Archived Talks, Lectures and Seminars
May 2013
- Biochar's Potential in China: a Socio-Economic Analysis
- Persistent Pollutants in Oceans
- Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
- Physics Colloquium: Visualizing the Quantum World
- Space and time, the final frontiers for trace element biogeochemistry in waters and soils
- Volcanically-triggered glacier outburst flooding in Iceland
- Sulfur- and hydrogen-driven Bacterial and Archaeal communities at Kverkjoll subglacial volcano, Iceland
- Fast mapping in Down syndrome
- Café Scientifique: Radiation: friend or foe?
April 2013
- The St. Petersburg School of Hydrological Modelling
- Optimal hybrid parallelisation of a harmonic balance turbulent Navier-Stokes solver for wind turbine, turbomachinery and aircraft wing periodic flow analysis
- Police misconduct, oversight and integrity:studies from the UK and Australia
- SPEARS Seminar: Laboratory and Numerical Simulations of Auroral Kilometric Radiation
- Café Scientifique: The New Psychiatrists' Bible
March 2013
- Leverhulme Lecture
- The neural organisation of spoken and signed language processing: Evidence of biological constraints and modality specificity
- Applying geophysics to agricultural soils - measuring tramline soil compaction and soil moisture change beneath wheat cultivars
- How Unilever Finds Technology Partners
- Sexual violence:a case study of the rhetorics and realities of victim participation
- The function of memory and its illusions
- Café Scientifique: Five loaves and two fishes: can local food feed the world?
- Complex action and the human brain: How prima ballerinas, video games and break-dancing robots help us understand how movement is learned and enjoyed
- The Journey to a Smarter City
February 2013
- Addressing Uncertainty in Cyber-Security Experts' Perceptions of Risk
- Comparative Hydrology for Classification, Prediction and Knowledge Accumulation
- Happiness is... an abstract word: The role of emotion in the representation of abstract words
- Friendship and fairness: A functional approach to understanding the "place" of moral dimensions in girls' and boys' social relations
- Developments in the understanding and management of chronic insomnia
- Characterizing Crustal Fluid Systems Using Noble Gases
- LEC SEMINAR - "Characterizing Crustal Fluid Systems Using Noble Gases"
January 2013
- Young siblings as teachers and learners
- Chemical signatures of the late Anthropocene around the coast of Britain - does this support a world-scale concept?
- Decreasing the detrimental effect of bystander conflict: Examining the buffering roles of personal and team resources
- Ecological Restoration and Microbiology Seminar CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
- Alternate wetting and drying of the rice crop in Northeast Spain (Ebro Delta region)"
- The emergence of leadership and team roles in a virtual environment: An investigation of teams separated by "The Pond"
- Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Food Security
- Shale gas: fracking, groundwater and earthquakes NOW FULL
- Walking With Diatoms: Explaining Ecological Status to the People Who Pay The Bills
- Café Scientifique: The vital importance of soil
- New Year New Opportunities. Helping businesses to gain knowledge to innovate, develop and grow.
