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Prof. Kerrylee Rogers
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Coastal scientist, @UOW, Director Environmental Futures, cancer survivor. Passionate about family, science, nature 🌏 🌳 🌊 🧪
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Projecting Uncertainty in Ecosystem Persistence Under Climate Change

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September 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Excited to be part of this team. I’ve collaborated with Prof Saintilan for many years & our work has increasingly focused on understanding the response of coasts to sea level rise. It’s been great to see the collaboration expand as the effects of climate change continue to be realised
eurekaprizes.bsky.social Australian Museum Eureka Prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social · Jul 30
The CrossCurrents Initiative is a finalist in the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Learn more: youtu.be/6m6e21k0VSw

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July 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Ever wondered by dolphins jump out of the water? Dr Katharina Peters explains in her latest article in the Conversation 🐬

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July 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Congratulations to PhD candidate Annalise Cucchiaro on her first paper published in @theconversation.com showing that giant volcanic eruptions are triggered by mantle plumes up to 3,000 km in length, which originate from moving continent-size 'BLOBS' deep within the Earth.

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Where do giant volcanic eruptions come from? New study finds missing link to ‘blobs’ deep within Earth
Pillars of hot rock connect moving BLOBS in the deep Earth to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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@uowenvirofutures.bsky.social members undertake interesting & groundbreaking research and the work of my colleague Dr Eline Schotsman is an excellent example. Her research is focused on funerary practices & burial taphonomy; lying at the interface between archaeo-anthropology & forensic sciences.
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Attended Intecol12 this week. Tartu isn’t coastal & not on my radar, but Intecol12 spanned a range of wetland types & disciplines. We often struggle justifying attending conferences, but this meeting will provide returns for years. Thanks to organisers, University of Tartu. See you all at Intecol13!
Opening slide on Itecol12 conference Field trip to a lake wetland near Tartu Estonia 🇪🇪 Hike around lake near Tartu Estonia 🇪🇪 Town Hall Square, Town Hall and w Students Statue at Tartu city centre
July 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Happy Saltmarsh Day to all who celebrate! (I do.)
YOU JUST GOT SALTMARSHED!!! SEND TO A FRIEND TO SALTMARSH THEM. (taken from the RSPB instagram. https://www.rspb.org.uk/)
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The Environmental Futures Paper of the Month was awarded this morning at the EF member catch up. Congratulations to Prof Bo Li and PhD student Lolita Trenchat 👏

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June 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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🌏 Rare opportunity to join us!

We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university

🔬 Isotope Geochemistry
🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial
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Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.
May 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Spent the week with fabulous managers of NSW marine estate and the next generation of scientists. Our future is in good hands, providing policy and decision makers get their priorities right
Upper Clyde River Candlagan Creek with group of scientists, marine managers, and post graduate students Telegraph creek where bushfires passed in 2020 Restored fish trap in Clyde River catchment
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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From @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social PhD candidate Chris Laurikainen Gaete and Prof Anthony Dossetto
Ancient kangaroo Ed stayed close to home and this made it easier for them to become extinct www.uow.edu.au/media/2025/a...
April 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Giant kangaroos died out when rainforests disappeared
->Earth.com | #Rainforest | More info from EcoSearch
Giant kangaroos died out when rainforests disappeared
Long before humans roamed the Australian continent, the land teemed with giants. Towering reptiles, thunderous birds, and hulking marsupials defined a wild and ancient world of sprawling rainforest ecosystems. Among these formidable creatures was Protemnodon, a now-extinct genus of giant...
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April 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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listen up, climate policies have resulted in the avoidance of greenhouse gases and global emissions would be way higher had we done nothing

