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Liviu Giosan is a Romanian marine geologist who studies the interactions between climate, landscapes and humans. In 2000, he co-launched "Ad Astra", an association of scientists from Romania and Romanian diaspora, and has been actively involved in efforts to reform Romania's post-communist science sector and academia. .. more

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Arnau de Torroja @arnau-de-torroja.bsky.social · 27d
Beautiful!!!

It's surprising that first 40m cores took so long to be obtained and studied.

This explanation, though the cycle would be every 12h instead of yearly, would be analogous to the Nile phenomenon and the rise of Egyptian civilization, which it predated.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 28d
The origins of civilization contain a chicken and egg problem: If large scale irrigation projects made complex Mesopotamian states possible, who organized and built all those canals? A new study by @whoi.edu's @geosan.bsky.social and co-author Reed Goodman may have solved the riddle: @science.org
Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides
Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops
www.science.org

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Paul Zimmerman @paulczimmerman.bsky.social · Aug 26
Hot off the presses! Here’s a new article that I co-authored with my Lagash Archaeological Project colleagues on a geoarchaeological study of what we believe to be evidence of hydrological warfare in the Third Millennium BCE.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Flooding of Lagash (Iraq): Evidence for Urban Destruction Under Lugalzagesi, the King of Uruk and Umma
High-resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Sate...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Liviu Giosan @geosan.bsky.social · Jul 14
I wonder if AGU has renounced such sponsorship.

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · Jul 13
Climate News: London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors: Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel s...
London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors
Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors The Science Museum has been forced to cut t
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Liviu Giosan @geosan.bsky.social · Jul 8
It is unfortunate for all of us when one community has not gained enough appreciation for the time dimension, which is fundamental for the goal at hand. Spatial patterns are limited for paleo by collection of data. Understanding time is not...

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