Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 03/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Room 311, Geography and Environmental Sciences Building (R26 on the Edgbaston Campus map) Room 311
- Description
- Part of the Water Sciences Seminar Series. Martin Muir, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience
- Date
- 05/06/2013 (16:15-17:15)
- Location:
- NG08 - School of Biosciences – R27 on the Edgbaston Campus map
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor John Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences
News
- Description
- 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).
- Date:
- 14/05/2013
- Description
- Research led by Dr Juana Mari Delgado-Saborit was featured in the BBC programme 'Bang Goes the Theory', in an episode investigating Air Pollution.
- Date:
- 30/04/2013
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 11/04/2013
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 09/04/2013
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 28/03/2013
- Description
- 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".
- Date:
- 18/03/2013
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 12/03/2013
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 30/01/2013