… 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 Victoria Honour 2nd year PhD
The Halls of Power. Westminster. Whitehall. Parliament. The Houses. Democracy…
Before this Spring I read the news on BBC, knew the names of some senior MPs, and skim read a manifesto before voting. I would have classed myself as having a standard level of political interest. Ultimately, I was a Scientist-in-training. An igneous petrologist who wanted to understand the … Continue reading
By Victoria Honour 2nd year PhD
The Halls of Power. Westminster. Whitehall. Parliament. The Houses. Democracy…
Before this Spring I read the news on BBC, knew the names of some senior MPs, and skim read a manifesto before voting. I would have classed myself as having a standard level of political interest. Ultimately, I was a Scientist-in-training. An igneous petrologist who wanted to understand the … Continue reading
By Lois Salem, 3rd year PhD
One of the most striking aspects of doing research in Earth Sciences is the creativity of methods used to discover things about the Earth. How do we learn about something that happened millions, or billions of years ago, or a process happening on a timescale of millions of years, or the building materials of the Earth hundreds of kilometres … Continue reading
By Lois Salem, 3rd year PhD
One of the most striking aspects of doing research in Earth Sciences is the creativity of methods used to discover things about the Earth. How do we learn about something that happened millions, or billions of years ago, or a process happening on a timescale of millions of years, or the building materials of the Earth hundreds of kilometres … 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
I’m Lil, a 1st year PhD student based at the downtown department in Cambridge and at Diamond Light Source. Thats not a picture of me doing any science, thats a picture of me having fun, which PhD students do sometimes.
I’m looking at climatic paleoproxies and how they can be refined, in order to be better understand out planet’s past climate, and hopefully know a … Continue reading
I’m Claire, a first year PhD student working in our Downtown department. I’m now six months in and starting to really get to grips with my project. I’m looking at nanopaleomagnetism in meteorites in order to understand their fundamental magnetic properites, and say something about the planetary body the meteorite came from.
In order to image magnetism on a nanoscale, I … Continue reading