Nemiah Ladd
@nemiahladd.bsky.social
Asst Prof for Organic Geochemistry at Uni Basel. Studying past and present interactions between plants, microbes, climate, and people. Skier, climber, immigrant, mother of two
Cool PhD opportunity at Uni Bern to work with Petra Zahajska on her Ambizione project Pixel2Paleo, creating high resolution pigment and lipid biomarker marker records from lake sediments 🧪. Apply by Dec. 2:
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October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Cool PhD opportunity at Uni Bern to work with Petra Zahajska on her Ambizione project Pixel2Paleo, creating high resolution pigment and lipid biomarker marker records from lake sediments 🧪. Apply by Dec. 2:
www.eag.org/wp-content/u...
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Our paper about VOC fluxes from leaf litter following rewetting is now published in JGR-Biogeosciences. Led by Lia Crocker, making use of leaf litter from the B2 WALD drought
Out in JGR Biogeosciences!
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Exchange in Tropical Leaf Litter in Response to Wetting
Automated Scheme to Classify Flux Pulse Dynamics
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Lia Crocker @you-wren.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @nemiahladd.bsky.social
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Exchange in Tropical Leaf Litter in Response to Wetting
Automated Scheme to Classify Flux Pulse Dynamics
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Lia Crocker @you-wren.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @nemiahladd.bsky.social
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Exchange in Tropical Leaf Litter in Response to Wetting: An Automated Scheme to Classify Flux Pulse Dynamics
Wetting of decomposing leaf litter triggered the emission and uptake of 121 potential VOCs including methanol, acetaldehyde, and acetone Most VOCs appear to originate from plant processes, althou...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our paper about VOC fluxes from leaf litter following rewetting is now published in JGR-Biogeosciences. Led by Lia Crocker, making use of leaf litter from the B2 WALD drought
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Finally out: my #TEDtalk on our work on #climatechange #impact on #forests🌲🌳 and #B2WALD amd #ECOSENSE @nemiahladd.bsky.social @laurameredith.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social Happy to share: share.google/Ag6muXOslSln...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Finally out: my #TEDtalk on our work on #climatechange #impact on #forests🌲🌳 and #B2WALD amd #ECOSENSE @nemiahladd.bsky.social @laurameredith.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social Happy to share: share.google/Ag6muXOslSln...
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I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales.
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.nat.au.dk
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales.
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
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Our new #review out on Impact of emerging #compound #droughts on #forests🌲🌳: A water supply and demand perspective #PlantBiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social 🧪
Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective
This review examines the physiological and ecological responses of trees to emerging compound droughts from a water demand and supply perspective, as well as the role of acclimation and consequences ...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Our new #review out on Impact of emerging #compound #droughts on #forests🌲🌳: A water supply and demand perspective #PlantBiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social 🧪
Our research demonstrating early horticultural activities by the initial settlers in Vanuatu is featured in @egu.eu's Climate Division's blog. This project was led by Giorgia Camperio and published in Comms Earth & Environment last year 🧪
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Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu
The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that is punctuated by diverse islands and archipelagos. Some of these islands closer to Asia and the Australian landmass have been home to humans for tens of millen...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Our research demonstrating early horticultural activities by the initial settlers in Vanuatu is featured in @egu.eu's Climate Division's blog. This project was led by Giorgia Camperio and published in Comms Earth & Environment last year 🧪
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl...
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl...
