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The C-CLEAR NERC DTP is hosting an informal virtual 'Meet the DTP' session on Thursday 1 December 2022 from 1-2pm (GMT) via Zoom. The aim of this informal session is for prospective applicants to find out more about what to expect from the application process and interview. The DTP team and some of our current students will be available to answer y…

The C-CLEAR NERC DTP is hosting an informal virtual coffee morning Wednesday 8 December 2021 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon) GMT. Come along to hear from current students about their experiences as we demystify the process of applying to the DTP. Please register here by Friday 3 December. Zoom links will be sent nearer the time.The DTP welcomes al…

James Kirkham (ESS cohort 5) has been awarded an an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the American  2020 Fall Meeting for his presentation: Tunnel Valley Infill and Genesis: Insights from High-Resolution 3D Seismic Data and Numerical Modelling of Subglacial Water Flow in the North Sea. Congratulations, James! More information on the award …

ESS student Victoria Honour (cohort 2) is featured in the University of Cambridge's Women in STEM series; read the interview here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-victoria-honour

Congratulations to Jerome Neufeld & Thomasina Ball (cohort 2) who are the 2019 winners of the APS-DFD (American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics) Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics. The award is made in recognition of their paper "Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica", published in 2018 in Phys Rev Flui…

Our latest student blog post is now live! Second year British Antarctic Survey/Plant Sciences student Sam Coffin explains the critical importance of diatoms to food webs, particularly in the polar regions, and shares insights from his recent fieldwork in Antarctica.Photo credit: Lloyd Peck

Congratulations to Ophelia Crawford (cohort 1), who has been named as a Geophysical Journal International Student Author Award winner for 2018 for her paper:Quantifying the sensitivity of post-glacial sea level change to laterally varying viscosity [1] Ophelia Crawford, David Al-Attar, Jeroen Tromp, Jerry Mitrovica, Jacqueline Austermann, and Har…

Please be aware that the deadline to apply to the Cambridge C-CLEAR NERC DTP funding was Thursday 3 January 2019 at 12 pm (noon). Supporting documents, including references, should also be submitted by this date. Thank you to all who submitted applications.

This spring ESS DTP students came together with their counterparts from EnvEast DTP for the third annual CEEDA (Cambridge and EnvEast Doctoral Alliance) Symposium. A total of 75 participants took part in two days of conference presentations and specialised training held at the Aurora Centre, British Antarctic Survey.All second and third year studen…

Helen Brooks (cohort 3, Geography) has been awarded a RCUK Policy Placement with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP).Policy internships offer current research council-funded PhD students the opportunity to work in highly impactful host organisations on one or more policy topics relevant to both the student and the host. The student will be exp…

CEEDA: A new doctoral training alliance between the Cambridge Earth Systems Science and EnvEast NERC DTPsWe are very pleased to announce the formation of the “Cambridge-EnvEast Doctoral Alliance” (CEEDA) between the Cambridge ESS and EnvEast NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships. The alliance has been formed with the aim of further enhancing the trai…

DREAM is a new Centre for Doctoral Training in ‘Data, Risk And Environmental Analytical Methods’, established between four leading Universities – Cranfield, Newcastle, Cambridge, and Birmingham.In our increasingly digital world, ‘big data’ is becoming increasingly important to business and society. Collected by devices from mobile phones to unmanne…

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Congratulations to James Bryson (4th year NERC student) and Claire Nichols (1st year DTP student) from Earth Sciences whose paper ‘Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body’ was featured on the 22 January cover of Nature. Read more in the Cambridge press release here.

Professor John Pyle and Dr Neil Harris from the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry have been named the overall winners of the inaugural NERC Impact Award for their work to demonstrate the effect of man-made gases on the ozone layer. The awards recognise and reward the value of NERC science to the UK's economy, society, wellbeing and in…