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Name
Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Address
Main Building Park Place
Zipcode
CF10 3YE
City
Cardiff
Country
United Kingdom
Phone
+44 (0)29 208 74830
Fax
+44 (0)29 208 74326
Email
inapplicable

organisation profile

The Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Sciences is a large international research School. It accommodates over 100 personnel, including over 30 leading international research scientists and a postgraduate research school of some 35 students. These researchers are addressing some of the most significant research themes in world science at the moment, including global change, biosphere-hydrosphere-geosphere interactions, environmental science, natural resource exploration, and the evolution of the Earth and its biosphere. The School achieved a grade 5 rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. It published some 800 papers in international journals and raised over £11M of research income over the period of the upcoming assessment. Research in the school is now organized into five Research Groups. Recent expansion of the School in the geomicrobiological, geoenvironmental and climate change fields reflects a focus on areas of rapidly emerging science and societal relevance. A further research group will soon be established in the field of Earth Surface Processes, allowing the school to further integrate its study of the Earth System, with collaborative potential across virtually the whole range of our activities, from mantle processes to climate change. This research is underpinned by state-of-the-art Research Facilities for trace element and stable isotope geochemistry, geomicrobiology, particulate analysis, electron microscopy, 3D seismic interpretation and visualization, and parallel computing. In addition to its many on-land activities, the School has a long-standing international reputation in marine science which led to its twice running international offices of Ocean Drilling Programs: the JOIDES Office in the 1990s and the ESSAC Office in 2005-2007. The school plans a lead role in setting up a Cardiff University Climate Change Centre with a significant focus on the marine climate record. Members of the School regularly lead, and participate in, international research cruises and the School has its own coastal research vessel, the Guiding Light.

results in other services

  • Cruise summary report (CSR)
  • Marine environmental research project (EDMERP)
  • Marine environmental databases (EDMED)
  • European Cruise programmes (EuroFleets)
  • Ocean going Cruise programmes (POGO)

edmo metadata

EDMO record id
1530
Collating centre
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
Latest update
12 March 2013 5:18:13 PM