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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our Digitising Desertification summer school continues this week at Newcastle University. We've had a fascinating introduction to declassified cold war satellite imagery from PhD student Jen Makovics.

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Our Detecting Desertification summer school at Newcastle University continues with some training in writing machine learning algorithms using satellite images in Google Earth Engine

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Day 2 of our Detecting Desertification sumer school at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Students practised using Google Earth Pro for digiting archaeological sites of all types, including these ancient gold mines alongside the Nile in Sudan. Satellite Image from Google Earth Pro Airbus 2025.

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Day 1 of our Digitising Desertification summer school (Archaeology, Newcastle uni). PhD student Hope Irvine shows Newcastle students results of our new machine learning algorithms for detecting change to archaeology.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/06/2025

A slave revolt, Mongol invasion, spread of plague and climate change. Find out how agricultural features in southern Iraq can teach us about all of these in this great thread, then check out the new Research Article in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Peter J Brown @peterjbrown.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our new article published today in @antiquity.ac.uk focuses on interesting archaeological landscape features in southern Iraq. Groups of long linear earthen ridges sit on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab river in the Basra region, north of the shores of the Gulf… 🧵

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our latest article is out today. It describes results of remote sensing and OSL dating of archaeological earthworks near Basra in Iraq. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A new paper with Google Earth Engine code on remote sensing of vanishing archaeology in Iraq from me, my students and our collaborators www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The waterways of the lower #Mesopotamian plains in today's modern #Iraq were one of the most important drivers of life, both urban and rural, in this environment for thousands of years. Water is the lifeblood of agriculture, urban development and trade. 1/6 #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage

Pictures of the Mesopotamian Marshes, also known as the Iraqi Marshes. Chibaish Marches, Iraq - An Nasiriyah.jpg 2016 Wiki.

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Loads of news articles have just appeared on my recent research (that I co-direct) at Eridu, but none mention me... story of my career!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you're involved in REF2029 preparation for your university re Outputs: @ref2029.bsky.social has published answers to Frequently Asked Questions re Open Access requirements. My personal favourite (relevant to so many aspects of life): 'Appropriate use of exceptions will not be penalised.'

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Open Access FAQs – REF 2029

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A new paper of mine on Early Islamic water management is just out here

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Chloe Hill @chloehill.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I might be biased but this is a fantastic #Science4Policy job opportunity for someone passionate about supporting evidence-informed policymaking and Europe's scientific community! Apply now (deadline 19 March)👇! www.egu.eu/news/1258/jo... #SciPolJobs #SciComm #SciCommJobs #Jobs #Geoscience

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Job alert! EGU Science for Policy Officer (maternity cover)

The Union are looking to hire a Science for Policy Officer (maternity cover) to work within EGU’s existing Policy Programme, supporting researchers to engage with the European policymaking process. Th...

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In Riyadh attending #cop16, presenting my research on using remote sensing to detect desertification in heritage oases and hosting a table in the UK pavillion

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Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

A webinar I am giving tomorrow with Dr Jaafar Jotheri on past and traditional water management in Iraq giap.icac.cat/seminars/

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