Prof of Environmental Chemistry, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, UK.https://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3mq7kcfikfs2qWhat is the best way to support Count Binface? Just asking for a friend09 Jul 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7kcfikfs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3maoeubg3o22rCan't do AGu, but it is Christmas so it is lager cocktails in Durham's very own champagne bar and lager cocktails23 Dec 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3maoeubg3o22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m6vzftv4vk2qOur study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-025-01283-8, led by Simon Matthias (Engineering) has made it to the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/water-shortages-could-derail-uk-net-zero-plans-study-finds?CMP=share_btn_url @durhamearthsci.bsky.social01 Dec 2025 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6vzftv4vk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m5vg2irvvc2nI have just discovered a Jane Austen manuscript that the publishers rejected. In the novel she describes teaching time series analysis to MSc students - it is called "Variance and Variability"18 Nov 2025 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5vg2irvvc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m4psfxu3w22zHow is carbon stored in salt marshes? Great fieldwork on the Solway Firth with postgrad Jinny. Always good to find a buried soil horizon. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social03 Nov 2025 10:22 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4psfxu3w22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m466xclxa22lMost English rivers are seeing fewer eutrophication events https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169425017342 however, some are getting worse and there is no one reason for those worsening trends. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social27 Oct 2025 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m466xclxa22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m2jal4n2uk24What will be the impact of decarbonisation and the adoption of hydrogen power on water demand? New study by us and colleagues from Durham Engineering https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-025-01283-8 @durhamearthsci.bsky.social06 Oct 2025 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jal4n2uk24https://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m2c6s4sivc2qWe have grown a squash outside in the north east of England - he is called Pascal. Pascal is a magic squash plant as we have never ever planted any squash plants.03 Oct 2025 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2c6s4sivc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3m226s4ddic2jNever been in to The Royal Institution before. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social30 Sep 2025 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3m226s4ddic2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lzxlzrsl2k27Hanna's (Zihan Yang) first paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.70087 paired data on 317 sewage works and 232 control reaches for 22 years to find out what impact of sewage has. What was getting worse or what was getting better with time and why? @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @jlaknapp.bsky.social29 Sep 2025 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxlzrsl2k27https://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lzg2xytek22nFor a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-025-01258-z Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social22 Sep 2025 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzg2xytek22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lyxzlopz222oWhen we say sphagnum carpet I am not sure that you are supposed to be able to pick it up and fold it. This year's Sphagnum pioneers at Hatfield form a mat that dries out and detaches in ephemeral ponds. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social16 Sep 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxzlopz222ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lyuewtyvy22kHow do peats form? Our experiments compares how self-weight compaction compares degradation processes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816225005764 Spoiler - degradation is more important @durhamearthsci.bsky.social15 Sep 2025 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyuewtyvy22khttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lyijoshjns2bThe World Peatland project team at Leicester Science Park having just finished our today workshop @durhamearthsci.bsky.social10 Sep 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyijoshjns2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3ltr3q5byas2aHappy birthday England, 1098 years young today.12 Jul 2025 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltr3q5byas2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3ls7svzjdr22tGreat to be back on nerd camp #grc #catchment GRC catchment science conference @durhamearthsci.bsky.social22 Jun 2025 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls7svzjdr22thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lo3ya7x2vk2nThanks to Michel Bechtold @michelbechtold.bsky.social for including our data from Hatfield Moors in this study to trial satellite methods for monitoring peat water tables @durhamearthsci.bsky.social01 May 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo3ya7x2vk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lo2bs4aflc2vI have discovered that at egu #EGU20×5 you can have your evening beers out on the balcony30 Apr 2025 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo2bs4aflc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lnxtwxlkyk2fProper EGU #egu2025. Vegan schnitzel, vegan beer and coding29 Apr 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxtwxlkyk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3ll6u3deub22kReversing eutrophication - we contributed the long UK records to the global database on chlorophyll-a for freshwaters https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2025-58/ Thanks to Camille Minaudo and Xavier Benito of University of Barcelona for inviting me to join in. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social25 Mar 2025 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll6u3deub22khttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lkkuxx7h5s2oTeaching soil science I have never liked the possible acronyms for the factors controlling soil formation and so I invented my own - the claret carrot - could not find find a claret coloured carrot or a carrot toasting with claret. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social17 Mar 2025 09:51 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkkuxx7h5s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lk3yoclqw225Peatland restoration not keeping up - our new method for mapping peat health https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725005911 British peats have seen revegetation (increased albedo), but not as fast as we should expect given controls and climate change. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social11 Mar 2025 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk3yoclqw225https://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3ljz3p3sxmc2l69% of British peatlands are on a downward trajectory and have been since 2001. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725005911 We surveyed all British peatlands and applied the cold humid island hypothesis @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social10 Mar 2025 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljz3p3sxmc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3liycxl72m22wOur new research @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @bristoluni.bsky.social on the World's longest water quality record shows that despite success decreasing phosphorus the potential for algal growth https://uwaterloo.ca/water-institute/news/climate-change-limits-progress-cleaning-river-thames-study25 Feb 2025 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3liycxl72m22whttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3limydiwjak2tDoing fieldwork on bogs of the Pennines you expect to get wet and cold, but you don't expect to become a cat rescuer. Found abandoned on the Pennine Way - we named her Marsden - now with RSPCA vet. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social20 Feb 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3limydiwjak2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lhjzsopwgc2eThank you to Andrea Kelly from Broads Authority for making it possible for us to go peat coring in the Broads today. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social06 Feb 2025 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjzsopwgc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lfayv24jak2tFlooded, frozen-over stream - let me just check the field site risk assessment - nope, no mention of flooded frozen streams on that form and so must be safe to wade in.08 Jan 2025 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfayv24jak2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredworrall.bsky.social/post/3lf5f7timsk2eI had planned for snow and ice but not for the thaw. Under there is reported to be the earthly remains of a raised bog @durhamearthsci.bsky.social07 Jan 2025 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:db7r47qlbyckf76doyndhftg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5f7timsk2e