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Earth Science and Engineering

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Dinosaur diversity

Dinosaur diversity

Junior Research Fellow Susannah Maidment explains how the geographical distribution of fossils from the Jurassic period ... Read more

23 Nov 2012

2mins

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Asteroid strike: Double trouble

Asteroid strike: Double trouble

Dr Gareth Collins’s (Earth Science & Engineering) research looks at what happens when the Earth is hit by two astero... Read more

26 Feb 2013

6mins

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Reconstructing Antarctica’s ancient history

Reconstructing Antarctica’s ancient history

Fifty million years ago, the continent we know as icy and inhospitable basked in a warm subtropical climate, explains Dr... Read more

21 Aug 2012

4mins

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Earth’s unloved neighbour

Earth’s unloved neighbour

Dr Richard Ghail and Dr Philippa Mason make the case for further exploration of Venus and outline their plans for a new ... Read more

2 Dec 2014

5mins

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Explosive eruptions

Explosive eruptions

Dr James Hammond tells us about a recent trip to a volcano in North Korea which was responsible for one of the largest e... Read more

4 Feb 2014

4mins

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Expedition to sample the Chicxulub crater

Expedition to sample the Chicxulub crater

Dr Joanna Morgan is part of an international team that will drill into the seabed off the coast of Mexico to take sampl... Read more

22 Apr 2015

4mins

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Braced for impact

Braced for impact

Dr Matthew Genge explains how astronomers monitor the sky for objects like the Chelyabinsk meteor that could collide wit... Read more

10 Dec 2013

4mins

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Megaflood: how Britain became an island

Megaflood: how Britain became an island

Dr Jenny Collier from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering gives a talk showing how a catastrophic megaflood ... Read more

11 Jul 2012

41mins

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From lab to legislature

From lab to legislature

James Hammond and Stepan Lucyszyn spent a week in Westminster as part of the Royal Society’s pairing scheme. (Extract 3 ... Read more

15 Jan 2014

5mins

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Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture, 'More Sustainable Power Generation Technologies'

Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture, 'More Sustainable Power Generation Technologies'

Charles Soothill, Chief Technology Officer of Alstom Power, presents the Energy Futures Lab Annual Lecture 2012. More in... Read more

24 Apr 2012

56mins

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Is there life on Mars?

Is there life on Mars?

Dr Tom Pike explains why his data cast doubt on the possibility of life having existed on the Martian surface, but Profe... Read more

8 Feb 2012

8mins

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Meet Lorraine Craig, Academic Tutor at ESE

Meet Lorraine Craig, Academic Tutor at ESE

Lorraine Craig and students in ESE talk about her role as Admissions Tutor and its relationship to other jobs that she d... Read more

2 Jan 2012

2mins

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Exploring the deep

Exploring the deep

Dr Jenny Collier delivers the 2012 Annual Christmas Demonstration Lecture, which this year is about exploring the deepes... Read more

8 Dec 2011

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Dr Tina van de Flierdt - Year one lecturer at ESE

Dr Tina van de Flierdt - Year one lecturer at ESE

Dr Tina Van de Flierdt talks about her course in ESE which provides students with the facts and data surrounding ‘climat... Read more

7 Nov 2011

1min

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Professor Ann Muggeridge - Year one lecturer at ESE

Professor Ann Muggeridge - Year one lecturer at ESE

Professor Ann Muggeridge speaks about her course on physics in ESE, and in particular how physics can be applied to inte... Read more

7 Nov 2011

1min

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Investigating new ways of storing C02 in rock reservoirs

Investigating new ways of storing C02 in rock reservoirs

Investigating new ways of storing C02 in rock reservoirs

17 Nov 2010

3mins

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Asteroid impact

Asteroid impact

Dr Gareth Collins from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering talks about an ancient asteroid impact

25 Feb 2010

3mins

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas supply chain

Greenhouse gas emissions from the natural gas supply chain

What is our current understanding of greenhouse gas emissions released during the production of natural gas? How can we ... Read more

25 Sep 2015

4mins

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Professor Lidija Zdravkovic - Advanced geomechanics: hot, dehydrated and shaken

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic - Advanced geomechanics: hot, dehydrated and shaken

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic delivers her inaugural lecture on computationally modelling soils under extreme conditions t... Read more

23 Jul 2015

1hr 17mins

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Sustainable Gas Institute Annual Lecture 2015 - Dr David Allen

Sustainable Gas Institute Annual Lecture 2015 - Dr David Allen

This is the first annual lecture by the Sustainable Gas Institute from Dr David Allen, a chemical engineer at the Univer... Read more

3 Jul 2015

1hr 6mins

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