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Can you spot the dead Pine trees? If you are interested to learn more about legacy effects in this ecosystem, join me for my talk @egu.eu this afternoon: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
@envmet.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
@envmet.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Can you spot the dead Pine trees? If you are interested to learn more about legacy effects in this ecosystem, join me for my talk @egu.eu this afternoon: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
@envmet.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
@envmet.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social
I have a new PhD position open in my research group, for a project studying how soil microbial communities, metabolism, and carbon use efficiency respond to drought 🧪. The application window closes on April 30, full instructions and more information here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Universität Basel: PhD Position in Organic Geochemistry and Soil Microbiology
The Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel invites applications for a PhD position in the field of organic geochemistry and soil microbiology (https://duw.unibas.ch/en/research-grou...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I have a new PhD position open in my research group, for a project studying how soil microbial communities, metabolism, and carbon use efficiency respond to drought 🧪. The application window closes on April 30, full instructions and more information here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Can we use H isotope offsets among lipids as proxies of algal community composition? New paper led by Antonia Klatt shows that changes with community throughout a year in Rotsee aren similar results from cultures and indicate minimal influence from heterotrophs: doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Redirecting
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March 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Can we use H isotope offsets among lipids as proxies of algal community composition? New paper led by Antonia Klatt shows that changes with community throughout a year in Rotsee aren similar results from cultures and indicate minimal influence from heterotrophs: doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
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Back in 2019 we screened an obscure lineage of bacteria for a side project and noticed something quite unusual. A quinone, used in cellular electron transport, that looked similar to the type used by plants and algae to perform photosynthesis.
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February 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Back in 2019 we screened an obscure lineage of bacteria for a side project and noticed something quite unusual. A quinone, used in cellular electron transport, that looked similar to the type used by plants and algae to perform photosynthesis.
Anyone in my network know an excellent, German-speaking administrator who would be interested in working at the University of Basel? We are looking for a new Managing Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Universität Basel: Geschäftsführer*in Departement Umweltwissenschaften
Die Universität Basel ist die älteste Universität der Schweiz und eine Hochschule von internationalem Ruf, die in Forschung und Lehre hervorragende Leistungen erbringt. Das Departement Umweltwissensch...
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February 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Anyone in my network know an excellent, German-speaking administrator who would be interested in working at the University of Basel? We are looking for a new Managing Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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A super exciting PhD position available in #peatland #biochemistry. Join @yijiao.bsky.social and me working with cutting edge #VOC cycling in peat.
+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A super exciting PhD position available in #peatland #biochemistry. Join @yijiao.bsky.social and me working with cutting edge #VOC cycling in peat.
+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Please repost!
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For those interested in publishing in a 💎*~diamond~*💎 open access geochemistry journal, consider submitting your manuscripts to @weareagc.bsky.social---opening for submissions next week! #isotopes #geochemistry #cosmochemistry #openaccess
Do you intend to publish in the diamond open access journal AGC in 2025?
Here are the different manuscript types:
-full-length articles
-reviews
-technical notes
-comments
if you have any question about the editorial policy, please go the website page journals.uu.se/AGC/editoria...
Here are the different manuscript types:
-full-length articles
-reviews
-technical notes
-comments
if you have any question about the editorial policy, please go the website page journals.uu.se/AGC/editoria...
Editorial Policy | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
We welcome all contributions that use geochemical data and models to study chemical, physical and biological processes on Earth and other planetary bodies. Such contributions can cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
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January 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
For those interested in publishing in a 💎*~diamond~*💎 open access geochemistry journal, consider submitting your manuscripts to @weareagc.bsky.social---opening for submissions next week! #isotopes #geochemistry #cosmochemistry #openaccess
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To all prospective PhD students with an interest in organic geochemistry and paleoclimate - we have three competition-funded PhDs on offer this year via our DTP (deadline 8th Jan). More details below!
To all prospective PhD students with an interest in organic geochemistry - we are advertising 4 PhD projects this year - we have one FULLY FUNDED PhD via the Royal Society (deadline 9th Dec) and three are competition-funded via our DTP (deadline 8th Jan). Apply here: noc.ac.uk/education/gs...
December 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
To all prospective PhD students with an interest in organic geochemistry and paleoclimate - we have three competition-funded PhDs on offer this year via our DTP (deadline 8th Jan). More details below!
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Achieving climate targets is primarily limited by politics, institutions and humans, not technology, solutions or money.
