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John Plane, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and a deputy director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, has been awarded a medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for distinguished research in atmospheric sciences. The medal is named after Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the leading atmospheric scientists of the first...
Leeds alumnus, three times Space Shuttle Astronaut, Climate Scientist, Deputy Director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate and all round Priestley Centre hero, Piers Sellers has been selected to receive the Space Foundation 2017 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. Sellers was nominated for the award by British space journalist and broadcaster Sarah Cruddas,...
Climate change impacts are being felt the world over, but nowhere more so than sub-Saharan Africa. Even within this region, certain areas are particularly vulnerable and past research by CCCEP (Abson et al., 2012; Simelton et al., 2012) highlighted that Malawi is one of the worst affected by greater variability in climate affecting crop yields...
James Mckay, manager of two EPSRC Centres for doctoral training in Low Carbon Technologies and Bioenergy at the University of Leeds, has been made a Fellow of CUSP, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity. Mr Mckay, a graphic artist and science communicator, is editor of the recently published book A Dream of a Low Carbon...
A new study showing that Greenland ice disappeared during periods in the Earth's history has implications for the rate of melting and projected sea level rise. Dr Lauren Gregoire, an ice sheet modeller with the School of Earth and Environment, is quoted in this story for InsideClimate News, which highlights the research by paleoclimatologist Joerg...