December 2012
- Science in public: finding a Higgs boson in the media spotlight
- Chemistry at Lancaster - A vision for the future
- Dynamics of Atmosphere-Land-Ocean coupling through time
- "What we don't know about marine biodiversity (and why this matters)"
November 2012
- Talk on Professionalism in the Cyber Security Industry by Ian Glover
- SPEARS Seminar: Earth-Space Coupling: Challenging four established hypotheses
- Big Picture Earth: the UK's Space Programme and what it means for you
- Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and Intensive Human Activities on China's Agro-Ecosystem
- A Crack in Everything: Light Shining Through a Wall
- LEC Seminar in collaboration with University of Applied Science Dresden, Faculty of Agriculture and Landscape Management, Germany
- Café Scientifique: Slaughtering the Amazon
- Experimenting with Extreme Cold
October 2012
- Weathering Solar Storms
- Beyond the Big Bang
- Soil Processes and Functions: the heart of Earth's Critical Zone
- The Higgs boson: The Holy Grail of Particle Physics [SOLD OUT]
- SPEARS Seminar: Microwave Radiometry of the Antarctic Middle Atmosphere
- To the cloud from your office and beyond your own horizon
- Neutrinos are not ice cream (and other quantum nursery rhymes) SOLD OUT
- Food security and environmental change - a two way street
- SPEARS Seminar: What is the Sun up to? Solar cycle 24 in the long-term context
August 2012
July 2012
- "Improving grapevine water efficiency with rootstocks"
- " Novel Plant Science to Address Food Security Issues"
- Introduction of the work of the Environmental Engineering Department of Uludag University, Turkey
June 2012
- Crop and soil management to enhance crop production
- The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System: Past, Current and Future
- An integrated approach to modelling future climate change impacts
- "Fire and the Future of the Amazon" and "Greening our working lives: sustainable consumption and working time reduction"
- LEC Short Research Talks & Posters based on those given by LEC colleagues at EGU 2012
May 2012
- Evidence-based medicine as a model for resolving controversies in the evaluation of chemical safety
- The Effects of Nutrition on Immunity and Disease in Insects
- Should the paradigm of reduced plant drought stress under elevated [CO2] be hung out to dry?
- Mathematical Physics Seminar: Stability of Synchronised Chaos and Extinction of Species
- The materialisation of smart grids, between fictions and realisations
- Geoengineering: the geo-politics of planetary modification
April 2012
- Physiological Trait Based Plant Breeding
- What does rural-urban migration mean for Amazonian people and forests?
- SPEARS Seminar: Ion pickup in the Solar System
- Social capacity building towards disaster risk resilience in England: The impact of shifts in risk governance
- Understanding and managing honey bee health in the UK: beekeeping knowledge and engagement with science and policy
March 2012
- Local Landscape Conservation for Lepidoptera
- Responses to Climate Change in the Australian Community
- Irrigated Agriculture in Murcia, Spain
- Long-Term Management of Lake Pyhäjärvi - Field-Scale Experiments in an Agricultural Catchment
- Temporal variability in water flux and nitrogen biogeochemistry in hyporheic zone sediments and Benthic macroinvertebrate community response to neutral mine drainage in central Wales
- Departmental Seminar Programme
- SPEARS Seminar: Modelling solar energetic particle propagation through interplanetary space
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus dynamics in a groundwater-fed river from high-frequency automated sampling. River Leith, Cumbria
- Three decades of atmospheric metal deposition in Norway as evident from analysis of moss samples
- Modelling future changes in surface ozone: a parameterized approach
February 2012
- After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading
- Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions
- Cosmology Seminar
- Breathe Easier: Resolving critical air-quality problems with passive directional sampling'
- Senses of Justice in Climate Policy: Representation and Policy-Making in Cap and Trade Systems
- Generalised Models for Uncertainty with Applications in Engineering
- Sustainable Water Stewardship - Gaps and Opportunities
- The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme - assessing chemical threats to biodiversity
- Impact of Water Saving Agriculture on ground water levels and ecosystem services in NW China
January 2012
- The role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation in Latin America and mechanisms for achieving non-carbon benefits from REDD+
- Ideas for integrating biodiversity concerns into REDD+ programmes
- The Irish Agricultural Catchments Programme: policy implications and challenges for adaptive management
- From Eden to Eternity: Building the UK National Defra Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) Platform
- Practice theory: concept, research and intervention
- Street canyon vegetation very effectively improves urban air quality
- Applying control theory to support the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project
December 2011
- Multinuclear solid state NMR - an introduction to a versatile spectroscopic characterisation approach of atomic scale structure and dynamics of materials
- What's the Use of Space Science?: Space Science in a Modern Society
- NERC Environmental Monitoring: Capacity Building
- Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling: Natural Philosophy Revisited?
November 2011
- The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests
- Fungal fields forever. How fungal-based soil food webs can help secure the delivery of ecosystem services
- Waste treatments and waste reuse in soils as a source of plant nutrients and prevention of ground and surface water contamination
- Rhyolitic volcanism at volcán Chaitén, Chile
- Annual Student Seminar Day
- Mineral Solutions to Global Problems: How can minerals feed the world in 2050?
