Research
Sustainable Geoscience for Our Future: An interview with Professor Chris Jackson
Meet the Department 13 April 2021
In this interview, our Chair in Sustainable Geoscience, Professor Chris Jackson, discusses the ways that research, study and science communication in Earth and Environmental Sciences maps onto the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Chris also considers the title ‘sustainable geoscience’ and how, by defining this term, we can establish directions in geoscience going forward.
Life in the lab: studying soil bioremediation with Klaudia Jedyka
Student experience 12 June 2020
BSc Environmental Science student Klaudia Jedyka talks us through the logistics of lab work for the dissertation – best practice, trial and error and research conversations…
Volcanoes: forecasting and tourism
Research and impact 11 December 2019
PhD student Ben Esse discusses the processes behind volcanic eruptions and how tourism functions in relation to the risks.
Meet our alumni: an interview with Jake Atterby
Student experience 5 November 2019
Jake Atterby completed the MEarthSci with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences this year and has now moved on to study a PhD at the University of Birmingham. I talked to him about his experience at Manchester, and not least, Mission Jurassic…
In conversation with Dr Rhian Jones – Reader in Isotope Geo and Cosmochemistry
Meet the Department 15 July 2019
Dr Rhian Jones is Reader in Isotope Geo & Cosmochemistry and Admissions Tutor for Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. In the interview below, she reflects on how she became interested in science, why meteorites are fascinating, aspects of her role at Manchester, and how her academic career has progressed.