20th March 2015 - University of Cambridge Conservation Research

20th March 2015
Research Funding Opportunities
Talks and Events (Internal and External)
News Items
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Conservation-related Research Funding Opportunities
Invitation to nominate experts to aid in delivering the IPBES work programme - Call for expert
nominations
Closing date: 31st March 2015
The British Science Association’s Media Fellowships
Closing date: 3rd April 2015.
India-UK collaborative industrial research and development programme
Closing date: 8th April
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Science in Culture Early Career Researcher Workshop – The Lived Environment
Closing date: 10th April 2015
Joseph Rowntree Trust: Sustainable future programme grants
Closing date: 13th April
DEFRA
A further update of the UK’s persistent organics pollutants multimedia emissions
Closing date: 13th April
H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and recover raw materials
Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges
Closing date: 21st April
EPSRC
Towards Engineering Grand challenges: Network and Multidisciplinary Research Consortia Call
Closing date: 28 April 2015
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Collaboration Fund
Closing date: 1st May
Geologists’ Association
The Curry Fund
Closing date: 20th May
Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Closing date: 31st May 2015
ESPA Regional Opportunities Fund: Small Grants Scheme
Closing date: 1st June 2015
Wellcome Trust
Portfolio awards
No deadline
TALKS AND EVENTS
Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research - some reflections
Dr Bhaskar Vira
Monday 23 March 2015, 18:00-19:00
A conceptual model of ocean heat uptake under climate change
Prof. David Marshall, University of Oxford
Wednesday 25th March, 2pm
Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth
Professor Vivian Irish, Yale University
Wednesday 25th March, 4pm
16th Student Conference on Conservation Science
Tuesday 24 March
Blyth abandoned: sound science or flawed policy?
Richard Steward, Blyth Estuary Group
Thursday 26th March, 7.15pm
Public Lecture at King's College- ‘Climate Politics: Does the IPCC Have a Future?’
26th March 2015
Are there too many people? A head-to-head debate on overpopulation
Chaired by Professor Dame Athene Donald
Tuesday 31 March, 7pm
Nature conservation of the Dutch Wadden Sea: the role of science-policy interactions
Judith Floor, Dept of Geography
Tuesday 31st March, 1-2pm
44 million of our birds are missing
Cambridge Natural History Society
9th April, 7.30pm
Flagship species for freshwater conservation, ZSL
14th April 2015, 6pm to 7.45pm
The conservation science/policy interface: challenges and opportunities, ZSL
16th April, Booking required
Presidential Address on “Garden ecology”, and AGM
Cambridge Natural History Society
16th April, 7pm
2nd London Annual Planning for Climate Change Conference, UCL
25th June 2015
17th Annual Bioecon Conference “Experimental and Behavioural Economics and the Conservation
of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” Call for Papers by 22nd May 2015
13th 15th September 2015
RESEARCH PAPERS
Biodiversity research: data without theory—theory without data
Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
Developments in Microbial Fuel Cell Modeling
Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
Edited by Professor Nigel South, Professor Rob White, Professor Avi Brisman
Policy paper - Supporting growth of the UK bioeconomy: opportunities from waste
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and
temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies
Ethics of Nature in Indian Environmental History: A Review Article
Carbon farming via assisted natural regeneration as a cost-effective mechanism for restoring
biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings
Sustainable food production: constraints, challenges and choices by 2050
Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival
NEWS
Wellcome defends green record in response to fossil-fuel
Disease poses risk to chimpanzee conservation, study finds
University of Sussex Multicriteria Mapping Tool (MCM)
Politicians and charities want watchdog for natural capital
Collections and collaborations are key to securing Kew’s future
Why business should invest in women in agriculture
Common weed revealed to diminish water pollution
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