Jennifer Cooling

Australian post-doc in paleo #palynology at @UQ_sees. Interested in everything from the Permian through the Quaternary.

[Luigi @Antrodemus]

There was a typo in the last one, sorry.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

This #FossilFriday I present one of the weirdest ?fungal things I’ve spotted in a Miocene-ish deposit.

Also, guess who’s not dead? It’s me, I finished the PhD and then slightly fell of the planet for a bit 😅

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@XboxANZ 👽👿🛸🌕🔥 #XboxGamePass

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster In fairness, that’s a nice looking bit of core.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

These being my first set of Paly samples I’ve prepared myself, I find myself asking for a handful of samples:
-is this sample just low yielding or barren and contaminated?
-is this other sample barren or did I stuff up?

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@PalyJen Even when I was tearing my hair trying to sort out their identities, I did appreciate how many really pretty examples I had.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

I’m very excited to be presenting my work and can’t wait to see the rest of the presentations.

[Limi Mao @limi_mao]

Updated program for Palynology Short Talks - Session 4: Deep Time Palynology! Watch talks or/and give a talk in future monthly sessions? #palynologyforthepeople @PalyJen @FossilPollen @yoshi_maezumi
Program: https://t.co/2dkkw7jCcI)
Registration: https://t.co/P8C1Vu4jxN

[GESSSQ @gesssq]

Tune in TODAY at 14:00-16:30 (UTC+10) for the GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium - Queensland session!!! Tickets still available at:
https://t.co/yXgygqBznW

The GESSS-TAS session will be running on Tuesday October 13th, 17:00-19:30 (UTC+10). #VirutalGESSS

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster

[Emily Kaiser @foramfriday]

Day 11 of drawing forams dressed for Halloween AND the first day of Earth Science Week 2020 (@earthsciweek)! G. menardii is joining in on the fun by dressing up like a geologist...with the TINIEST rock hammer ever.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster I would really appreciate it. And even though there’s nothing I can do to help with the hospital stuff, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I hope it goes as smoothly as humanly possible and your kids main memories of it wind up being of the quality of hospital food 💛

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

Amazing news! That now the paper work appears to have gone through, I’m confident to announce, I’m employed again! And I’ve resubmitted my thesis!

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster We’ve got one interval of ‘sugar sand’ that I’m amazed stayed in the core, even dried out it just disintegrates if you brush it. I’ve got some of his and Macphails plant papers in my growing to-read pile. Which now the thesis is back with the examiners I can finally get into.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster Oh no! But congrats on finding a second outcrop. Ours was apparently originally soft enough to put your finger through. Despite getting drilled at the start of the year, we only got it back from the Melbourne hylogger a month ago. It took ages to dry enough to scan

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster That’s some pretty nasty core loss! Ours is only missing a few meters here and there. We’re continuing on from work Kudzai Dube did last year on another couple of nearby cores. Hers were mostly basalt with a bit of sediment, whilst ours is mostly sediment capped by some basalt

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster That would be amazing!

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster That is very interesting. What depositional environment do you think/know produced yours? Ours were originally logged as weathered igneous, but the lignites either side don���t seem heat affected. I’m really looking forward to seeing if any of them yield palynomorphs.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

@LeahM_Foster Not biased at all 😂 we’re only just starting and our core’s proving really interesting. Our first mystery to sort out is the origins of a number of white clays interbedded with lignites. Not sure yet if they’re sedimentary, or some form of weathered igneous.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

It’s time to take a break from the Jurassic, and to start learning how to identify angiosperm pollen! And start catching up on everything I missed while in thesis bubble 😄.

[Jennifer Cooling @palynojen]

My awesome supervisor Prof Joan Esterle has hired me to do the palynological part of a study on the Cenozoic channels from the northern Bowen Basin region. The pictures above are of a leaf we found when logging the core and some of my paly samples under preparation.