PhD scholarships are available for excellent students from ‘high income’ Commonwealth countries. Do you fit the bill and have an interest in research on: the behaviour of metals in the environment, the interactions of metals with minerals and microbes, mine… Continue Reading
As part of lockdown living, we have still been holding weekly team meetings remotely. This week as a bit of fun, I challenged the team to think about their research in a more creative way. To see if we could… Continue Reading
I am originally from across the River Tamar in Devon, but have lived in Cornwall since 2012 when I started teaching. I chose to have a change from teaching and I had always wanted to go back in to research… Continue Reading
Originally from rural Dorset, I spent much of my formative years roaming its beautiful countryside and Jurassic Coast. It is through such activity that I gained a deep connection with the natural environment and this has shaped my life ever… Continue Reading
Where are you from? Born and raised in the heart of the Austrian alps, I had moved to Vienna in 2013 to study Earth Science. What brought you to Cornwall / CSM? After completing my studies with a Master’s degree… Continue Reading
Hidden in Plain Sight was a photographic journey into the subsurface of Cornwall’s mining heritage. This collaboration aimed to show hidden environments beneath the surface, at a human scale and at the micro scale. The Cornish landscape hides a wealth of… Continue Reading
Do microbes help make china clay? Kaolin minerals are very important economic resources; so much so that china clay has sometimes been referred to as “white gold”. Understanding how kaolin minerals form and behave in the environment is important because… Continue Reading
I am from China and currently working as an academic visitor. My research mainly focus on the metal recovery from solid wastes and metal solidification/stabilization in contaminated soils. Cornwall is a fantastic place and the Penryn Campus is very beautiful.… Continue Reading
Rich Crane and colleagues from the EM3 Research Group and the University of Western Australia are currently investigating how we can apply novel methods to inject acids into the subsurface and then precisely control their movement using an electric field… Continue Reading
On December I have the pleasure to join the #ICEBERGS3 cruise to Antarctica with colleagues from 14 different nationalities. I have to thank #BAS for giving me the CASS that helped me to go. I went to Antarctic to collect sediments… Continue Reading