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New book published on the post-Roman societies of Northern Scotland
The Picts of northern Scotland were a powerful political and cultural force in first millennium AD Britain. From early references in late Roman sources to the Picts attacking the Empire to their disappearance from records in the tenth century, they helped shape the history of early Britain. In spite of...
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Student scoops award at Europe's biggest geosciences conference
A Geosciences PhD student has won a top award at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, held in Vienna last month.
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Leverhulme project aims to explore use of glaciers to identify, monitor & predict volcanic activity
Dr Matteo Spagnolo is part of a recently-awarded Leverhulme project on “Using glaciers to identify, monitor and predict volcanic activities”, which will be led by Manchester Metropolitan University and also involves researchers at Dickinson College (USA). Volcanic eruptions threaten life, infrastructure and wellbeing, especially at glacierized volcanoes. More than 200 active...
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GIS MSc students win awards from Hydrographic Society of Scotland
For the second year running The Hydrographic Society of Scotland has offered a Student Award scheme for the MSc students in the GIS Degree Programme at Aberdeen University, a link that was set up two years ago by Dr David R. Green - Director of the MSc in GIS Degree...
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BP offers £14,500 geophysics scholarship
Oil and gas company BP is offering a scholarship worth £14,500 to a student with an offer to study the MSc in Geophysics at the University of Aberdeen.
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Dr Katrin Prager to speak at workshop on "New directions in agri-environmental governance"
Dr Katrin Prager has been invited to speak at an international workshop on “New directions in agri-environmental governance: Practices of inclusion, collaboration, reflexivity and reconfiguration” at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on 28-29 May 2019. Her talk on “Discourses and identities in collaborative agri-environmental governance: policy design and on-the-ground implementation”...
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Aberdeen to Host 2021 UK Archaeological Sciences Meeting
This biennial conference is the premier meeting in the UK for established and rising scholars in all areas of archaeolgoical science to meet, present and discuss their research. Topics include biomolecular archaeology, metallurgy, stable isotopes, paleoenvironment, ancient DNA, materials analysis and more. Most recently hosted at University of Manchester (https://ukas2019.com).
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Trans Atlantic Rural Research Network 2019 meeting co-hosted by UoA Geography and JHI
The Trans Atlantic Rural Research Network (TARRN) comprises rural social scientists from the Universities of Aberdeen, Aberystwyth, Cornell, Newcastle, Penn State, Queen’s Belfast and the James Hutton Institute, and scholars visiting or otherwise affiliated with these institutions. The 2019 meeting was co-hosted by the James Hutton Institute and the University...
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Call for Applications: Beatrice Anna Percival Memorial Prize in Geology & Petroleum Geology
Beatrice Anna Percival Memorial Prize in Geology & Petroleum Geology School of Geosciences Are you an undergraduate student in Geology & Petroleum Geology who loves sport? The Beatrice Anna Percival Prize in Geology & Petroleum Geology is available to undergraduate students in Geology & Petroleum Geology within the School of Geosciences. The prize is...
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Petroleum Experts donate over 1 million pounds in software licences
The School of Geosciences is pleased to announce that Petroleum Experts have provide the University of Aberdeen with £1,334,160 worth of software licences for staff and students to access their IPM and Move suite of programs. This donation allows users of the software to undertake research projects in structural geology and...