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Locality: Clayton North, Victoria

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25.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Incubation experiment of lime treatment in the boreal acid sulphate soil on GHG production in University of Helsinki, Finland. This research belongs to the key research topics of MAGGE-pH Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions by improved pH management of soils. We carried out an incubation experiment on the effects of two levels lime treatments (CaCO3 as suspension) on GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions production in soil horizons in acid sulfate soils and non-acid sulphate soils. Our results found that the lime treatment can raise pH of the soil cores and therefore reduce N2O production during aerobic and anaerobic conditions especially in top soils. by Chang Xu

24.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category All the Colours of the Birefringence-Bow Minerals viewed in cross-polarised light in petrographic microscopes refract the light depending on their refractive index. Some minerals have low birefringence - they appear inky grey or white to straw yellow. Others have higher indexes that are very bright pinks, yellows and blues. This mineral here is Fe-rich Olivine - it’s colour is at the end of the index (greeny pink). The edge of the olivine is viewed here, next to another mineral that is in extinction (black) at maximum magnification (x40) - the mineral has undergone intense alteration from percolating fluids and enables us to see the entire Birefringence index from low to high. by Sarah Alkemade

24.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Photomicrograph of fine grained laminated sandstone with C and S fabric under XPL. White arrows highlight kinematics. by Anne Whitworth

21.01.2022 Happy #InternationalWomensDay2021! As @MonashEAE progresses with our equity ambitions (https://buff.ly/3v6jtTg), today #SuperstarsofSTEM Linden Ashcroft inspired us to be better scientists, better communicators and better citizens. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021

21.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Baby’s First Thinsection. This picture shows a vibrantly coloured pyroxene crystal as viewed in thin section under a cross-polarised light microscope. Although impressive to look at, this is a terrible thin section, and the first I ever created. Not only is it covered in deep scratches, but it has also shattered due to using inadequate lubricant during polishing. The change in colour is due 'wedging' across the crystal face, which just means it was polished unevenly and one side is thicker than the other. by Angus Rogers

20.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Socially distanced on the Saltmarsh. Photo taken of a group using a UAV to photograph a UAV surveying coastal wetlands (note the white and black drones in the air). The dog and kids come for the fun too. Even in Covid-19 times, the world is our lab. Photograph taken mid-July 2020 at Stony Point. by Prudence Perry

20.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category The sampling site of boreal acid sulfate soil in research farm of University of Helsinki, Finland This research belongs to the key research topics of MAGGE-pH Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions by improved pH management of soils. We took soil samples from the acid sulfate soil site and subsequently carried out an incubation experiment on the effects of lime treatments on GHG (greenhouse gas) emission production to identify how pH affects the N2O emissions. by Chang Xu

20.01.2022 Another very exciting @MonashEAE seminar. Today Lydia Messling from the University of Reading/Acclimatise will present something completely different for us, on the philosophy and politics of science. "How can climate scientists engage in policy advocacy and preserve their scientific credibility and independence?" 4pm Melbourne = 8am CET: https://buff.ly/2XkUaxI

20.01.2022 Want to continue your studies into Earth, Atmosphere and Environment? @MonashEAE's 2021 offerings are out, and we can't wait to have you join us! You can see Ruth explain the EAE degree pathways here https://youtu.be/Dwm8aFOYGN4, and feel free to ask any questions below, or contact the Faculty of Science for formal course advice.

19.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #landscape category Melbourne, M1 Toorak exit (probably), 1 March 2020 "Cause you are a sky, I am gonna give you my heart" by Fatemah Amirpoorsaeed

18.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Watch where you step. The student is standing in a surface break of one of the many faults that ruptured during the massive November 2016, M7.8 Kaikoura earthquake. by Mike Hall

18.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category A month on a ship. I never thought I’d end up on a ship during my PhD, cruising through the Tasman Sea on the hunt for fresh basalts dredged from seamounts. As far as fieldwork goes, this was one of the most amazing experiences during my EAE career at Monash! by Saskia Ruttor

