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Farming on permafrost

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Farming on permafrost Published: Climate change is creating new opportunities for agriculture, by providing longer and warmer growing seasons, and thawing frozen ground. However, temperatures in the USA’s most northern state are on the rise, and this is being accompanied by an increase in agricultural activity.

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Modelling mines: how can a new 3D modelling platform make mining more sustainable and be part of the solution to climate change?

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The models could also be used to monitor other polluting activities, such as agriculture, and advise on how best to minimise their negative impacts. Geoscience is just one of a whole range of Earth sciences. When I got into high school, I chose Earth sciences as a specialty.

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How can community engagement projects empower STEM students?

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This includes traffic, construction and agriculture.” While teaching an Earth science class, I saw the opportunity to link my research with what I was teaching my students. A micrometre is a thousand times smaller than a millimetre, so these particles can be inhaled by a person without them noticing.

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Practical activities to help geoscience students develop the skills they need to succeed

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For example, it is important to understand the role that soil plays in controlling nutrient-rich runoff from agricultural land, or what happens to nutrient-rich sediments when they are deposited at the bottom of lakes. This is often seen as an entirely biological problem, but geoscience elements are also at work.

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What did human communities look like 20,000 years ago?

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They are studying sites in the surrounding regions, such as Azraq, as well as those further afield in Cyprus, to understand the extent of hunter-gatherer movement before agricultural village life. “We As an undergraduate student, I was often the only woman in my geology classes, and the only one combining archaeology and Earth sciences.