Tag Archives: climate

10th June 2024 – Electric Flight

Posted on March 13, 2024 by TerryG

Are fans the solution to fuel-free flight? With flight responsible for 2% of global emissions and rising, solutions that can help air travel meet net zero are needed.  Doctor Robert Bolam from Wrexham University will talk about his research into … Continue reading →

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1st October 2018 – Climate Change and Food: a Cosmologist’s Perspective

Posted on January 22, 2018 by jrsee

Professor Sarah Bridle returns to talk about food – a far cry from her “day job” investigating dark energy and dark matter as Professor in the Manchester University School of Physics and Astronomy! Motivated by the need to reduce global greenhouse gas … Continue reading →

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9th May 2016 – Arctic

Posted on May 9, 2016 by DaveT

Professor Terry Callaghan, Professor of Arctic ecology at the University of Sheffield and Distinguished Research Professor at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, talked to us and led the discussion. Terry is Leader of the Arctic Council of Ministers’ initiative on … Continue reading →

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2nd November 2015 – Oceanography

Posted on November 2, 2015 by DaveT

Oceanography: from Microbes to Global Climate  Speaker: Professor Jonathan Sharples, University of Liverpool. How do the physics, chemistry and biology of some of the world’s smallest organisms, which live in the ocean, help to maintain our climate?

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