Bob Hilton
@profbobhilton.bsky.social
Scientist studying carbon in rivers 🌍| CO2 sequestration 🪨 | Biogeochemistry | Arctic CH4 | Isotopes & Radiocarbon | leading ERC RIV-ESCAPE | Prof at University of Oxford https://riv-escape.weebly.com/
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Bob Hilton
@profbobhilton.bsky.social
· Jun 4
New paper! led by Josh Dean “Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#radiocarbon in #rivers reveals the age of CO2 they release to the atmosphere.
An active leak of old carbon from land.
🧪⚒️
@joshfdean.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#radiocarbon in #rivers reveals the age of CO2 they release to the atmosphere.
An active leak of old carbon from land.
🧪⚒️
@joshfdean.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
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Reliable CO₂ data. Highly accurate. Long-term stability. Zero drift. Integrate it or use it as a stand-alone analyzer. Stop by at #CANVAS25. See how the SBA-5 delivers data you can trust. Experience what true data confidence feels like. #CO2 #IndoorAg #IAQ @ASA_CSSA_SSSA bit.ly/4hTIvhr
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reliable CO₂ data. Highly accurate. Long-term stability. Zero drift. Integrate it or use it as a stand-alone analyzer. Stop by at #CANVAS25. See how the SBA-5 delivers data you can trust. Experience what true data confidence feels like. #CO2 #IndoorAg #IAQ @ASA_CSSA_SSSA bit.ly/4hTIvhr
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🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists.
"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.
Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...
"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.
Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...
UK Arctic terrestrial science workshop.pdf
drive.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists.
"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.
Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...
"UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop"
to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research.
Info and registration link here 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...
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🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Opportunities
matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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The Matai’an landslide dam in eastern Taiwan has failed this afternoon (eos.org/thelandslide...), flooding Guangfu, about 15 km downstream focustaiwan.tw/society/2025.... Even in the middle of a typhoon, the resulting flood produced a detectable seismic signal at stations ~40 km away.
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Matai’an landslide dam in eastern Taiwan has failed this afternoon (eos.org/thelandslide...), flooding Guangfu, about 15 km downstream focustaiwan.tw/society/2025.... Even in the middle of a typhoon, the resulting flood produced a detectable seismic signal at stations ~40 km away.
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🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Lecturer/Pūkenga - Geology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
otago.taleo.net
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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There's still one week to apply for our Faraday Discovery Fellowships. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more now:
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There's still one week to apply for our Faraday Discovery Fellowships. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more now:
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
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Arctic warming threatens vast carbon stores locked in permafrost. Don't miss this webinar to learn how river sediments reveal carbon stability + climate feedbacks. Register today! bit.ly/ppswb @profbobhilton.bsky.social @leomenar.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social #climatechange #climatescience
September 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Arctic warming threatens vast carbon stores locked in permafrost. Don't miss this webinar to learn how river sediments reveal carbon stability + climate feedbacks. Register today! bit.ly/ppswb @profbobhilton.bsky.social @leomenar.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social #climatechange #climatescience
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New Study in ES&T! Permafrost peatlands accumulate mercury from distant sources, but thaw causes collapse into wetter bogs and fens. Lauren Thompson shows that these bogs, and especially fens, become hotspots for mercury methylation, and potential downstream transport.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New Study in ES&T! Permafrost peatlands accumulate mercury from distant sources, but thaw causes collapse into wetter bogs and fens. Lauren Thompson shows that these bogs, and especially fens, become hotspots for mercury methylation, and potential downstream transport.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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We're hiring!
Join us as an Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy 🌍 Lead research in low-carbon geoenergy & energy storage, at one of the UK’s top universities. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 on this link👉
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DurhamUniversity #Hiring #ApplyToday
Join us as an Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy 🌍 Lead research in low-carbon geoenergy & energy storage, at one of the UK’s top universities. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 on this link👉
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DurhamUniversity #Hiring #ApplyToday
Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
September 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We're hiring!
Join us as an Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy 🌍 Lead research in low-carbon geoenergy & energy storage, at one of the UK’s top universities. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 on this link👉
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DurhamUniversity #Hiring #ApplyToday
Join us as an Associate Professor in Sustainable Earth Energy 🌍 Lead research in low-carbon geoenergy & energy storage, at one of the UK’s top universities. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 on this link👉
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
#DurhamUniversity #Hiring #ApplyToday
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships | Royal Society
Seven pioneering researchers have been announced as the first recipients.
royalsociety.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
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There's been a lot of (model-based) hype over the years about a "large Neoproterozoic DOC reservoir" that could have triggered the end of snowball earth and the proliferation of multi-cellular life. BUT here we show this was not the case. Instead, DOC levels were about 90% lower than today
August 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There's been a lot of (model-based) hype over the years about a "large Neoproterozoic DOC reservoir" that could have triggered the end of snowball earth and the proliferation of multi-cellular life. BUT here we show this was not the case. Instead, DOC levels were about 90% lower than today
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🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature
A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Can we now stop saying that once suspended sediment returns to pre-event levels, then the system response is over? Great paper here with relevance to cascading hazards and landscape evolution.
Nature research paper: Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake
go.nature.com/3UsaAS8
go.nature.com/3UsaAS8
Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake - Nature
Bedload can dominate river sediment flux after a major earthquake for a prolonged time period.
go.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Can we now stop saying that once suspended sediment returns to pre-event levels, then the system response is over? Great paper here with relevance to cascading hazards and landscape evolution.
New paper! Led by Gen Li on “Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake” 🧪 ⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And see write up below @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And see write up below @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New paper! Led by Gen Li on “Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake” 🧪 ⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And see write up below @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And see write up below @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
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Would highly recommend submitting your next geochemistry or cosmochemistry manuscript to @weareagc.bsky.social - and it's free for everyone!
✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...
Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0
journals.uu.se
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Would highly recommend submitting your next geochemistry or cosmochemistry manuscript to @weareagc.bsky.social - and it's free for everyone!
Fun to be out earlier in the week sampling #greenhouse gases from the Thames here in #Oxford 🧪⚒️
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fun to be out earlier in the week sampling #greenhouse gases from the Thames here in #Oxford 🧪⚒️
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Job alert: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry, ETH Zurich (CH). Apply by 30 Sep. More info: buff.ly/gc5joAV
July 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Job alert: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry, ETH Zurich (CH). Apply by 30 Sep. More info: buff.ly/gc5joAV
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Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society
The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...
royalsociety.org
July 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
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Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...
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🇨🇭The #ETH in #Zürich is looking for an Assistant Professor in #Soil (Bio-/Geo-) Chemistry!
Deadline to apply is September 30th!
Please Share!
#AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Deadline to apply is September 30th!
Please Share!
#AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Soil Chemistry
ethz.ch
July 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🇨🇭The #ETH in #Zürich is looking for an Assistant Professor in #Soil (Bio-/Geo-) Chemistry!
Deadline to apply is September 30th!
Please Share!
#AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Deadline to apply is September 30th!
Please Share!
#AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
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Seulgi Moon, currently Associate Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, has been appointed as Associate Professor of Earth Surface Dynamics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethz.ch. Many congratulations and welcome to the department!
At its meeting of 9 and 10 July 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Eight professors appointed
At its meeting of 9 and 10 July 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of
ethz.ch
July 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Seulgi Moon, currently Associate Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, has been appointed as Associate Professor of Earth Surface Dynamics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethz.ch. Many congratulations and welcome to the department!
Really fantastic @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague! Thanks @eageo.bsky.social
Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.
Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.
July 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Really fantastic @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague! Thanks @eageo.bsky.social
Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.
Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.
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I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!
July 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!