It's values and priorities, about who we are. (1/7)
It's values and priorities, about who we are. (1/7)
November 20, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Achieving climate targets is primarily limited by politics, institutions and humans, not technology, solutions or money.
It's values and priorities, about who we are. (1/7)
It's values and priorities, about who we are. (1/7)
When did people first inhabit islands in Remote Oceania, and how did they feed themselves when they arrived? Our new study, led by Giorgia Camperio, constrains the timing of human arrival on Efate, Vanuatu, and demonstrates that the first inhabitants cultivated taro: rdcu.be/dZmgY
Sedimentary biomarkers of human presence and taro cultivation reveal early horticulture in Remote Oceania
Communications Earth & Environment - Human settlement and horticulture began in Vanuatu at least 2800 years ago during a wet climatic period, according to an analysis of sedimentary biomarkers...
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November 11, 2024 at 1:47 PM
When did people first inhabit islands in Remote Oceania, and how did they feed themselves when they arrived? Our new study, led by Giorgia Camperio, constrains the timing of human arrival on Efate, Vanuatu, and demonstrates that the first inhabitants cultivated taro: rdcu.be/dZmgY
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Call for abstracts #EGU25 on developing new biomarkers! #EGUbiomarker. Abstract submission is now open! Organized by Jingjing Guo, @hallbergpetter.bsky.social, Nora Richter, Addison Rice and myself. tinyurl.com/4422wwr7
October 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Call for abstracts #EGU25 on developing new biomarkers! #EGUbiomarker. Abstract submission is now open! Organized by Jingjing Guo, @hallbergpetter.bsky.social, Nora Richter, Addison Rice and myself. tinyurl.com/4422wwr7
Just voted in the US election. I continue to be grateful to Washington state for making this process so easy for citizens living abroad! But then I look at the polls and wish I was still registered in Pennsylvania instead...
October 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Just voted in the US election. I continue to be grateful to Washington state for making this process so easy for citizens living abroad! But then I look at the polls and wish I was still registered in Pennsylvania instead...
It's a wrap! Toni and Theresa have just spent six days carefully sampling sediment cores from lakes Owasco, Neuchatel and Biel for ancient DNA. In the coming months we will see if we find evidence of harmful algal blooms in these systems throughout the past ~12000 years
September 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM
It's a wrap! Toni and Theresa have just spent six days carefully sampling sediment cores from lakes Owasco, Neuchatel and Biel for ancient DNA. In the coming months we will see if we find evidence of harmful algal blooms in these systems throughout the past ~12000 years
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Job alert: #postdoc in environmental geochemistry, University of Freiburg (DE). Apply by 15 October or position open until filled. More info: www.eag.org/jobs/
September 17, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Job alert: #postdoc in environmental geochemistry, University of Freiburg (DE). Apply by 15 October or position open until filled. More info: www.eag.org/jobs/
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New paper from Julio and I on marine OH-GDGTs around Iceland. TL;DR nitrate concentrations and water-column stratification are best correlated to OH-GDGT distributions, and not temperature (at least for Iceland...) www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
Frontiers | Impact of non-thermal variables on hydroxylated GDGT distributions around Iceland
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August 30, 2024 at 4:30 PM
New paper from Julio and I on marine OH-GDGTs around Iceland. TL;DR nitrate concentrations and water-column stratification are best correlated to OH-GDGT distributions, and not temperature (at least for Iceland...) www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
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Heads up my climate science colleagues, UW's Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science is looking for an assistant professor in atmospheric dynamics, including the study of weather and climate phenomena. Great department, great colleagues, great location. Info here! apply.interfolio.com/149349
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August 27, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Heads up my climate science colleagues, UW's Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science is looking for an assistant professor in atmospheric dynamics, including the study of weather and climate phenomena. Great department, great colleagues, great location. Info here! apply.interfolio.com/149349