A NEW DEPARTMENTAL WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.The site will be Live in early 2012
The Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems invites applications for full-time PhD studentships based on the University campus in Milton Keynes and starting in October 2012.
New research from The Open University provides insight into levels of trade among pre-Incan populations in the Cochabamba Basin (Bolivia) and how environmental changes transformed their use of the landscape. The rise of the Tiwanaku culture and the later arrival of the Inca in Bolivia brought an increased use of the ...
Research, led by The Open University and published today in the scientific journal Nature, is helping scientists understand how Earth’s carbon cycle may respond to the current, human-induced, interval of global warming. It has uncovered the likely cause of repeated episodes of natural global warming 50 million ...
Members of The Open University's virtual microscope team from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Knowledge Media Institute were invited to exhibit at the event and took the opportunity to showcase their latest work - an Apollo moon rock virtual microscope. This was prepared in partnership ...
Earth system modeller Neil Edwards is leading a 3.4m euro EU consortium project which aims to improve connectivity between models of climate, land-use, agriculture and energy economics, in order to allow policy-makers and other stakeholders to make better-informed judgements on issues of global sustainability and ...
Plans for the 4 Decades of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the OU Conference and Open Day on 7, 8 and 9 October at the Open University are progressing well and we now have full days of speakers for both events.Conference 7 and 8 OctoberProfessor Simon Conway Morris FRSDr Liz HarperDr Rachel Wood (provisional)Dr Dave ...
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Distance LearningTom Argles, Anne Adams (Open University)Visit our Studentships page.
The Four Decades organising committee can confirm the following speakers for the conference and open day in October. The Earth System; past, present and future Prof. Frank McDermottProf. Simon Conway MorrisDr Liz HarperThe Composition of the Earth and Solar SystemProf. Conel AlexanderProf. Chris HawkesworthProf. ...
A delegation of scientists from the Petroleum University of China (Shandong) are currently visiting The Open University and spent two hours in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences on Monday 14th June. During their visit they were given presentations on curriculum development and research highlights of ...
We invite applicants for a Ph.D. studentship based at the Open University to work on the project 'Understanding the Marine 53Cr record; an experimental and analytical approach'. The project will involve improving our understanding of the application of Cr isotopes in reconstructing the redox state of ancient ...
Fragile Web: What next for nature?, collaboratively published with the Natural History Museum, reveals how the current crisis for biodiversity may be the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.Nature’s fragile web is the network of relationships among species that we depend on for our existence and our ...
Reader in Volcanology Dr Steve Blake reminds us that today is the 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state in the northwest of the USA.Nature has published an interesting Special Report on the impact of the eruption for this anniversary, describing the eruption as "unleashing the ...
The Department of Earth Sciences at The Open University has been in existence for forty years this year, and it is over 25 years since the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI, originally the PSU then PSRI) joined us in the 1980s. The Open University celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, but we ...
On 14 April 2010 a vigorous eruption started under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier. This eruption occurred under approximately 200m of ice causing large amounts of ash and melt water. History of the current eruption The first sign this volcano was becoming active was an increase in seismic activity (small ...
Dr Hazel Rymer talks to the BBC
Times article on the possibility of another eruption at an adjacent volcano
On Saturday 27th March, S104 ALs in the West Midlands region attended a field trip lead by Allan Leach. They visited four sites in the West Midlands area, chosen by Allen, which provided valuable experience of a wide variety of rock types and formation, which will enable ALs to support student learning. Thanks to ...
Following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, Dr Dave McGarvie, Senior Lecturer in the Volcano Dynamics Group, within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences provides expert comment in the press over the weekend and suggests this event may trigger an eruption of the “far more ...
On Friday 5th March, Martin Bean, the Vice Chancellor, spent two hours in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, discovering about new initiatives in research and curriculum and discussing the future of the University with staff and post-graduate students. During his visit he was briefed on topics such as ...
Over seventy leading international methane researchers from the UK, Europe and the US gathered at Whittlebury Hall for two days in January to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Methane Network ‘MethaneNet’. This project, led by Dr Vincent Gauci and coordinated by Dr Gail Riekie (with Dr Anthony ...
The role of liquid water and salts in periglacial environments on Mars: a remote sensing and laboratory study, supervised by Matt Balme (EES), Charles Cockell, Manish Patel and Axel Hagermann (PSSRI). Follow the link to see more details. Also available: Redox couples and the search for life on Mars, supervised by ...