- Evaluation of soil, lithological and hydrological factors: Understanding soil and surface water geochemistry interactions in catchments in the El Bierzo region, Spain
- Nutrient retention by constructed wetland in agricultural areas
- Headwater scale simulations of landscape runoff and relationship to observations of stream ecology - An integrated approach
October 2011
- Plant perception and response to hypoxia solved
- Long term trends of PBDEs in sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) eggs, an apex terrestrial predator in the UK
- Understanding (or not) the chemistry of isoprene under low NOx conditions
- Physics Colloquium - Spirals with Supercomputers: Have We Finally Got it Right?
- Phosphorus interactions in a groundwater fed river from in-situ sampling; the River Leith, Cumbria, UK
- Zero Carbon Britain 2030: Exploring Local Responses
- The Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team
September 2011
- Global-scale Passive Air Sampling of Legacy and Emerging Chemicals: Integrating emissions, transport models and measurements - Insights from the GAPS Network
- Launch of Centre for Research in Human Development and Learning
- Temporal and Spatial Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air and Soil: Implications for their Sources and Environmental Cycling
- Novel Passive Water Sampler for in situ Sampling of Antibiotics
August 2011
- Current Use Pesticides in Ontario surface waters and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Arctic and Canada's Northern Contaminants Program
- Opportunities for Environmental Technology Transfer and Research Collaboration between China and the UK
July 2011
- Climate change and viticulture: how rootstocks may contribute to vine adaptation to challenging environments
- The Development of Theory and Technology in Wheat Cultivation and the Improvement of Wheat Yield in China
June 2011
- Global change and soil microbes: the effect of atmospheric change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities
- An Overview of Mercury Pollution in China
- The importance of plant-soil interactions in ecosystems
- Memory and Education
- Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture
- Effects of water-energy-vegetation feedback on thawing of peat-covered, discontinuous permafrost
- Decomposer ecology revisited: Fungal and bacterial growth measurements open the black box
- A 21st Century Geological Survey: Addressing the Challenges of Resources and Environmental Change
- Climate Politics Beyond the Predictive Paradigm: A Symposium with Mike Hulme
- Forecasting river levels during flash floods using Data Based Mechanistic models, online data assimilation and meteorological forecasts
- Visualising uncertain flood inundation maps
May 2011
- Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism and synaesthesia and their application to sensory marketing
- Vegetable vampire or grassland guardian? Understanding the role of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor in maintaining grassland biodiversity
- Data needs for identification of more realistic parameterisations of hillslope hydrology and transport at different scales
- Science, media, policy and wildlife: the badger/bovine TB controversy
- Application of a Multiple Interacting Pathways model to a hillslope hydrological tracing experiment at Gårdsjön, Sweden
- Bilingualism: Challenges and Benefits to Classroom Performance
- Tracing sediment by enhancing soil magnetic properties
- Using close-range photogrammetry to measure temporal changes in soil surface roughness and sealing of tractor tramlines
- The Measurement of Global Temperature
- Pollution swapping in wetland systems designed to mitigate diffuse pollution from agricultural land
- Opportunity mapping of terrestrial carbon sequestration across UK Landscapes
- Unpicking the web of plant defence signalling networks
March 2011
- Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy: Interdisciplinary Coordination and Inclusion
- SPEARS Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in Space Weather Modeling
- DOM concentration and quality from UV absorbance
- Design Challenges for Next Generation Chips Targeting Mobile Platforms
- Feeding nine billion: the challenge to sustainable crop production and other disciplines
- The ecological value of modified landscapes
February 2011
- Kinetic signatures of metals in natural waters
- Application of Solid-Phase Extraction technique for modelling environmental fate of organic pollutant in soil
- Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling
- Air Quality Modelling in London
- Biological control: A Brazilian perspective
January 2011
- Health, Nutrition, and Cognitive Development
- Upland waters in the UK - Pressures and responses
- How do carbon nanoparticles effect terrestrial microbiota?