here is a wall of text from the IPCC report with evidence

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IPCC AR6 WG3 Chapter 14 Cross Chapter box 10 (14-43, line 39)
Cross-Chapter Box 10 | Policy Attribution – Methodologies for Estimating the Macro-level Impact of Mitigation Policies on Indices of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Authors: Mustafa Babiker (Sudan/Saudi Arabia), Paolo Bertoldi (Italy), Christopher Bataille (Canada), Felix Creutzig (Germany), Navroz K. Dubash (India), Michael Grubb (United Kingdom), Erik Haites (Canada), Ben Hinder (United Kingdom), Janna Hoppe (Switzerland), Yong-Gun Kim (Republic of Korea), Gregory F. Nemet (the United States of America/Canada), Anthony Patt (Switzerland), Yamina Saheb (France), Raphael Slade (United Kingdom) This report notes both a growing prevalence of mitigation policies over the past quarter century (Chapter 13), and ‘signs of progress’ including various quantified indices of GHG mitigation (Table 2.4). Even though policies implemented and planned to date are clearly insufficient for meeting the Paris long-term temperature goals, a natural question is to what extent the observed macro-level changes (global, national, sectoral, technological) can be attributed to policy developments. This Assessment Report is the first to address that question. This box describes the methods for conducting such ‘attribution analysis’ as well as its key results, focusing on the extent to which polices have affected three main types of ‘outcome indices’: • GHG emissions: emissions volumes and trends at various levels of governance including sub- and supra-national levels, and within and across sectors. • Proximate emission drivers: trends in the factors that drive emissions, distinguished through decomposition analyses, notably: energy/GDP intensity and carbon/energy intensity (for energy-related emissions); indices of land use such as deforestation rates (for LULUCF/AFOLU); and more sector-specific component drivers such as the floor area per capita, or passenger kilometres per capita. • Technologies: developments in key low-carbon technologies that are likely to have a strong influence on future em… Cross-Chapter Box 10 (continued) from micro-level data evaluation, and inference from combining multiple lines of analysis, including expert opinion. Additionally, the literature contains reviews, many of them systematic in nature, that assess and aggregate multiple empirical studies. With these considerations in mind, multiple lines of evidence, based upon the literature, support a set of high-level findings, as illustrated in Figure 1 in this Cross-Chapter Box, as follows. 1. GHG Emissions. There is robust evidence with a high level of agreement that mitigation policies have had a discernible impact on emissions. Several lines of evidence indicate that mitigation policies have led to avoided global emissions to date of several billion tonnes CO2-eq annually. The figure in this box shows a selection of results giving rise to this estimate. As a starting point, one methodologically sophisticated econometric study links global mitigation policies (defined as climate laws and executive orders) to emission outcomes; it estimates emission savings of 5.9 GtCO2 yr–1 in 2016 compared to a no-policy world (Eskander and Fankhauser 2020) (Section 13.6.2). A second line of evidence derives from analyses of the Kyoto Protocol. Countries which took on Kyoto Protocol targets accounted for about 24% of global emissions during the first commitment period (2008–12). The most recent robust econometric assessment (Maamoun 2019) estimates that these countries cut GHG emissions by about 7% on average over 2005–2012, rising over the period to around 12% (1.3 GtCO2-eq yr–1) relative to a no-Kyoto scenario. This isconsistent with estimates of Grunewald and Martinez (2016) of about 800 MtCO2-eq yr–1 averaged to 2009. Developing countries’ emissions reduction projects through the CDM (defined in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol) were certified as growing to over 240 MtCO2-eq yr–1 by 2012 (UNFCC 2021c). With debates about the full Policies Increase in number of mitigation policies implemente… Cross-Chapter Box 10 (continued) extent of ‘additionality’, academic assessments of savings from the CDM have been slightly lower, with particular concerns around some non-energy projects (Section 14.3.3.1). A third line of evidence derives from studies that identify policy-related, absolute reductions from historical levels in particular countries and sectors through decomposition analyses (Le Quéré et al. 2019; Lamb et al. 2021), or evaluate the impact of particular policies, such as carbon pricing systems. From a wide range of estimates in the literature (Sections 2.8.2.2 and 13.6), many evaluations of the EU ETS suggest that it has reduced emissions by around 3% to 9% relative to unregulated firms and/or sectors (Schäfer 2019; Colmer et al. 2020), while other factors, both policy (energy efficiency and renewable support) and exogenous trends, played a larger role in the overall reductions seen (Haites 2018). These findings derived from the peer-reviewed literature are also consistent with two additional sets of analysis. The first set concerns trends in emissions, drawing directly from Chapters 2, 6 and 11, showing that global annual emission growth has slowed, as evidenced by annual emission increments of 0.55 GtCO2-eq yr–1 between 2011 and 2019 compared to 1.014 GtCO2-eq yr–1 in 2000 and 2008. This suggests avoided emissions of 4–5 GtCO2-eq yr–1 (see also Figure 1.1d). The second set concerns emissions reductions projected by Annex I governments for 2020 in their fourth biennial reports to the UNFCCC. It is important to note that these are mostly projected annual savings from implemented policies (not ex-post evaluations), and there are considerable differences in countries’ estimation methodologies. Nevertheless, combining estimates from 38% of the total of 2,811 reported policies and measures yields an overall estimate of 3.81 GtCO2-eq yr–1 emission savings (UNFCCC 2020d). 2. Proximate emission drivers. With less overt focus on emissions, studies of trends i…
April 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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Postdoctoral researcher in Plankton Ecology // University of Oldenburg
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April 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Last chance to complete the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists survey.

