Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/index.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-05-22T06:24:19Z Lydia Rea

Manufacturing areas in the city of Birmingham, which represent only a small percentage of the city's land area, are contributing significantly to urban lighting, according to research carried out by University of Birmingham environmental scientists published in the journal PLOS ONE today (Monday 6th May 2013).

2013-05-14T15:04:00Z 2013-05-14T14:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/07May-manufacturing-city.aspx Lydia Rea

Research led by Dr Juana Mari Delgado-Saborit was featured in the BBC programme 'Bang Goes the Theory', in an episode investigating Air Pollution.

2013-04-30T15:52:00Z 2013-04-30T15:41:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/30Apr13-bang-goes-the-theory.aspx Lydia Rea

Stuart Harrad has been awarded a grant from the European Commission under its European Industrial Doctorate scheme within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network Call. ELUTE's main research goal is to further understanding of the environmental fate and behaviour of brominated persistent organic chemicals and how best we may deploy recent advances in analytical instrumentation to do so.

2013-04-11T16:22:00Z 2013-04-23T16:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/11Apr13-elute-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

With all the snow that fell over the last few months, Catherine Muller teamed up with the online local news provider 'Birmingham Updates' (@BhamUpdates) in order to collect snow depth data within and surrounding Birmingham.

2013-04-09T13:14:00Z 2013-04-09T12:02:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/09Apr13-social-media-snow-data.aspx Lydia Rea

New research from the Antarctic Peninsula published in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years.

2013-03-28T10:04:00Z 2013-03-28T09:40:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/27Mar13-summer-melt-season.aspx Lydia Rea

Xiaoming Cai, Lee Chapman and John Thornes have been awarded a NERC CASE Studentship for the project "Quantifying the influence of wind advection on urban heat island for an improvement of a climate change adaptation planning tool".

2013-03-18T14:28:00Z 2013-04-16T14:28:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/18Mar13-studentship-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Lee Chapman and Catherine Muller have won two 12 month demonstrator grants funded by the Technology Strategy Board under the Internet of Things (IOT) call. IOT literally means 'things' (e.g. sensors and other smart devices) which are connected to the internet.

2013-03-12T17:00:00Z 2013-04-23T17:00:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/12mar13-grant-internet-of-things.aspx Lydia Rea

Birmingham scientists are taking part in the first scientific collaboration of its kind, where British and American scientists are trading skills and expertise and are using an unmanned robotic aircraft to gather high altitude atmospheric data.

2013-01-30T15:20:00Z 2013-01-30T14:59:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/25Jan-airborne-climate-science.aspx Lydia Rea

Thousands of shark teeth from the bed of a Blackpool fish tank are helping researchers at the University of Birmingham in their quest to probe ancient mysteries of the deep.

2013-01-21T16:25:00Z 2013-01-21T15:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/17Jan13-shark-tank-re-fit.aspx Lydia Rea

A quantitative analysis of dust sources in Delhi by scientists from India, the UK and the USA will provide important new insight into how individual sources of air-borne matter contribute to the overall concentrations measured in the atmosphere.

2013-01-15T09:51:00Z 2013-01-15T09:43:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2013/15Jan13-air-polluting-dust.aspx Lydia Rea

BUCCANEER, an innovative partnership with Birmingham City Council which developed a climate modelling tool, won the award for Environmental Sustainability at the prestigious Lord Stafford awards held on Thursday 15th November.

2012-11-21T16:43:00Z 2012-11-23T12:19:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/21Nov12-lord-stafford-award.aspx Lydia Rea

The Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund Development grant of £130,000 to progress plans to apply for a full grant for a major redevelopment project to create a significantly improved visitor experience and widen its access to young people, the public, and schools. Find out how you can get involved...

2012-11-16T15:05:00Z 2012-11-16T14:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/15Nov-heritage-lottery-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Research led by Mark Ledger has shown that critically low water levels in many rivers could lead to the partial collapse of food chains that support aquatic life. The research, which has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change, forms the conclusion to one of the longest experiments on drought ever conducted in freshwaters.

2012-09-14T16:16:00Z 2012-09-14T15:25:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/14Sep12-aquatic-life.aspx Lydia Rea

After being virtually eliminated during a flood in 2005 in Wolf Point Creek, Alaska, salmon, meiofauna and most macroinvertebrates all re-colonised within two years, according to research led by Sandy Milner, and published recently in the journal Nature Climate Change.

2012-09-10T09:46:00Z 2012-09-07T17:03:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/07Sep12-wolf-creek-recolonisation.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Rob MacKenzie, in collaboration with researchers from Lancaster University, has produced a paper which suggests that by 'greening up' our streets a massive 30% reduction in pollution could be achieved.