- Impact of carbon nanomaterials on microbial activity in soil
December 2010
- Inelastic and charging energy effects on the electron transport through molecular junctions
- TBA
- Plant Traits as Drivers of Ecosystem Functioning
- Cosmology Seminar
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Dark matter searches and candidates
- CANCELLED - Molecular networks regulating germination
November 2010
- Emerging contaminants in China's East River, Pearl River
- Noble gases and their environmental applications
- Cosmology Seminar
- The Hunting Footprint Of Amazonian Forests
- SPEARS seminar - Nonlinear dynamics of zonal flows generated by turbulent wave-wave interaction
- Next generation Monte Carlo Techniques for Particle Physics
- Boosted Signatures from BSM at the LHC: Techniques and Signatures
- Science and society in watersheds: why restoring a river is so hard
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Annual Student Seminar Day
- Explosive eruption records in southern Chile: regional and global implications for glacial forcing of volcanic activity
October 2010
- High Energy Physics Seminar
- Why is the ground brown (in the tropics)?
- Search for new sources of CP violation with the DZero detector
- Assessing the quality of research in HEIs using bibliometrics
- The British Geological Survey, NERC
- LBNE: Next Generation Neutrino Experiment
- Sustainable diets: Too complex, too nanny-state - or inevitable?
- Recent developments in classical theory of thermoelectricity
September 2010
- POSTPONED: Air Pollution Research in Bursa/Turkey
- POSTPONED: Impact of carbon nanomaterials on microbial activity in soil
- Current research to advance sustainable dry-land farming in Australia
- Solubility of litter nutrients and implications for decomposition in lowland tropical forests
- A secondary organic aerosol scheme in 10 reactions: the no frills approach to global aerosol modelling
- Understanding and Interpreting Climate Model Ensembles
- Catchment & Aquatic Processes PhD Seminar Day
August 2010
- The Impact of Biochar on Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants in Aged Soil
- PBDEs in Colonial Water Birds from Pakistan
July 2010
- Application of infrared spectroscopy to biochemically signature the effects of chemical mixtures in mammalian cells
- Information Fusion: the Concepts, the Technology, the Community, and Modern Research Challenges
- Why the impact agenda will secure a sound future for NERC research
- Water saving agriculture and food security in China
- Human action control: Segregation and integration – Physiology and Pathology
June 2010
- Civil Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses
- Putting the Sustainable City in its Place: Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Urban Sustainable Development
- LEC Research Seminar: 25 years of the Ozone Hole: The World Avoided
- The effect of raindrop impacted flow on sediment composition
- Adaptations and climate change in Antarctic marine animals
- Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses
- Think RaRe - Rational-Reactive Intelligent Agents for Collaborative Thinking in Virtual Worlds
- Transnational educational spaces: The transformation of HE in Hong Kong and the new (im)mobilities of Chinese students
- Instrumental Developments in the Field of Solid Sampling for ICP-MS and ICP-OES
May 2010
- A New Flow-Through Directional Passive Air Sampler Applied to Monitoring Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide
- Design and Application of Industrial Fuzzy Logic Controllers
- Physical and Link Layer Implications in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks
- Manipulating photosynthesis and photoprotection in tropical rice
April 2010
- Biological Pesticides Against Insect Crop Pests in Asia and Africa: Turning Research Into Use in Developing Countries
- Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling
March 2010
- Phenanthrene catabolism in Zn and Cu amended soil
- Review of Organochlorine Pesticides in Azerbaijan
- Nitrogen competition in the rhizosphere
- Fixing fuel poverty - challenges and solutions
- LEC Research Seminar: Living with Environmental Change
- Dissolved organic matter in montane systems, climate and vegetation effects
February 2010
- Nutrient and carbon cycling in sediments of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone
- LEC Research Seminar: NERC 2010 theme action plans
- Novel technologies for eutrophication control in shallow lakes
- Our Food Future - Reflections on Changing Paradigms, Shifting Power and Rewriting Rules
- Codes with parent identifying property and digital fingerprinting codes: what is in between?
