palaeontology
Meet your lecturers: introducing the first year teaching team
Meet the Department 21st May 2020
The common first year of our undergraduate degree programmes provides new students with the skills they need to specialise on any of our Pathways starting from year 2. Our common first year also allows students to transfer between courses if their interests shift during their first year – between Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Science. We would now like to introduce you to the teaching teams for the common first year…
Teamwork and Fieldwork: Environmental Studies in the Arctic Part 2
Student experience 15th April 2020
Join PhD student Emma Burns on her second trip to the Arctic for the British Antarctic Survey short course covering ‘safe and effective fieldwork in the polar regions’.
Public Engagement, Palaeontology and ‘Purls of Wisdom’: an interview with Elspeth Wallace
The next step 2nd April 2020
Elspeth Wallace is a PhD student in Palaeontology with Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. Alongside her studies, she works as the Education and Public Engagement Officer for iCRAG, the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences. I asked Elspeth about how she obtained the position at iCRAG and how she manages work and study. She told me additionally about her yarn-based initiative to raise awareness of climate change and sustainability: Purls of Wisdom. First and foremost, I had to ask how the job role had changed due to recent circumstances relating to COVID-19.
Earth Science Matters: Biology and Chemistry
Student experience 12th February 2020
On 5th February 2020, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Manchester welcomed A level students to experience a day of lectures and activities on campus. The aim of the day was to demonstrate how A level Chemistry and Biology are both applicable and essential to the study of the earth and the environment.
Unearthing the secrets of the Jurassic
Research and impact 16th July 2019
At a top-secret site in Wyoming, a team of palaeontologists are hoping to uncover the secrets of the Jurassic.