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Leading the way in modelling behaviour of ice sheets

by CAPENews 20 August 20188 February 2019Comments are Disabled

A team of world-leading polar experts have been trialling a new tool to better predict how ice sheets will evolve over time. Northumbria University, Newcastle is already known as a centre of excellence for research into cold and palaeo environments. It has an outstanding group of glaciology experts with extensive expertise of undertaking research in …

Tracing the history of farming in the Amazon

by CAPENews 24 July 20188 February 2019Comments are Disabled

A geographer from Northumbria University, Newcastle is leading on a Â£340,000 research project to examine how ancient civilisations in one of the most remote and inhospitable areas of the Amazon farmed their land. Dr Bronwen Whitney, a senior lecturer in physical geography, is an expert in historic environmental changes, particularly in South and Central America. …