Pete D. Akers
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Pete D. Akers
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Paleoclimatologist, stable isotope geochemist, geographer, stal🪨 and ice🧊 and bog🧌 enthusiast. Assistant professor of physical geography at Trinity College Dublin.
Thanks for the interest, and please let me know if you have any questions after reading through the project description. There's of course a lot of details beyond what will fit in a couple of pages!
September 30, 2024 at 4:07 PM
DRYPEAT is highly interdisciplinary and draws upon the fields of botany, ecology, paleoclimatology, hydrology, and geochemistry. Candidates with a strong interest in the project and with a solid background in one of its components are encouraged to apply through the link above.
September 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Irish blanket bogs are critical reservoirs of carbon and biodiversity that are threatened by a warming, drying climate. In DRYPEAT, this postdoc will help develop a new proxy for bog evapotranspiration through isotopic monitoring of a blanket bog's water and plants.
September 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
All in all, ISO-TAISE will give us an intimate view of the water processes that form and fuel extreme rainfall events, from vapor to precipitation to streams. As our warming world drives stronger extreme events, this knowledge is critical to building a resilient Ireland.
March 7, 2024 at 5:28 PM
ISO-TAISE culminates in an attempt to intercept a landfalling Irish atmospheric river with field deployment of our vapor isotopic analyser and precipitation sampling. We want to see how moisture dynamics change on the order of minutes during an atmospheric river event.
March 7, 2024 at 5:27 PM
So what are getting in ISO-TAISE? We will gather almost four years of continuous water vapor isotope observations from a monitoring site at the TCD Botanical Garden. At the same time, we’ll also be taking samples of Dublin precipitation and stream waters for isotopic analysis.
March 7, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The funding from EPA Ireland will support the analytical equipment to do the isotopic analyses, as well as PhD and MSc students to perform program research and outreach. Many thanks also to Trinity College Dublin, its School of Natural Sciences, and Geography for supporting the research.
March 7, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Atmospheric rivers are corridors of intense water vapor transport that fuel intense storms and rainfall. ISO-TAISE will use the isotopes of water to learn where the moisture and rainfall in Irish atmospheric rivers originates and how it evolves in transport.
March 7, 2024 at 5:24 PM
This came out before the most recent vote, but it has some of the arguments against it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Also, I've seen that there's more of a push to consider it a geological event, not era/epoch, since it is an ongoing transformation of the planet.
The ‘Anthropocene’ is most useful as an informal concept
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 7, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Would love to join the feed! Starting back up with this now that the community has grown a bit. peteakers.com and www.tcd.ie/research/pro... are my evidence.
Pete D. Akers – Researcher of stable isotope geochemistry and paleoclimatology
peteakers.com
December 31, 2023 at 1:56 PM