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🚨 PhD Scholarship 2026 @CurtinUni!
Unlock biodiverse recarbonising potential of Australian soils. Study soil-plant-microbe interactions in semi-arid ecosystems.
Must: PhD-ready, passion for science, field/lab work, must write well…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Andrea Bravo-Escobar presents innovative research at #EGU2025, advancing methods to measure microbial biomass. Key to unlocking soil carbon dynamics and enhancing climate models! 🌱🧪🌏 #SLSL #CurtinUniversity #SoilScience #Soil #HealingCountry
April 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Nathan Wells shares his PhD research at #EGU2025, linking Australian native plant diversity to enhanced soil carbon storage. Vital insights for landscape #restoration! 🌱🧪🌏 #SLSL #CurtinUniversity #Soilscience #Soil
April 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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📢 New research identifies the main environmental drivers of soil organic carbon in Australia’s rangelands—an extensive and ecologically significant part of the continent.

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Environmental drivers of soil organic carbon in the Australian rangelands
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is vital for maintaining healthy ecosystems and providing benefits beyond climate change mitigation. The Australian rangelan…
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April 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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📢 MIR spectroscopy characterises C fractions & organic-mineral associations, improving understanding and assessment of soil C stability. It enhances fractionation quality, strengthening soil C analysis.
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FT‐MIR Spectroscopic Analysis of the Organic Carbon Fractions in Australian Mineral Soils
Soil organic carbon (C) is heterogeneous. It exists in various forms along a decomposition continuum, from labile fast-cycling compounds to more persistent forms that can reside in the soil for centu...
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March 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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New paper from @slsl-curtinuni.bsky.social uses a compositional transforms & multi-output CNNs to model POC & MAOC with mid-infrared spectra. A useful complement to fractionation methods for spatial analysis & monitoring
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February 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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How to characterise the SOC fractions (the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon ) compositionally and identify important organic and inorganic functional groups that differed by fraction simultaneously? Here is our solution. 🧪🌏#Soil

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Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy
We need soil organic carbon (SOC) and the SOC fractions, the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon (POC, MAOC), to understand SOC dynamics…
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February 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM