Marcus Schiedung

Our perspective on ERW -Uncertainties of enhanced rock weathering for climate-change mitigation- was featured in the New Scientist

Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Spreading crushed silicate rocks like basalt on fields could remove up to 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year while increasing crop yields.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...

And with a nice write-up by @ethz.ch news: usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...

Is enhanced rock weathering ready as a climate mitigation strategy?

Our latest work explores key uncertainties — from feedstock availability and the land–ocean continuum to plant–soil interactions and socioeconomic impacts.

Now published in our perspective paper:

➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s430...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 Happy to see this review out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Reviews Earth & Environ! We go through looming uncertainties related to wide-scale application of ERW. It will be a rocky path! @mschiedung.bsky.social @profbobhilton.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Does rock powder help protect the climate? Accelerated rock weathering on farmland is seen as a promising way to sequester carbon dioxide in the long term. However, researchers at the Thünen Institute and ETH Zurich urge caution: before rock p...

🚜🌍 Accelerated rock weathering shows promise for long term CO₂ removal — but major uncertainties remain.
#ClimateScience #CarbonRemoval #ERW
With @thuenen.de and @ethz.ch @mschiedung.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social

usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...

#hiring again: We are looking for a Science-Dialog Manager (m/f/d; E 13 TV-L, 50%). You like to built networks? You are interested in large scale initiatives? You can communicate science? Become part of our #TeamTERRA! Find the full application also at www.terra-cluster.org -> career

Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere.

shorturl.at/NybzX

Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement.
Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr
Deadline: Jan 5

🔥 EGU SSS + GMPV Campfire Session recap

Yesterday we held “Mineralogy meets Soil Science: Remediation, Weathering Processes, and Interaction”, co-organised with EGU GMPV.

Around 50 participants joined the session! Thanks to everyone who attended!

#EGUSSS #EGU #SoilScience #Mineralogy

🔥Registration for our upcoming GMPV/SSS Campfire is now open!

Join us by signing up here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#campfire #EGU #mineralogy #soilscience

🌱🔥 EGU GMPV/SSS Campfire coming up!

Join us on 17 Dec at 11:00 CET for “Mineralogy Meets Soil Science”

Great speakers, big topics: arsenate removal, mineral carbonation, enhanced rock weathering, and carbon persistence.

See you by the (virtual) campfire! 🔥

#campfire #EGU #mineralogy #Soilscience

Had the great opportunity of sharing our work, as part of the C-arouNd consortium, on C (& N) dynamics at the German soil science meeting @soilsdbg.bsky.social in Tübingen.

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2...
@teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

Are you at #EGU25 next week?

Join our soil sessions and meet us there 😊

I will also present our first German Agricultural Soil Inventory results.

See you soon and I am looking forward to all the discussions.

Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...

Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social

I am looking forward #EGU25!

Join us on "Soil Carbon and Global Change" - Tue meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Discuss respiration rate pitfalls X4.191 - Wed meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

Meet the editors! - Thu meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Toxic labs: what are they and why you should avoid them. #phdlife #academia #mentalhealth YouTube video by Life in academia

About two years ago I made a series of three videos about toxic workplaces in academia.

Consider the possibility that you might end up in such a place as real, plan accordingly, and do your research to avoid getting into such a situation.

Hope this helps someone...

youtu.be/VUXz9EJMAbo

Finally, managed to get my bsky account online: looking forward to sharing exiting news - from cool publications and projects of our #GeoBioInt group @unituebingen.bsky.social up to the upcoming #DBG2025 of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, taking place @unituebingen.bsky.social in Sept 25. Stay tuned!

Willkommen Michaela!

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

Congratulations to Xavier Dupla, Ph.D. candidate in our institute, for successfully defending his thesis and coming up with the sentence "Soil fertility is like love: everyone knows what it means but no one can define what it is"

Yesterday was future day and it was great fun to show our work at @thuenen-som.bsky.social to the future generation of scientists.

We explored soil respiration before we went to a soil pit for soil characterisation. Finally, we counted our most important soil engineers, earthworms. 🪱🪱🪱

Barley growing on ground suffering from drought, with cracks in the soil. Credit: Wayne Hutchinson / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3

I joined with @sebdoetterl.bsky.social the AfroGrow kick-off meeting in Nairobi.

Exciting work on sustainable agroforestry in Africa to come. I am looking forward to being partially part of this after starting this adventure during my time at @eth-soilres.bsky.social

afrogrow-project.eu

✨Meet the Soil Resources group! ⛏️✨
We study soil biogeochemical cycling in remote regions, the effects of enhanced rock weathering on soil health and impacts of management on soil functioning and crop production.
#SoilResourcesETH #ETHZurich #EnvironmentalSciences #SoilScience #Biogeochemistry

It's #DarwinDay. He was a father of #soilscience #pedology, by combining his knowledge of #geology and #biology, he published “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In this book you can see one of the first #soilhorizon designation A,B,C.

We are still looking for a #peatland researcher with experise at the interface of #GHG exchange, vegetation & remote sensing:
👉 literatur.thuenen.de/stellenmarkt...

Collaboration with @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social and the Thünen Earth Observation Group (www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-i...)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Environmental Modelling:Whiteknights Reading UK

We're recruiting a 10 month PDRA in spatial (GIS) modelling of soil carbon and water quality at the UK scale: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...