DURESS Scientists from Aberystwyth and Cardiff Universities were joined by show attendees at this years Royal Welsh Show. Children of all ages used our microscopes and keys to help identify invertebrates and find out about their functions. Some may have … Continue reading
Cardiff University’s Sustainable Places Resarch Institue will be hosting The Cardiff International Conference on Sustainable Place-Making on the 29th and 30th October 2012. Please see link for details. Registration closes on the 19th October. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/sustainableplaces/conference/index.html
The DURESS project is currently looking for enthusiatic and motivated students (undergraduate and postgraduate) to assist with a range of fieldwork taking place in Mid and North Wales. Ideally we are looking for students able to commit to placements of … Continue reading
Research Associate, Lancaster Environment Centre. This post is for 18 months full time and will suit a candidate with relevant experience in maintaining hydrological instrumentation in the field. For further information contact nick.chappell@lancaster.ac.uk or visit the LEC website.
The 5th annual ESP Conference: Linking Science, Policy and Participation for Sustainable Human Well-being will be taking place in Portland, Oregon from 31 July – 4 August 2012. For more information visit the website.
Fifty headstreams across Wales were sampled intensively to assess productivity and construct food webs using stable isotopes and other methods. Streams were representative of Welsh land uses and geology.
The NERC BESS project was launched on June 22nd in London.
Invertebrate sampling took place throughout May and June 2012, led by the Cardiff and Queen Mary teams. The 75 streams of the Welsh Acid Waters Survey sampled in 1984 and 1995 were resampled to assess resilience to change over the … Continue reading
Work in Lancaster is ongoing to mount the instruments necessary to monitor hydrological and chemical variations in the 8 streams where experimental and long term dynamic investigations will take place. The project will take advantage of the high performance existing … Continue reading
DURESS was officially launched on the 9th and 10th of May 2012 in Cardiff.