One of our life and the Planet PhD students, Rosalie Tostevin has successfully passed her viva yesterday! Congratulations! Well done, Dr Tostevin!
November, 2014
The Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet 2014 Conference: Future perspectives in Earth System Science at the Geological Society London was a success. October, 2014 Join us at UCL with Prof. Lee Kump on 4th November! Talk topic: “Oxidation of the biosphere: The best laid scheme of life and Planet”! Please click to register (free tickets)! New book chapter by Crame A., our principle investigator of PALEOPOLAR on Evolution Setting in the book: Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. Please click to see and download the chapter! Full programme of November Co-Evolution of Life and the Planet 2014 Conference is uploaded on the website. Please click to see more information and to download the programme! The poster of the meeting is on the back cover of GEOscientist, October 2014, volume 24 No 9! September, 2014 Three new publications by researchers from Life & the Planet on Nature Communications, Science & Chemical Geology. Please click to see the papers! July, 2014 The '2014 Sino-UK Coevolution of Life and the Planet Summer School' has ended successfully! Please click to see more information! May, 2014 Scientists from our project "PALEOPOLAR" have published two papers recently on Geology and on Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology! For more information and download the papers, please click! April, 2014 2014 July Sino-UK Coevolution of Life and the Planet Summer school will be held in Nanjing, China. Now the registration is open. Please click to see more information! Polar predictions: Our project PALEOPOLAR is on International Innovation, please click for the article! Feb & March, 2014 Two papers by Life and the Planet Scientists are published on Nature Geoscience recently! For more information and downloading link, please click! 4th-6th November, 2014 Co-evolution of Life and the Planet conference in UCL and Geological Society London The registration to the conference is now open! For further information, please click! 14th-21st April, 2013 The second "Life & the Planet" Spring School in Exeter has ended sucsessfully! The registration for the conference is now open! Registration form is on the Geological Society London website, please click! For more information, please see the event webpage !
William Foster, Richard Twitchett, Zoe Langford, Torran Purchase, Tom Challands and Alistair McGowan are on a field trip in Svalbard (80°N) since last Sunday, 10th August. They arrived safely and started their fieldwork. They will be investigating both pelagic and benthic faunas in the wake of the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history.
More news and photos are to come! Please follow us on Tweeter: @lifeandplanet1, as we will tweet our progress daily. The webpage for our second Spring school is finished with updating! if you are interested, please have a look!
Project II has been very active. In their newsletter, a lot of interesting activities have been summarized:
http://www.lifeandplanet.net/project-ii-newsletters.html Life and the Planet Programme now has a new NERC programme coordinator: Victoria Fairweather!
Welcome to the programme! Her contact detail and the programme NERC webpage is as following links: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/lifeplanet/contacts.asp http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/contacts/contact.aspx?id=276 Charlotte O'Brien joined "Life & the Planet" this December! For more detail, please go to link:
http://www.lifeandplanet.net/early-career-researchers-and-graduate-students.html or http://www.lifeandplanet.net/charlotte-obrien.html New paper published from our programme! One of our CoIs from the Project I (Reinvent the Planet) Rachel Wood has a paper in print, now available online since 22-OCT-2012.
Wood, R. and Zhuravlev, A. Yu. in press (2012), Escalation and ecological selectively of mineralogy in the Cambrian Radiation of skeletons. Earth-Science Reviews http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.10.002 There are also corresponding changes on our homepage for all the posted changes on varies pages on our website.
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