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Archived Talks, Lectures and Seminars
May 2013
- Biochar's Potential in China: a Socio-Economic Analysis
- Persistent Pollutants in Oceans
- Space and time, the final frontiers for trace element biogeochemistry in waters and soils
- Volcanically-triggered glacier outburst flooding in Iceland
- Sulfur- and hydrogen-driven Bacterial and Archaeal communities at Kverkjoll subglacial volcano, Iceland
April 2013
March 2013
- Illustrating what synthetic chemistry can offer to environmental and bio- scientists - NOW CANCELLED
- Applying geophysics to agricultural soils - measuring tramline soil compaction and soil moisture change beneath wheat cultivars
- Café Scientifique: Five loaves and two fishes: can local food feed the world?
February 2013
- Comparative Hydrology for Classification, Prediction and Knowledge Accumulation
- Characterizing Crustal Fluid Systems Using Noble Gases
January 2013
- Chemical signatures of the late Anthropocene around the coast of Britain - does this support a world-scale concept?
- Ecological Restoration and Microbiology Seminar CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
- Alternate wetting and drying of the rice crop in Northeast Spain (Ebro Delta region)"
- Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Food Security
- Shale gas: fracking, groundwater and earthquakes NOW FULL
- Walking With Diatoms: Explaining Ecological Status to the People Who Pay The Bills
- Café Scientifique: The vital importance of soil
- New Year New Opportunities. Helping businesses to gain knowledge to innovate, develop and grow.
December 2012
- Dynamics of Atmosphere-Land-Ocean coupling through time
- "What we don't know about marine biodiversity (and why this matters)"
November 2012
- Big Picture Earth: the UK's Space Programme and what it means for you
- Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and Intensive Human Activities on China's Agro-Ecosystem
- LEC Seminar in collaboration with University of Applied Science Dresden, Faculty of Agriculture and Landscape Management, Germany
- Café Scientifique: Slaughtering the Amazon
October 2012
- Soil Processes and Functions: the heart of Earth's Critical Zone
- Food security and environmental change - a two way street
August 2012
July 2012
- "Improving grapevine water efficiency with rootstocks"
- " Novel Plant Science to Address Food Security Issues"
- Introduction of the work of the Environmental Engineering Department of Uludag University, Turkey
June 2012
- Crop and soil management to enhance crop production
- The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System: Past, Current and Future
- An integrated approach to modelling future climate change impacts
- "Fire and the Future of the Amazon" and "Greening our working lives: sustainable consumption and working time reduction"
- LEC Short Research Talks & Posters based on those given by LEC colleagues at EGU 2012
May 2012
- Evidence-based medicine as a model for resolving controversies in the evaluation of chemical safety
- The Effects of Nutrition on Immunity and Disease in Insects
- Should the paradigm of reduced plant drought stress under elevated [CO2] be hung out to dry?
- The materialisation of smart grids, between fictions and realisations
- Geoengineering: the geo-politics of planetary modification
April 2012
- Physiological Trait Based Plant Breeding
- What does rural-urban migration mean for Amazonian people and forests?
- Social capacity building towards disaster risk resilience in England: The impact of shifts in risk governance
- Understanding and managing honey bee health in the UK: beekeeping knowledge and engagement with science and policy
March 2012
- Local Landscape Conservation for Lepidoptera
- Responses to Climate Change in the Australian Community
- Irrigated Agriculture in Murcia, Spain
- Long-Term Management of Lake Pyhäjärvi - Field-Scale Experiments in an Agricultural Catchment
- Temporal variability in water flux and nitrogen biogeochemistry in hyporheic zone sediments and Benthic macroinvertebrate community response to neutral mine drainage in central Wales
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus dynamics in a groundwater-fed river from high-frequency automated sampling. River Leith, Cumbria
- Three decades of atmospheric metal deposition in Norway as evident from analysis of moss samples
- Modelling future changes in surface ozone: a parameterized approach
February 2012
- After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading
- Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions
- Breathe Easier: Resolving critical air-quality problems with passive directional sampling'
- Senses of Justice in Climate Policy: Representation and Policy-Making in Cap and Trade Systems
- Generalised Models for Uncertainty with Applications in Engineering
- Sustainable Water Stewardship - Gaps and Opportunities
- The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme - assessing chemical threats to biodiversity
- Impact of Water Saving Agriculture on ground water levels and ecosystem services in NW China
January 2012
- The role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation in Latin America and mechanisms for achieving non-carbon benefits from REDD+
- Ideas for integrating biodiversity concerns into REDD+ programmes
- The Irish Agricultural Catchments Programme: policy implications and challenges for adaptive management
- From Eden to Eternity: Building the UK National Defra Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) Platform
- Practice theory: concept, research and intervention
- Street canyon vegetation very effectively improves urban air quality
- Applying control theory to support the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project
December 2011
- Centre for Sustainable Water Management PhD Seminar Day
- Safe working practices with water
- NERC Environmental Monitoring: Capacity Building
- Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling: Natural Philosophy Revisited?
