News and events
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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- New study finds no evidence of daily vertical migration in planktic foraminifera, investigated by PhD student Ulrike Baranowski. This work has implications for the accuracy of palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
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- 18/03/2019
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- An international team of researchers has found that the way in which people use the internet is tied to patterns and rhythms in the natural world.
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- 08/03/2019
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- New study finds no evidence of daily vertical migration in planktic foraminifera, investigated by PhD student Ulrike Baranowski. This work has implications for the accuracy of palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
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- 04/03/2019
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- More than half of the carbon sink in the world's forests is in areas where the trees are relatively young – under 140 years old – rather than in tropical rainforests, research at the University of Birmingham shows.
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- 18/02/2019
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- The rich levels of land biodiversity seen across the globe today are not a recent phenomenon: diversity on land has been similar for at least the last 60 million years, since soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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- 18/02/2019
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- Birmingham scientists have contributed to a new study on ice cores which shows that reductions in sea ice in the Arctic in the period between 30-100,000 years ago led to major climate events.
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- 14/02/2019
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- The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) is one of almost thirty organisations which have pledged to work together to attract the very best of young and new talent into the sector.
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- 11/02/2019
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- Our oceans are important in sustaining human life, but our knowledge of them as functioning ecosystems lags far behind that of terrestrial ones. Why? Dr Jim Reynolds writes for The Birmingham Brief.
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- 05/02/2019
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- 27/03/2019
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- Part of the Urban Morphology Research Seminar Series. Speaker: Jack Hanson, Locus Consulting - Wednesday 27 March (1400-15.30)