@richardnair
Plant ecophysiologist & biogeochemist | Asst Prof + RI-RS URF @ Trinity College Dublin (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) | Focus: functional ecology, C, water & nutrient cycles, roots, phenology & scaling tech | linktr.ee/richardnair 🌏🌿🫚🖥️
Job Alert!
We are seeking a dedicated and passionate research assistant to assist the Herbarium Digitisation Coordinator to continue digitisation efforts at an increased pace within our #herbarium. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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If you're looking for an #EGU26 session to submit your abstract on plant functional biogeochemistry/ecophysiology, how about ours? We'd love to have your submission!
I really enjoyed working with Dorota on making the figures for this paper and here is a lovely thread from her about making it!
an advert for a session at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference. Text reads: "BG3.36 Vegetation Functional Responses to Global Change: Above- and Belowground Processes Under Stress. As ecosystems face increasing climate stressors, understanding how vegetation responds above- and below-ground and how these compartments interact, is key to predicting future carbon, water and nutrient cycles. This session explores vegetation responses to variable environments and stresses, from traits and plasticity to ecosystem resistance and resilience - across scals and methods, including experimetns, field studies, remote sensing and modelling. Contributions from early-career researchers and novel ideas are especially welcome.". There is an EDI logo and an EGU26 logo. The background is a stand of trees, some going yellow as they suffer under drought.
Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
three male scientists kneeling/squatting in a forest next to a buried minirhizotron tube. Two wear baseball caps, one a bright yellow beanie.
My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!
The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
I completely agree with this! It's so hard to understand the belowground and the world is big and variable so overall accuracy over a big sample may get us closer to useful truth. We need to be cautious we're actually making measurements to a reasonable standard but more precise =/= always better!
a group of six people standing infront of a projector
Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀
My amazing research group @psb-trinity.bsky.social made their own bluesky account (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) as I'm not active enough!! Please give them a follow for info about things we're doing on #rootecology and #biogeochemistry here in Botany at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🌍🌿🌳
It seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!
🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...
McEwan hall, Edinburgh, in the sunshine
Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱
Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
a group hoto four people (woman, man, woman, man) standing infront of a door on a stone building covered with ivy. The words 'School of Botany' are written on the building.
(but we grow again in September adding another few positions that are being advertisted now! check out the other posts on my timeline to learn more 🙂)
a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology -> tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv
PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data -> tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v
Research Assistant/Technician -> tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n
(links will be updated to my university website once online)
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Well done! It's been a pleasure seeing your work at EGU the last few years !
There's still time to submit #EGU25!
Two important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.
Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?
Deadline 13/01.
plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
(we're also online for remote presentations!)
An advert for the EGU session 'Vegetational Functional Responses to Global Change Across Multiple Methods and Scales'.The background picture is a mixed coniferous forest and the EGU 2025 logo and EDI log are displayed prominently. The text reads: As the terrestrial biosphere moves into states without a present climate analogue, we need mechanistic understanding of ecosystem processes and their linkages with ecosystem function. This session brings togther scientists interested in advancing our fundamental understanding of ecosystem processes. We welcome studies on a range of scales, from greenhouse and mesocosm experiments to large field manipulative experiments, remote sensing studies, and modelling. We encourage contributions of novel ideas and hypotheses in particular those from early stage researchers and hope this session can create an environment where such ideas can be discussed freely.
we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists