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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

shout-out to "Wetlands in the arid Northern Territory" (Duguid et al. 2005) for a great discussion on classifying wetlands in a moisture-limited landscape Caryapundy Swamp is a Ramsar-listed wetland near Camerons Corner in western NSW #drylands #fluvialgeomorphology #westernLLS

Caryapundy Swamp, western NWS: a wide flat landscape of pale sand and sparse scrubby plants under a cloudless sky. Geopick (foreground) and distant person for scale.

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

FFS could the #ABCnewsAustralia please stop referring to drylands Australia in these derogatory ways. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is a fine piece of geography, wet or dry. Not a wasteland. Geez. Pejorative much?

Screen grab of an irritatingly judgemental and inaccurate title on an otherwise fairly informative ABC news article about floodwaters moving towards Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre "The barren wasteland about to transform into Australia's largest lake".

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Drylands Rivers and Waterways: a session at the 11th International Conference on Geomorphology (2-6 February 2026, Christchurch NZ). Please come along! We'd love grow the community's connections. Abstract submissions open until May 31, 2025. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026 #fluvialgeomorphology #landscape

Satellite image of the Finke River in the Simpson Desert. The longitudinal dunes are deep orange-brown and the highly sinuous river is white sand.

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

thoughtful gift from my son : elemental sulphur from an Indonesian volcano 🧪⚒️

three yellow chunks of elemental sulphur on a black table, 50 cent piece for scale

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Australia-New Zealand Geomorphology Group conference #ANZGG2024 in sunny Gisborne, NZ After a full week of interesting talks and lovely landscapes, a day of post-conference admin: receipts and updating the PD record

black-and-white photo of rapper Eminem, image mood is shadowed and grim. Text below says "back to reality"

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Yesterday's field trip up the Waipaoa catchment, lots to learn about uplift, lithology and landslide risk, and cyclone-driven sedimentation. 20m aggradation in this river valley! and terraces and views #geomorphology 🧪⚒️ #ANZGG2024 #Aotearoa

Green hillslope in a New Zealand valley, shows an old mass-wasting hollow, and some uplift terraces

view across a river bed that's choked with coarse and very poorly sorted sediment, hills on the opposite side of the valley show pale scars of recent landsides

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

the Long White Cloud visible ahead - arriving in NZ for the Australia New Zealand Geomorphology Group conference #Aotearoa #geomorphology

view from a plane window over the wing, looking at an expanse of high white clouds. I bet the New Zealand Alps are under there

selfie at the Auckland International airport arrival gate, which is wood carving of Maori figures

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

today I learned how to fix the CMOS, that was fun also learned more than I ever want to know about a computer tower's navel fluff

photo, computer tower lying on the floor with a side panel removed, I'm bent over peering into it and reaching inside it to do repair

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

⚒️ 🧪 did a run-through of my talk for the upcoming ANZGG #geomorphology conference. So many fun things to say (but I have to cut 3 minutes ...) #killyourdarlings #fluvialgeomorphology #murraydarlingbasin @anzgeomorph #geoscience

Slide from a conference presentation. Title reads: "Landscape evolution of the Darling River (a long dance of change)". Picture is the alluvial plains: a broad landscape extending off to the flat horizon. Blue sky above, reddish dust on the horizon, landscape is flat grey dusty plains with a light cover of thin green grass, and isolated trees here and there. NSW Australia

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

2023 for me: regional desktop study of the upper Darling River & its 2022 floods. I've been having fun with some speccy DEMs, like this avulsion of main Darling channel from its prior stream. Here's a #storymap: arcg.is/1j8Xyu @llsnsw #MurrayDarlingBasin #MDB

teal/white/brown digital elevation model of the avulsion point where the Darling River main channel diverges from the prior stream

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Hi, geomorphologist and spatial scientist here. Landscapes! Maps! Field work! Deep time!It's the best. Here's a paper doi.org/10.1080/0372... and a sweet landform. 🧪🇦🇺⚒️

Google Earth pic: scroll plains on the Murray River, Australia. The grey alluvium of the river corridor contrasts the rich red-brown of the surrounding country's regolith.

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I had such a good time talking to Amelia from #AvidResearch podcast. A whole wander through about Australian drylands rivers, the beauties of Central Australia, my first job, and what cracks me up about the fish at Innamincka. Episode comes out this Friday 24 Nov on avidresearch.com.au

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

This time last year I was hyped and ready to take my #Stardew fit to #PAXAus. This year I'm excited to be joining the Enforcer team for @PAXAus . I have no idea what lies before me, but I've got hair bobbles and I'm not afraid to use them

paper mache cosplay items hanging near a bookshelf :Stardew Valley midnight squid and midnight carp

hair clips and a tangle of blue yellow and mauve hair ribbons

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

I am having a very good Thursday. 1) the client has extended the deadline *wipes nervous sweat from brow* #consulting 2) I've discovered how to vectorise a raster so I can edit the false-positives from my map #QGIS #spatialscience

meme: rich Leo de Caprio toasting himself: "Yes. I am patting myself on the back right now."

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

the official start of the holiday season approaches: the Mineral Cup draws nigh! here's glauberite, a nice evaporite mineral, for your viewing pleasure pic credit assignmentpoint.com/glauberite-prop…

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Gresley Wakelin-King @drgres.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Hi! I'm new here. I'm a fan of drylands rivers, Australian geomorphology, and science generally. Here's a nice creek bank with a mighty coolibah, location Cooper Ck in the Strzelecki Desert, Australia. Root exposure is from the river's natural channel migration.

A steep river bank with a huge coolibah tree leaning out over the water.

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