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A five-week independent mapping project is a rite of passage for most third-year geology students. It’s also a core part of degree accreditation by the Geological Society of London.
But the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has meant that students are unable to access the usual international fieldwork locations in countries including Spain and Cyprus.
Rather than seeing this as a negative, staff at the University of Southampton have used the situation as an opportunity to reboot the field experience to align with the rapidly evolving geospatial needs of geoscience agencies around the world.
“The result is a high-quality hybrid mapping project that incorporates sophisticated geospatial analysis coupled with local fieldwork”, said Dr Tom Gernon, an Associate Professor of Earth Science at the University and coordinator of the module. “We end up with the best of both worlds: our students receive training in using next-generation digital mapping technology, whilst also gaining the
At least 246 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus.
Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11 2020.
This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.
The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain.
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Henry Stonehouse started working at BAE Systems Maritime Services as a graduate naval architect in 2017 and joined the Boats engineering team two years ago. Since then, he has designed a concept for a Logistics Support Craft (LSC), part of the next generation of small boats that are pushing the boundaries of marine capability. The Student Engineer caught up with Henry to find out about his career path and what life is like at BAE’s Boats team.
What first led you towards a career in engineering?
My grandpa was a Naval Architect in the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors and I grew up on his stories about his time working and training in the navy as a designer and constructor. I’ve always loved designing and creating things, and have had a passion for military history, especially naval, very likely sparked by him. As a result of this, I grew up wanting to design warships, which lead me to become a Naval Architect l
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New research has shown that carbon in feces, respiration, and other excretions from fishes make up about 16% of the total carbon that sinks below the ocean’s upper layers.
Ecosystems provide a huge range of benefits and services to humans – one of these is the extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its burial either in sediments or in the deep ocean.
Now a team of scientists lead by Dr Grace Saba at Rutgers University and including Dr Clive Trueman from Southampton have amalgamated their existing knowledge to estimate the contribution of fish to the global export of carbon.