November 2011
- The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests
- Fungal fields forever. How fungal-based soil food webs can help secure the delivery of ecosystem services
- Waste treatments and waste reuse in soils as a source of plant nutrients and prevention of ground and surface water contamination
- Rhyolitic volcanism at volcán Chaitén, Chile
- Annual Student Seminar Day
- Mineral Solutions to Global Problems: How can minerals feed the world in 2050?
- Nutrient retention by constructed wetland in agricultural areas
- Evaluation of soil, lithological and hydrological factors: Understanding soil and surface water geochemistry interactions in catchments in the El Bierzo region, Spain
- Headwater scale simulations of landscape runoff and relationship to observations of stream ecology - An integrated approach
October 2011
- Plant perception and response to hypoxia solved
- Long term trends of PBDEs in sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) eggs, an apex terrestrial predator in the UK
- Understanding (or not) the chemistry of isoprene under low NOx conditions
- Phosphorus interactions in a groundwater fed river from in-situ sampling; the River Leith, Cumbria, UK
- Zero Carbon Britain 2030: Exploring Local Responses
- The Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team
September 2011
- Global-scale Passive Air Sampling of Legacy and Emerging Chemicals: Integrating emissions, transport models and measurements - Insights from the GAPS Network
- Temporal and Spatial Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air and Soil: Implications for their Sources and Environmental Cycling
- Novel Passive Water Sampler for in situ Sampling of Antibiotics
- "From the fish to the chick: transfer of perfluorinated compounds" and "Do contaminants thaw in the Arctic?"
August 2011
- Current Use Pesticides in Ontario surface waters and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Arctic and Canada's Northern Contaminants Program
- Opportunities for Environmental Technology Transfer and Research Collaboration between China and the UK
July 2011
- Climate change and viticulture: how rootstocks may contribute to vine adaptation to challenging environments
- The Development of Theory and Technology in Wheat Cultivation and the Improvement of Wheat Yield in China
June 2011
- Global change and soil microbes: the effect of atmospheric change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities
- An Overview of Mercury Pollution in China
- The importance of plant-soil interactions in ecosystems
- Effects of water-energy-vegetation feedback on thawing of peat-covered, discontinuous permafrost
- Decomposer ecology revisited: Fungal and bacterial growth measurements open the black box
- A 21st Century Geological Survey: Addressing the Challenges of Resources and Environmental Change
- Climate Politics Beyond the Predictive Paradigm: A Symposium with Mike Hulme
- Visualising uncertain flood inundation maps
- Forecasting river levels during flash floods using Data Based Mechanistic models, online data assimilation and meteorological forecasts
May 2011
- Vegetable vampire or grassland guardian? Understanding the role of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor in maintaining grassland biodiversity
- Data needs for identification of more realistic parameterisations of hillslope hydrology and transport at different scales
- Application of a Multiple Interacting Pathways model to a hillslope hydrological tracing experiment at Gårdsjön, Sweden
- Science, media, policy and wildlife: the badger/bovine TB controversy
- Tracing sediment by enhancing soil magnetic properties
- Using close-range photogrammetry to measure temporal changes in soil surface roughness and sealing of tractor tramlines
- The Measurement of Global Temperature
- Pollution swapping in wetland systems designed to mitigate diffuse pollution from agricultural land
- Opportunity mapping of terrestrial carbon sequestration across UK Landscapes
- Unpicking the web of plant defence signalling networks
March 2011
- DOM concentration and quality from UV absorbance
- Feeding nine billion: the challenge to sustainable crop production and other disciplines
- The ecological value of modified landscapes
February 2011
- Kinetic signatures of metals in natural waters
- Application of Solid-Phase Extraction technique for modelling environmental fate of organic pollutant in soil
- Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling
- Air Quality Modelling in London
- Biological control: A Brazilian perspective
January 2011
- Upland waters in the UK - Pressures and responses
- How do carbon nanoparticles effect terrestrial microbiota?
- Impact of carbon nanomaterials on microbial activity in soil
December 2010
- Plant Traits as Drivers of Ecosystem Functioning
- Biodiversity and Global Change seminar
- CANCELLED - Molecular networks regulating germination
November 2010
- Emerging contaminants in China's East River, Pearl River
- Noble gases and their environmental applications
- The Hunting Footprint Of Amazonian Forests
- Peatland carbon dynamics: past, present and future
- Science and society in watersheds: why restoring a river is so hard
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Annual Student Seminar Day
- Explosive eruption records in southern Chile: regional and global implications for glacial forcing of volcanic activity
October 2010
- Why is the ground brown (in the tropics)?
