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Dr Georgy Falster

@raindrop-herder.bsky.social
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mildly misanthropic swimming skiing scientist. climate & paleoclimate, co-lead PAGES2k pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k…. person of european descent, born on Kaurna land. she/her

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events • Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our…
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PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events
• Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our novel Australian cave observatories of recharge events • Our aim is to provide regional stakeholders with the first weather forecast for groundwater recharge over different timescales • …
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/04/2026
Australia and Norway both have highly profitable resource industries. Norway taxes oil and gas at 78% and has used that revenue to build the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The comparison highlights the massive opportunity Australia has missed. Read more: theaus.in/4sHQcex
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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 27/02/2026
Call for 5-year NERC Independent Research Fellowships is now open. No limit on grant value and open to international applicants. If you're interested in being hosted by Earth Sciences at Oxford, our internal expression of interest deadline is 16th March. Further details: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026
Apply for a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) to further your career through an independent research project.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
How thrilling that the Department of Climate Change is the one in charge of new coal mine approvals. Maybe someone should point out to the minister that the portfolio is notionally about mitigating climate change rather than helping it along?
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Congratulations!
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
word of warning: I VERY much doubt the website works on mobile phones(!) and if it does, that is purely accidental aha
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And I made a little web app where you can go and download monthly precipitation time series data from your location of choice (as long as it's in Australia) wateriso-aus.shinyapps.io/apic/
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Australian precipitation isotope calculator
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
also a very basic summer insolation at 65N/S. I honestly don't know why I don't have all this.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
and another one: has anyone here gone through the arduous process (e.g., for teaching graphics) of converting the various past1000 forcings (volcanic, solar, GHG) to radiative forcings in W/m2? This seems like....a big job. And surely someone here has the code for it(!) Hence my attempt at laziness
IPCC AR4 WG1 Chapter 6 Figure 6.13. There is an equivalent at IPCC AR6 WG1 Chapter 2 Figure 2.10 but only from 1750.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
But also thanks for the heads-up about the CESM2 past1000!! Embarrassingly, I didn't know about that (although tbf Australia is generally a few years behind the loop).
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
anyway I've emailed the author so maybe they will solve the mystery
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
After a full Sunday of fruitless searching I am inclined to agree with you. But my hunt was sparked by this paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (and another two that mention the MPI-ESM1-2-LR past2k expt - for which I *did* find a couple of orphaned centuries)
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Sahel Droughts Induced by Large Volcanic Eruptions Over the Last Millennium in PMIP4/Past1000 Simulations
Climate model simulations of the past millennium show Sahel drought in response to large volcanic eruptions up to the following 2 years The mechanisms leading to the Sahel drying are different if...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Also I found about two centuries from MPI-ESM1-2-LR (the 'past2k' expt) but no idea what's happened to the rest of it.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thanks! I've got past1000 & historical for EC-Earth3-Veg-LR, INM-CM4-8, MIROC-ES2L, MRI-ESM2-0, and ACCESS-ESM1-5. I have past1000 for EC-Earth3-LR but couldn't find the historical (and also the ACCESS-ESM1-5 hist doesn't match its past1000 -_- ).
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And yes this is something I'd previously have used twitter for but LinkedIn and Bluesky are all we've got now so here we are
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Has anyone here used the PMIP4 past1000 submissions from IPSL-CM6A-LR or MPI-ESM1-2-LR? And more importantly: could point me to where I could find them?! I only recently learned that they exist but can't find them. At this stage I'm only after tas (past1000 and the associated historical sim) tyty
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Congrats!!
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A sad and lovely piece co-authored by my UNSW colleague Rob Brooks on the recent passing of marine scientist and research leader Prof Emma Johnston AO. theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...
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Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I won this sweet prize for being the biggest nerd at an enormous meeting of nerds @linkedearth.bsky.social #AGU25
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It's been a fantastic #AGU25 week for Hydroclimate2k - lots of new H2k friends made at the poster session, SO many amazing Common Era hydroclimate talks, and an H2k lunch so fun that I forgot to take a photo. A great reminder of what a wonderful global community we have :) #21daysof2k
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Typically, I forgot to ask someone to take a photo of my #AGU25 talk. But I liked the part where people giggled instead of hurling fruit every time I (mostly accidentally) threw shade on various parts of the community.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
At #AGU25? Come by my poster this afternoon to chat about our in-development @pages-ipo.bsky.social database or indeed any of my absurd number of current projects
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
*days 2-5 is what i meant, obvs 😅
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Can days 1-4 of #AGU25 exceed the lofty heights of day 1, which featured a full day of fun presentations but most importantly this incredible exhibition hall prize?? Immediately my new map projection of choice
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The snowgum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) is one of the (relatively) few Australian tree species with clear annual rings. Researchers at Adelaide Uni and ANU are using snowgum cellulose d18O to produce a new record of alpine hydroclimate over past centuries #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Andrea @oceandrea.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Interested in tropical (paleo)hydroclimate dynamics, water isotopes, and data-model comparison? Going to #AGU25? My supervisor, Alyssa Atwood, is giving an invited talk on our research into the 8.2 ka Event on Thurs., 18 Dec. between 11:40-11:50 CT! 🌊🪨🧪👩🏻‍💻 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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a picture of a waterfall with the words welcome to the amazon hope you brought a raincoat below it
ALT: a picture of a waterfall with the words welcome to the amazon hope you brought a raincoat below it
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Community discussions like this are the foundation of @pages-ipo.bsky.social projects - helping shape the direction of the paleo community's collaborative research
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Did you know the current Hydroclimate2k project isn't the first time PAGES 2k has dipped a toe into understanding global hydroclimate? In 2016, researchers gathered in Palisades, USA to discuss data-model comparisons of Common Era hydroclimate. Read about it here: pages2kpmip3.github.io #21daysof2k
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PAGES (Past Global Changes) @pages-ipo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Have you been following @profmattjones.bsky.social and @raindrop-herder.bsky.social who are sharing insights into the work of the PAGES 2k Network working group? Drop them a follow to see what else they have in store during the #21daysof2k! Website: pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2...
