Tim J. Ralph

Environmental scientist with a passion for river & wetland geomorphology, drylands, sediment dynamics, ecology, & environmental change

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

Interested in water quality? Here is our open-access review of waterborne contaminants in high intensity agriculture and plant production, which highlights the importance of catchment position and connectivity.

https://t.co/z9EifBjZqU

[Kirstie Fryirs @Kirstie_F]

4 Int’al & Domestic #PhD #scholarships open at Macquarie University, Sydney. Natural flood management: Nature-based flood mitigation in the 21st Century. Go to https://t.co/GloSYe4QfS, #rivermanagement, #riverrestoration, #geomorphology, #floodhydrology, #floodrisk, @BSG_Geomorph

[Kirstie Fryirs @Kirstie_F]

4 Int’al & Domestic #PhD #scholarships open @Macquarie_Uni, Sydney: Natural flood management: Nature-based flood mitigation in the 21st Century. Go to: https://t.co/GloSYe4QfS, @timjralph, @hydro_lucy, @llsnsw, @llshunter, @anzgeomorph, @mqnatsci, @MQSciEng

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

@KS_Archaeology @mq_dha @Macquarie_Uni Thanks to everyone who attended tonight!

Also, this was just released by @SpringerNature

https://t.co/SHBOVC4YFO

[Springer Nature @SpringerNature]

@NaturePortfolio The findings, reported in a paper in @CommsEarth, could explain why these pyramids are concentrated in what is now a narrow, inhospitable desert strip.
Read the open access article here: https://t.co/UuwXKfXRg2

@UNCWilmington @NRIAG @UNCW_EOS @timjralph

[Springer Nature @SpringerNature]

31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile which has long since been buried beneath farmland and desert.

@NaturePortfolio

[Dr Karin Sowada @KS_Archaeology]

Join us in person or on zoom this evening for a free lecture by A/Prof Tim Ralph ⁦@timjralph⁩

5.30pm Sydney time, all welcome!
⁦@mq_dha⁩ ⁦@Macquarie_Uni⁩

#egypt #archaeology

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

Read more about the mapping of the Ahramat Branch here:

https://t.co/iatL1VaCpz

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Geological surveys have revealed a long-lost branch of the river Nile that ran close to many Egyptian pyramids. The ancient waterway was probably used to transport building materials before it dried up thousands of years ago. https://t.co/zcug1UASlH

[Discover Magazine @DiscoverMag]

Did the Nile transport pyramid builders? 🏺🌊 New research uncovers a buried tributary that once flowed past 31 pyramids, including Giza! Learn how this ancient "superhighway" shaped Egypt's history. #AncientEgypt #Archaeology #Pyramids https://t.co/vjNMem05Qp

[IGN @IGN]

Researchers have discovered evidence of an ancient "mega waterway" linking over 30 Egyptian pyramids to the river Nile, which may have been used to transport the enormous slabs of stone that fed the construction of the ancient tombs. https://t.co/8K2mgbtPzT

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Many of Egypt's pyramids are built on inhospitable, arid land, far from the Nile River. So how did ancient Egyptians get heavy stone there?

Chen Ly says geoscientists may have uncovered an ancient, dried up branch of the Nile nearby.

🎧 https://t.co/BpwUttS6BI

[Communications Earth & Environment @CommsEarth]

🏜️The pyramids of the Western desert in #Egypt were built alongside a now extinct branch of the Nile River named as the Ahramat Branch and identified using a combination of radar satellite imagery, geophysical data and deep soil coring.
🔗https://t.co/sL3uRtYn0q

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

Researchers have found evidence of a 40-mile-long branch of the Nile River, known tje Ahramat Branch, that flowed some 4,700 years ago along the western banks of the modern Nile by the pyramids at Abusir, Saqqara, Dahshur, Lisht, and Giza.

https://t.co/SCof6TJ0vB

[Dr Karin Sowada @KS_Archaeology]

Terrific research by Tim Ralph @timjralph, Suzanne Onstine (U Memphis) & Eman Gohneim (U NCW) + team, mapping a 64km lost branch of the Nile that supported the #pyramid fields of the #Egyptian state
#egypt #archaeology

https://t.co/ydPCvRQZQN via @ConversationEDU

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

Ancient Nile Project in the news!

https://t.co/neuyxRFXWE

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

This lost channel of the #Nile River, the #AhramatBranch, could be the key to solving the mysteries of the construction of many pyramids of #AncientEgypt

@MQSciEng @UNCWilmington @Macquarie_Uni @uofmemphis @TantaUniversity @NRIAG @cachemq

https://t.co/iatL1Va4A1

[Tim J. Ralph @timjralph]

New findings in @CommsEarth show the ancient path of the #AhramatBranch of the #Nile River. Implications for water access to >30 of the #pyramids in #Egypt!

@mqnatsci @Macquarie_Uni @UNCWilmington @uofmemphis @NRIAG @TantaUniversity @cachemq @intlrivers

https://t.co/WE0H12meNr

[IUCN @IUCN]

Despite being one of our most valuable ecosystems for people and #nature, wetlands are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem.

@RAMSARCONV

[Kirstie Fryirs @Kirstie_F]

Another great cohort of #fluvial #geomorphology & #rivermanagment students. Despite heat & humidity we pushed through! Class loved #activelearning & block mode structure of this unit. Hopefully the days of online-only learning are over! @mqnatsci @MQSciEng @TecheMQ @timjralph