- Characterizing dissolved organic matter (DOM) using fluorescence and parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC)
January 2010
- LEC Research Seminar: Environmental Evidence for 2010-15: Needs, Skills and Partnership
- Why Social Inequalities Persist
- Field measurements of air-soil exchange gradients of persistent organic pollutants
- Airborne LIDAR: principles, processing and applications to volcanic areas
December 2009
November 2009
- Food web bioaccumulation of halogenated compounds in high mountain lake food webs
- Stopford; Current R&D for Green Technologies
- Managing the monster in the middle - why is IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) so hard?
- Global Environmental Change and Food Security
- Biofumigation as a component of a methyl bromide replacement strategy in disease management
- Exploring the Relationship between Personalised Learning and Enquiry-Based Learning in Enhancing the Student Learning Experience
October 2009
- Global Climate Model Validation, Forecasting and Uncertainty
- Gulf War Illness and 'radioactive' uranium weapons: health and environmental consequences
- An overview of the EU Framework Programme 7
- Why do Chinese farmers use so much nitrogen fertiliser?
September 2009
July 2009
June 2009
- Distributed Modelling, Estimation and Control for Road Traffic by Prof. Rene Boel, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Advanced Engineering for Global Science: The Large Hadron Collider
- ADSRs and FFAGs - what they are and why we need them
- Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor Networks
May 2009
March 2009
- Compact hydro opportunities in the UK
- The Impact of Crosstalk on Communication Links in Deep Submicron Technologies
February 2009
November 2008
- On being the right size: Scaling and psychological laws
- Physics behind Pre-Earthquake Signals
- The Music of Life: the principles of Systems Biology
October 2008
August 2008
- Phase Noise and Suppression Method in the 3G-LTE Uplink Communication System
- Advances in Traceable Micro & Nanoscale Engineering Metrology
July 2008
- Modelling Evolving User behaviours
- Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis
- Research Seminar 'DIGITAL OBESITY addressed by Fuzzy Information Management' by Prof T. Martin (Bristol University and BT)
May 2008
- The Inaugural Doug Shepherd Memorial Lecture: Interactive Data Exploration with Diamond
- Geoscientists' new Earth models: the geospatial revolution
- The Misunderstood Placebo
- Vehicular Traffic Modelling and Traffic Flow Estimation with Particle Filtering Methods
- Professionalism - The Latest Challenge in Medical Education
April 2008
- To kill a parasite: Targeting protein kinases in the hunt for new drugs against Leishmaniasis
- Beyond Bali and IPCC: some new priorities for climate impact and policy research
- Hormonal control of shoot branching
March 2008
- Bonsai: mechanisms underlying the plant growth response to stress
- The Subterranean Machinations of Explosive Volcanoes
- Microbial sensing in mural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana
- Computer Aided Knee Surgery
February 2008
- Biodiversity and ecosystem service provision in agro-ecosystems
- Physics approaches to the cardiorespiratory system
- Ecology and evolution in insect-natural enemy interactions
- Chemical Signalling Between Insects and Plants for the Development of Sustainable Pest Management
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
- X-ray Tomography: What it can (or can't) do for your research
- Is Everything Becoming the Same? Patterns and Drivers of Biotic Homogenization in Terrestrial Ecosystems
October 2007
- New Approximation Techniques in Nonlinear Filtering
- Escape from Natural Enemies during Climate-Driven Range Expansion
- The Effects of High Population Density (in a High Consumption Society) on Stream Water Quality
- Adaptive Self-superparasitism in the Infanticidal Parasitoid Echthrodalphax Fairchildii
July 2007
- Plants Mitigating Global Change via Sustainable Biofuel Production
- Fabry-Perot Spectrometers in the Australian Antarctic Territory
- Unmanned Ground Vehicles Modelling and Control
June 2007
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December 2006
October 2006
September 2006
July 2006
June 2006
- HF Prediction Methods for Digital Communications
- The Impact of Information Technology on Deaf People
May 2006
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November 2005
September 2005
- Evolvable Connectionists Systems: Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics, Brain Study and Intelligent Machines
- Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization and Its Application to Multiobjective Fuzzy Rule Extraction
June 2005
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