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Some of the beautiful varves from Nar Gölü, Türkiye. Each pair of layers represents one year of lake sediment. The varves tell us about hydroclimate e.g. where they change colour, as do the proxies we measure from them e.g. Dean et al 2015 QSR 124:162 #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Oops sorry - I seem to have sliced the back half of that link. Here's the full thing: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Hydroclimate2k: A New PAGES Database of Hydroclimate Proxy Records for the Common Era
The PAGES 2k Network has provided important context for current global warming,...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of the current flagship activities of PAGES 2k is compilation of the Hydroclimate2k database. This map shows records currently being assessed for inclusion, with more records being added by a global team of project members. Read more here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... #21daysof2k
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Throwback to 2017 when Iso2k project members met up in Zaragoza, Spain for the first (and only!) in-person workshop of a mammoth five-year database collation effort. Here we are, variably spelling out the name of the project or providing an enthusiastic backdrop #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
In 2019/2020 Kangaroo Island (Australia) was devastated by severe bushfires. Researchers at the University of Adelaide are developing new Common Era lake and speleothem records to discover how fire and rainfall regimes on KI are changing with climate change #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Photograph of a landscape with bare sandy soil showing through sparse new regrowth. The landscape is gently hilly, and a road is visible from the lower right of the photo until it disappears over the horizon. The sky is an uninterrupted pale blue.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hydroclimate2k will be at #AGU25! Come along to poster PP33C-1090 from 2:15 on Weds 17th to say hi and see what we're up to. #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Hydroclimate2k: A New PAGES Database of Hydroclimate Proxy Records for the Common Era
The PAGES 2k Network has provided important context for current global warming,...
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
One of the great things about @pages-ipo.bsky.social projects is the opportunity to work with amazing scientists from all over the world; here's a few of the 2k Network at a workshop in Nottingham last year #21daysof2k
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The PAGES 2k Network (pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k-network) has been investigating the climate of the last 2000 years since 2008. The Network is currently focusing on hydroclimate, co-ordinated by scientists from 8 countries over 5 continents #21daysof2k @pages-ipo.bsky.social
The PAGES 2k Network Logo
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Matt Jones @profmattjones.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yaal Chac, Mexico – a new site for inclusion in the Hydroclimate2k database (Metcalfe SE et al., 2022, Quat Sci Rev 282: 107445) and a photogenic start to our #21daysof2k event. Over the next 3 weeks we'll be giving daily insights into the work of the PAGES 2k Network. @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Yaks Chac, a lake in Mexico
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
the calculations take some work, but if your data are in netcdf format, the visualisation is quite straightforward using xmovie (: xmovie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...
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xmovie: movies from xarray objects — xmovie 0.3.2.dev8+gf4f6e30.d20220509 documentation
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
new water isotope preprint! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... We used the MAGIC of machine learning (ok, random forests) to predict monthly precipitation stable isotopes over the Australian continent, at monthly resolution from 1962-2023. Details at the paper; pretty animation below
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Petra Vaiglova @petravaiglova.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m very pleased to share that our paper on Early Neolithic boar feasting at Asiab is out in @commsearth.nature.com. rdcu.be/euyuO. Many thanks for all the Early Career Research support that made this study possible 🐗🦷👩‍🔬 @raindrop-herder.bsky.social
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Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia
Communications Earth & Environment - Ceremonial feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, involved transport of animals over substantial distances to celebrate far-flung social networks,...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
also yes I realise that this isn't really a place people come these days; I am just so sick of the admin burden at this damn place I needed to write about it
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
absolutely thrilled to have spent two hours this morning sorting out GST assignments on my purchase card acquittals when apparently there is an entire finance department at the University of Adelaide busy doing...something else. I swear this place is set up to actively discourage research
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.
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Science & Medicine at ANU @scienceanu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In a drought-prone country such as Australia, there’s an age-old question: why do the rains sometimes disappear? Recent research from @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social shows Australian scientists are getting closer to answering this question. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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Why is southern Australia in drought – and when will it end?
New research suggests southern Australia may experience longer and more frequent droughts in the future, as the climate changes.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 15/05/2025
Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Astonishingly, no! A goal for a future paper
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
a nice round 60
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