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Autobiography of Richard Laws, past Director of BAS and former President of SCAR
The Autobiography of Richard Laws, past Director of BAS and former President of SCAR, is available online.
Scott Centenary 29th March 2012 - St Paul's Cathedral
Text of the Bishop of London's sermon from the Scott Remembrance Service at St. Paul's Cathedral is now available.
Dr Shane McCorristine elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Dr Shane McCorristine, Government of Ireland CARA Post-Doctoral Fellow, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Election to fellowship status is conferred on those who have made 'an original contribution to historical scholarship in the form of significant published work'.
His monograph, 'Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920' (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2010.
Dow prize for Alison Banwell
Alison Banwell was selected as final winner, for Cambridge, of the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge, for her work on glacier melt and runoff in Greenland and the Himalayas. Supervised by Dr Ian Willis and Dr Neil Arnold, Alison's research uses both field data and models to investigate how glaciers are melting as the Earth's temperature rises.
"I found it incredibly hard to summarise my research in only 500 words, followed by a short presentation," Alison said, "but I am thrilled to have won." The prize will allow her to extend her work with local scientists and communities in the Nepal Himalaya, seeking ways to manage water and raise living standards with hydro-electric power.
Read more on the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) website …
The Scott Polar Research Institute and the Times World Atlas (13th ed.) Map of Greenland
In September 2011, scientists at SPRI were closely involved (along with international colleagues) in countering claims about the scale of changes to the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet made by HarperCollins in their press release accompanying the launch of the 13th edition of the Times World Atlas.
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