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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...

Cambridge ESS DTP awarded additional funding for innovation activities

7 November 2014

The ESS DTP has been awarded a grant of £137,029 from NERC to carry out an exciting programme of innovation and partner engagement activities in early 2015.

Emma Smith awarded best student oral presentation prize for her paper on the microseismicity of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream

24 September 2014

Emma Smith (joint Cambridge-BAS graduate student) won the best student oral presentation prize for her paper on the microseismicity of the bed of Rutford Ice Stream at the recent meeting of the International Glaciological Society in Bristol. Congratulations, Emma!

Ainur Seitkan awarded first prize for her presentation 'Speciation of arsenic in water at Bakyrchik gold mine, Kazakhstan'

1 August 2014

Congratulations to Ainur Seitkan (Department of Earth Sciences) who was awarded first prize for her presentation 'Speciation of arsenic in water at Bakyrchik gold mine, Kazakhstan' at the 1st Scientific Symposium of the IDB Scholars Association - UK.