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“African Flowers”: Aeolian plastic pollution in deserts

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/support/funding/global-challenges-research-fund/anne-mather-gcrf-project-18-19

Professor Anne Mather secured GCRF funding in 2018: “African Flowers”: Aeolian plastic pollution in deserts

Government adviser to outline vision of Garden Villages to solve housing shortage

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/government-adviser-to-outline-vision-of-garden-villages-to-solve-housing-shortage

Plymouth University news: A vision designed to address the UK’s housing shortage by building dozens of new ‘Garden Villages’ will be outlined during an event at Plymouth University

Environment and sustainability

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/place/environment-and-sustainability

At Plymouth, the environment and sustainability research theme uses the lens of place to offer a transdisciplinary perspective on environment and sustainability.

£1m project aims to forecast long-term effects of debris transported by natural disasters

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/1m-project-aims-to-forecast-long-term-effects-of-debris-transported-by-natural-disasters

University of Plymouth news: Led by the University, the SUPERSLUG initiative will assess how sediment moved by landslides, avalanches and other extreme events can impact river systems and the landscapes and communities near them

Scientists use 300 million-year-old rainwater to unpick the history of Western France

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/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 University of Plymouth

Recent summers likely to be the warmest of last two millennia

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/recent-summer-temperatures-likely-to-be-the-warmest-of-last-two-millennia

University of Plymouth news: Recent global warming lies outside of patterns experienced over the past 2,000 years supporting the suggestion it is being influenced by human activity, an international study involving University of Plymouth has found

GeoMapping

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/services/geomapping

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Expertise in GIS, map/illustration design, terrain modelling, air photo collection and interpretation, and other areas.

Cracked MI9 codes reveal PoWs’ wartime requests

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/researchers-crack-mi9-codes-to-discover-pows-wartime-requests

Mathematicians, historians and geographers at the University of Plymouth joined forces to reveal information going in and out of prisoner of war camps during the Second World War