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Oxford Sparks visited Computer Scientist Martin Strohmeier to find out this episodes big question...
From The Conversation: Mars InSight: why we’ll be listening to the landing of the Perseverance rover
Earth sciences Physics Research The Conversation
15 February 2021
Ben Fernando (Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics) writes about using the Insight mission to detect seismic signals during the landing of Perseverance - the first time that anyone has tried using a spacecraft on the surface of another planet to detect another spacecraft arriving.
Oxford Net Zero launches to tackle global carbon emissions
Climate change Earth sciences Physics Plant sciences Zoology
17 November 2020
The Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global ‘net zero’ – limiting greenhouse gases – in time to halt global warming.
Large tides may have been a key factor in the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods
Earth sciences Physics Research
26 October 2020
Pioneering research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian - Devonian periods (420 million years ago - 380 million years ago), suggests that large tides may have been a key environmental factor in the evolution of bony fish and early tetrapods, the first vertebrate land-dwellers.
SNAP-DRAGON project funded to study the changing subpolar North Atlantic Ocean
Climate change Earth sciences Funding Research
29 June 2020
The project, led by Oxford Earth Sciences Associate Professor Helen Johnson, will provide new knowledge of this critical region, which will help to improve predictions of ocean and climate variability in the North Atlantic and beyond.
Fossil hunting? Clay holds the key
Earth sciences Research
15 June 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Yale, Harvard, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the Diamond Light Source in the UK, have discovered that kaolinite, a mineral found in certain fine-grained rocks around the world, is a key ingredient for preserving some of the earliest forms of complex life.
Oldest relative of ragworms and earthworms discovered
Earth sciences Research
11 June 2020
Scientists at the Universities of Oxford, Exeter, Yunnan and Bristol and have discovered the oldest fossil of the group of animals that contains earthworms, leeches, ragworms and lugworms.
Earth Sciences announce new Brewer-Loughman award for final year undergraduates
Earth sciences
26 May 2020
The University Of Oxford Department Of Earth Sciences are delighted to announce the establishment of The Brewer-Loughman Awards for final year Earth Sciences Undergraduates.
Metal analysis of urine provides a promising potential diagnostic for pancreatic cancer
Earth sciences Medical science Research
23 April 2020
Research carried out at Oxford, in collaboration with Columbia University and Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that the signature of metal ions present in urine samples is an accurate indicator of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), one of the deadliest types of cancer.
Three MPLS scientists awarded prestigious Royal Society Research Professorships
Award Computer science Earth sciences MPLS Physics
9 April 2020
Carbon capture and storage has stalled needlessly – three reasons why fears of CO₂ leakage are overblown
Climate change Earth sciences Research The Conversation
4 March 2020
Stephanie Flude (Department of Earth Sciences) and Juan Alcade (Earth Sciences, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera) discuss how to keep sequestered CO₂ locked away underground, in an article published on The Conversation.
Species that survive mass extinction events do not take over the space of fallen competitors
Earth sciences Research
16 December 2019
Five MPLS researchers secure European Research Council Consolidator Grants
Award Chemistry Computer science Earth sciences Funding Maths Physics
10 December 2019
Oxford Sparks latest animation: Our mysterious ocean floor
Earth sciences Oxford Sparks Research
6 December 2019
Watch the latest animation from Oxford Sparks.
Oxford launches climate science workshops for 15 – 19 year olds
Earth sciences Outreach Public Engagement Schools
11 September 2019
Two MPLS academics elected as members of Academia Europaea
Award Earth sciences Maths
4 September 2019
‘The Eagle has landed’ - a Medium article
Earth sciences Physics Public Engagement
12 August 2019
Karen Patricia Heath (Rothermere American Institute), Sarah Griffin (formerly Oxford Internet Institute), Neil Bowles (Department of Physics), Jon Wade and Isobel Walker (Department of Earth Sciences) and Stuart Ackland (Maps curator at the Bodleian), share the treasures they assembled for an exhibition inspired by the Apollo 11 Moon landings.
Oxford professor appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at Defra
Earth sciences Research
15 July 2019
Oxford University’s Professor Gideon Henderson has been appointed by the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to be its new Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution
Earth sciences Research
14 May 2019
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Leeds and UCL have found that extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the Cambrian explosion.
Microbes may act as gatekeepers of Earth’s Deep Carbon
Earth sciences Research
25 April 2019
Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface. They wanted to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving from Earth’s surface into the deep interior. According to their new study in Nature, the answer is yes.
A century and a half of reconstructed ocean warming offers clues for the future
Earth sciences Physics Research
8 January 2019
Due to a scarcity of data, most global estimates of ocean warming start only in the 1950s. However, a team of scientists at the University of Oxford has now succeeded in reconstructing ocean temperature change from 1871 to 2017.