🚨 PhD Scholarship 2026 @CurtinUni! Unlock biodiverse recarbonising potential of Australian soils. Study soil-plant-microbe interactions in semi-arid ecosystems. Must: PhD-ready, passion for science, field/lab work, must write well… 🧪🌱🌏 SEE 👇 🧫🔬🥼🧬 #SoilScience #PhDopportunity #EcoRestoration

Andrea Bravo-Escobar presents innovative research at #EGU2025, advancing methods to measure microbial biomass. Key to unlocking soil carbon dynamics and enhancing climate models! 🌱🧪🌏 #SLSL #CurtinUniversity #SoilScience #Soil #HealingCountry

Nathan Wells shares his PhD research at #EGU2025, linking Australian native plant diversity to enhanced soil carbon storage. Vital insights for landscape #restoration! 🌱🧪🌏 #SLSL #CurtinUniversity #Soilscience #Soil

📢 New research identifies the main environmental drivers of soil organic carbon in Australia’s rangelands—an extensive and ecologically significant part of the continent. @williamzhope.bsky.social @LewisWalden @ravr19.bsky.social 🧪🌱🌏 #Soil #SoilScience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Environmental drivers of soil organic carbon in the Australian rangelands

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is vital for maintaining healthy ecosystems and providing benefits beyond climate change mitigation. The Australian rangelan…

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📢 MIR spectroscopy characterises C fractions & organic-mineral associations, improving understanding and assessment of soil C stability. It enhances fractionation quality, strengthening soil C analysis. 🧪🌏🌱 #SoilScience @lewiswalden.bsky.social 🔗 bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

FT‐MIR Spectroscopic Analysis of the Organic Carbon Fractions in Australian Mineral Soils

Soil organic carbon (C) is heterogeneous. It exists in various forms along a decomposition continuum, from labile fast-cycling compounds to more persistent forms that can reside in the soil for centu...

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New paper from @slsl-curtinuni.bsky.social uses a compositional transforms & multi-output CNNs to model POC & MAOC with mid-infrared spectra. A useful complement to fractionation methods for spatial analysis & monitoring 🧪🌏 #SoilScience #Spectroscopy #MachineLearning @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

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Combining a compositional transform with MIR spectra & multi-output CNNs improves SOC fraction estimates. Interpreting models with SHAP boosts confidence. A more efficient way to study SOC dynamics 🧪🌏 #Soil @williamzhope.bsky.social @lewiswalden.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to characterise the SOC fractions (the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon ) compositionally and identify important organic and inorganic functional groups that differed by fraction simultaneously? Here is our solution. 🧪🌏#Soil www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy

We need soil organic carbon (SOC) and the SOC fractions, the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon (POC, MAOC), to understand SOC dynamics…

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