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Information for new students to the School
Paleoenvironmental Change and Hominid Evolution in Australia
Andy Baker and Alison Blyth (Open University) have been awarded a NERC standard grant to investigate how early humans interacted with and were affected by their environments, by using accurately dated stalagmite records to look both at how climates changed and how plants and ecosystems responded.
Measurement of Halogen Species by Resonance Fluorescence
A NERC research grant awarded to Bill Bloss will investigate naturally occurring iodine and bromine compounds in the marine atmosphere. Both species can affect the atmosphere's self-cleansing ability to remove pollutants, and atmospheric iodine species can form new particles which may act as cloud condensation nuclei, potentially affecting climate, but little is known about their global abundance and hence the significance of these processes.
CNRS Silver Award
Congratulations to Gilles Pinay who was awarded a Silver Medal from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France on 26 June. The CNRS Silver Medal honours researchers who are recognized nationally and internationally for the originality, quality and importance of their work.
New Paper in Science
New evidence that the climate of the Medieval period was one of a more persistently wet and westerly climate than present has been published in a recent issue of Science. The new results combines evidence from tree rings, stalagmites, ocean sediments and general circulation models to obtain the longest ever reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation [read more...]
Geographies of Energy Transition Seminar Series
Stefan Bouzarovski has been successful in obtaining funding for an ESRC seminar series on 'Geographies of energy transition', organised together with Dr Gavin Bridge (Manchester), Professor Michael Bradshaw (Leicester) and Dr Nick Eyre (Oxford). The purpose of the seminar series is to catalyse social science research on the spatial implications of the contemporary energy transition by initiating a dialogue between human geographers and energy experts in the academy, policy community and commercial sector [read more ...]
NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, starting 27 April 2010.
Interdisciplinary water management in European agricultural landscapes (IDEAL), 9-11 September
Management of Antisocial Behaviour for Environmental Health Practitioners, 21 April 2010
Certificate of Competence in Environmental Noise Measurement, 19-23 April 2010
Tectonic Studies Group Meeting - Birmingham 2010, 6-8 January 2010