Closing 31 March 2025.

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March 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Why is the discovery of Japanese encephalitis virus in mosquitoes collected from suburban Brisbane such a concern? It really upends our understanding of a group of mosquito-borne pathogens with life threatening consequences and how authorities around Australia should respond...
March 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Wholesale gas and electricity prices have TRIPLED since LNG exports began in 2015.

Join Konrad from @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @richarddenniss.bsky.social to find out how big gas has managed this heist, and what can be done about it.

6pm Mon 24 March, Newcastle City Hall.
Link below ⤵️
March 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co...

I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇

Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
Table from page 25 of the proposed restructure of ARC grants. Back text on white background, with the table delineated by a dark blue header row and alternating light and very light blue rows.
February 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..."

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Spatial distribution of modelled changes of Mediterranean coastal marsh areas between 2020 and 2100 for a medium climate scenario (SSP2-4.5). Coastal management scenario where wetland inland migration is highly constrained (population density threshold of 5 people km−2)
February 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Missed this when it came out but super interesting
satellitesci.bsky.social Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Feb 6
An unintentionally hilarious bouncing plot, simulating how overpass time affects how well a hypothetical #EO satellite like Landsat can monitor the tide cycle! 🏀🛰️🌊

Dots = what the satellite sees when it takes an image. Each frame is a different simulated overpass time - e.g. ~10-11 am for Landsat.
February 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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👇🏽 New scientific analysis indicates a shift in sea ice formation in Antarctica to a new, less sea ice. Why should we care? Antarctica is a far away.
It’s about global energy balance & how oceans operate. 🧵
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Mediterranean coastal wetlands (saltmarshes) are struggling to keep pace with sea-level rise, with large losses projected under all future scenarios.
New study in @commsearth.bsky.social, with @wolfgangcramer.net @wolffclaudi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 - Communications Earth & Environment
Widespread loss of coastal marshes will occur in the Mediterranean by 2100, ranging from 8% to 92% of current extent, and even total loss in specific regions depending on climate mitigation policies, ...
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February 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Week of #OzSET workshopping commenced with flights over key fieldsites and ended with successful fieldwork on Tweed River. Thanks TERN & organisers Maddie Goddard and Vicki Bennion for the support. Thanks also to the OzSET community - you’re a fab bunch
Window seat on QANTAS flight provided great opportunity to see a few fieldsites on flight from Sydney to Brisbane Friendly wildlife on North Stradbroke, including this very chill koala Fieldwork on North Stradbroke Boating to #OzSET field site on Tweed River
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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An interesting paper written by EF members Prof Kerrylee Rogers, Dr Jeff Kelleway and Brooke Conroy 🌏🌳‪

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kerryleerogers.bsky.social Prof. Kerrylee Rogers @kerryleerogers.bsky.social · Jan 17
🚨🚨 New paper 🚨🚨

UOW PhD candidate Brooke Conroy examined root mass & volume additions across an intertidal gradient in Vic 🇦🇺 to understand how carbon sequestration assists with sea level rise adaptation

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Schematic indicating primary root zone dynamics for different tidal positions across a vegetated intertidal gradient
February 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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🚨New paper
Wetlands in hypersaline environments are especially vulnerable to degradation as increasing urbanization & climate change rapidly exacerbate stressors. This poses unique challenges that you can read about in this paper led by @annaarmitage.bsky.social

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Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands | Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures | Cambridge Core
Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands - Volume 3
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February 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM