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Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability

31 January 2013

Stephen Morse, Professor of Systems Analysis for Sustainability at the Centre for Environmental Strategy has co-edited Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability, part of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability.

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Drive to meet Millennium Development Goal for Sanitation: follow on-line discussion

31 January 2013

 

Dr Katrina Charles, Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the Centre for Environmental Strategy has recently published a paper in the Journal of Water and Health: "Commentary on community-led total sanitation and human rights: Should the right to community-wide health be won at the cost of individual rights?"

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow post

30 January 2013

We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to work on a environmental modelling research project recently funded by NERC under the Changing Water Cycle Programme. This project will focus on the development and application of integrated approach to model the physical and natural processes within the urban water environment to understand the processes controlling the fate of pollutants in downstream river reaches that originate from upstream urban sources.

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The Queen awards prestigious Regius Professorship to Surrey

30 January 2013

The UK Government has announced that Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey is among twelve outstanding university departments to have the prestigious title of Regius Professor bestowed upon it by The Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee.

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Astronomers find that young star cluster is surrounded by a halo of "sibling" stars

28 January 2013

Stars tend to form in groups and over time the majority of these groups disperse to become field stars, like our sun. Understanding this process of cluster dissolution is important in unravelling how the Milky Way grew over time. It is a challenging task, however, because it is extremely difficult to identify the dispersed clusters.

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Alan Woodward commented for SC Magazine on privay and data protection

28 January 2013

Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert and a visiting professor of the Department, commented for the SC Magazine on how small business handles sensitive data of customers and how the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) does its work in raising the awareness of small business on regulations of the Data Protection Act. He feels most small businesses have problems understanding the importance of data protection and lack awareness on what to do to protect their customers' private data. To see the full story, click here.

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Congratulations to Anna Chuter for successfully passing her PhD viva

23 January 2013

Congratulations to Anna Chuter who successfully passed her PhD viva on 22 January. Anna's thesis was on “A Qualitative Analysis of the Data Assimilation Linked Ecosystem Carbon Model, DALEC”. Anna was supervised by Philip Aston and Anne Skeldon with help from Ian Roulstone.  Her examiners were Professors Shaun Quegan and Rebecca Hoyle

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Physics PhD student sets the kink straight

23 January 2013

First-year PhD student, Phil Goddard, publishes new paper in Physical Review Letters.