Changing the Way You Work

Changing the Way You Work

August 31, 2016By Tais W DahlTips

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Article in PNAS: Humble moss created modern O2 levels

August 15, 2016By Tais W DahlPublication

In a new modeling study led by Tim Lenton from University of Exeter, we found that the earliest land plants caused atmospheric O2 levels to increase above the “fire limit”, where stuff will ignite and burn. This result fits nicely with available geochemical and paleontological evidence, but previous theoretical models predicted either an earlier or a later rise of … Read More

Outreach: Lundbeck Foundation sponsors “Microbial World and the Evolution of Life”

July 7, 2016By Tais W DahlFinancial support

Inspired by the Boston Science Club for Girls, the Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, have initiated a new mentor program for primary schoolers called “Videnskabsklubben” (The Science Club). The Science club creates a program for enthusiastic children, who wish to explore the natural world. Junior mentors from 8th-9th grade act as junior mentors … Read More

Tais presents at Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama

June 15, 2016By Tais W DahlTalk

Tais will present isotope evidence for a brief oxygenation episode during the Cambrian explosion of animal life 520 Myr. The event reflects a reorganization of Earth’s global biogeochemical cycles driven by faster biological pump. One explanation is that animals themselves accelerated the transport of organic matter out of the oceans and into the sediments; for example as a result of creating larger faecal pellets, … Read More