The latest news from the Environment Department in our November 2013 newsletter

Posted on 20 November 2013

All the latest news from the Environment Department, including exciting news about our new building development, the latest research grants and a round up of research undertaken in the summer.

New home

In September 2015, the Environment Department will be moving home from the centre of campus to a spectacular new development overlooking the lake adjacent to Wentworth College. The £12 million development will vastly improve teaching and learning spaces, laboratories and office provision as well as bringing the Stockholm Environment Institute, the York Environmental Sustainability Institute and BioArCh (a research group covering aspects of biology, archaeology and chemistry) all under one roof. Read more in the newsletter.

Also in the newsletter (Newsletter, November 2013 (PDF , 1,014kb))

The University of York is launching an innovative 3.5m Euro project which will use new technologies to improve the understanding of urban pollution and its effects on human health and the environment, to be led by the Environment Department's Professor Alistair Boxall.
Whilst the sun shone on Yorkshire this summer, Dr. Claire Hughes (Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry) was amongst snowfall, sea ice and polar bears on a research cruise in the Arctic.
21 students took part in hugely successful and popular inaugural field trip to Iceland. The 3rd year students were studying the new 3rd year module 'Glaciology and Volcanism in Iceland'.

Newsletter, November 2013 (PDF , 1,014kb)