… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
It’s 0300, at BESSY II – the synchrotron in Berlin. We’re having a philosophical debate about what makes ‘science’ science. Our PI is currently checking wikipedia for ‘Scientific Method’ (I’m pretty sure he should know this by now…). This is pretty characteristic for a beam time, where you work all night, having very little to do other than click the odd button, and occasionally make … Continue reading
It’s 0300, at BESSY II – the synchrotron in Berlin. We’re having a philosophical debate about what makes ‘science’ science. Our PI is currently checking wikipedia for ‘Scientific Method’ (I’m pretty sure he should know this by now…). This is pretty characteristic for a beam time, where you work all night, having very little to do other than click the odd button, and occasionally make … Continue reading
Like some of my fellow PhD cohort on the ESS DTP, I too venture south of the equator for my fieldwork. However, I stop someway short of the turbulent waters and glistening snowscapes of Antarctica. Instead, you’ll find me rambling around the red sands of the Kalahari Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa, searching for mole-rats and meerkats.
I’m Jack and I’m based … Continue reading
Like some of my fellow PhD cohort on the ESS DTP, I too venture south of the equator for my fieldwork. However, I stop someway short of the turbulent waters and glistening snowscapes of Antarctica. Instead, you’ll find me rambling around the red sands of the Kalahari Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa, searching for mole-rats and meerkats.
I’m Jack and I’m based … Continue reading
This weekend lots of people are jetting off to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, a conference which attracts geoscientists from all over the world. These conferences are a great opportunity to present current research, get advice from world-leading experts and to meet with collaborators.
Here’s just some of the work people are involved with this week:
This weekend lots of people are jetting off to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, a conference which attracts geoscientists from all over the world. These conferences are a great opportunity to present current research, get advice from world-leading experts and to meet with collaborators.
Here’s just some of the work people are involved with this week:
This year’s annual Geovarsity fixture was held in enemy territory. Despite the carpet-like pitch provided for the previous fixture in Cambridge, Oxford served up the kind of pitch usually reserved for Premier league teams visiting lower-league opposition. Oxford’s scouts had clearly been rattled by the prospects of Cambridge’s Barcelona-esque tiki-taka honed on the 5-a-side training ground.
Despite Oxford’s home advantage and superior numbers of substitutes … Continue reading
Hello, I’m Kathy and I’m based uptown in the Drum Building at Bullard Labs.
My PhD studies a relatively new discipline called Seismic Oceanography which uses acoustic waves to pick out rapid changes in temperature and salinity within the oceans. The data can be mapped as an image of density variations, showing features such as different water masses, layering and eddies. Aside from pretty … Continue reading