In September, 17 Russian scientists travelled to Southampton to join UK scientists in a workshop on studying long-term environmental change in Siberia and the Russian Far East. This large northern land mass is warming fast, and its responses to warming are of interest to both the scientific community and national …
Professor Tony Brown, Dr Dan Fallu, Dr Ben Pears, GeoData Tromsø Museum, (Arctic University of Norway), University of Southampton, University of York, University of Padua, University of Salzburg, University of Barcelona, University of Leuven, ARS Ltd. This ERC Advanced Grant funded Project seeks over the next 4-5 years to establish …
INQUA 2019 – The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Conference is held once every four years and gathers together scientists from all over the globe to present, debate and refine our understanding of global systems over the Quaternary period (< 2.6 million years). This year the conference was jointly …
Professor Tony Brown, Dr Thierry Fonville, Dr Ben Pears University of Southampton, Tromsø Museum, UiT, University of Newcastle, Queen’s University Belfast In conjunction with: Historic Scotland, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Department for Communities The AHRC funded Sea of Moyle Project aims to determine the relationships between …
New Pacific PhD’s arrived The PLUS group has gone rather tropical with the arrival of 3 new PhD’s Charlotte Hipkiss, Marjorie Fis and Nicola Strandberg, with funding from the AU and SPITFIRE. Between them and two other PhD’s (Marie Schenkler – Coastal change in Solomon Islands with Rob Nichols and …
Prof Steve Darby is involved in two new NERC research grants, worth a combined total of around £900k FEC, that have been awarded through a Newton Fund thematic programme on Hydrometeorological Hazards in SE Asia. Steve, along with Justin Sheffield and Craig Hutton, will be leading a team of UK …
Siberia and the Russian Far East (SRFE) comprise a large proportion of all northern lands, and they are experiencing rapid climate warming. Their important role in global climate processes (e.g., permafrost thaw, forest fires, and associated carbon release) is poorly understood, partly because of general difficulties of access and because …
The UK can expect more large rural fires with global warming. After burning, how can the landscape and vegetation of our moorlands and heathlands best be restored, and their vital ecosystem services—such as carbon sequestration—be maintained? Paul Hughes and Mary Edwards will be collaborating with Bjorn Robroek (IfLS) on a …
