Latest Research News: Environmental Geosciences
PhD Studentships 2013/14
The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University, is pleased to announce further PhD Studentships for October 2013.
Mon 08 April 2013
Dr Hugh Tuffen on BBC Volcano Live
Dr Hugh Tuffen is to appear on the BBC's Volcano Live.
Mon 02 July 2012
Lancaster takes part in Antarctic lake mission
Lancaster Environment Centre is contributing to a pioneering British expedition seeking life in a lake 3km under the Antarctic ice.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 11 October 2011
Funded PhD Developing an instrument for noble gas analysis of waters and lake sediments pore fluids
Supervisors: Dr Greg Holland and Dr Phil Barker
Mon 01 August 2011
LEC researchers show that early humans occupied Britain over 800,000 years ago
Lancaster University researchers have contributed key palaeomagnetic dating expertise to a project which has discovered that ancient humans occupied Britain over 800,000 years ago, marking the first known human settlement in northern Europe, far earlier than previously thought.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Thu 08 July 2010
LEC Volcano Research in the Headlines
LEC Environmental Geoscience research is in the spotlight with the ongoing eruption in Iceland. Our recent research addresses the way in which ash is generated at ice-covered Icelandic volcanoes such as Eyjafjallajökull, and whether thinning of ice due to climate change will make such eruptions more commonplace in the coming century.
Fri 23 April 2010
Volcano Experts in the headlines
A Lancaster University PhD student has been giving an eye witness account of the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 20 April 2010
Funded PhD Studentship - Lava flow dynamics
Quantifying lava flow dynamics with a very-long-range terrestrial laser scanner
Thu 18 February 2010
MSc Volcanology and Geological Hazards
The programme is a revision of the MSc Environmental Hazards.
Wed 08 July 2009