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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Can't do AGu, but it is Christmas so it is lager cocktails in Durham's very own champagne bar and lager cocktails

Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I have just discovered a Jane Austen manuscript that the publishers rejected. In the novel she describes teaching time series analysis to MSc students - it is called "Variance and Variability"

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

How is carbon stored in salt marshes? Great fieldwork on the Solway Firth with postgrad Jinny. Always good to find a buried soil horizon. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

What will be the impact of decarbonisation and the adoption of hydrogen power on water demand? New study by us and colleagues from Durham Engineering link.springer.com/article/10.1... @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We have grown a squash outside in the north east of England - he is called Pascal. Pascal is a magic squash plant as we have never ever planted any squash plants.

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions link.springer.com/article/10.1... Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When we say sphagnum carpet I am not sure that you are supposed to be able to pick it up and fold it. This year's Sphagnum pioneers at Hatfield form a mat that dries out and detaches in ephemeral ponds. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The World Peatland project team at Leicester Science Park having just finished our today workshop @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Happy birthday England, 1098 years young today.

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Great to be back on nerd camp #grc #catchment GRC catchment science conference @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thanks to Michel Bechtold @michelbechtold.bsky.social for including our data from Hatfield Moors in this study to trial satellite methods for monitoring peat water tables @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I have discovered that at egu #EGU20×5 you can have your evening beers out on the balcony

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Proper EGU #egu2025. Vegan schnitzel, vegan beer and coding

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Teaching soil science I have never liked the possible acronyms for the factors controlling soil formation and so I invented my own - the claret carrot - could not find find a claret coloured carrot or a carrot toasting with claret. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Peatland restoration not keeping up - our new method for mapping peat health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... British peats have seen revegetation (increased albedo), but not as fast as we should expect given controls and climate change. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Doing fieldwork on bogs of the Pennines you expect to get wet and cold, but you don't expect to become a cat rescuer. Found abandoned on the Pennine Way - we named her Marsden - now with RSPCA vet. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you to Andrea Kelly from Broads Authority for making it possible for us to go peat coring in the Broads today. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Flooded, frozen-over stream - let me just check the field site risk assessment - nope, no mention of flooded frozen streams on that form and so must be safe to wade in.

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I had planned for snow and ice but not for the thaw. Under there is reported to be the earthly remains of a raised bog @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So what does change down a peat profile? Only consistent change across 13 locations was change in degree of unsaturation - formation of double bonds bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Peat soils move from biomass composition to lignin-like composition @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

How do peats form? Compaction, degradation leading to higher water tables and greater bulk density - right? No bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 22 cores and never saw bulk density increase with depth: density profiles reflect contemporary conditions @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Thank you to AGU convention centre #agu2024 for providing washrooms specifically for Englishmen, i.e. those of us wearing a tie and carrying a cricket bat

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Always a privilege to be here #agu2024 and excited for when this gets full tomorrow and I can wander through science to my nerdy content @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great to be out on Bolton Fell Moss. Thank you to Natural England for allowing access to the intact raised bog - difficult to show the actual intact peat dome - this is England we don't have many of these left @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

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Fred Worrall @fredworrall.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Arise my mighty snow battalion for today we march on Durham and no rapid thaw will defeat us this time.

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