Travis Drake
@draketw.bsky.social
Carbon biogeochemist @ ETH Zurich
Sustainable Agroecosystems Group
Associate Editor @ GBC
Sustainable Agroecosystems Group
Associate Editor @ GBC
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We need greater reward for primary research, often labor intensive and often done by small groups, and less reward for large multi-author review papers.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We need greater reward for primary research, often labor intensive and often done by small groups, and less reward for large multi-author review papers.
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Here we go again!!! 🇨🇩
Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Here we go again!!! 🇨🇩
Like anything by Hannah @hannahritchie.bsky.social, I'm sure this is worth reading:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Clearing the Air by Hannah Ritchie review – practical climate optimism
A data scientist rebuts 50 arguments against green technology with lively pragmatism and authority
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Like anything by Hannah @hannahritchie.bsky.social, I'm sure this is worth reading:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
In this new commentary for The Conversation Africa, @johansix.bsky.social, Matti Barthel, Glenn Bush, and I discuss what the new "green corridor" law means for the Congo Basin and what might impede its success @saegroupethz.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...
theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...
DRC’s plan for the world’s largest tropical forest reserve would be good for the planet: can it succeed?
Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and creating jobs for local communities.
theconversation.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In this new commentary for The Conversation Africa, @johansix.bsky.social, Matti Barthel, Glenn Bush, and I discuss what the new "green corridor" law means for the Congo Basin and what might impede its success @saegroupethz.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...
theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...
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How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
April 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Looking the get the most out of your stream CO2 data?
Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB!
The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB!
The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
April 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Looking the get the most out of your stream CO2 data?
Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB!
The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB!
The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Cool! Our Ruki paper was the top viewed article at L&O @aslo.org! 🎉
@johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social
@johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Cool! Our Ruki paper was the top viewed article at L&O @aslo.org! 🎉
@johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social
@johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Lateral Carbon Dynamics at an Eroding Yedoma #Permafrost Site in Siberia (Duvanny Yar)
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March 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Lateral Carbon Dynamics at an Eroding Yedoma #Permafrost Site in Siberia (Duvanny Yar)
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Latest paper out of the WS hydrology lab! Here we show spatial variability in lithology is important for streamflow behavior and carbon export, but geogenic solute export behavior is similar. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Role of Lithology on Concentration‐Discharge Relationships and Carbon Export in Two Adjacent Headwater Catchments
Bedrock lithology drives differences in streamflow and carbon export in adjacent catchments, controlling variability in shallow flow paths Both catchments display similar in-stream major ion conc...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Latest paper out of the WS hydrology lab! Here we show spatial variability in lithology is important for streamflow behavior and carbon export, but geogenic solute export behavior is similar. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Let's just roll the dice, eh?
"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
nyti.ms
March 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Let's just roll the dice, eh?
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Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing fast! Without drastic emission cuts, they could be gone by 2100. Our group head, ETH Prof. Daniel Farinotti, discusses the urgency of action in this interview for the first World Day for Glaciers. 🌍❄️
🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
“Switzerland’s glaciers could vanish completely by 2100”
Switzerland’s glaciers are in increasingly poor shape. If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut drastically soon, they could cease to exist by 2100 – so says ETH Professor Daniel Farinotti in this ETH ...
ethz.ch
March 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing fast! Without drastic emission cuts, they could be gone by 2100. Our group head, ETH Prof. Daniel Farinotti, discusses the urgency of action in this interview for the first World Day for Glaciers. 🌍❄️
🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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How Switzerland cleaned up its rivers and lakes. This success story is encouraging when we address the next step: improving river morphology and riparian vegetation in a warming world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries are looking to follow their lead
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
How Switzerland cleaned up its rivers and lakes. This success story is encouraging when we address the next step: improving river morphology and riparian vegetation in a warming world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We are hiring a postdoc at Umeå University in aquatic ecosystem ecology. See the link for details!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
Postdoc (2 years) in aquatic ecosystem ecology
www.umu.se
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We are hiring a postdoc at Umeå University in aquatic ecosystem ecology. See the link for details!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
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Fighting continues this morning in several parts of #Goma as further M23 troops move in from western side (and seem to gain ground for now). Ambulances caught in crossfire. In parallel, demonstrators have attacked embassies in #Kinshasa, torching the French & Rwandan premises.
January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Remembering David Lynch today. When I started watching films by director and came across Blue Velvet, I didn't stop until I'd seen his whole strange, surrealist, and captivating catalog. Such a distinctive, off-kilter perspective that will be missed.
January 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Remembering David Lynch today. When I started watching films by director and came across Blue Velvet, I didn't stop until I'd seen his whole strange, surrealist, and captivating catalog. Such a distinctive, off-kilter perspective that will be missed.
Yikes.
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yikes.
Finding reviewers this time of year is a complete joke. Remember folks, everyone is busy and if you submit papers to peer-reviewed journals, at least two people are going to spend their time giving it the consideration it deserves.
✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.
✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.
December 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Finding reviewers this time of year is a complete joke. Remember folks, everyone is busy and if you submit papers to peer-reviewed journals, at least two people are going to spend their time giving it the consideration it deserves.
✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.
✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.
%5 increase in global stream power in ~30 years = more erosion potential
Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows?
fun paper!:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows?
fun paper!:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
December 13, 2024 at 9:51 AM
%5 increase in global stream power in ~30 years = more erosion potential
Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows?
fun paper!:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows?
fun paper!:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
5th Annual Congo Biogeochemical Observatory meeting, this time hosted in a fancy old Belgian castle, is in full swing!
November 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM
5th Annual Congo Biogeochemical Observatory meeting, this time hosted in a fancy old Belgian castle, is in full swing!
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Since there's been an uptick in activity arpund these parts, re-sharing the 2024-2025 Earth and Environmental Science Jobs List!
Crowd-sourced list of academic/research jobs - update and share widely!
Crowd-sourced list of academic/research jobs - update and share widely!
It's that time! The 2024-2025 Earth and Environmental Science Jobs List is LIVE!
Submit jobs, keep an eye on the list for your perfect position, and update progress on searches.
Tabs for Pemanent/Tenure Track positions, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, and Postdocs!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Submit jobs, keep an eye on the list for your perfect position, and update progress on searches.
Tabs for Pemanent/Tenure Track positions, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, and Postdocs!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 17, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Since there's been an uptick in activity arpund these parts, re-sharing the 2024-2025 Earth and Environmental Science Jobs List!
Crowd-sourced list of academic/research jobs - update and share widely!
Crowd-sourced list of academic/research jobs - update and share widely!