17.01.2022 So much of our weather and climate is driven by El Niño and his sister La Niña. How will these key events develop in our rapidly changing world? This new book addresses this question, with key contributions from @MonashEAE. https://buff.ly/3eH3L9q #TheWorldIsOurLab

17.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Winter storm. Rare desert cloudburst in Arizona after a day searching for gold near the artisanal mining town of Quartzsite, AZ. by Owen Missen

16.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Gravity of Southeastern Australia and surrounds. Onshore, isostatic gravity, offshore free air gravity. White and red indicate gravity highs, blue and purple, gravity lows. The coastline is in pale blue. The image shows the onshore and offshore basins and granitic intrusions as gravity lows. More metamorphosed rocks are gravity highs. The continuous gravity high just offshore marks the break of slope of the continental margin. Other prominent offshore features include the Tasman and George V transforms in the southwest, the high from the South Tasman Rise south of Tasmania and the local highs from volcanic seamounts in the Tasman Sea. by David Moore

15.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Kangaroo vs. erosion pin. 80 erosion pins were deployed to measure sediment movement at Pioneer Bay. Destruction by environmental components such as wind, waves and drift wood were accounted for but destruction by Kangaroo was not. It highlights the problems of leaving equipment out in the field. by Sabrina Sayers

15.01.2022 It's #EarthDay, a day where we celebrate the Earth, Atmosphere & Environment that we live in, and a day where we reflect on what we are doing to protecting them. But if you're reading this, you already know that. So this EarthDay, tell a friend: there is no Planet B!

14.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Polydeformed Goat Island Conglomerate, west of Ulverstone, Tasmania. The hammer is in one synform and a pegmatite defines another synform-antiform couplet, although part of the pegmatite defines an older(?) antiform. The deformation to the east is dominantly Cambrian, but may include Devonian elements. The age of the conglomerate is uncertain, with possibilities Upper Cambrian, Cryogenian or Mesoproteerozoi...c. If the rocks are Cambrian, they probably correlate with the Owen Conglomerate, and so provide evidence for Late Cambrian or Devonian deformation in the region. If Cryogenian or Mesoproterozoic, the nearest correlates, the Forest Conglomerate or its substrate, is at least 50 km away and in a completely different tectonic package. There are no mapped conglomerates in the Mesoproterozoic, but lots of quartzite, which is the main clast component. The conglomerate clasts can be most easily seen to the right of and just above the hammer. by David Moore See more

14.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Precambrian Space Dust. This is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a grain of space dust that landed on the Earth roughly 640 million years ago. It was extracted from a carbonate deposit in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. These fossil micrometeorites are exceptionally difficult to find and work with due to their size, but are expected to be in any slowly accumulated sediment throughout the geological record. by Angus Rogers

14.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Slippered Sedimentology. Photograph taken in our home late June 2020. Covid-19 isolation hasn't stopped our passion for looking at sand. We just added our creature comforts! by Prudence Perry

13.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Silver chloride fern. Silver fern formed from crystals of silver chloride. Pity it wasn't the compound I was trying to make! by Owen Missen

12.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Zircon Snowflake. This is a recently taken photomicroscope under a simple binocular. I just aligned little cute zircon crystals to make a snowflake shape. The zircons are from granodiorite of Mt. Buller. We love that mountain, especially in the winter season right?! I am loving studying this area as part of my thesis. by Hosong (Pepe) Lim

12.01.2022 The next NASA rover to head to Mars - Perseverance - has an Australian connection. Join us Tues Oct 13th at 11am (AEDT) [[2AM CET; 8PM Mon EST]] as NASA's Adrian Brown tells us about the mission, and how some old, Australian rocks are helping NASA to plan for bringing some of Mars back to Earth. https://buff.ly/3iGrHdx

11.01.2022 To celebrate International Women's Day we have Einstein a-go-go presenter and Superstar of STEM Linden Ashcroft giving a *real life, in person seminar* at Monash! All staff, students, and friends of EAE of all genders are welcome. 11 am Mon 8 March, Room 101 in the LTB (19 Ancora Imparo Way) You must register at https://buff.ly/3strTC9

10.01.2022 Today @MonashEAE is honoured to be welcomed to country by the Boon Warrung: children of Bunjil, traditional custodians of this land and the first Earth Scientists.

