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Christine S. Lane
@chslane.bsky.social
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Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. 🧪🌍🌋⚒️
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · Nov 9
My turn for a starter pack! Here is a collection of Quaternary Scientists (broadly defined) that you might find interesting to follow. Enjoy. And let me know your suggestions please!

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chslane.bsky.social
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas.
Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
A grey, unoccupied lab with sink, centrifuge and shelves A hand holding a tally counter with 294 showing, next to the stage of a microscope. There is a slide on the microscope A row of labelled centrifuge tubes, with white caps, in a test tube rack. A few platy fragments of glass viewed under high powered optical microscopy.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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thirstygecko.bsky.social
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Proud supervisor moment 🫶 Brilliant to see your paper published online @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Fun finds in our sediment labs today. @camunigeography.bsky.social
Two people in lab coats in the foreground looking at a microscope screen with an image of a gastropod on it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Signs of a good day in the field with the Quaternary students from
@camunigeography.bsky.social
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Two pairs of hands, palm up, brown with mud. One has a tap measure hanging on their wrist. The ground below is covered in autumn leaf litter and walking boots can be seen.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
chslane.bsky.social
This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
The surface of a split sediment core, with a cm scale along each edge. You can see about 8 cm of the core. The surface shows fine mm-scale to cm-scale laminations, which for the most are alternating light-dark couplets. There is a cocktail stick marking a ~1 cm grey layer, which is a volcanic ash deposit.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tephraportal.bsky.social
Abstract submission is open for #EGU2026!

Join our session ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research." Share your multidisciplinary research, workflows, best practices, and cyberinfrastructure.

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Browse by session
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October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Anyone else have happy feet today? 🍂
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Thank goodness for the @camunigeography.bsky.social first-year trip to Breckland. The best place to escape my avalanching inbox at this point in the term. Heading back happily tomorrow for round three…
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An open lowland heath landscape with clumps of heather growing amongst hummocky grassland. There are a few nearby trees (including some tall Scott’s pines), a swathe of dried bracken, and forests in the distance. Sun has broken through the clouds. A few scattered backpacks can be seen in the foreground.
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Christine S. Lane
camunigeography.bsky.social
Welcome to all our Geography students — undergraduate and postgraduate, new and returning!
As we begin the academic year, we look forward to the department once again buzzing with energy, ideas, and curiosity.
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Christine S. Lane
imascientist.org.uk
Show students where geography can take them!

I’m a Geographer, supported by @rgsibg.bsky.social, highlights how geography is used in real jobs.

If you use geography in your work and have a post-16 geography qualification, apply here 👉 imageographer.uk/signup/c/
A graphic encouraging geographers to take part in 'I'm a Geographer, Get me out of here'. It reads 'Take part in easy and flexible online outreach to inspire the next generation.' with a link to sign up: imageographer.uk/signup/c. There is also a picture of a student taking part.
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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camtephra.bsky.social
Last week PhD student @yqnatdeng.bsky.social and @chslane.bsky.social were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found!
#tephratastic
A women stands by a wooden lab desk with a spatula held over a drainpipe filled with sediment. Close up of a sediment core with a small channel of samples removed (plus a couple of bigger gaps from previous sampling). A labelled drainpipe lies alongside, plus a centrifuge tube rack with labels filled tubes in it.
September 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Christine S. Lane
glacierbytes.bsky.social
Hey ice-sheet modellers! 👋

The next Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) workshop will be hosted in Copenhagen (at GEUS) 23-25 March 2026. Details to follow!

Learn more about ISMIP at: www.ismip.org
Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project
ISMIP7 is the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (pronounced `IZ-mip`) Melt of Earth's ice sheets is already contributing to flooding experienced by coastal communities, globally. ISM...
www.ismip.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
chslane.bsky.social
This from last year’s Quaternary Climates and Environments sediments practical class still makes my day 🥼⚒️🌍
chslane.bsky.social Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · Nov 25
Some Monday morning wonder at the simple things in life. Carbonate-rich clay under dilute HCl with sound effects by the Cambridge Quaternary Geographers. Sound on!
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Spent #fieldworkfriday in sunny Dartmoor extracting an exquisite peat sequence 😻
View from a grassy verge of an expansive peat bog. 50 cm of peat extracted into a drainpipe The dream team. Dan and Lauren enjoying the Dartmoor scenery. Granite boulders and smooth topped hills.
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Christine S. Lane
zoologymuseum.bsky.social
📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
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September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Joined the first #Cambridge @kidicalmass.bsky.social this morning and those still-a-little-wobbly yellow legs were grinning all the way around. Thanks to the organisers and the patient folks who let us take up the sunny streets for a bit. #kidsonbikes #kidicalmass
@camcycle.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Great to see this wonderful team making the news for their careful and caring work. 🌍🌱
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
chslane.bsky.social
I often feel lucky with a 12 min cycle through Cambridge to work @camunigeography.bsky.social 🚲 🌍🚲
But I’ve just been in Aber and realise this seafront walk is the only commute I’d trade in for 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
If you have an uplifting route to work, will you share it?
#beachlife #beattheratrace #Aberystwyth
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
chslane.bsky.social
We’ve had two days of science in beautiful Cluj as the “Integrating ice core, marine & terrestrial environments” network met for an open meeting. Photos of past/present @camtephra.bsky.social members presenting their work and the birthday flowers they embarrassed me with. @jinheum.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
chslane.bsky.social
[1/5] PhD recruitment season @camunigeography.bsky.social soon kicks off! If you’re interested in applying for a PhD in #tephra for palaeoclimate / archaeology / volcanology, consider applying to study in the Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social
🌋🌍☀️ Here we were at Mt Etna one year ago!
Six people in outdoor clothing stood posing in a row in a volcanic landscape. A peak (Mt Etna) can be seen in the background
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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tommyhigham.bsky.social
If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years.

tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c
BBC Four - The Lost Neanderthals
The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposted by Christine S. Lane
danmclean.bsky.social
🌋📢 Calling all #tephra researchers!
Join us in shaping this new JQS Special Issue.

"Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences"

Deadline: 2 Jan 2026.

Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Journal of Quaternary Science Call for Papers Beyond the Eruption: Advances and applications in distal tephra analysis across the Geosciences
<em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> publishes papers on any field of Quaternary research, advancing understanding of earth's history over the last 2.58 million years.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Visiting a friend from my @oxfordtephra.bsky.social days and here’s the cup my morning coffee came in! #tephratastic
August 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Serious holiday club envy this week. I’d like a few days around Wandlebury’s hill fort making dens and climbing trees please. Still, the drop-off strolls have been a nice way to bracket the days.
A sandstone Manor House with a clock on top, foregrounded by a meadow of dry freshly cut hay and a pond. Trees and blue sky reflected in the water. Dappled light through old trees in the hollow of a well worn ring fort.
August 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM