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Oscar Branson
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Ocean scientist at @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social. Confused by #shells, #oceans and #carbon. More at: https://biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/
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🚨🚨🚨 TWO FULLY FUNDED POSITIONS 🚨🚨🚨

Both working out how shells are made, building quantitative models of the #biology, #mineralogy and #geochemistry of #biomineralisation.

Come join our cross-disciplinary team funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk !

#phd #postdoc 🌊

biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/research/gra...
Building Shells
Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Biomineralisation
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
The Registration and Abstract Deadline submission deadline for #ICP15 has been extended to the 5th May.

We know you were all busy at #EGU25 😁

@egu.eu

www.icp15.com/news/5th-may...
5th May - Extension — ICP15
Deadline extension!
www.icp15.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
So exciting to be able to support so many ECRs!!

Looking forward to #ICP15!
anandpallavijha.bsky.social Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · Apr 19
#ICP15 #awards 120 #ECR #grants.

We were able to support a diverse group of applicants from 21 #countries, around 80% of which were #PhD students.

Congratulations to all successful applicants 👏🏽👏🏽

Read more 👇🏼
www.icp15.com/news/ecr-gra...
#ICP15 deadlines and announcement of 120 ECR grants.
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 perspective speakers are Raja Ganeshram, B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming, Bridget Wade and Thomas Westerhold
March 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on past climate state reconstructions from #proxies and #models Alex Farnsworth
Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social
Johann allege @awi.de
And
Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Complete line of theme speakers:
www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 invited speakers on past climate state reconstructions from proxies and models are Alex J Farnsworth, Heather Ford, Lucas Jonkers, Johann P Klages and Pam Vervoort
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on #ocean-climate dynamics
Cristiano Chiessi
Sophie Hines @whoi.edu
@fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social
And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
#ICP15 announces speakers for #ocean ocean-climate dynamics: (left to right) Cristiano M Chiessi, Sophie Hines, Frerk Poeppelmier and Xu Zhang
March 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 presents #invited #plenary #speakers for #paleomonsoon #monsoon dynamics theme @triptychphrases.bsky.social Pedro DiNezio @edhathorne.bsky.social @antacl.bsky.social Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh

www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 invited speakers photos (from left to right): Tripti Bhattacharya, Pedro DiNezio, Ed Hathorne, Anta-Clarissa Sarr, Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh.
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 presents #invited #speakers in theme 5, #innovation / #novel approaches in #paleocenaography and #paleoclimatology
Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews
Lenart De Nooijer ->
Matt Osman -> UoCambridge
Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni
Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni

www.icp15.com/themes
(Scroll down to theme 5).
#ICP15 invited speakers of Theme 5 are: (from left to right) Hana Jurikova, Lenart De Nooijer, Matt Osman, Yi Wang and Martin Ziegler.
March 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social
#ICP15 presents theme 1 #invited #speakers #biogeochemistry #Climate
@eleniwater.bsky.social @alexauderset.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @seavdavis.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social and Arvind Singh
Theme 1 invited speakers at the ICP15, Eleni Anagnostou, Alex Auderset, Tom Chalk, Kate David, Jesse Farmer and Arun Singh.
March 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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ocnogrphr.bsky.social
Paleo peeps: ICP15 website is live!

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Bengaluru next year! 🌊
anandpallavijha.bsky.social Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · Dec 20

Website for #ICP15 is now live 👇🏼

www.icp15.com

Please create an account to be on ICP15 email-list and receive conference updates:

www.icp15.com/account/logi...
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
ICP15 website is live!!
December 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
Know what you're up to next Summer? Come join us for an exciting conference in India!

www.icp15.com

#ICP15 🌊
ICP15 - 15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography, Bangaluru, India
15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography, Bangaluru, India
www.icp15.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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anandpallavijha.bsky.social