2012-08-30T11:14:00Z 2012-08-29T14:12:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/29Aug12-mackenzie-green-walls.aspx Lydia Rea

Our undergraduate programmes in Environmental Science have been accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES). Accreditation by this professional organisation reflects the high quality our degree programmes and recognises the excellence in teaching, learning and research aligned with professional development and practice.

2012-08-29T17:13:00Z 2012-08-29T16:48:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/29Aug12-env-sci-ies-accreditation.aspx Lydia Rea

Dominique Moran and Louise Dixon (Psychology) have been successful in obtaining funding from the ESRC for a project entitled 'Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK' (£370k fEC). This 3-year interdisciplinary project will provide a new perspective on prison visitation and its relationship to the highly topical issue of recidivism.

2012-08-29T14:39:00Z 2012-08-29T14:37:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/29Aug12-moran-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Lee Chapman and colleagues from Civil Engineering have been successful in obtaining £109k from FP7 as part of the LivingRail (Planning rail towards 2050) project.

2012-08-29T12:00:00Z 2012-08-30T11:24:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/29Aug12-livingrail-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Last month saw the publication of a new text by Ian Fairchild and former Birmingham staff member Andy Baker which concerns cave archives of environmental change.

2012-05-18T17:29:00Z 2012-05-18T15:06:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/18May12-speleothem-science-book.aspx Lydia Rea

'As a child I always had aspirations to go to the Olympics and represent my sport at the highest level, but not until recently did I realise that I wanted to do this as a full-time occupation for the foreseeable future'. So says Susie Gilbert, final year Geography student and women's Olympic hockey hopeful.

2012-04-04T09:23:00Z 2012-04-04T09:09:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/04Apr12-susie-gilbert-olympics.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Roy Harrison has been awarded the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for 2011 "for his outstanding work at the intersection of meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental health".

2012-03-16T09:05:00Z 2012-03-15T15:09:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/15Mar12-harrison-fitzroy-prize.aspx Lydia Rea

Phil Jones has successfully led two bids to the AHRC's Connected Communities scheme.

2012-02-10T10:51:00Z 2012-02-10T11:01:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/10Feb12-connected-communities.aspx Lydia Rea

The first grant has been awarded by the ESRC and JSPS (Japan Society for the promotions of Science) and will be used for a project entitled Planning Responses to 'Shock' and 'Slow-Burn' Events: the Role of Redundancy in Regional Resilience. The second grant (of 10K) has been awarded through EPSRC for a project entitled Open Source Food Distribution: Delivering Distributed Food Manufacture to Enhance Resilience.

2012-02-03T16:02:00Z 2012-02-03T16:30:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/03Feb12-peter-lee-grants.aspx Lydia Rea

The Environmental Health Sciences FIXAT project team are seeking to recruit adult non-smoking volunteers to take part in a research project studying exposure to air pollution arising from new or recently decorated buildings.

2012-02-03T15:46:00Z 2012-02-03T15:43:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/03Feb12-air-pollution-volunteers.aspx Lydia Rea

MSci Geology student Maddy Ralph (pictured right) has been awarded the the national geological mapping prize for 2012. The Dave Johnston Memorial Field Mapping Prize is awarded to the best geological map produced by a student in the UK or Ireland on the basis of their independent research project.

2012-01-23T09:33:00Z 2012-01-23T09:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/20Jan12-maddy-ralph-mapping-prize.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Juana Mari Delgado-Saborit has been awarded the 2011 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award. The Award will provide 300,000 USD to develop a research project relevant to the health effects of air pollution.

2012-01-23T09:15:00Z 2012-01-23T09:13:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2012/20Jan12-delgado-saborit-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Russell Coope, Honorary Professor of Quaternary Science, and Birmingham staff member (1955-1993), internationally famous for his work on reconstructing climate from fossil beetles, died on 28th November, aged 82.

2011-12-06T16:27:00Z 2011-12-07T08:44:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/06Dec11-russell-coope.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Rob MacKenzie was interviewed by The Weather Network TV channel (Canada) about his work on aircraft contrails in World War Two, which has just been published in the International Journal of Climatology.

2011-11-15T10:33:00Z 2011-11-15T10:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/15Nov11-wwII-vapour-trails.aspx Lydia Rea

The BBC Countryfile team have been filming a water tracing experiment undertaken by Professor John Gunn as part of research for Natural England that aims to understand why the upper River Lathkill in Derbyshire dries up, and whether mitigation is possible.

2011-11-14T13:57:00Z 2011-11-14T13:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/14Nov11-river-flow.aspx Lydia Rea

Catherine Muller, Lee Chapman and Duick Young have successfully been granted a small award from the UK Space Agency. The money will be used for purchasing equipment and developing workshops and resources for schools.

