Vincent Gauci

Thanks for sharing, Ben. The Leung et al study with @jeffrethane.bsky.social and @greening.bsky.social is a cracker! It was nice to be asked to comment on it.

Tree bark microbes for climate management Microbes living in bark can process the greenhouse gases methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide

Tree bark microbes for climate management
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

Cutting methane emissions is sometimes called the climate “emergency brake”

- But a @unep.org report at #COP30 today shows the world is not pulling it: emissions are still rising (tho at a slower rate)

#climatecrisis
post by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL is hiring a Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington. Review all of the job details and apply today!

My colleague @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate rhizosphere processes influencing methane (CH₄) dynamics in northern peatlands! Super cool opening -- please circulate careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/11061?l...

Join us at the University of Birmingham to take up one of these prestigious positions. Very happy to have a private conversation with those interested and with specialisms in forest science, methane, wetlands or related areas www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs/125th-a...

Excellent!!

Congratulations Yadvinder!

Fantastic paper from Loft, @ymalhi.bsky.social and others. The ecological energetics approach offers a way to better integrate animals into Earth system modelling of major biogeochemical cycles, as well as yielding important insights on ecosystem function as laid out by Yadvinder, below.

Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...

🧵 New preprint alert!

From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social

Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.

I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.

💙💙💙

Very nice! All the best with your measurements!

Somebody tell the drone display team! 😆

And the specially commissioned balloons? Do they take returns for Miss-Royaling?

Terrible isn’t it? 😆 I’ll go and ruin other peoples celebratory element days now.

“Achtuallyyyy, I think you’ll find…”

Hate to be that annoying guy on your special day but … “achtuallyyyy” … this was on King George’s watch. The third I think.
Should I get my coat?

Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social

Increased atomisation as we move from synchronous (chatting) to asynchronous means of communication. Real moments in time are no-longer shared with simple conversation. I find it a bit sad.

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures' "We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world". Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director, Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".

youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...

Thanks! That’s very kind of you to say, Ben. Hoping it will be useful for new entrants also. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

Of potential interest @ymalhi.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social

My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

Outstanding!!! Congratulations Eleanor and team!

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…