Tom Roland

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography @ExeterGeography. Earth scientist with interests in environmental and climatic change. @Patagonia pro

[Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future @saef_arc]

It's getting easier to be green 🌱

🐸 While Kermit may have decided green was all he wanted to be, 🧑‍🔬 scientists warn that a greening trend across the #AntarcticPeninsula is underway & accelerating due to #climatechange.

From our team at @UniofExeter ⤵️

https://t.co/ArUNqK2VGU

[Uni of Exeter's ESI @UniofExeterESI]

Antarctica Experiencing Rapid Greening as Planet Warms, Study Shows https://t.co/YvjhuR8mrt via @OneGreenPlanet

@UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC @UoE_DEES @BAS_News @uniexecges @ThomasPRoland @IlyaMaclean @KAnderson_RS

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

These numbers are shocking and could have severe implications for biodiversity and ecological functioning in Antarctica. The continent’s environmental future is very much at risk. 🧵3/3
https://t.co/P1Vzq6FDfP

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

On Friday, our new @NatureGeosci paper, ‘Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites’, was published.

We show, for the first time, that the ‘greening’ trend seen in the cold-climate ecosystems of the Arctic is mirrored on the Antarctic continent,🧵1/

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

We found that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula had increased nearly 14-fold between 1986 and 2021, with the rate of ‘greening’ increasing by over 30% in the last five years of the study.🧵2/

[Nature Geoscience @NatureGeosci]

Article: The Antarctic Peninsula is greening at an accelerating rate

@ThomasPRoland @ExeterGeography @HertsGEP @BAS_News

https://t.co/rNHwa6M1nj

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

Fantastic internship for first and second year undergraduate students - working with my good friend @ScootJD at @PlymUni, using tree ring analysis to investigate the response of the UK's wet woodland to climate and human pressures. Deadline is 13th May. https://t.co/qYfjiDKqfP

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

🚨🌎New @Nature paper! Here, we suggest that the recent rejection of the 'Anthropocene' as a defined epoch creates opportunities for the concept's interpretation, critique and application across disciplines, cultures and world views.
https://t.co/ZpvytUvq44

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

Nouvelle opportunité de doctorat : « Évaluer l'importance relative des plus grands puits de carbone naturels de Patagonie ». Travailler avec les sédiments des fjords et des tourbières à @UniofExeter et @ParisSaclay.

https://t.co/TG3yZLtxpw

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

New PhD Opportunity: 'Evaluating the relative importance of the largest natural carbon sinks in Patagonia'. Working with fjord and peatland sediments at @UniofExeter and @ParisSaclay.

https://t.co/TG3yZLtxpw

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

@SaffronJONeill @ExeterGeography @PastTeller @feralgeographer @NeilAdger @craftgeography @JamesGDyke @drcbutler Thanks @SaffronJONeill - a version of this figure/gif features in my ‘Anthropocene’ module. Will give the accompanying article a read!

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

@GraemeSwindles I did look out for it last time I was in Belfast but didn��t spot it, then again it was 20 years ago now.. so it might have closed. We’ll have to do a proper recce and see!

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

Very sad to hear this. Mike made me feel very welcome in Belfast on my first PhD fieldtrip. We had a tour of the local peatlands, saw Lough Neagh and some archaeology, before enjoying the best Chinese meal I’ve ever had, nr. Botanic Ave. A lovely guy and a fascinating scientist.

[ArcPalQUB @arcpalqub]

Mike first joined QUB Archaeology in 1968 when he was employed to work on the construction of an oak annual tree-ring chronology for the island. By the 1980s this became the Belfast oak chronology dating back c.7600 years and hugely important for radiocarbon dating calibration.

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

@ScootJD Amazing!!

[Richard Tennant @richardktennant]

📣 Funded PhD Studentship 🧬

Join us to investigate the expansion of ancient British agricultural expansion using next-generation methods!

https://t.co/qUQWBok6iz

@ThomasPRoland
@toby_pennington
@vorontsovams

Deadline 9th Jan. Share & RT!

#phd #gw4 #sedaDNA #agriculture

[Dr Scott J. Davidson @ScootJD]

Second #PhDproject is investigating the impact of regenerative agriculture on lowland #peat soil characteristics and #GHG fluxes, led by Prof. Will Blake, with me, @jkrowan and Prof. Brian Reid (UoEastAnglia) https://t.co/1KTL1m7j2o (3/n)

[Dr Scott J. Davidson @ScootJD]

First #PhDproject is looking at integrating modern and long-term ecology to inform UK #peatland #fire management led by @JessieW_Palaeo, with me, Prof. Ralph Fyfe and @garethdclay (UoManchester)! https://t.co/ANLhTxBpIR (2/n)

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

Our project works in partnership with @Bluemarinef and a host of other fantastic partners. Follow the links to find out more or get in contact with me or @richardktennant for additional info! 🧵3/3

@ExeterMarine @RewildingArg @ConvexIn

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

We are excited to be able to advertise two opportunities to join the @ConvexSeascape at @ExeterGeography. The first is for a fully-funded PhD (https://t.co/iz3Nh16Ck0) , and the second is for a postdoctoral research fellow (https://t.co/EfQxS8YI7G). Please share and RT!🧵1/3

[Tom Roland @ThomasPRoland]

Our part of the project will focus on tracing the origin of blue carbon in near-shore marine sediments using a multi-proxy suite of palaeoecological, geochemical, eDNA and geochronological techniques, with exciting fieldwork opportunities. 🧵2/3