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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

(6/8) These systems are dynamic. Under low-oxygen conditions inside bark, some microbes can switch to producing methane or hydrogen — meaning climate change (e.g. flooding, warming) could alter these processes...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

(4/8) Our lab and field experiments show bark microbes can remove multiple climate-relevant gases from the atmosphere, with particularly strong uptake and affinity for hydrogen.

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

(3/8) These bark microbes aren’t just living there — they’re active. Many use trace gases like #Hydrogen (H₂), #Methane (CH₄), and #CarbonMonoxide (CO) as #Carbon and energy sources.🦠

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

(2/8) Across 8 common Australian tree species (paperbarks, eucalypts, acacias, mangroves & more), bark contains trillions of microbial cells per m² — distinctly unique from soil or water communities.

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠 We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New #PrePrint by #PhD @jodittmann.bsky.social open for discussion on @egubg.bsky.social investigating the question: 'Are #GhostForests a substantial source of #Methane from #Reservoirs?' 👻🪵 👇 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

One way to collect 500 mL of #methane ebullition from a #GhostForest in 8 m of standing water…

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Top winters day back at the Ghost Forest sampling for @jodittmann.bsky.social PhD projects. Plenty of ebullition bubbles down there!!

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And that’s a wrap! Huge effort from #SCU team working in the hot and humid tropical #wetland and #Savannah #forests in the Northern Territory. Many thanks to #CDU colleagues for incredible support and assistance 🙌 Now it’s time for GHG data analysis…

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Photo dump from amazing field sites in Australia’s Northern Territory. Our #PhD students are collecting data to better understand #carbon, #nutrient and green house gas fluxes in #tropical wetland and upland forests.🌳

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our terrestrial #biogeochemistry research team in action yesterday investigating #GHG, #nutrient and #carbon fluxes in tropical wetland forests in the Northern Territory. #treethane

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tropical fieldwork day 2. Only 102 mm of rain yesterday🙃A few pics between the deluge ⛈️

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Fieldwork in the tropics - 12 degrees south 🐊⛈️🦟

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New Zealand tree appreciation after a recent holiday. Amazing Redwoods, deadwoods, Kauri and Pohutukawa on the north island.

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Recent #Fieldwork rekkie scouting out forested #wetland sites for new #PhD student Scott Cramb to investigate #tree dwelling trace gas #microbial communities and fluxes

Prof Damien Maher and Dr Judith Rosentreter

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Check out our new paper in STOTEN 🚨 #Groundwater discharge and bank overtopping drive large #Carbon exports from Indian #Sundarban #Mangroves 🍃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Another top day in the #Rainforest wrapping up a long term study of tree #Methane cycling for @jodittmann.bsky.social #PhD 🙌

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Big week in the forest sampling various biomes, biogeochemisty and bark for Paula’s PhD. We even managed managed to find a little sunshine at times!

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

An amazing green tree snake literally just sliding on up the side of a tree at my fieldwork site! 🐍

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Had the pleasure of showing a couple of visitors around my supratidal and freshwater Melaleuca wetland sites. Jeff Kelleway and Raf Carvalho measuring site elevation with RTK GNSS. Tree L21 is in fact 6.7 MASL!

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

New project funding = new #PhD position! Come work with me investigating #Microbes and #Methane fluxes in Australian #Wetlands #Mangroves and #Rainforests #FindAPhD #Treethane Full details on how to apply: tinyurl.com/udb3xepm

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Prof Scott Johnson was taking the science to the next level today!🤙🧗

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Very very very very wet day, sampling rainforest during the rain with Paula and @jodittmann.bsky.social 🌧️ Lucky the river didn’t rise any more otherwise we’d be camping in there overnight!

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

🚨@newphyt.bsky.social Commentary: 'Researchers barking up (the right) tree find new mechanisms controlling #methane transport by woody vegetation' - a thoughtful & well-written commentary by Ward& Megonigal on the importance of our recent #Melaleuca paper🌱 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

...we also managed to have a quick swim in tropical Litchfield National Park during the wet season 🐊

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

...and visiting CDU's long-tern stream carbon monitoring sites + measuring the 'first' Australian tropical headwater riparian tree stem methane fluxes...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Highlights of the trip included a field trip to Litchfield NP TERN flux tower site...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Was privileged to be hosted by Clem Duvert at tropical CDU (Darwin) with a bunch of clever folks working towards refining the Australian inland water C-Budget last week..

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

First official DECRA fieldwork today with @jodittmann.bsky.social collecting tree stem gas fluxes the ‘old school’ way using vials. Definitely way too hot for waders but apparently not for methanogens.

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Check out our new OpenAccess paper in JGR Biogeochemistry showing how 'Large Methane Emissions from Tree Stems Complicate the Wetland Methane Budget' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Last day scouting out rainforest methane with #PhD @jodittmann.bsky.social and Adi. Was 38 degrees C in the shade so very thankful for the canopy coverage!! 🥵

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Fortunate to have such a pristine site to work in <1 hr from SCU Lismore campus! First day scouting #Rainforest methane dynamics for Johannes’s #PhD project with @drdamo77.bsky.social and Adi

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

After an exciting #PhD that will help contribute to meaningful change? Come work with us! We are seeking a PhD student (3.3 years fully funded) to investigate novel bark-dwelling microbial communities and greenhouse gas fluxes from Australian forests 🦠🍃| 🙏 share and apply here: tinyurl.com/mprmsaeh

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Dr. Luke Jeffrey @jeffrethane.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Our new #OpenAccess paper in @newphyt.bsky.social shows how rapid bark-mediated #tree stem #methane transport occurs independently of the transpiration stream in #Melaleuca quinquenervia nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BICV7K...

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