News and Events

10 March 2010 Jo Venus elected President of the International Network of Young Earth Scientists

Postgraduate Student Jo Venus (ESSI) been elected as President of the International Network of Young Earth Scientists (YES)

The YES Network is an international association of early-career geoscientists who are primarily under the age of 35 years and are from universities, geoscience organisations and companies from across the world.

The YES...

10 March 2010 Michael Krom taking part in Red Sea - Dead Sea canal feasibility study

Michael Krom is taking part as the Coyne et Bellier Oceanography expert in a World bank sponsored trip to Jordan and Israel as part of a feasibility study for a possible Red Sea - Dead Sea canal.

04 March 2010 Royal Meteorological Society prize for John Marsham

John Marsham has been awarded the LF Richardson Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society. This prize is awarded annually in recognition of the best paper published in the society's journals by an author under the age of 35.

The citation reads:

Dr John Marsham has published a number of papers in the Quarterly Journal in recent...

02 March 2010 Seismic Schools project in Hong Kong

The Seismic Schools Project has installed its latest seismometer in the geological museum of Hong Kong University.

01 March 2010 Equipping students for the transition to a sustainable low carbon society

William Young (Sustainability Research Institute) and Julia Clarke (LUBS) have been awarded £46,676 from the University’s Academic Development Fund. The project will develop and pilot a transferable method to equip students with the knowledge and critical analysis skills for the transition to a sustainable low carbon society. This will involve...

25 February 2010 USGS Mendenhall Fellowship for Alan Haywood

Alan Haywood has won a 2nd Mendenhall Fellowship project from the US Geological Survey. The USGS Mendenhall Fellowship Scheme is very prestigious in the US Earth Sciences community and apparently Alan is the only UK scientist to ever have one

The fellowship is for a post-doc for two years working on reconstructing and modelling palaeo-ocean...