10.01.2022 Sarah and Zsanett are in the lab! We repeat IN THE LAB! Sarah says: "So great to be back!" Here they are demonstrating how the piston cylinder works. Or pointing at it, anyway!

09.01.2022 Our very own Peter Cawood is giving a public lecture about the 4.5 Billion Years of Earth's history, through his many and varied experiences in studying how the Earth's surface has changed, and how these changes have made Earth habitable. Register FREE: https://buff.ly/3orFgCc

08.01.2022 @MonashEAE PhD student recently published a new method to fuse satellite images from different sources to allow high-resolution, daily monitoring of crops. You can read the paper here (it's open access): https://buff.ly/36zrsOR or a summary here: https://buff.ly/3osw8fx

06.01.2022 STARTS IN ~2 HRS! Perseverance, the next Mars Rover, has an Australian link. Join us at 11am (AEDT) [2AM CET; 8PM EST] as NASA's Adrian Brown tells us about the mission, and how good old Aussie rocks are helping NASA plan to bring some of Mars back to Earth https://buff.ly/3iGrHdx

06.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category Through the eye of a microscope. Your career in EAE can take you to many special places, including the lab! Some people might think that this is not as exciting as the places we travel to, but look at this picture! The different colours you are seeing are different minerals and a mineral can tell you all kinds of stories from millions and millions of years ago. by Saskia Ruttor

05.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category The Mont Blanc This photograph was taken during a ten days [fieldwork] journey in Alps. Looking at the power of this mountain is a great reminder of the amazing forces that shape our planet. by Yuval Sadeh

05.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category Geophysical Field Work, Heathcote Costerfield area, Victoria, Australia Undergraduate geophysical field work. Fun, fun, fun, walking up and down. Take a measurement, fun, fun, fun, walking up and down. Ground surface surveying, All in the name of practical field data. Gets pretty hot from time to time, sometimes you gotta go bare to cool down from walking up and down, and taking measurements. Fun, fun, fun. by Junnel Alegado

05.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category A Super cool Pyrite rich Carbonate Vein This is a picture of a blueschist on Rocky Beach in Port Macquarie. There is a white vein which we believe is to be made up of a Carbonate which was precipitated in a carbonate rich fluid. In this fluid that precipitated the Carbonate there must have been HEAPS of sulfides which cause Pyrite to form. by Alanis Olesch-Burne

05.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #science category This is what the MDDP's (Monash Drone Discovery Platform) backpack LiDAR made of me, a drone and the surrounding mangrove during a vegetation survey. by Sabrina Sayers

02.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #fieldwork category This is a cold fieldwork photo of me coring a Norway Spruce (Picea abies) tree in the Krkonose mountains in the Czech Republic last year (it was about 5C and very wet!) Great times at the Euro dendro field week, such great people. I was so glad to get back to the warmth that day for lots of late night science, and the odd massive glass of Czech beer ;) by Ben Henley

01.01.2022 Today we've been able to share a few of the wonderful stories of @MonashEAE's #WomenInScience thanks to the initiative and interview skills of our very own #SuperstarsofSTEM @melaniefinch_. Thanks Mel not only for finding these stories to share with the world, but also for being a super Woman in Science yourself! #TheWorldIsOurLab

01.01.2022 @MonashEAE #WinterPhotoComp #LikeThisPostToVote #landscape category Moon Egg As the sun sets on the shores of the Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia, the full moon rises. Here, the beaches are not of sand, but of iron stained pebbles that come into their own at this magic hour when their colour is mirrored in the sky. by Sarah Alkemade

01.01.2022 After a long year, the @MonashEAE team let our hair down and got some sunshine at our end-of-year celebration on Friday. There have been a few challenges, but we've seen some great success in the lab and in the classroom this year, and we are ready to take on 2020!