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Researchers calculate the global highways of invasive marine species
5 May 2013
Globalisation, with its ever increasing demand for cargo transport, has inadvertently opened the flood gates for a new, silent invasion. New research has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships.
Katsu Goda collects 2012 Charles F Richter Award
2 May 2013
Katsu Goda in Civil Engineering has won this year's highly prestigious Charles F Richter Award of the Seismological Society of America.
Katsu Goda co-edits new book on seismic risk analysis
2 May 2013
Katsu Goda (winner of this year's Charles F Richter Award of the Seismological Society of America) co-edits a new book on seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems.
Detailed mapping provides new insight into measuring palaeo ice-thickness
30 April 2013
Using information gathered from field based studies at the Kima’Kho tuya, an extinct subglacial volcano in northern British Columbia, Canada, researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dickinson College and the University of Bristol's Cabot Institute report how they have determined palaeo icesheet thickness.
The nature of the beast - a blog on fracking discussions at House of Commons
26 April 2013
Jo Hawkins from the University of Bristol Law department blogs on fracking discussions held at the House of Commons in London for the APPCCG meeting.
Nitrogen has key role in estimating CO2 emissions from land use change
24 April 2013
A new global-scale modelling study by researchers at the Cabot Institute and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that takes into account nitrogen, estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s than in studies that did not account for nitrogen.
Can we reliably estimate future flood risk?
17 April 2013
Cabot Institute researchers Andy Smith, Paul Bates and Jim Freer publish paper on how reliable it is to estimate future flood risk using climate models.
Marcus Badger holds climate change talk for Transition Clevedon
9 April 2013
Cabot Institute member, Dr Marcus Badger, held a popular talk on climate change to members of the Transition Town Clevedon group.
Bristol shortlisted for European Green Capital Award 2015
27 March 2013
Bristol Mayor George Ferguson has welcomed the decision to shortlist Bristol as one of the four finalists for the European Green Capital Award 2015.
New book on Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins
27 March 2013
Cabot Institute Steering Group member, Thorsten Wagener, has edited a new book on Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins which is being published this April.