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The University of Leeds is part of a £10m NERC research programme to investigate the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean. The Leeds project, headed by Dr Christian März, will study the Changing Artic Ocean Seafloor (ChAOS) and is one of four linked projects involving 16 institutions funded by the UK research programme. The...
The University of Leeds Council has given the go ahead to a £7.5 million project that will see climate and environmental research expanding into bespoke spaces in the Staff Centre building. The building will undergo a 13 month major works programme to convert the existing undercroft area and level 10 of the listed structure into...
Piers Sellers, astronaut and climate scientist, passed away on Friday 23 December in Houston from pancreatic cancer. He was 61. Dr Sellers had served as acting director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and was an alumnus of the University of Leeds. University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor Sir Alan Langlands said:...
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...
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...