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Christine S. Lane
@chslane.bsky.social
Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. 🧪🌍🌋⚒️
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For #fieldworkfriday I’m thinking ahead to upcoming first and second year Cambridge Geography field trips in Breckland. We’ll be looking at lowland heath and periglacial processes. Looking forward to getting out with new faces (and old high vis vests) again soon.

Students wearing hi-vis vests with measuring tapes, clipboards and augurs, mostly standing or working in small groups in a field of lowland heath characterised by grassland and heather stripes.
Very wet students in hi-vis pointing at and sampling a well-vegetated pond with a distinct rampart.
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Paleoclimate constraints on the future of El Niño: congrats to @carbon8.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s41...

Future increase in extreme El Niño supported by past glacial changes - Nature
Future increase in extreme El Niño supported by past glacial changes - Nature

A combination of palaeoclimate proxies and simulations shows that a common mechanism controls El Niño variation in cold and warm states, which supports expectations of more extreme El Niño occurr...

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Mt Etna keeps giving. Thanks to COT24 Catania for the recent ash sample. Prepped for delivery to volcano-keen kids and year 3 projects. #tephratastic

Three small glass vials and an old black camera film pot, on a yellow table top, containing black ash from the 15th August eruption of Mt Etna.
Using a kitchen funnel to decant ash from the film pot to a small glass jar. There’s a marker pen and sample bag also on the table.
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My last glimpses of Mt Etna on the way out of Catania yesterday. Grazie mille Sicily, and COT24, for an incredible week 🌋🤩🌍⚒️

View from an airplane window showing the sea, coastline and land rising toward a mountain, whose peak is lost in grey clouds. The tip of the wing is visible, with the words RYANAIR on it.
The tip of a mountain seen just poking through the clouds, from above. A plane wing is visible across the top right of the picture.
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The GSSP for the base of the Quaternary is at the Monte San Nicola section, Sicily. 2.58 million years ago a sapropel formed due to ocean anoxia and left a handy marker for the golden spike. ⚒️🌍

Two women next to a cleaned section on a weathered slope made of white-ish marine sediments. One women holds a (cardboard) golden spike just above a distinctive dark band 20-30 cm think.
A landscape shot of weathered soft white-beige sediments forming one slope of a valley. The sediments have distinct banding that can be traced right along the outcrop. The other slope is vegetated and 6 people are climbing up it toward the photographer.
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What a hike! A wild windy day on Mt. Etna.

Looking toward the peak of a volcano, in the distance, with cloud and dust blowing in front of it. The photo is taken from a scoriaceous landscape, with lava blocks and steep slopes.
A photo inside a lava tube, which looks like a tall thin tunnel with coarse rock walls. There is an area lit up part way down, where light fall from above.
Small plants colonising the black scoria.
A close up shot of a thin trunk of Etna birch with damaged areas standing out black against the white bark.
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Huge shout out to the COT24Early Career Presentation prize winners and runners up. Including Elo Wilkinson-Rowe, who presented about her MPhil research, completed in the Cambridge Tephra Lab last year. 🌋⚒️

Three people on a conference stage - one speaking into mic and two others shaking hands and holding an envelope. There is a large screen announcing the prize winner and her talk title.
A close up of two people shaking hands and smiling. One, holding an envelope, looks embarrassed.
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Documenting this day so we can attribute all the Mt Etna tephra we are about to find in our cryptotephra lab to the correct isochron 🫣🌋🤔🕵🏻‍♀️ #tephratastic#toomuchtephra ⚒️

6 people in outdoor gear stood on ashy ground with a mountain/volcano in the background. It’s cloudy, but clear from shorts and sone bare arms that it is still quite warm.
The same 6 people, this time with a view below into the cones and lava flows on the volcanoes slopes. You can just make out the sea in a bay in the distance.
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Extremely proud of these brilliant scientists presenting their work today to tephrochronologists and volcanologists from around the world. How lucky to work with them all 🌋💪💖 #COT24

A scientist stood by a poster board at a conference
A scientist stood by a poster board at a conference
A scientist presenting in an auditorium
A scientist presenting in an auditorium
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Great to be here with this #tephratastic crew.

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Members of the Cambridge Tephra Lab (past and present) are at the Commission of Tephrochronology meeting, Catania - COT24, this week.

8 humans stood smiling in front of a wall built into a lava flow.
A presenter giving a talk
Another present giving a talk in a large auditorium.
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Christine S. Lane
@chslane.bsky.social
Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. 🧪🌍🌋⚒️
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