.bsky.social · last yr.In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hear more about devastating impacts of the Laki volcano eruption and on the regional DECREASE in natural methane emissions in this insightful Climate Chat with @gaucigauci.bsky.social Link with timestamp: www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...
Reducing Air Pollution Increases Methane?! with Vincent Gauci
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Accelerated carbon return to agricultural peatlands through biochar addition - suppresses methane emissions and kicks off net GHG removal (with increased water level and added SO4). Excited to see this work from Chris Evans’ team at CEH.
Greenhouse gas removal in agricultural peatland via raised water levels and soil amendment - Biochar
Peatlands are an important natural store of carbon (C). Drainage of lowland peatlands for agriculture and the subsequent loss of anaerobic conditions had turned these C stores into major emitters of g...
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Published tonight in Science Adances by Lu Shen’s fantastic team (and me) “The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions
About 8 to 15% more aggressive cuts to anthropogenic methane emissions are required to meet the 1.5° and 2°C warming goals.
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Back from a fascinating Stanford workshop on Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR). Of course we need to prioritise emissions reductions, but, increasingly, and from work we’re about to publish, emissions reductions under the Global Methane Pledge aren’t going to be enough to meet stated aims.
At a meeting in Stanford. Their clock tower = 87m. Our Uni of Birmingham clock tower (Old Joe) = 100m. Birmingham wins.
