… 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.
By Brett Wilson, PhD student in the Department of Plant Sciences
During my early student life I never thought I would work in Central Asia, to be honest I knew very little about this region and its people; I would have even struggled to point to many of the countries on a map. It was one of the few regions not discussed in Geography classes, … Continue reading