Dr Richard Marchant | Caddisflies and the Health of Freshwater Ecosystems Caddisflies are an order of insect species that live in and around fresh water, and are a great indicator of the health of the ecosystem they’re in. However, we need a better understanding of...
Dr Daisuke Minakata – Sunshine and Organic Molecules in Water Organic molecules dissolved in rivers, lakes, seas and oceans are essential to plant and animal life. Some of these molecules are also degraded and enter a complex cycle of carbon, nitrogen and...
Professor Christian Laforsch | Professor Andreas Greiner – Microplastics: Solutions for a Persistent Pollutant Plastics have revolutionised human existence. Medicine, technology, agriculture and construction all rely on highly durable plastic materials. However,...
Dr Vanaja Kankarla | Exploring How Crops Can Overcome Salt Stress Plant health is inextricably linked to the soil. An excess of salt can affect a plant’s ability to uptake other nutrients and reduce its overall growth. For crops, reduced growth translates to lower...
Dr Adam Szabo | Dr Alexander Marshak – DSCOVR: Monitoring Earth’s Climate and the Threat of the Sun’s Weather The Deep Space Climate Observatory – DSCOVR – is a satellite orbiting between the Sun and Earth at the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point. The primary...
Dr Robert H. Rainbird | Searching for Primary Evidence of Early Earth’s Atmospheric Evolution What did Earth look like between one billion and two-and-a-half billion years ago? When did our atmosphere and oceans become oxygen-rich? Did oxygenation occur rapidly or...
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