Simon Carr

@xrayct.bsky.social

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Professor of Geographer based in the English Lake District, 3D imaging nerd, loves trees🌳, peatlands, mountains 🏔️ and glaciers❄️, loathes current climate change. Plays 🥁and percussion🪇🪘 for a brass band, and ukulele at home to relieve the pressure

Gas flux ring adjacent to a dipwell at BoltonFellMoss, Cumbria. Survey sites like this enable us to capture snapshots of methane and CO2 release under different weather and groundwater situations…
Bare peat surface at Rusland Moss, Cumbria. Areas of bare peat release large amounts of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, so restoration of these is imperative in meeting ambitious climate mitigation targets.
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader murdered by the Kremlin
a photograph of Kendal, hemmed in by snow covered hills and mountains