Latest Research News: Environmental Geosciences
Lancaster takes part in Antarctic lake mission
Lancaster Environment Centre is contributing to a pioneering British expedition seeking life in a lake 3km under the Antarctic ice.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 11 October 2011
Funded PhD Developing an instrument for noble gas analysis of waters and lake sediments pore fluids
Supervisors: Dr Greg Holland and Dr Phil Barker
Mon 1 August 2011
LEC researchers show that early humans occupied Britain over 800,000 years ago
Lancaster University researchers have contributed key palaeomagnetic dating expertise to a project which has discovered that ancient humans occupied Britain over 800,000 years ago, marking the first known human settlement in northern Europe, far earlier than previously thought.
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Thu 8 July 2010
LEC Volcano Research in the Headlines
LEC Environmental Geoscience research is in the spotlight with the ongoing eruption in Iceland. Our recent research addresses the way in which ash is generated at ice-covered Icelandic volcanoes such as Eyjafjallajökull, and whether thinning of ice due to climate change will make such eruptions more commonplace in the coming century.
Fri 23 April 2010
Volcano Experts in the headlines
A Lancaster University PhD student has been giving an eye witness account of the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
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Tue 20 April 2010
Funded PhD Studentship - Lava flow dynamics
Quantifying lava flow dynamics with a very-long-range terrestrial laser scanner
Thu 18 February 2010
MSc Volcanology and Geological Hazards
The programme is a revision of the MSc Environmental Hazards.
Wed 8 July 2009