#News: The flat-headed cat 🧐🐱 long feared extinct in #Thailand for 30 years has appeared on camera! We must protect their #wetland homes from #palmoil to keep them safe! 🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elusive-wild-cat-thought-to-be-extinct-rediscovered-in-thailand-after-30-years/qg3skv5i1?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: The flat-headed cat 🧐🐱 long feared extinct in #Thailand for 30 years has appeared on camera! We must protect their #wetland homes from #palmoil to keep them safe! 🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elusive-wild-cat-thought-to-be-extinct-rediscovered-in-thailand-after-30-years/qg3skv5i1?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

I've passed my #viva (yay!) and can now share two recent publications:

First, our article on reconstructing prehistoric land cover in the Humberhead Levels is now out in Vegetation History and #Archaeobotany.

We applied the Multiple Scenario Approach to produce spatially-informed quantitative reconstructions across four #prehistoric periods, working through the complexities of #wetland-rich 'blue-green' #landscapes where #freshwater and #marine systems intersect.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-026-01087-6

Second, I contributed to the #archaeology chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of #Anarchism (March 2026), which connects #anarchist theory and #history to contemporary political developments.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031980299

More publications on the way as well and on to what comes next, whatever that might be (pls send me your #postdoc postings 🙏 😅 ).

#geoarchaeology #palaeoecology #gis

I've passed my #viva (yay!) and can now share two recent publications:

First, our article on reconstructing prehistoric land cover in the Humberhead Levels is now out in Vegetation History and #Archaeobotany.

We applied the Multiple Scenario Approach to produce spatially-informed quantitative reconstructions across four #prehistoric periods, working through the complexities of #wetland-rich 'blue-green' #landscapes where #freshwater and #marine systems intersect.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-026-01087-6

Second, I contributed to the #archaeology chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of #Anarchism (March 2026), which connects #anarchist theory and #history to contemporary political developments.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031980299

More publications on the way as well and on to what comes next, whatever that might be (pls send me your #postdoc postings 🙏 😅 ).

#geoarchaeology #palaeoecology #gis

I spent yesterday at Travis Wetland, Ōruapaeroa, which is a large wetland restoration site in eastern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. One of my MSc students, Tommy, is embarking on an invertebrate survey of the wetland, and we spent the day setting up Malaise traps (to catching flying insects) and pitfall traps (to catch invertebrates on the ground).

Tommy is repeating a survey done back in 1995–1996, when the wetland (then mostly wet farmland) was being purchased from a housing developer by the City Council.

We expect a lot to have changed (hopefully mostly for the better) as the vegetation of the wetland is much more diverse and native than it was.

Stay tuned over the summer for insect discoveries.

#entomology #wetland #restoration #InsectSurvey #insects #nz #LincolnUniversityNZ #research

Travis Wetland is a large urban wetland nature reserve. That means it's surrounded by people and their gardens on all sides, so it gets a constant inflow of pests (and pet cats) and weeds.

While working at the wetland yesterday, we found (and pulled out) the first records from the wetland of evergreen buckthorn and raphiolepis. Both are emergent woody weeds that are shade tolerant and make bird dispersed fleshy fruits. They're both still planted in gardens.

If you live near some wild native habitat, keep an eye out for new exotic plants establishing.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/328034270

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/328034276

#weeds #wetland #nz #Christchurch #BiologicalInvasions #iNaturalistNZ

I spent yesterday at Travis Wetland, Ōruapaeroa, which is a large wetland restoration site in eastern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. One of my MSc students, Tommy, is embarking on an invertebrate survey of the wetland, and we spent the day setting up Malaise traps (to catching flying insects) and pitfall traps (to catch invertebrates on the ground).

Tommy is repeating a survey done back in 1995–1996, when the wetland (then mostly wet farmland) was being purchased from a housing developer by the City Council.

We expect a lot to have changed (hopefully mostly for the better) as the vegetation of the wetland is much more diverse and native than it was.

Stay tuned over the summer for insect discoveries.

#entomology #wetland #restoration #InsectSurvey #insects #nz #LincolnUniversityNZ #research

Red-necked wallaby with joey at Mulligans Flat wetlands.

#canberra #nature #australia #photography #winter #canon #wetland #biodiversity #naturelovers #naturephotography #august #wallaby #joey

Here are four wetland birds I've photographed on my bike commute to work this week, between Ōtautahi-Chirstchurch and Lincoln, New Zealand. Together they're a testament to how much wetland bird life has been returning to the wider city, as the city has been restoring native wetland habitats.

I've been counting birds on my bike commute to Lincoln since 2003. While I saw pied oystercatchers in 2003, the first ever pied stilt I counted wasn't until August 2017, the first grey teal I counted was in July 2019, and the first coot I counted was in June 2024.

Bring back the wetlands and the birds return.

Poaka · Australian Pied stilt: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208255

Tete · Grey teal: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208254

Tōrea · South Island Pied Oystercatcher: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208266

Australasian Coot: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208248

#birds #nz #wetland #restoration#Ōtautahi#Christchurch