Press office news tagged school-of-geography-earth-and-environmental-sciences
Peatlands are nature's unsung climate warriors
University of Plymouth news: Dr Scott Davidson explains how peatlands have a myriad of functions, from carbon storage to biodiversity restoration.
Saturated soils could impact survival of young trees planted to address climate change
University of Plymouth news: New research led by the University has looked into the potential effects of increased rainfall in regions being earmarked for expansion of the UK’s temperate rainforests
Seychelles beach cleans demonstrate potential for citizen science to tackle marine litter
University of Plymouth news: Students and academics from the University have collaborated on new research monitoring the effectiveness of beach cleans in the Seychelles
Workshop explores ways to reduce energy demand and improve wellbeing in the Global South
University of Plymouth news: Dr Souran Chatterjee organised and coordinated a three-day event attended by Indian and Dutch policymakers, academics, and professionals in India
National award for chemistry teaching innovation
Dr Roy Lowry is one of six winners of the Teaching Innovation Awards given by LearnSci. Dr Lowry won for his approach to assessment using Smart Worksheets both formatively (while the students are learning) and summatively (testing their knowledge).
Project aims to enhance the potential to forecast landslides
University of Plymouth news: The EXCESS project aims to begin addressing the issue of variations in landsliding through time, and will go some way to providing the type of information that could ultimately save thousands of lives
Citizen science project tracks the health of planet’s peatlands
University of Plymouth news: Requiring nothing more than a photograph taken by smartphone, the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project encourages people to assess how the areas change colour over the course of the growing season
Championing diversity in polar science
Dylan Beard, a researcher from the University of Plymouth has travelled to Parliament to discuss improving representation in polar sciences at the invitation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Polar Regions.
University expands its work to address critical challenges facing our planet
University of Plymouth news: Our new Centre of Research excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems (CRISPS) will apply a systems level approach to the challenges of feeding a future global population in excess of 9 billion people
5G interactive microscope labs enable students to get up close with science
University of Plymouth news: Europe’s first 5G interactive microscope labs, created in partnership with Nikon Industrial Metrology Business Unit and Ostec Instruments, are transforming the learning experience for students across a range of science courses
Concessionary bus travel has fallen by a third following COVID-19 pandemic
University of Plymouth news: New research shows the total number of concessionary bus journeys fell from 95million in 2019 to 61.2million in 2022, in spite of the number of active passholders falling by just 2.6%
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Plymouth researchers contribute to new mission exploring the impacts on humans of space flight
University of Plymouth news: Researchers from the University are taking part in the Caving Analog Mission: Ocean, Earth, Space (CAMões) project to develop and implement research programmes that will be critical for improving conditions on space flights