by Iliyah | Mar 1, 2023 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Vanaja Kankarla | Exploring How Crops Can Overcome Salt Stress Plant health is inextricably linked to the soil. An excess of salt can affect a plant’s ability to uptake other nutrients and reduce its overall growth. For crops, reduced growth translates to lower...
by Iliyah | Feb 8, 2023 | Astronomy and Planetary Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Adam Szabo | Dr Alexander Marshak – DSCOVR: Monitoring Earth’s Climate and the Threat of the Sun’s Weather The Deep Space Climate Observatory – DSCOVR – is a satellite orbiting between the Sun and Earth at the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point. The primary...
by Iliyah | Dec 14, 2022 | Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Robert H. Rainbird | Searching for Primary Evidence of Early Earth’s Atmospheric Evolution What did Earth look like between one billion and two-and-a-half billion years ago? When did our atmosphere and oceans become oxygen-rich? Did oxygenation occur rapidly or...
by Iliyah | Dec 14, 2022 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Keith A. Hobson | Mapping Animal Migration with Isotopic Tools Animal migration is one of the most astounding natural phenomena on the planet. Birds and insects travel thousands of kilometres across the globe in regular movements, using highly evolved methods of...
by Iliyah | Nov 30, 2022 | Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Fiona Darbyshire | Ear to the Ground: How Earthquakes Reveal Earth’s Ancient History Earthquakes are one of the more destructive phenomena we encounter on Earth. However, the seismic waves that earthquakes send travelling through the Earth are powerful tools to...
by Iliyah | Nov 16, 2022 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science
Yiqiao Yin | Tracking Deforestation with Neural Networks Forests are key to Earth’s biodiversity and the global ecosystem, hosting 80% of the planet’s plant biomass and two-thirds of all mammal species. However, they are also in decline; each year, around five million...
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