Climate Emergency
This exciting and thought-provoking challenge explores technological and societal challenges, and environmental impacts and implications associated with the global climate emergency. Find out more about our previous Grand Challenges projects:
Teaching
Aerosols, Clouds and Climate module (NSC3009)
This module is designed to explore the atmospheric physical processes determining the role of aerosols and their interaction with clouds and radiation on the climate to provide insight on the importance in reducing current uncertainties associated with ACI and ARI for adoption of more robust adaptation and mitigation strategies. The goal is to provide you with a familiarity of concepts essential to an understanding of the sources and transport of atmospheric particles and their sinks from removal processes associated with clouds, their effects on the radiative properties of clouds, and subsequently, the climate. The module provides an overview of current topics in atmospheric science research related to aerosol–cloud-climate and aerosol–radiation–climate interactions, including the thorny issue of ‘geoengineering’ i.e. could the cooling from aerosols could be enhanced to combat the effects of global warming. This applied science module is aimed at Natural Science and Mathematics students.
Grand Challenges
Challenges Online is a project week, in which you will work in interdisciplinary groups with other like-minded students to design innovative solutions to real-world sustainability problems. Top academics and invited speakers will share their views and help you apply your skills and knowledge to the questions and issues you are most passionate about. You will further develop your transferable skills including teamwork, presentation skills and project planning, which will make you stand out to future employers.