Dr Alice Paine

Four new international Working Groups launched by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) bring together global expertise in paleoclimate science. 🌍

Read an article about these working groups and where some of the leaders come from.

Read article 👉 pastglobalchanges.org/news/138887

I don’t have words to express how honoured I am to be receiving the President’s Award from @geolsoc.bsky.social.
It reflects the support, insights, and lessons gifted to me by so many people, so I want this to be an opprtunity to thank them…for everything ✨

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The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad.

I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list.

But what I can say is...

@geolsoc.bsky.social @geoscientistmag.bsky.social

“This job is an immense privilege” - GEOSCIENTIST Dr Alice Paine is a palaeoclimatology and volcanology postdoctoral researcher at Universität Basel, Switzerland.

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Geoscientist Magazine as part of their "Five Minutes With..." series, chatting about my recent projects, and reflections on science more broadly.
You can access the full interview available here:
geoscientist.online/sections/fiv...

Join us next Wednesday (4th Feb) at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Dr. Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social

In this talk we’ll look at whether very large eruptions can be treated as scaled up versions of moderate volume historical eruptions or whether they should be treated as fundamentally...

Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.

I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul.

However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events.

I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪

theconversation.com/greenland-is...

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An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

You’re close - it’s a stalagmite 😀

~100,000 years of rainfall… 💦

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One of the friendliest, well-organised, and completely inspiring conferences I’ve ever been to. What a privilege it is to be a part of this community.

To the organisers, hosts, and participants of #IAVCEI2025, I cannot thank you enough 🌋🖤

First time at #EGU, and certainly not my last.
What an incredible event, and what a beautiful city Vienna is ✨

Societal responses to cold-season rainfall variability: a speleothem perspective on Byzantine and Hittite climate interactions in Late Holocene Türkiye and southeast Europe Understanding past hydroclimate dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean is crucial for predicting future climate impacts. However, the ‘Marmara Transiti…

🌦️ New Paper 🌦️
Loved being a part of this study led by Alistair Morgan, and where we explored how climate may have impacted ancient civilisations in the Marmara region during late Holocene:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have an incredible team of co-authors to thank for multiple facets of this study, as well as funding from the @erc.europa.eu , facilities at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social , and editor Pierre Francus for his professional and thorough handling of the manuscript throughout this process.

Evidence for millennial-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana Abstract. Changing hydrology impacts the biogeochemical cycling of elements such as mercury (Hg), whose transport and transformation in the environment appear linked to hydroclimate on diverse timesca...

🌴🌊 New Paper 🌊🌴
It's been a long time coming, so I'm thrilled to share our new study - where we assessed whether shifts in local hydroclimate produced measurable changes in how Hg has been transported to, and buried within, the Lake Bosumtwi system since ∼ 96 ka...
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Cool opportunity to work with a great team on a fascinating topic (and one very close to my heart!) this summer 🌊 🪨

Thank you so much Nick, I hope they enjoy it 🙌🏼

Thanks must also go to @davidmpyle.bsky.social , Steve Sparks, Sam Engwell, and Thomas Aubry - for providing such valuable insights and ideas throughout this process ✨

Large explosive eruptions may be dominated by pyroclastic flows instead of buoyant plumes: insights from a global data compilation - Journal of Applied Volcanology The dynamics of Earth’s largest, most voluminous eruptions (≥ 100 km3 ejecta; VEI 7) are poorly understood. Here, we explore the question of whether these very large eruptions can be treated as scaled...

🌋 New Paper🌋
A true pleasure to work with @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social on this: a study I'm delighted to now be able to share.
Huge thanks must go to the editor and reviewers at JAV, for their swift and professional handling of our manuscript throughout 🙏
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Thanks Seb ☺️🙏🏼

Got myself a PhD 🎓✨

Honoured to have been given a two-page spread in this term’s @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social Magazine to reflect on my PhD work, and what it means for our understanding of the Earth system 🌍

Also, check out some of the other amazing articles 👇🏼
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This is one of the ways we show up for each other, to build community and strengthen our networks while. Science is an iterative, collaborative practice.

To the people reviewing right now: thank you. To the people who suggest reviewers when they can't review: thank you.

Oh...and I submitted and defended my PhD 🎉 which explores how the Hg cycle has evolved throughout the Quaternary, and how these changes are recorded in terrestrial lake sediments...

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