2011-11-08T10:26:00Z 2011-11-30T16:45:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/08Nov11-uk-space-agency.aspx Lydia Rea

Researchers from the University of Birmingham and other UK universities describe the evolution and assembly of a stream ecosystem in South East Alaska in new de-glaciated terrain, from early insect and crustacean invaders to the arrival of migrating salmon from the ocean, in a paper published in the journal 'Ecology' this month (October).

2011-10-18T14:36:00Z 2011-10-18T09:58:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/17Oct11GlaciersMakeWayforNewStreamHabitatinAlaska.aspx Lydia Rea

Alumna Chrissie Wellington won the 2011 Ford Ironman World Championship title on Saturday, October 8, deservedly earning the crown for the fourth time in five years.

2011-10-18T14:36:00Z 2011-10-18T09:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/17Oct11ChrissietakesIronmanChampionshiptitleagain,whileRachelrejoicesatfourthplace.aspx Lydia Rea

Sea Life Centre sharks are set to help University of Birmingham scientists unravel the mysteries of ancient seas. That will be the goal of a major research project announced as the centres prepare to host special Shark Weeks in October, to promote shark conservation.

2011-10-18T14:36:00Z 2011-10-18T09:59:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/17Oct11SeaLifeSharksHelpScientistsProbeMysteriesofAncientSeas.aspx Lydia Rea

The third period of fieldwork in the NERC-funded GAINS project (Glacial Activity in Neoproterozoic Svalbard) was carried out successfully this summer in three field camps amongst the highland glaciers of North East Spitsbergen.

2011-10-10T17:51:00Z 2011-10-11T11:16:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/10Oct-snowball-earth.aspx Lydia Rea

The Environmental Health Sciences FIXAT project team are seeking to recruit adult non-smoking volunteers to take part in a research project studying exposure to air pollution arising from new or recently decorated buildings.

2011-10-10T17:50:00Z 2011-10-11T11:16:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/10Oct-air-pollution-volunteers.aspx Simon Levermore

The whole atmosphere is effectively worth more than 100 times the value of the world economy (Gross World Product – GWP), according to research being presented to the annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) today by Professor John Thornes of the University of Birmingham's School of Geography.

2011-09-08T15:43:00Z 2011-09-08T15:41:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/02SeptThecostofbreathing-about65eachyear.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor John Bryson was on the Radio 4 World Tonight programme on Monday 29 August, in a half hour panel discussion with Lord Douglas Hurd and Gisela Stuart MP about the benefits of being an EU member and the Eurozone crisis.

2011-09-02T15:38:00Z 2011-09-02T15:36:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/bryson-radio4.aspx Simon Levermore

John Hammond returned to Birmingham for the first time in over 20 years (he took the MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology in 1988/89) when he kindly opened two new important Birmingham Weather stations this week. The first is in Paradise Circus in the city centre and the second is on a new Winterbourne site on campus. The difference in air temperature between the two sites is representative of the strength of Birmingham's Urban Heat Island at any given time.

2011-07-26T14:01:00Z 2011-07-26T13:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/john-hammond.aspx Lydia Rea

Catherine Muller and Duick Young from BUCL recently visited Moseley Primary School to give a talk to Years 3-5. The interactive talk was entitled 'Hot Cities! Temperature, Towns, Climate and Scientists' and was very well received – they will be returning to the school over the coming months to install a temperature sensor as part of the HiTemp project, and to carry out related-project work with year 6.

2011-07-26T13:51:00Z 2011-11-30T16:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/bucl.aspx Simon Levermore

A research team from the University of Birmingham is tackling the problem of resilience as it relates to critical local infrastructure, with future, innovative projects shining brightly on the horizon. The team draws from five major research groups at Birmingham, all of whom are addressing core themes of infrastructure and resilience. Professor Chris Rogers is leading the project with support from Dr David Chapman and Dr Ian Jefferson (Civil Engineering); Dr Austin Barber, Professor John Bryson, Dr Lee Chapman and Professor Jon Coaffee (GEES); and Professor Chris Baker and Dr Andrew Quinn (Centre for Railway Research and Education).

2011-07-26T13:33:00Z 2011-07-26T13:33:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/resilience-project.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Discovering 'Snowball Earth'

2011-07-26T13:18:00Z 2011-07-27T09:15:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/snowball-earth-may-2011.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Water Sciences Group join the social networking craze!

2011-07-26T13:05:00Z 2011-07-26T13:05:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/water-science-network.aspx Lydia Rea

Damian Lawler and colleagues at University College Dublin and the Irish Central Fisheries Board have been awarded a research grant of ½ million Euros by the Environmental Protection Agency in Ireland to carry out the first comprehensive assessment of the magnitude and dynamics of fine sediment transport and resultant sediment pollution problems in key Irish rivers.

2011-06-01T00:00:00Z 2011-08-23T15:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/news/2011/siltflux.aspx