Articles tagged with 'earth-science' | University of Manchester

A small tornado recently passed through the town of Littlehampton on England’s south coast. Strong winds smashed windows, moved cars and left one person injured.

A team of scientists have completed tests to quantify the emissions from the combustion of sustainable aviation fuels, revealing a profound reduction when compared to regular jet fuel.

The University of Manchester is to receive a sample from asteroid Bennu, which will help unveil secrets of our Solar System.

A University of Manchester academic has won the inaugural Royal Meteorological Society Education Award in recognition of his long record of teaching excellence.

A team of Manchester MSc students, from the Geoscience for Sustainable Energy, Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Energy Engineering MSc programmes, have won the prestigious European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Laurie Dake Chal...

Scientists at The University of Manchester will help the Met Office improve its forecasts of extreme weather through a new large-scale collaborative research project.

Areas of the ocean that are rich in marine life are having a bigger impact on our ecosystems and the climate than previously thought, new research suggests.

Two researchers from The University of Manchester have won a 2023 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Rising Talents Award.

Dr Rhian Jones has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to the study of chondrules and chondritic meteorites.

The University of Manchester has launched an online MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control[ML1] , designed to mobilise a new generation of environmental scientists.link to: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/online-blended-learning/courses/pollut...

Last week (6 May) saw a student-led walkathon take place with the aim of raising awareness of the global degradation of one of the Earth’s most essential life-giving attributes – soil.

The Graham McKenna-Mayes Memorial Fund seeks to support access for underrepresented groups in Higher Education.

Dr Carolyn Pearce and Dr Simon Norris will work with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Dalton Nuclear Institute.

MERI has distributed funds through the NERC Discipline Hopping call to allow ECRs to develop collaborations across the University.

The MEaSURE project brings together the Universities of Manchester, Glasgow and Salford.

The collaborative project involves Manchester researchers Professor Kevin Taylor and Dr Lin Ma.

The course aims to train the next generation of energy-focused geoscientists.

Drs Laura Wolz and Margherita Polacci will receive help to commercialise their innovations.

Professor John Latham was a past Head of the Physics Department at UMIST and the founder of the Cloud Physics Group.

MERI hosted an interactive event on 7 June to mark the launch of the worldwide initiative.

A team of aerospace specialists has launched the world’s first in-flight emissions study using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a wide-body commercial passenger aircraft.

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is delighted to welcome Chris Jackson as Chair in Sustainable Geoscience.

The celebrations will recognise the hard work of FSE's Postgraduate Class of 2020.

Dr Cecilia Medupin's address was titled 'Changing times, biodiversity, freshwater quality and protection'.

Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 trans-Atlantic flights according to new research. ...

The hard work of the Faculty's graduates has been recognised in a series of virtual celebrations.

Rice as a staple food source has been shown to contribute to prolonged low-level arsenic exposure leading to thousands of avoidable premature deaths per year.

An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse magmas in their underground plumbing systems – includ...

In this video we answer the big questions asked by our undergraduate students regarding teaching, learning and the start of the new academic year.

The UK government recently announced new post-study work visas for international students.