Pete D. Akers
@PeteScientist
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Paleoclimatologist, stable isotope geochemist, geographer, stal🪨 and ice🧊 enthusiast. Assistant professor of physical geography at Trinity College Dublin.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined February 2019
What does it look like to fly across East Antarctica? Check out my time lapse flight from Zucchelli station toward Dumont d’Urville! Starts with crossing the coastal Transantarctic Range and stops a ways onto the E Antarctic ice sheet’s plateau.
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DRYPEAT is highly interdisciplinary and draws upon the fields of botany, ecology, paleoclimatology, hydrology, and geochemistry. Candidates with a strong interest in the project and with a solid background in one of its components are encouraged to apply through the link above.
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@MattBerry05 I’m not here much these days ha. Best part is that this is my office window on the fourth floor in city centre.
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@subfossilguy When I lived on the base of the Chartreuse cliffs in Grenoble, I always thought they looks a bit "fresh" for my liking. Then I read on some of the historical collapses, and that did not soothe those thoughts!
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Living near the cliffs surrounding Grenoble made for gorgeous landscapes, but slope failure always was in the back of my mind! This landslide was on the opposite side of the Vercors from the Grésivaudan, but the threat exists for all the steep slopes in Isère.
Stunning landslide tonight at 7 pm at La Rivière near Rovon (Isère, Vercors foothills)! 😱 Major event was preceded by a smaller one in early afternoon The departure area is above a quarry, near Mont Arte Deposit locally up to 20m thick reached the road!
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Attempting to figure out a (relatively) simple equation where you can plug in a continental US site's climate and geographical norms and obtain daily estimates of its precipitation isotope norms. First test at 73 sites isn't too bad! Red is actual isotope norms, black is model.
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Having the terms interact brings up the r2 to 0.59, but its even more complicated then and uglier. I feel like I'm missing something more fundamental that all these variables are dancing around.
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RT @MatthewCappucci: Hurricane Beryl, which is now a tropical storm, took the worst possible track and slammed #Houston. It’s right eyewal…
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Update: it got hotter in Vegas.
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Hours after the race, apparently no cleanup by race organizers, or at least very poorly done. My wife and I spent an hour picking plastic race garbage off the path to keep it from entering Dublin Bay. Organizers must do better. #Clontarfhalfmarathon2024
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Incredibly strong early season hurricane. Particularly noteworthy as open Atlantic hurricanes rarely get this strong at this time of year due to relatively cool waters and dry air. Record warm sea surface temperatures have negated that norm, however.
1110 AM AST Jul 1: The eye of #Beryl has made landfall on Carriacou Island at 1110 AM AST. Data from @53rdWRS indicate that Beryl's maximum sustained winds have increased to 150 mph. Visit for the latest information.
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The temptation to respond to a reviewer's request for an lengthy addition with "This analysis is left as an exercise for the reader"...😂
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RT @yarrowaxford: New paper by @PetePuleo shows why humble aquatic brown mosses just might be the awesome-est of water isotope archives. Th…
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Happy to have our Greenland lake isotope data help out on this interesting project using moss to reconstruct seasonal hydroclimate changes!
My latest paper (and last of my PhD) was just published by Quaternary Science Reviews. We present a novel proxy for reconstructing seasonally specific hydroclimate using δ18O measurements on aquatic moss strands in NW Greenland. Check it out: /1
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