Wendesday, 8th September 2021
| Time (BST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm | Welcome and Instructions |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Sustainable Solutions 12:30 Ana Andries: Contribution of Earth observation data to support SDG indicators: analytical framework and related case studies 12:45 Neil Grant: An assessment of the UK’s progress towards net zero 13:00 Victoria Hoare: The utility of climate calculators as decision support tools within the land sector 13:15 Liam Yasin: Improving lifetime and performance of fuel cells by modelling oxygen transport |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Evolution and Adaption 12:30 Carys Cunningham: Investigating the relationship between Acute Oak Decline and Woodland Birds 12:45 Christopher Owen: Phylogenetic dating points to global spread of a wildlife pathogen over a century before disease detection 13:00 Hana Merchant: Is there a signal in mammalian basal metabolic rate associated with a fossorial lifestyle? 13:15 Lily Peck: Wake up and smell the coffee: Fifty years of emergence and divergence of Fusarium coffee wilt disease |
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Speed networking – come and meet others! |
| 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Health and Wellbeing 14:00 Allison Gaines: Product-specific planetary health indicators for Australian packaged foods and beverages 14:15 Jo Herschan: Improving the water quality of small drinking-water supplies: using data to take action 14:30 Gina Charnley: Relationships between drought and epidemic cholera in Africa |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Keynote Speaker: Professor Sir Robert Watson |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Poster Presentations |
| 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Quiz |
Thursday, 9th September 2021
| Time (BST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Ecosystem Restoration/Regeneration 9:00 Amanda Cooper: What is the Story in the Understorey: Does Boreal Forest Trees Diversity Affect Diversity Below the Canopy? 9:15 Caitlin Lewis: Snapshots in time of soils during the forest restoration process 9:30 Hollie Folkard-Tapp: Optimising the Recovery of Degraded Tropical Rainforests |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Past Lives and Environments 9:00 Maria Zicos: Exploring the genetics of the extinct Darwin’s ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) population from Cueva del Milodón, Chile 9:15 Daniel Parkes: Investigating the cause and structure of abrupt climate change events during MIS 11c 9:30 Adam Smith: Never mind the trunk stream, here’s the tributaries! Incorporating entire stream networks into river profile analysis |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Earth and Atmosphere 10:00 Laura Warwick: Developing a spectrometer for measurements of far-infrared emissivity 10:15 Harry Frost: Microplastic Fibres: Generation, Transport and Interactions with Metals 10:30 Sam Willard: Organic carbon storage along a nitrogen deposition gradient |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | Human-Environment Dynamics 10:00 Zoe Withey: Down the Drain: Characterization of communal sink drain communities of a university campus 10:15 Jarmo Kikstra: Quantifying energy needs for modelling multidimensional poverty 10:30 Caitlin Hinson: When participation matters. Stakeholder engagement in natural capital decision making |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Keynote: Veena Sahajwalla |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Ecology 13:00 Verity Miles: Counting badgers: it’s not all black and white 13:15 Rachael Thornley: Spectral variance in grasslands as a proxy for taxonomic and phenological diversity 13:30 Angela Bartlett: Non-random characteristics of alien plant species across invasion stages in Australia 13:45 Katie Powell: Exploring synchrony across species in the UK: are insect communities resilient to change? |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Panel Discussion: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Session & Break |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Workshop: Well-being in STEM |
Friday, 10th September 2021
| Time (BST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Natural Hazards 9:00 Rachel Hunt: Tsunami Early Warnings and Responses in New Zealand: Communication and Public Education 9:15 Devon Francis: What Happens if the Information Used in Predicting the Weather is Biased? 9:30 Hannah Croad: Structure and Mechanisms of Summer-time Arctic Cyclones 9:45 Wilson Chan: Current and future risk of unprecedented UK droughts |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Biodiversity and Conservation 9:00 Laura Kor: Hotspots for useful plant species in Colombia 9:15 Nick Dunn: Detection of Silvertip sharks using eDNA 9:30 Tom Weeks: Reduced functional redundancy of local avian communities leaves ecosystem functions vulnerable to further species losses 9:45 Stuart Negus: Connecting regional scale foraging habitats of immature to adult sea turtles with drones |
| 10:30 am – 11:30 am | Panel Discussion: Natural Networks |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Networking Session |
| 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm | Awards and Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | IN-PERSON SOCIAL (with free snacks and (non-)alcoholic drinks) Location: The Queens Tower Rooms, Imperial College London |
