News tagged with: geoscience
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Study offers new insight into the impact of ancient migrations on the European landscape
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the ²ÝùÊÓƵ led research tracing how the two major human migrations recorded in Holocene Europe unfolded
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‘Fossil earthquakes’ offer new insight into seismic activity deep below earth’s surface
The research was led by the ²ÝùÊÓƵ and University of Oslo, with scientists conducting geological observations of seismic structures in exhumed lower crustal rocks on the Lofoten Islands
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Projects use citizen science to assess impacts of climate change
²ÝùÊÓƵ news: Innovative research projects from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ will use citizen science as a means of monitoring the effects of climate change
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University expert contributes to new BBC series Seven Worlds, One Planet
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ's Professor Iain Stewart acted as a scientific consultant on the BBC series Seven Worlds, One Planet, hosted by Sir David Attenborough and produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit
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Girls into Geoscience goes global at prestigious women in science event
Dr Sarah Boulton, Associate Professor in Active Neotectonics and Co-Founder of Girls in Geoscience at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, will be speaking at the Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Sciences Symposium, being hosted by the University of Queensland
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Scientists use 300 million-year-old rainwater to unpick the history of Western France
Areas of Brittany and Western France were previously mountainous and located close to the Equator, according to research led by the ²ÝùÊÓƵ
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Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Research led by academics from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.
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Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events
A study published in Nature Communications and led by Dr Zoë Mildon, Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, could go some way to explaining both historical and modern series of earthquakes
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Scientists use a blender to reveal what’s in our smartphones
Scientists at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ blended an entire smartphone to dust before conducting a chemical analysis of the dissolved results to demonstrate why we should all take a keener interest in what is contained within everyday electrical items.
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Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
Geologists based at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ have a paper out in Nature Communications following an extensive study of mineral properties at exposed rock features across Devon and Cornwall
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University technician in running for national award
Dr Jodie Fisher, Earth Science Technician in the ²ÝùÊÓƵ's School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, is among the finalists in the WISE Awards 2018
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Academic earns accolade for public and scientific communication
Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication and Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, has been awarded the Geological Society of America's President's Medal
