Philippa Rickard

@philipparickard.bsky.social

🌎 Exploring Earth’s blue surface | 🧪 Biogeochemist | 📍 Edinburgh | 🌊 Work 🏔️ Play | 🏳️‍🌈 she/her | philipparickard.com

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of… Flight attendant: The pilots want to know about marine CO₂ removal and its role as a climate solution. Me: AT LAST!

A blue sky day here at the Lyell Centre in Edinburgh! See what I did there? Thought it was about time I kicked off my Bluesky account, so here we go 🦋 The Lyell Centre is a partnership between Heriot-Watt Uni and the British Geological Survey. And, the place I have called research-home since 2022.

The front door signage of The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Sciences and Technology, a collaboration with the British Geological Survey, with a clear blue sky in the background on a sunny day.