News tagged with: geoscience
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![A graphic depicting the spread of Yamnaya ancestry over time over a period of around 8,000 years]()
Study offers new insight into the impact of ancient migrations on the European landscape
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ news: Innovative research projects from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ'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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ
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Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Research led by academics from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ'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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, has been awarded the Geological Society of America's President's Medal
