By gseaton on May 2, 2012
The School’s Postgraduate Research conference timetable - Thursday 10th May.
All BU staff and students welcome to attend. Any queries contact Eva Reichardt on ereichardt@bournemouth.ac.uk
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| 10.00 am |
Keynote Speech: Tiantian Zhang (Head of the Graduate School) – Postgraduate Research – Your Journey, Your Future |
CG01 |
| 10.20 am |
Grace Jones: The origins and development of prehistoric pottery production around Poole Harbour, Dorset. |
CG01 |
| 10.40 am |
Catherine Hess: Human lead exposure in South Africa during the 20th Century: Implications for the past, present and future |
CG01 |
| 11.00 am |
Tea and Coffee Break |
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| 11.30 am |
Adam Lodoen: Signature mapping: A method of probabilistic archaeological landscape characterisation |
CG01 |
| 11.50 am |
Josie Pegg: Assessing and predicting impacts of alien fish parasites: from hosts to ecosystems |
CG01 |
| 12.10 am |
Kathryn Ross: Understanding fitness-maximising behaviour of overwintering pied avocets |
CG01 |
| 12.30 pm |
Lunch and Poster Session |
CG01/ CG11 |
| 2.00 pm |
Alexander Lovegrove: Management Impacts on Biodiversity at the Landscape Scale: A Case Study in The New Forest National Park |
CG01 |
| 2.20 pm |
Matthew Sumnall: The assessment of habitat condition of the New Forest using airborne remote sensing |
CG01 |
| 2.40 pm |
Natalia Tejedor: Vulnerability of montane forest to global climate change |
CG01 |
| 3.00 pm |
Justine Cordingley: Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in dynamic heathlands |
CG01 |
| 3.20 pm |
Tea and Coffee Break |
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| 3.50 pm |
Phil Martin: Effect of non-native invasive plants on ecosystem functions |
CG01 |
| 4.10 pm |
Tim Burke: Qualitative Analysis of Street Drugs Obtained from Amnesty Bins at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival |
CG01 |
| 4.30 pm |
Wine reception |
CG01 |
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By gseaton on April 16, 2012
As part of The Quarry Life Award, BU’s submission ‘Habitat creation following quarrying at Warmwell: evaluating the contribution made by different habitats to biodiversity gain and to human well-being’ has been selected to continue in the next round of the competition.
Follow link to read more about the project http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/about/participating-quarries/warmwell-airfield-quarry
The research will be undertaken by a team of Applied Sciences ecology students, led and supervised by Dr Anita Diaz. Voting is now open to the public to support his/her favourite project. The most popular project will be highlighted during the Global award ceremony in December.
To vote: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/
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By Sally Gates on April 2, 2012
Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Dr Martin Smith appeared on Episode 16 of Mastermind.
He came second on the night, answering 14 questions on his specialist subject Motorhead, and 13 general knowledge questions .
After the two rounds he was joint first, narrowly missing out on the top spot because his closest competitor had passed on less questions, meaning he went through to the next round, not Martin.
A close battle, well played Martin!
Posted in News | Tagged Ap Sci, Bournemouth University, BU, Martin Smith, Mastermind, Motorhead, school of applied sciences
By gseaton on March 27, 2012
A number of the School’s postgraduate researchers have been successful in obtaining PGR Development funding awarded by BU’s Graduate School of up to £2,000 each. This funding will help to provide financial support for the PGR’s research activity and personal development.
The lucky recipients are:
Kathryn Ross, Deborah Steele, Aaron Morris, Innes McCartney, Catherine Hess, Laura Evis, Marie-Christine Dussault, Ivis Chan, Justine Cordingley, Daraporn Chairat and Carolina Castro.
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By gseaton on March 20, 2012
The undergraduate Archaeological Society have a lecture by Professor Mike Baillie from Queen’s University Belfast this evening at 7:00pm in the Shelley lecture theatre, Talbot campus.
Professor Baillie was a pioneer in tree-ring dating and the calibration of C14 and has more recently turned his attention to catastrophic environmental events in the ancient and not so ancient past.
Tonight he will be talking on ‘Tree Rings, Ice Cores, and Past Catastrophes’. Something for everyone then! Well worth attending if you can.
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By gseaton on March 15, 2012
The Student Development Award is designed to help our students stand out from the crowd and equip themselves with the kind of skills that employers want and twelve of our students have been successful in securing a place.
During the two academic years they can take to complete the award, they will need to complete an e-portfolio, attend three workshops and gain 100 points from extra-curricular activities, which includes most BU and SUBU (Student’s Union) activities and some activities that are external to the University.
BU students from all levels can apply but the places are limited, so applications need to be strong. Further information can be found at www.bournemouth.ac.uk/student/award
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By on February 29, 2012
Elizabeth thought the bones to be human
BU scientists were trusted to examine some ancient bones found by builders in a garden of a house in Preston, Weymouth.
The bones were thought to be thousands of years old by BU’s Elizabeth Craig-Atkins.
If you would like to read the full report please visit The Dorset Echo and BBC Dorset
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By Sally Gates on February 24, 2012
On 15 Feb Simon Bozeman, reporter from The One Show came to BU with his team (a camera man/producer and assistant) for an exclusive tour of the new Crime Scene Training Facility and of course to make a report using the setting.
Using the news hook of the Forensic Science Service (FSS) closing, Simon along with several final year Applied Sciences students donned their white suits, gloves, shoe covers and hair nets and investigated the mock burglary that had been set up. During the search ‘drugs’ were found and
taken to Professor David Osselton in a lab at the back of Dorset House to test. While testing the powder Prof Osselton was interviewed about the closing of the FSS. Back at the Crime Scene Training Facility Alex Otto was interviewed about the same topic and told them about the facility itself.
The whole filming took about 7 hours, the students, Alex and David were brilliant, very patient, and very compliant with the many requests to ‘do that bit again’. Repeating the same movement or action six times over isn’t what they usually do on a crime scene!
Following on from that, the producers of the show requested for Alex to go down to the studio and be interviewed by Alex and Matt on The One Show sofa about the changes in Forensics! After some persuasion Alex agreed, and set about swatting up on a demonstration they could do in the studio. After what resulted in the BBC hiring in a laser scanner because BU’s one is out in the field, a mock murder was set up in the studio and the image
scanned in a pre-record for the show, which itself took about an
hour, Alex then talked live on TV!
You can watch it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cj4dw/The_One_Show_21_02_2012/
Posted in News | Tagged Alex Otto, Bournemouth University, BU, David Osselton, forensic science, Forensics, school of applied sciences, The One Show
By on February 21, 2012
Google under the earth
Kate Welham was on BBC Wiltshire last week discussing the intrigue and facts with presenter Sue Davies around her Google under the earth project.
[audio:http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/applied-sciences/files/2012/02/stonehenge-2.mp3|titles=Listen to Kate on BBc Wiltshire here]
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By on February 17, 2012
Stone Henge
Professor Timothy Darvill challenged the new Stonehenge theory proposed by US scientist Steven Waller in the Guardian yesterday.
Steven Waller proposed after a series of experiments that the positions of the standing stones match patterns in sound waves created by a pair of musical instruments.
Timothy said that while sound played an important role in events at Stonehenge, the monument was probably not designed with acoustics in mind.
“The main structure is a replica in stone of what was normally built in wood,” he said. “They used the same techniques. The positioning of the main components is all about the construction of a framework, a building if you like, as the setting for ritual adventures that included the use of the bluestones brought over from Wales.”
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