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10 May 2011 Joint CCCEP / SRI Seminar
You are cordially invited to attend a joint CCCEP / SRI lunchtime seminar, 'Nature Climate Change: How to get published'by Dr Monica Contestabile, Senior Editor, Nature Publishing Group.No reservation is required but places in the seminar room are available on a first come first served basis.Please feel free to forward details to any colleagues,...
18 February 2011 IGT PhD student Tom Blanchard gave 2 papers at the 2010 SEG
IGT PhD student Tom Blanchard gave 2 papers at the 2010 SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Annual Meeting, in Denver last November: one was ranked in the Top 30 papers of the meeting and invited for fast-track publication in GEOPHYSICS. The paper was on the use of seismic attenuation ("Q") data to separate effects of pressure and...
28 January 2011 Student wins prize in University of Leeds Postgraduate Researcher of the Year Competition
Earth and Environment's Anja Schmidt has been awarded third prize in this year's University of Leeds Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition.
PhD student Anja won the prize for her work on the long-term impacts of non-explosive volcanic eruptions. She has been using a state-of-the art atmospheric model to study how large-scale...
27 January 2011 Capacity building in climate change and rural livelihoods in Malawi and Botswana
This project is a collaboration for capacity-building between the Sustainability Research Institute, Bunda College in Malawi and University of Botswana, funded by Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE, DFID funded). As part of this project Dr Claire Quinn, Dr Elisabeth Simelton and Prof Andy Dougill facilitated a training...
27 January 2011 ‘Closing the loop’ in understanding adaptation of agriculture to climate change
This project, part of a programme of work by the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), aims to integrate top-down quantitative and bottom-up qualitative assessments of the capacity for agricultural and food production systems to adapt to climate change. Early findings from fieldwork in Malawi and Botswana suggest...
27 January 2011 ‘Hidden plumbing' helps slow Greenland ice flow
A letter published in Nature on 27 January explains how increased melting in warmer years causes the internal drainage system of the ice sheet to ‘adapt’ and accommodate more melt-water, without speeding up the flow of ice toward the oceans. The findings have important implications for future assessments of global sea level rise.
26 January 2011 Human migration as a result of climatic change and drought in Africa
PhD student: Natalie Suckall
Funding: ESRC/NERC Interdisciplinary Scholarship
My research focuses on human migration in response to climate change in Africa, this is perhaps one of the most important issues of the 21st century. As our climate changes sub-Saharan Africa will be faced with longer and more intense droughts and more frequent...
26 January 2011 White Rose Doctoral Training Centre (DTC)
We are pleased to announce (January 2011) that this joint bid between Leeds, York and Sheffield has been successful, and that we are now a recognized Centre of Excellence. The DTC comes with the award of 48 quota studentships for UK students (EU students would be eligible for 'Fees Only' awards, and those deemed as Overseas/International for...
24 January 2011 Rob Chapman panning for gold on Channel 4
Rob Chapman will feature in Channel 4's 'Birth of Britain' a series of three documentaries concerned with aspects of the geological history of the UK. The three subjects are : volcanoes, ice and gold. Rob is in the third episode in which he teaches Tony Robinson to pan for gold in the location used for the level 1 gold field trip.
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21 January 2011 Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two
Dr Tim Wright quoted on geophysics in Germany's leading newspaper:-http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,740641,00.html