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There are 33 million people in Kenya and this number is increasing every year....
Climate, Systems

Can conservation agriculture solve the food security crisis in Kenya?

Author Dorcas Kalele Date May 10, 2016
Dorcas Kalele
Tagged Conservation agriculture, Food Security, sustainable development | 2 Comments |
Elephants are a key species in ecological systems: they can cause considerable changes to...
Biology

Are watering points a focus for elephant damage to woody plants?

Author Jacob Ngatia Date May 5, 2016
Jacob Ngatia
Tagged Elephant damage, Watering points, Woody plants | Leave a comment |
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia killed more than 200,000 people. The...
Earth, Outreach, Sea, Society

Communicating tsunami risks is key to saving lives

Author Birgit Zipf Date May 3, 2016
Birgit Zipf
Tagged East Africa Summer School, risk communication, risk perception, Tsunami | Leave a comment |
Meningitis is a deadly disease that causes massive damage to the human brain. Young...
Climate, Health, People, Society, Systems

How wind brings death to West Africa

Author Frank Brenner Date April 28, 2016
Frank Brenner
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, Infectious Disease, Meningitis, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
Fifty six million years ago there was a super global warming event known as...
Climate, Systems

Can investigating former climates really help us understand the future?

Author Celestine Nwojiji Date April 26, 2016
Celestine Nwojiji
Tagged Climate Models, paleo-climate, PETM | Leave a comment |
Satellite data is revolutionising the way we look at our planet. From tracking deforestation...
Climate, Health, Land, Life, People

Certainly uncertain! Do satellites help to monitor food security in Africa?

Author Robert Luetkemeier Date April 22, 2016
Robert Luetkemeier
Tagged East Africa Summer School, Food Security, Modelling, Rainfall Uncertainty, Remote Sensing, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
    Everyone waited for radio broadcasting to crumble, but then something incredible happened....
News, Outreach

‘DIY’ Journalism for Scientists through Scientific Podcasting

Author Ashley Braunthal Date April 20, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
Leave a comment |
A large number of global environmental datasets have become freely available during recent years....
Climate, Earth, Land

The paradox of free data access in Tanzania

Author Canute Hyandye Date April 19, 2016
Canute Hyandye
Tagged bias correction, Climate data access, free weather data, weather satellite | 1 Comment |
Clean fresh water is essential for human life, but less than 1% of all...
Earth, People, Society

Protecting the people’s water supply in Mexico City

Author Emilio Sanchez Date April 15, 2016
Emilio Sanchez
Tagged aquifer vulnerability, groundwater, hydraulic tomography, Mexico City, modeling | Leave a comment |
Figure 1: Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Microorganisms inhabit this extreme environment...
Biology, Climate, Earth, Outreach, People

Extreme superbugs are revolutionizing our understanding of life on Earth

Author André Friese Date April 12, 2016
André Friese
Tagged Deep Biosphere, Early Life on Earth, Microorganisms | Leave a comment |
  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society today. To understand...
Climate, Outreach, Sea, Society

Do you want to become a climate researcher?

Author Johanna Englhardt Date April 8, 2016
Johanna Englhardt
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, history, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
Professor Martin H. Trauth is an earth scientist at the University of Potsdam in...
Biology, Climate, Earth, Outreach, People

Collecting, processing and presenting information: summer schools in East Africa

Author SciSnack Date April 5, 2016
SciSnack
Tagged east africa, outreach bio-geo-science, presentation skills, summer school, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
Sometimes we hear people saying: “It’s the little things that matter most”. Indeed, only...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Physics, Society

My weather app shows rain at a sunny day!?

Author Lucas Höppler Date March 18, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged flash-flood, Flood, Floods, hydroelectric, innovation, little things, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, suddenly occuring rain, umbrella, weather app | 2 Comments |
Slippery sloppy slushy slopes, slimy slimy silvery soaps. Fluttering fluffy frosty froth, Does indoor...
Air, Climate, Culture

The Isobar Czar (of Bergen)

Author Ashley Braunthal Date March 7, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged Bergen, Cyclone, Rain, slush, snow | 1 Comment |
Is mowing the lawn destined to become a thing of the past? (Photography by...
Biology, Climate, Land, Society

Lazy lawn? Not in my back yard!

Author Richard Beason Date March 1, 2016
Richard Beason
Tagged Artificial grass, biodiversity loss, gardens, greenwash, lazy lawns | Leave a comment |
Professor Mark Maslin is based in the Geography Department at University College London. He...
Outreach, People, Society

Unique London Training of Environmental Scientists

Author SciSnack Date February 26, 2016
SciSnack
Tagged Doctoral Training Programme, Education, NERC, Training, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
When modelling the natural world we are often faced with limitations of our understanding,...
Air, Climate, Sea

Simplifying the equations

Author Aleksi Nummelin Date February 11, 2016
Aleksi Nummelin
Tagged eddies, OGCM, parameterization, simplified equations | Leave a comment |
Sometimes I read a scientific paper and struggle to pay attention.  I have to...
Outreach, Society

On Reading

Author Matt Archer Date January 11, 2016
Matt Archer
Tagged Communication, reading, science writing | 1 Comment |
In the second annual UEA Xmas SciSnack group post, we have chosen to explore...
Air, Biology, Climate, Culture, Life, People, Sea, Society

Disastrous Disaster Movies

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2015
ClimateSnack UEA
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, movies, Ocean, Weather | 1 Comment |
  The SedWhat Podcast Episode 01: The Climate Messenger – Dr. Erlend Moster Knudsen...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Ice, News, Outreach, People, Sea, Society

The SedWhat Podcast – Episode 01: The Climate Messenger

Author Ashley Braunthal Date December 4, 2015
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged CONFERENCE, COP21, POLETOPARIS | Leave a comment |
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