Geothermal energy solutions
Distributed energy – the case for geothermal Dr Tim Raub and Dr Richard Bates School of Earth and Environmental Sciences The developing world faces an energy crisis in order to sustainably grow. The developed world…
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Low-cost organic solar cells
Enhancement of low-cost organic solar cells by plasmonic structures for application and manufacturing in developing countries Dr Lethy Jagadamma and Prof. Ifor Samuel School of Physics and Astronomy Today’s major…
Multiple projects funded for Mars exploration research
Dr Claire Cousins from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES) was recently awarded four research projects, totalling a value of £422K, funded by the UK Space Agency as part of their ongoing ‘Aurora’…
INTRIGUED: Investigating The Role of the North Pacific In Glacial and Deglacial CO2 and Climate
The geological record offers an invaluable window into the different ways earth’s climate can operate. The most recent major changes in earth’s climate, prior to modern climate change, were the Pleistocene ice ages.…
Tree rings unveil temperatures of the last millenium
High on mountains across Alaska, Canada, Europe and Russia near the upper or high latitude tree line, even the hardiest of conifers are at the edge of survival. Their annual rings tell a story of extreme cold that…
International collaboration produces atlas of Europe’s paleoclimate
St Andrews Researcher, Dr Rob Wilson (Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environment Sciences), is involved in an international collaboration led by Professor Edward Cook at Columbia University using tree rings…
Tackling the global tobacco epidemic with geochemistry
One in two smokers will succumb to a smoking-related disease and one billion deaths in the 21st century will be attributable to smoking. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is responding to this global epidemic with a…
Protecting our Ocean’s future
Public need for better methods to monitor, manage and protect international marine assets has motivated sonar methodologies research by Dr Richard Bates, of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and…
The Southern CO2 that helped end the ice age
Scientists have long puzzled over the processes that caused CO2 to rise and help end the last ice age. Leading theories have involved increased CO2 release from the deep ocean around Antarctica, but there has been no…
Tree-rings reconstruct the South Asian summer monsoon index over the last millennium
The South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) is a major atmospheric synoptic climate system affecting nearly a quarter of the human population. Dr Rob Wilson, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, with co-authors…