Geoffrey Squire

Researcher, Natural Sciences, James Hutton Institute

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

@potatodoctor Can’t imagine you quitting Glen. But I have both - PC for excel-ppt etc. and Macbook for photos and web material. Cheers

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Great day at @BioregionTay meeting last Friday. Big Q: Can the landscape feed the people? We can start by defining what the land is doing now, then work out what it could do. Here, different land uses in an area are identified: next steps are trickier #ClimateTayside23

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

A great day and discussion ahead, organised by Bioregioning Tayside @BioregionTay on Feeding Tayside through the Climate Crisis at Discovery Point Dundee today. The whole food chain needs to change, right back to the soil microbes in each field #ClimateTayside23

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

They stalked the croplands a 1000 years ago! Nothing else like them - a global heritage. My faves are the Meigles - the smiley one and the grumpy one. Thanks to KO.

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

Latest on the Living Field web: introduction to Kathryn Owen’s exploration of Pictish Beasts, her paintings of the beast carved on stone, locations throughout Scotland’s croplands https://t.co/bozCZW54jH

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

The Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE)
https://t.co/FhePivSFSd is upping its successful recruitment drive, now with emph on students and young people (a career in restoration!). Check the SERE web for career guides and opportunities #500EERs YOUNG#ER

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

More on the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (SERE)’s YOUNG#ER recruitment drive. Links on the Living Field https://t.co/Ybw3DSCf1R. Heal the planet. Be part of the UN decade 2021-2030 #GenerationRestoration @unbiodiversity

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Forgot to add the link to the Living Field article about Hutton’s Unconformity. Here it is: https://t.co/qaObdFEldT

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Went to find James Hutton’s Unconformity on Arran a few weeks ago. What a mind, to notice the two contrasting rock strata, and revise our understanding of geological time! A freshwater stream runs to the sea just by the Unconformity causing a botanical one @JamesHuttonInst

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Went to find James Hutton’s Unconformity on Arran a few weeks ago. What a mind, to notice the two contrasting rock strata, and revise our understanding of geological time! A freshwater stream runs to the sea just by the Unconformity causing a botanical one @JamesHuttonInst

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

It’s good to see the long term science at the Centre for Sustainable Cropping @JamesHuttonInst @HuttonES contributing crucial knowledge to globally important issues; well done to all farm and science people who grew the crops and took the measurements.

[Nitrogen MDPI @Nitrogen_MDPI]

#newresearch
Agroecological Management and Increased Grain Legume Area Needed to Meet #Nitrogen Reduction Targets for #GreenhouseGas Emissions by Prof. Geoffrey R. Squire @curvedflatlands et al. from
@JamesHuttonInst
👉https://t.co/8RvKz3uOET

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

The team from T&SH4Ukraine and Siobhan’s Trust providing humanitarian aid, including food, to Ukraine, the start of 4 days fundraising at the Atholl horse trials. Fantastic commitment! https://t.co/LmoAOUe9vT & https://t.co/iFatUVrHB0

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Thanks @LField2020 for the ancient cereals. Here’s my fave - Spratt barley aka Battledore barley, recognised in the 1800s as a distinct if peculiar type. What a structure https://t.co/sK67wZ1sVz

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Thanks Living Field. The EU Copernicus services have been essential this year, keeping us up to date with the catastrophic weather. Will be interesting to see what August rainfall does to the comparison in eastern Scotand.

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

Record drought, heat, fire in Europe make this year unprecedented, but eastern Scotland was no drier than previous dry years (1976, 1984, 1995, 2003, 2018). Fortunate maybe - but there’s a global duty to care for this cropland. Our analysis at https://t.co/SqqyhAe1KU

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Continuing the successful series of online Conversations hosted by SEDA Land. Very timely. For @curvedflatlands take on the previous Conversation on Carbon Tax see https://t.co/yHM6uHTtyw

[Scottish Land Commission @ScottishLandCom]

Want to find out more about the move to #NetZero and the opportunities & risks for Scotland's land? Join our 'Natural Capital & Land' series of free online events exploring the growing investment in carbon & #NaturalCapital & what it means for #Scotland's land & communities ⬇

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

At this informative forage held near Forres, Anna Canning @AnnaFloramedica showed parallels between ancient practices and recent research on combining compounds from different medicinal plants for effective pain relief.

[LivingField2020 @LField2020]

Great day of Foraging Walks at Kinloss Abbey, Moray https://t.co/Al6lw8sLeM Sat 14 May: Anna Canning led foraging for medicinal plants in the abbey grounds @AnnaFloramedica: incl celandines and dandelions, docks, daisies and deadly nightshade; from monks to modern medicine.

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

SEDA Land Conversations @ScotEcoDesign - two new upcoming events. The first: Imagining Bioproducts on 13 June 2022, 2 pm. Online and Live at Huntly. @JamesHuttonInst Details at https://t.co/vaN8VkZdFq

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Global wheat - great variation in the middle range of wheat producing countries. To the right - low yield, large sown area, export driven. Left - smaller area, high yield, high inputs, home consumption, but will the soil sustain.

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Interesting combination Jean. One N releasing and one N demanding plant in this mixture with the vines. Have a great visit (lucky thing) and can the Living Field have some photos when you get back please.

[Jean Duncan @JXDuncan]

Rape seed and fava beans between the vines, looks like a good idea!@AgroEcoAtJHI @AlisonKarley @curvedflatlands

[Geoffrey Squire @curvedflatlands]

Mapping food and climate change: great inaugural visit to Huntly. Tremendous enthusiasm. Thanks from SEDA Land visitors (Gail, Mads, Sophie, me) to all at HDT, Deveron Projects and Gordon Schools (photos by Gail) @ScotEcoDesign @GordonSchools @DeveronProjects @JamesHuttonInst