Cities & Coasts Speed Presentations by Cities & Coasts Presenters

Applications invited for Senior Research Associate (STREVA Project)

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate to work on social vulnerability dimensions for the research consortium ‘Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas – STREVA’, funded by NERC-ESRC.
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Water, Land and Climate Day at UEA

Water, Land and Climate Day will bring together faculty and researchers working on topics related to water resources, land use and climate change across UEA with the aim of building links and fostering collaboration. +

More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century

More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change says research by Rachel Warren at Tyndall UEA.
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Geoengineering

Amidst insufficient mitigation efforts deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system, known collectively as ‘geoengineering’, have been proposed in order to moderate anthropogenic climate change. Geoengineering proposals can be broadly classified amongst Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) variants. +

Deliberating stratospheric aerosols for climate geoengineering and the SPICE project - Nature Climate Change

Tyndall Centre researchers from the Universities of Cardiff and East Anglia have authored a paper, published in Nature Climate Change, on public views of the SPICE project and field trials of geoengineering techniques.
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UEA Event: "Writing and Climate Change: The story so far…"

UEA Centre for Writing and Science is hosting an event to discuss how writers and scientists communicate the challenges of climate change.
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Climate Change and the Politics of Growth - John Ashton CBE

John Ashton will be presenting a lecture on Climate Change and the Politics of Growth at UEA on Thursday 21st March.
 
The lecture will take place at 11.00am and will be held in the ZICER Seminar Room.
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Postgraduate Research Project Available at UEA

A fully-funded PhD Studentship on drivers of trends in CO2 emissions in the worlds cities is available at the University of East Anglia. For more information, please visit the UEA Postgraduate Study Page.
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Olivier Boucher on Categorizing Geoengineering

Olivier Boucher (Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)) discusses the categorization of geoengineering in the context of climate research. +

Tim Krueger on The Termination Effect

Tim Krueger (James Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme) discusses the 'Termination Effect' and the relevance of it to discussions of geoengineering. +