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Abigail Buchan

@abi-buchan.bsky.social

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PhD student at University of Leeds studying climate variability in the Pliocene

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Hannah Barnett @hannahbarnett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thank you so much to @water.leeds.ac.uk for choosing my research to be highlighted in their June Spotlight! Earlier this year, water@leeds awarded me their Spring Award to continue my work on the Zinal glacier! Find out more about my research at the link below ☺️ water.leeds.ac.uk/news/researc...

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Research Student Spotlight June 2026: Hannah Barnett | water@leeds

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thrilled to have been awarded Postgraduate Researcher of the Year in the University of Leeds Partnership Awards Being a rep for PGRs across all levels of the university has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my PhD journey so far

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Half way through EGU and loving it so far! If you want to talk about Late Pliocene climate, paleo extremes or paleoweather come and see me at my poster 'North Atlantic variability in a warmer world: what can the Pliocene tell us?' at spot X5.102 today between 16:15 and 18:00 🌦️

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy publication day to me! I am very excited to share that my first chapter of my PhD has been published in Climate of the Past today. cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

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The Late Pliocene jet stream: Changes and drivers of the mean state and variability

Abstract. Studies of the Late Pliocene have frequently been used as a means to improve our understanding of the climate system in a warmer state. Large scale features of Late Pliocene climate, such as...

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

And away I go (again). This time I'm off to the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimateology. This time I'm travelling by Train. First train Leeds to London (and it's already delayed).

Photo of trees next to a train track with overhead wires

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I have arrived in Bern for a conference! Unfortunately my suitcase wasn't so lucky and is still at Heathrow airport

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It was great to share my research this morning at EGU. It was very exciting to see others also looking towards variability and extremes in a palaeoclimate context ⛅

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Abigail Buchan @abi-buchan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Arrived in a very sunny Vienna for my first time at EGU

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thousands of UK-based PhD students will benefit from the largest real-terms stipend rise in two decades after Britain’s main research funder unveiled an 8 per cent increase to annual payments #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Record rise in UKRI PhD stipend hailed as ‘major win’

Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage

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