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Environment

In this module, you can learn more about some of our staff and students working on topics linked to the enviroment. Their profile pages contain lots of information about them including their research, inspiration, and their STEM heroes, as well as short interviews. Even more staff and students can be found within the main profile pages, demonstrating lots of different pathways and careers within this topic.

Do watch the researcher talks and try the activities – it's all designed to bring these topics to life!

Researchers

Amelia Clark

Amelia is a second year PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering looking at how fungi in the soil move water from one place to another.

Cecylia Watrobska

Cecylia is a final year PhD student researching how much energy an individual animal must put into learning a task and forming memories through studying bees.

Becky Heath

Becky is a final year PhD student developing and accessing acoustic recorders, which we use to monitor at-risk ecosystems

Sanjeevani Panditharatne

Sanjeevani is a first year PhD student in the Department of Physics who is investigating how clouds may affect our climate.

Sally Musungu

Sally is a first year PhD student investigating the complex interactions between the climate, crops and pests

Amelia's research

Amelia talks about her research into how fungi in the soil move water from one place to another.

Amelia's research

Amelia talks about her research into how fungi in the soil move water from one place to another.

Becky's research

Becky talks about how she is developing acoustic recorders to study at-risk ecosystems

Becky talks about how she is developing and accessing acoustic recorders to monitor at-risk ecosystems such as rainforests

Cecylia's research

Cecylia talks about her research into the energy bees put into learning and memory.

Sally's research

Sally talks about her research into the banana weevil in Uganda

Sally talks about investigating the banana weevil in Uganda to better understand the links between climate, crops and pests

Sanjeevani's research

Sanjeevani talks about how she is improving our understanding of clouds using satellite images

Sanjeevani talks about how she will use new satellite images to better understand why clouds reflect light the way they do, and the effect it might have on our climate.

Activities

Birdwatching

In this activity you observe the bird life around you and some of their distinctive features.

Birdwatching instructions

Fungi prints

In the activity you will make prints of fungi spores from the mushrooms you normally eat.

Fungi print instructions

Bee Hotel

In this activity you will build a hotel for solidary bees and then watch for visitors.

Bee hotel instructions

Ecosystem in a jar

This experiment and video shows you how to make your own ecosystem in a jar from a local water source

Ecosystem instructions

Greenhouse effect

In this experiment you will investigate the effects of specific greenhouse gases on ice

Greenhouse effect instructions

Bug trap

In this activity you will learn how to monitor the weevil population in your garden

Bug trap instructions

Quiz

Environment module quiz

When you have fully explored the Environment module, including listening to the Researcher interviews, talks and either doing the activities or reviewing them, you can take the module quiz to get a downloadable certificate.

Take the quiz