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We are looking for a Research Associate to work within the Floodplain Meadows Partnership team in EEES. The post is fixed-term and part-time.

The postholder will join an established team of staff responsible for delivering the recently awarded ‘Flourishing Floodplains’ project in the Severn and Avon Vales in Gloucestershire.

New research published in the high-profile journal Science has explored the reproductive complexity of plants.

 The researchers found that the reproductive complexity of plants increased in two separate pulses during the course of plant evolution.

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New research has found that strategically placed artificial reefs in the sea could be used to stimulate population recovery in a keystone species. This could help to restore coral reefs in the Caribbean.

The researchers are from the School of Environment Earth and Ecosystems in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Drs Max Bodmer (previous an OU PhD student), Phil Wheeler, Pallavi Anand and Shannon Cameron (current OU student).

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Open University (OU) researchers from the School of Environment Earth and Ecosystems in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Drs Katrina Nilsson-Kerr (previous OU PhD student), Pallavi Anand (project lead) and Philip Holden, carried out an integrated data-model study to show that differences in the large-scale tropical rainfall pattern, including monsoon, are sensitive to climatic changes, thousands of years ago.

Shannon Cameron and Sophie Alexander recenly took part in Voice of the Future 2021.

Shannon and Sophie worked with Dr Pallavi Anand to develop questions and attended the event. It was a great team effort.

We are delighted to announce that the School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences has secured our first Athena SWAN Bronze award.

The Self-Assessment Team was led by Elaine McPherson and Helen Payne, with contributions from: Clare Lawson; Fiona Aiken; Yoseph Araya; Marcus Badger; Sophie Alexander; Jennie Bellamy; Fran Jenner; David Johnson; Mark Brandon; and Richard Holliman (see right).

​​The OU-led Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) has been crowned UK winner of Ecover’s ‘Fertilise the Future Fund’.

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