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St Andrews Climate Week
The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative, featuring: -- a flagship St Andrews Climate Change Conference on Tuesday 28 May. Confronting climate change is one of...
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Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?
Impact Workshop, Monday May 27, 2024 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The human species has forever been adapting to dynamic environmental conditions. The premodern world provides a laboratory of various experiments in human-environment interactions: a rich history of successes and failures, acute and chronic pressures, false-starts and path dependencies, resilience and vulnerabilities---all operating on a global scale over the longue durée. How should we collate,...
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Public Lecture: Far-Ultraviolet lighting to prevent the airborne spread of disease
Free
For over a hundred years, the germicidal properties of UV light and its role in suppressing transmission of airborne diseases have been known, but because of safety concerns, the installation of mercury-based UV lighting with wavelengths around 254nm has not been widely adopted. Recently, it has been proposed that UV light with wavelengths around...