Website for #ICP15 is now live 👇🏼

www.icp15.com

Please create an account to be on ICP15 email-list and receive conference updates:

www.icp15.com/account/logi...
This is a banner image for ICP15 showing the logo and the venue at IISc Bengaluru, India.
December 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social
Deadline for applications is 7 January 2025. More information on how to apply may be found here: www.esc.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ner...
New NERC CREATES PhD funding programme announced | Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a series of new PhD studentships, starting from October 2025.
www.esc.cam.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 10:23 AM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
Excited for a fun day of #coral talks at #RCUK2024!
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 AM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
🚨🌊🐚 Fully Funded PhD Position!! 🪸🌊🚨

Carbonate biominerals are a big deal. For global carbon cycling, and our understanding of past climates... But how do they form?! There's a lot we don't know. Come and join us to build a computational model of these mysterious processes!

#ocean #carbon #shell
PhD Student Wanted!
Modeling biomineralisation processes.
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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thefosterlab.bsky.social
Biominerals play a central role in Earth's past, present and future climate, but there are major gaps in our understanding of how they form. In this chapter, led by @oscarbranson.bsky.social, we show how the geochemistry of CaCO3 biominerals can fill these gaps tinyurl.com/3uvmfuc8 🧪⚒️🪸🐙🌊
A geochemical schematic of the biological and crystallographic processes of biomineralisation. A mineralized skeleton (bottom) grows from a calcifying fluid which is separated from external seawater by a layer of tissue. There are multiple possible ways to transport ions across this tissue layer to the site of calcification (solid arrows), which are often associated with the co-transport or counter-transport of other ions (dashed arrows). A conceptual space for exploring the dynamics of biomineral geochemistry, with labels for a calcite biomineral.
September 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

3-year #postdoc position to study the #geochemistry of marine #calcification!

biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/job/leverhul...

Come join my @leverhulme.bsky.social project to work out how shells are made!

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social @eageo.bsky.social @geochemgroup.bsky.social
PostDoc Wanted!
Geochemistry of Marine Calcification Mechanisms
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
June 21, 2024 at 8:43 AM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 9 days left!! 🚨🚨🚨

To apply for this fully funded PhD studentship studying the geochemistry of biominerals!

biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/job/biomin/l...
PhD Student Wanted!
Outside the comfort zone: geochemical changes in marine calcifiers in response to extreme environmental conditions.
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
January 10, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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One for the carbon chemistry nerds...

Check out our preprint about Kgen - a new, cross-platform tool for calculating ocean carbon speciation constants in modified seawater composition!

biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/research/pap...
New Paper: Kgen!
Kgen: reducing inconsistencies in seawater carbon calculations.
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
January 4, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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January 2, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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michaelhenehan.bsky.social
Loads of PhD openings, some with me, some not (a thread 🧵)- please spread the word (🙏). First is a @PETRARCHproject one with me at @UoBEarthScience , open to all nationalities, working on the causal drivers of Cretaceous OAEs with boron isotopes bit.ly/petrarch2 . . 1/7
December 20, 2023 at 12:06 PM
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🚨2 geochemistry positions 🚨
in beautiful St Andrews(1 postdoc, 1 lab tech) studying volcanic forcing of climate. FWIW I am definitely better at science & supervising than social media!👩🏻‍🔬 Deadline extended Jan 10. tinyurl.com/29c6ebxc & tinyurl.com/mpd7tphh
Research Fellow – AR2903HM
Research Fellow – AR2903HM, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Salary: £37,099 - £40,521 per annum Start Date: 1 February 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter Fixed Term: 3 years, <p>We ...
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December 19, 2023 at 11:32 AM
oscarbranson.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 Fully-Funded PhD Project 🚨🚨🚨

Interested in shells, corals or plankton? Ever wondered how they form? Come join our group @Cambridge on this @leverhulme.bsky.social project!

A fun combination of culturing, geochemistry, physiology and modelling.

biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk/job/biomin/l...
PhD Student Wanted!
Outside the comfort zone: physiological responses of marine calcifiers to extreme environmental conditions.
biomin.esc.cam.ac.uk
December 16, 2023 at 12:28 PM