Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
#science geek ❤️ cold places #minerals #microbes #climate change #workaholic who ❤️ 📚 and is a speed reader 🌍 traveller born @~ 100ppm CO2 below today she/her
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Extreme Macro Photos Unveil the Hidden World of Fungi in the Forest
“There is a magical world at your feet when you walk in a wet forest!”
Welcome to I08 - The Diamond Scanning X-ray Microscopy Beamline - Imaging and Microscopy - Diamond Light Source
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
My picture of Steelie @carnegiescience being excited about our I08 STXM data has made it onto the @DiamondLightSou beamline website .... we are (in)famous...
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Careers at the University of Calgary
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Geomicrobiology, Faculty of Science @ University of Calgary
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
Scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted, threatening inundation for hundreds of millions of people
Open Water: Greenlanders on the climate crisis
A glimpse into the lives of three Greenlanders: a hunter, a ship’s captain and a fisherman, individuals whose very existence and heritage is intertwined with...
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
A fabulous story about Greenlanders by Dan McDougall from @MiranMedia and media done by Dewald Brand
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Deepest point on land found in Antarctica
Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only the great ocean trenches go deeper.
Denman Glacier: Deepest point on land found in Antarctica - BBC News
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ERC 2019 consolidator grants examples
Researchers of 37 nationalities received 2019 Consolidator Grant funding for projects based in 24 different countries across Europe. The research conducted by the 301 new ERC grant recipients covers a wide range of topics in physical sciences and...
Click here to support Climate Sentinels in Svalbard organized by Heïdi Sevestre
Heïdi Sevestre Climate Sentinels in Svalbard A FIRST IN POLAR SCIENCE, EXPLORATION AND EDUCATIONOur storyHello this is Silje, Dorothée, Alia and Heidi, we are
Disappearance of the last tropical glaciers in the Western Pacific Warm Pool (Papua, Indonesia) appears imminent
The glaciers near Puncak Jaya, Papua, Indonesia, the last tropical glaciers in the Western Pacific Warm Pool, have recently undergone a rapid pace of loss of ice cover and a 5.4-fold increase in the rate of thinning, augmented by the strong...
1.9 billion people at risk from water supply problems, study shows
Rising demand and climate crisis threaten entire mountain ecosystem, say scientists
BBC announces The Green Planet, to be presented by Attenborough
A new five-part series about plants has been revealed for BBC One, which will be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
The microbially driven formation of siderite in salt marsh sediments
We employ complementary field and laboratory‐based incubation techniques to explore the geochemical environment where siderite concretions are actively forming and growing, including solid‐phase anal...
Greta Thunberg in exclusive interview: ”The hope lies in the fact that people don’t know what is going on”
MADRID. COP25 goes into its second week on Monday, in the attendance of high level politicians from around the world.
This small German town took back the power – and went fully renewable
A revolution in ownership must be at the heart of a Green New Deal.
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
IT IS POSSIBLE! WE NEED MORE.
“..the experience shows..rapid decarbonisation of energy supply wholly compatible with economic democracy. Strong+effective climate crisis action through collective empowerment, without needing ecological authoritarianism..”
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Greta Thunberg mobbed at UN climate talks
The Swedish activist's first visit to the climate conference sees her mobbed by press and delegates
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
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Greta Thunberg: 'They try so desperately to silence us' - BBC News
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Research Associate (PostDoc) on Mineral Formation and Electron Microscopy (m/f/x)
The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany. With approximately 1.260 employees (including visiting scientists), the GFZ is conducting interdisciplinary...
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
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The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world
Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed by 0.75°C, far outpacing the global average, while Antarctic temperatures have remained comparatively stable. As Earth approaches 2°C warming, the Arctic and Antarctic may reach 4°C and 2°C mean annual...
Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese
Anoxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms can biomineralize manganese oxides without molecular oxygen being present and without high-potential photosynthetic reaction centres, which sheds doubt on proposed dates for the origins of oxygenic...
What will an ice-free Arctic look like?
As climate change brings closer the possibility of an Arctic Ocean free of summer sea ice, scientists are urgently trying to understand the high north before it changes for good.
Liane G. Benning also @DeepPurpleERC
What will an ice-free Arctic look like? - BBC Future
A great write up about science and the challenges @MOSAiCArctic
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The Carbon Story of a Melting Arctic
Large parts of the far north of our planet, the Arctic, were permanently covered with ice for thousands of years, but this is now changing. By burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, we rapidly return carbon, stored for millions of years in the...