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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Inigo Virto, Isabel de Soto, Rosa M Poch, and I will be convening a session at EGU 2026 entitled: Soil Inorganic Carbon: The overlooked component of the carbon cycle. Please pass on the advertisement to anyone that would be interested in the session and consider submitting an abstract!

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I'm excited to present our work on the oxalate-carbonate pathway of Kenyan Fig trees at Goldschmidt, Prague this year (Thursday 16h session 09fO1). This research has just been presented in a brief news article in New Scientist by Alex Wilkins (link below). www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

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Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Feeling scientifically energised after the Microsoil conference, a week of in-depth discussions with a fantastic team of soil scientists, focusing on microscale soil processes. Special thanks to the organising team, especially, for your hard work. Below is a lovely sun squint photo with Steffen.

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It was great fun today presenting about soils and giving a general overview of carbon cycling in the Senior:innen Universität Zürich UZH3 Seminar Series. Fascinating questions!

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The EGU 25 abstract deadline is 15th January. Please consider submitting to our session on soil carbon. We would love to have your contribution!!! @mschiedung.bsky.social @schweizer.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Calling all soil scientists! 🌱🌍 We invite your abstracts for our #EGU25 session: SSS5.7 - Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales. 📅 Submission deadline: 15 January 2025 👉 Join us for an interesting session: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Session SSS5.7

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Great to be out celebrating the Festive period with our groups: The 2B and Not 2B (GCH)

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my nephew Angus, who we tragically lost to pre-eclampsia. I'm raising funds for Action on Pre-Eclampsia who support healthcare profs, families, and mums navigating similar experiences. Please consider donating to this cause via the link below. Thanks!

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Action On Pre-Eclampsia - London Marathon

I am aiming to raise money for Action On Pre-Eclampsia, a charity that raises awareness, improves care, and provides vital support to mums, families, and healthcare professionals. Action On Pre-Eclamp

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Michael Schmidt @mwischmidt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

World Soil Day with our 1. semester Master Students of Geography and Earth System Science. Module "GEO 463 Current challenges in plant-soil systems". Now we have the end-of-term poster sessions with interesting topics (problems and solutions). Led by @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social.

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It was great to be back in a hutch doing synchrotron-based STXM analyses at the Softimax line in Max IV, Sweden for the C deficit project! Thanks to the excellent beam line staff and wonderful collaborative team @schweizer.bsky.social @mschiedung.bsky.social #soil #soilscience

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Steffen Schweizer @schweizer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Why spend day & night inside the lab in beautiful Sweden? Because synchrotron-powered STXM hopefully helps us to unravel how these agricultural soils store organic carbon. Awesome experiment at SoftiMAX in MAXIV and fantastic teamwork @mschiedung.bsky.social& @mikerowley64.bsky.social! #soilscience

MAX IV synchrotron in the snow at sunset

A glimpse inside the SOPHIE end-station at SoftiMAX

Awesome teamwork in the synchrotron laboratory

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Marcus Schiedung @mschiedung.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

An intense week at the MAX IV in Sweden, but we produced a lot of data to understand carbon dynamics in soils across Germany using the agricultural soil inventory @thuenenaktuell.bsky.social Great work with @schweizer.bsky.social, @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social & Luis Hurtarte. Stay tuned! 🧪

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It was a spicy-icy bike back to Max IV this morning to make some more measurements with my suitcase attached to the back of the bike! A great experience all around with @schweizer.bsky.social and @mschiedung.bsky.social

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guidowiesenberg.bsky.social @guidowiesenberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Just check out the new web page of our lab at the Department of Geography @UZH: www.geo.uzh.ch/en/services/...

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What a joy to be doing exciting synchrotron science in a hutch again!! We're working at Max IV in Sweden to measure incubated samples for the CDeficit project using STXM C NEXAFS @mschiedung.bsky.social

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Mike C. Rowley @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We are organising a new session this year at EGU "SSS5.7 Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales: mechanisms and implications" if you plan to attend please consider submitting to the session. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Session SSS5.7

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