Matthew L. Staitis
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Matthew L. Staitis
@staitis.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of East Anglia
Investigating PETM biotic/environmental change Paleoclimate|Micropaleo|Geochemistry
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbpInDqTLp9_newr47g5CLA
What Climate Future Do We Want?
#COP30 is underway but is climate change still to be a priority?
Our 'past warm worlds' serve as useful reminders of what legacy we will leave for our children and grandchildren if we aren't ambitious on #ClimateAction
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Returning from my 2-day lab visit to National Oceanography Centre University of Southampton preparing my foram samples for Laser Ablation (LA-MS) and Isotope Ratio (IRMS) Mass Spectrometry. Many thanks to Professor J. Andy Milton and Bastian Hambach for making this possible 🔬🐚🧪💥⚛️
October 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Successful day cleaning planktic foram samples in the @ueaenv.bsky.social Isotope Clean Laboratory ahead of laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS) analyses🔬🐚🧪⚛️
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Interesting talks by @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and Jess Tierney on the latest work on Climate of the Past: Greenhouse Gases and Climate Sensitivity 🌡️🌐
September 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Many thanks to Norfolk Wildlife Trust for inviting me to speak this afternoon at their lovely Cley Marsh Visitor Centre and widely advertise my talk across a variety of mediums!!
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nice to see my upcoming Norfolk Wildlife Trust talk on 'Fossils of the East of England' advertised on campus today @ueaenv.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thursday, September 4 2025

Norfolk Wildlife Trust talk: Fossils of the east of England

Explore climate change with me geoscientist Matthew Staitis through local fossils and minerals from the past 66 million years.

Tickets now on sale!: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fossils-of...
August 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Fab day looking around the Eden Geothermal and the Eden Project with @ARIES_DTP summer school
July 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Fantastic ~70 million year old well preserved Cretaceous sea urchin fossil find while on the #deephistorycoast at #Cromer
June 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨Co-authored publication #2!!!🚨 Many thanks to Lukas Jonkers for the opportunity to participate and contribute to this study aimed at improving the reusability of microfossil assemblage data.

jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Tuning into the first episode of the new #Walkingwithdinosaurs 🦖 as we are introduced to the my familiar subtropical world of Clover the Triceratops: the Late Maastrichtian, a time of global warmth driven by #DeccanTraps volcanism 🌡️🌋
May 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Having fun with #PETM foraminifera under the SEM with EDS capability 🐚👀📸
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Many thanks to those that attended my first #EGU25 talk in-person and online on the driver's of #PETM shelf deoxygenation!
May 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Attending the #EGU25 conference in Vienna this week? Pop by my oral presentation in session CL4.18 - Ocean Oxygen Changes Through Time: Proxies, Models and Environmental Impacts, in room 0.31/32 on Thursday, 1 May 2025, from 14:15 on the latest #PETM research coming out my PhD:
April 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Engaging discussions and actions planned out of the @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Workshop; I look forward to representativing for the wider geoscience ECR community in the UK- get in touch if you are interested in participating in scientific continental drilling!
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Calling the UK Geoscience Community! Are you or do you know ECRs interested in scientific continental drilling? Get in touch!
@ukiodp.bsky.social @geochemgroup.bsky.social
@quaternaryra.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What will you say to future generations? #ClimateCrisis
April 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Just completed my registration for the @egu.eu General Assembly 2025 #EGU25 See all those attending in April!!! 🧑‍🏫
March 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
More academic thought provoking content from Prof Lennart Nacke PhD 💡
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Great fun talking at Norwich Science Festival today about what #fossils from the East of England can tell us about our #climate futures 🦛🐢🌲🦪🦈🌡️
Many thanks to Alice Hsu for the photography 😁
February 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excellent viewing of 'A Climate Mural for Our Times' and 'Our Climate Origins: 66-3 Ma' (Gennadily Ivanov 2022) available to visit in Norwich City Hall today organised by @GeolSocNorfolk @tyndallcentre.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Lest we forget
February 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Also (incredibly just a few hours apart), many thanks to @icdpdrilling.bsky.social for selecting me to participate in the #ICDP Early Career Researcher Workshop “The Next Generation”, which will be held in Vienna 25–27 April, 2025, just before #EGU25
February 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Many thanks to the University of East Anglia Finance Committee for agreeing to fund my application for financial support to attend the #EGU25 conference this year!!!🥳🥳🥳
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Great overview talk by Jan Zalasiewicz @LeicesterPalaeo on Climate change, Geology and the Future for @NorwichSciFest @GeolSocNorfolk
February 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM