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The deadline to apply (including supporting documents, ie references) was Thursday 3 January 2019 at 12 pm (noon)

24 October 2018

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.

ESS and EnvEast DTP Join Forces at the 2018 CEEDA Symposium

6 June 2018

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...

Helen Brooks awarded RCUK Policy Placement with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP)

25 January 2018

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...

CEEDA: A new doctoral training alliance between the Cambridge Earth Systems Science and EnvEast NERC DTPs

9 November 2015

CEEDA: A new doctoral training alliance between the Cambridge Earth Systems Science and EnvEast NERC DTPs We 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...

Cambridge University joins new Centre for Doctoral Training in ‘Data, Risk And Environmental Analytical Methods’

22 June 2015

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. I n our increasingly digital world, ‘big data’ is becoming increasingly important to business and society. Collected by devices...

Unique opportunity for doctoral students in Earth and Environmental Science to explore with industry and policy makers how data can be used to support solutions to environmental challenges

25 February 2015

For further details please go to Innovation Activities.

James Bryson and Claire Nichols' paper 'Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body' featured on the cover of Nature

6 February 2015

Congratulations to James Bryson (4 th year NERC student) and Claire Nichols (1 st 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 named overall winners of the inaugural NERC Impact Award for their work to demonstrate the effect of man-made gases on the ozone layer

6 February 2015

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...

Megan Stamper and team at Eglaze into the finals of the NERC Environment YES competition

25 November 2014

Megan Stamper (PhD student in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics' Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics group) and her Eglaze (energy saving windows) teammates are through to the finals of the NERC Environment YES competition after winning the Scottish heat. NERC Environment YES is an innovative scheme aimed...

Prof John Pyle, Dr Neil Harris and colleagues named finalists for NERC Impact Awards

25 November 2014

Prof John Pyle, Dr Neil Harris and colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science have been named finalists for the NERC Impact Awards-International Impact in recognition of the exceptional economic and/or societal impact their atmospheric research has had outside of the UK. The...