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Dr Aidan Wrethman recently successfully defended his PhD viva and now has a new peer‑reviewed journal paper with his supervisory team. Aidan’s paper, titled “Exploring the Flow and Depositional Regime of the Storegga Submarine Landslide Tsunami at…

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Post by Jean Duncan, Artist in Residence at the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science As the new Artist in Residence with the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at the University…

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Post by Prof Sarah Hendry Water services is the issue of the day! Having seen so much coverage of the sewerage and surface water issues in the last year, the last few days has expanded that…

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Post by Prof Chris Spray May 13th is World Migratory Bird Day (WBMD), or at least it is in the northern hemisphere; the southern celebrating it on 14th October, reflecting the cyclical nature of bird migration…

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World Water Day Series – Dr Emmanuel Akpabio The 2023 World Water Day comes with the theme ‘accelerating change’. Accelerating progress towards universal access to water has never become more urgent considering the COVID-19 pandemic and…

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World Water Day series – Post by Dr Andrew Black “Accelerating change” is the theme for World Water Day 2023. Quoting the WWD organisers, “billions of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centres, farms and factories…

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World Water Day series – post by Dr Simon Cook Glacier ice covers about 10 % of the Earth’s land surface, and therefore represents a major store of fresh water. Indeed, it is estimated that almost…

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As COP27 in Egypt gets ever closer, there is increasing focus on the key issues of loss and damage, adaptation and financing, especially after the recent meeting in Bonn. Financing will be the subject of an…

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Post by Elaine Robinson and Andrew Allan This week is World Water Week. To honour this event, today’s post will be looking at an example of the relationship between politics and water challenges, one of the…

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Post by Andrew Allan, Chris Spray, and Elaine Robinson Yesterday was the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian ‘father of infection control’. It was Semmelweis who identified the need for hand…

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Post by Andrew Allan On Sunday 22nd March it was World Water Day, and this year’s theme was ‘water and climate change’. To honour the event, we are publishing five blog posts exploring different sides of…

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Post by Simon Cook On Sunday 22nd March it was World Water Day, and this year’s theme was ‘water and climate change’. To honour the event, we are publishing five blog posts exploring different sides of the…

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Post by Volker Roeben and Rafael Macatangay On Sunday 22nd March it is World Water Day, and this year’s theme is ‘water and climate change’. To honour the event, this week we are publishing five blog posts…

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Post written by Andrew Allan, Chris Spray and Cathy Smith On Sunday 22nd March it is World Water Day, and this year’s theme is ‘water and climate change’. To honour the event, this week we are…

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Post written by Professor Chris Spray Chris with Professor A. Biju Kumar, Head of the Dept. of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, India One might wonder what the similarities are between Kerala and the…

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