by Iliyah | Sep 12, 2018 | Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Nathalie Dubois – Lake Sediments Unlock the Past People don’t often think about mud, but this valuable sediment can record history, especially when deposited in lakes. The study of such lake sediment is known as palaeolimnology – analysing the physical,...
by Iliyah | Sep 5, 2018 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Mark Hixon – Combatting the Lionfish Invasion Lionfish are predators that typically inhabit Pacific and Indian Ocean coral reefs. In areas where they have been introduced, they have become troublesome invaders. Populations have spread and grown in some...
by Iliyah | Sep 5, 2018 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor KC Olson – Protecting the Plains: A Comprehensive Approach to Invasive Plant Control Around the world, invasive species provide a major threat to global biodiversity. The Great Plains of the United States are among the most threatened ecosystems, where...
by Iliyah | Sep 5, 2018 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Friedemann Freund – Changing the Landscape of Geology: Forecasting Earthquakes Imagine a world where we knew about earthquakes before they strike – days before a potentially lethal event. A world with an early warning system that would give us time to...
by Iliyah | Aug 29, 2018 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Thomas Wilke – A Novel Tool to Better Understand the Diversity of Life Completing the inventory of the Earth’s biodiversity is a huge challenge. Supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Professor Thomas Wilke and his research group at Justus...
by Iliyah | Aug 15, 2018 | Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Christian Brandes – Can Climate Change Cause Earthquakes? Earthquakes arise deep within the Earth, usually as heat from the mantle and the pull at subduction zones move tectonic plates around on the planet’s surface, causing them to interact. Dr Christian...
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