Newsletter: May 2010
News from the LEC
LEC partners with Isoprime Ltd to develop novel water monitoring methods.
Monitoring the water quality of lakes, rivers, streams and coasts using the ecology of the organisms is a well established method used throughout the water industry. LEC is looking develop a new method of diatom biomonitoring using a stable isotope technique as an indicator of aquatic productivity.
LEC responds to market demand with new business module for environmental undergraduates
LEC has launched its first ever undergraduate module focusing on ‘Enterprise in the Environment’. The course looks to provide students studying environmentally based degrees with an understanding of the main features and types of business, how they operate and how the role that climate change is bringing to business innovation and commercialisation.
Lancaster Graduate Students Win a Place at the World's Largest Business Planning Competition
A team of Lancaster post-graduate students won entry to the Rice University Business Plan Competition, the most prestigious of its kind in the world. Forty teams, selected from over 300 entries from around the world, compete for more than $800,000 in cash and prizes.
Sixth year at one of the UK’s largest Environmental Exhibitions
For the sixth year running the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has exhibited at Sustainability Live! One of the largest exhibitions of its kind in the UK held at the NEC in Birmingham.

