EGS Seminar Tuesday 01 March 2011

Tuesday 01^st March, E0.05 from 1.00-2.00 pm.  

Lunch, and an opportunity to chat with the speaker, will be in room E402, John Dalton East Building from 12:30. All are invited!

Chris Shearlock, The Co-operative

'Sustainable Development at The Co-operative'

Chris Shearlock works as Sustainable Development Manager at The Co-operative Group - the UK's largest consumer co-operative which works across retail and financial services. Chris’s talk will include the Co-operative’s work on addressing climate change, waste, biodiversity and international development issues. He has a degree in Environmental Management and a masters degree in Strategic Marketing, both from MMU.

Conference: Woodland Management in the UK

MMU Countryside Management & Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences joint meeting presents a free day of woodland management events and talks from invited speakers.

Venue: MMU

Date: Wednesday 13th April

Sandra Burslem Buulding (rooms 2.05 and 2.10)

Starts at 10am and finishes at 3:45pm

For more information please contact:

Francis Brearley (f.q.brearley@mmu.ac.uk) or

Liz Price (e.price@mmu.ac.uk)

The Beginning of the End....for EMSD!

Hi all,


Next week is the start of the last taught unit (Sustainability & Global Systems) for many of you before you embark on your Projects. It also happens to be my unit!


Please note that there is a room change - we will be in E143 - the same room you normally have a lecture with Mike Bennett at 12pm.


It was suggested to me this week that some of you may be thinking of skipping next week's first lecture session...because you have an assignment to submit. I would therefore like to remind you all that this is not a 'pic-n-mix' degree and nothing is optional - you MUST attend everything...especially when I have to cover so much material and provide handouts etc..as well as talk you through my assignment. Undergraduates manage the enormous feat of attending lectures and handing in assignments - so you should too.


If you can't make 3 hours (which is all you are being asked to do next week) because your time management is so poor then I wouldn't recommend you for a Phd or a job when I get letters asking for a reference!


Please remember that if you are registered as a full-time student then you must behave as such and not cram all your assignment work into the last few days before the deadline.


I look forward to seeing EVERYONE at my lecture next week.


Peace and love
Mark

Careers fair

On Wednesday 2^nd March, the Science and Engineering Faculty will also be hosting a mini Careers fair in The Street in John Dalton Building. If you are looking for a graduate job, for some work experience or just to talk to real employers and build relationships with people actually involved in your chosen industry, then this is a great chance to network and find out what opportunities are out there. Employers who are having stands at the fair include:

Adinsight • Altimate UK • Amoria Bond • Bentley • Endsleigh • Enterprise Rent-a-Car • IBM • IMechE • MMU Institute of Education • Innospace • Matchtech • MMU Volunteering • MX Data • Oldham Athletic FC • Protomed • Qiagen • Smart Document Solutions • Land Rover

So if you want to:

· get good advice on your career choices and further study opportunities

· improve your career prospects

· find out what employers are looking for

· get some work experience

· learn how to sell your skills

· network with employers

· develop your confidence and communication skills

Then come along to the Science and Engineering Employability Fair and take part in two days of workshops, talks and employer presentations designed to equip you with the skills needed to get your dream job.

Designed for students doing Engineering, Computing, Science, Environmental Management and Health Care Science.

For more details please visit the website. A full list of visiting employers and a full timetable of events will is available at http://www.mmu.ac.uk/employabilityfairs

Student Presentation - Getting into Film and TV

Next Tuesday, 22nd February 2011,12 noon, Lecture Theatre 6,
Geoffrey Manton Building.

Alex Connock co-founded TV and Education content production
company Ten Alps with Bob Geldof.  Ten Alps make documentaries
and films for BBC, Channel 4, ITV and many other international
broadcasters, plus online channels such as Newton.tv and
education content through production company DBDA. 

At this presentation, Alex (who is also a governor of MMU) will
talk about jobs in the media, career paths you can follow, how
to build up experience and get into 'show business.'

It is a great opportunity for students interested in any aspect
of Film, TV and communications production, especially in the
North West, to come along to hear from and question an expert.

EGS Seminar Tuesday 15 February 2011

Tuesday 15^th February, E0.05 from 1.00-2.00 pm.  

 

Lunch, and an opportunity to chat with the speaker, will be in room E402, John Dalton East Building from 12:30. All are invited!

 

Prof Dave Nash, Brighton University

Quaternary Environmental Change in the Atacama

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is the driest and possibly oldest of the major southern hemisphere subtropical deserts. Extreme hyperaridity may have begun as early as the Miocene (25-22 million years ago).  Despite this, there is evidence for wetter conditions on a number of occasions during the Late Quaternary. Marine records indicate that the Last Interglacial and Last Glacial Maximum were relatively wet compared to a dry Holocene. Terrestrial evidence for past environmental conditions is limited, with the majority of high resolution records coming from ecological investigations in the Andean precordillera and dating back no further than 50,000 years before present. This seminar, based on work funded by National Geographic, aims to redress this imbalance and presents a palaeoclimatic data set spanning the last 180,000 years as recorded in near-coastal aeolianites (wind-blown sands that have been partially cemented by calcium carbonate under subaerial conditions) from southwest of Copiapó. The seminar reports on the sedimentology and environmental history of the aeolianite deposits and examines the implications of their development for our understanding of Atacama and wider South American palaeoenvironments during the Late Quaternary.

****Postgraduate Staff-Student Liaison Meeting****

*** EMSD Staff - Student Liaison Meeting***

16th FEB 3pm

Hello all,

A week on Wednesday (16th Feb) is the Staff-Student Liaison meeting for EMSD at 3pm.

I am asking for views over the blog/email or if you catch me in lectures that is fine too.

Do you have any issues you would like to raise with staff - Negative or Positive?

Any comments you would like to be addressed?

• Modules okay?
• Right content included?
• Deadlines and assignments feasible?
• Any library issues? resources/ books available?
• Teaching queries?
• Placement issues?

Anything else that you would like me to take forward, I can anonymously.

If you could please email me your views/issues that I can take forward and hopefully they will be resolved and/or addressed ASAP

My email is

siobhangibbons@msn.com
or 07129283@stu.mmu.ac.uk

All feedback will be anonymous and would appreciate the email before a week on Tues (15th) at the latest.

Cheers guys

Siobhan :)

Poor attendance!

Hi everyone,

May I remind you all that attendance at lectures is an important part of engaging with your degree programme. Only five people turned up today! Those who failed to attend missed out on additional field and practical elements. It was mooted that the submission deadline for an assignment may have been a factor. This isn't a credible excuse at postgraduate level. Better to try and complete assignments a few days before the deadline- a more professional approach!

If people habitually refuse to show enthusiastic engagement then apart from the negative impact on marks, it may be difficult for us to support you in your desired project placement.

Here's hoping I never have to bring the subject up again.

Best wishes
Mark