- The British Geological Survey, NERC
- Sustainable diets: Too complex, too nanny-state - or inevitable?
September 2010
- POSTPONED: Air Pollution Research in Bursa/Turkey
- POSTPONED: Impact of carbon nanomaterials on microbial activity in soil
- Current research to advance sustainable dry-land farming in Australia
- Solubility of litter nutrients and implications for decomposition in lowland tropical forests
- A secondary organic aerosol scheme in 10 reactions: the no frills approach to global aerosol modelling
- Understanding and Interpreting Climate Model Ensembles
- Catchment & Aquatic Processes PhD Seminar Day
August 2010
- The Impact of Biochar on Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants in Aged Soil
- PBDEs in Colonial Water Birds from Pakistan
July 2010
- Application of infrared spectroscopy to biochemically signature the effects of chemical mixtures in mammalian cells
- Why the impact agenda will secure a sound future for NERC research
- Water saving agriculture and food security in China
June 2010
- Civil Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses
- Putting the Sustainable City in its Place: Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Urban Sustainable Development
- LEC Research Seminar: 25 years of the Ozone Hole: The World Avoided
- Some thoughts on CCM now and in future plans
- The effect of raindrop impacted flow on sediment composition
- Adaptations and climate change in Antarctic marine animals
- Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses
- Transnational educational spaces: The transformation of HE in Hong Kong and the new (im)mobilities of Chinese students
- Instrumental Developments in the Field of Solid Sampling for ICP-MS and ICP-OES
May 2010
- LEC Research Seminar: Challenges for improving crop production and quality: The role of GM and conventional technologies
- A New Flow-Through Directional Passive Air Sampler Applied to Monitoring Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide
- Post Doctoral and PhD training forum on publishing
- Manipulating photosynthesis and photoprotection in tropical rice
April 2010
- Biological Pesticides Against Insect Crop Pests in Asia and Africa: Turning Research Into Use in Developing Countries
- The Architecture of Change: Re-imagi(ni)ng London and re-branding "The City"
- The geological quest for Odysseus' Homeland, Ancient Ithaca
- Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling
March 2010
- Phenanthrene catabolism in Zn and Cu amended soil
- Review of Organochlorine Pesticides in Azerbaijan
- Nitrogen competition in the rhizosphere
- Fixing fuel poverty - challenges and solutions
- LEC Research Seminar: Living with Environmental Change
- Dissolved organic matter in montane systems, climate and vegetation effects
February 2010
- Nutrient and carbon cycling in sediments of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone
- LEC Research Seminar: NERC 2010 theme action plans
- Novel technologies for eutrophication control in shallow lakes
- Our Food Future - Reflections on Changing Paradigms, Shifting Power and Rewriting Rules
- Characterizing dissolved organic matter (DOM) using fluorescence and parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC)
January 2010
- The interaction between streamwater and groundwater considering a paleo drainage channel
- LEC Research Seminar: Environmental Evidence for 2010-15: Needs, Skills and Partnership
- Why Social Inequalities Persist
- Fire, succession and nitrogen fixation in Swedish boreal forests
- Field measurements of air-soil exchange gradients of persistent organic pollutants
- POPs Modelling: A European Perspective
- Carbon Landscapes and Drainage
- Airborne LIDAR: principles, processing and applications to volcanic areas
- "REF" and "Impact"
December 2009
- What's interesting and exciting about Nano? & The fascinating story of endosulfan
- Phosphorus mobilisation in restored floodplain wetlands
- Why do red grouse populations cycle?
- SNAREs at the junction of traffic, transport and transpiration
November 2009
- Food web bioaccumulation of halogenated compounds in high mountain lake food webs
- Stopford; Current R&D for Green Technologies
- Managing the monster in the middle - why is IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) so hard?
- Global Environmental Change and Food Security
- Biofumigation as a component of a methyl bromide replacement strategy in disease management
October 2009
- Global Climate Model Validation, Forecasting and Uncertainty
- Gulf War Illness and 'radioactive' uranium weapons: health and environmental consequences
- An overview of the EU Framework Programme 7
- Why do Chinese farmers use so much nitrogen fertiliser?
September 2009
November 2008
May 2008
January 2008
November 2007
- X-ray Tomography: What it can (or can't) do for your research
- Is Everything Becoming the Same? Patterns and Drivers of Biotic Homogenization in Terrestrial Ecosystems
October 2007
- Escape from Natural Enemies during Climate-Driven Range Expansion
- The Effects of High Population Density (in a High Consumption Society) on Stream Water Quality
- Adaptive Self-superparasitism in the Infanticidal Parasitoid Echthrodalphax Fairchildii