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Tonight's show explores various aspects of our changing climate. Join our researchers for a whistlestop tour of our planet, starting with the provocative question - is our planet really warming? From there, we will discuss the impact of greenhouse gases, how friendly fungi form underground networks for soil benefit, before considering how animal limbs are built to enable successful navigation of the world.
Is the earth really warming or cooling? How much more or less?
Segun Bamidele
(PhD Student in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of York)
Historical temperature datasets are used by scientists to quantify how much the earth has warmed. Yet, if these datasets contain bias, how can we trust the findings? Have we been overestimating or underestimating global warming? This talk aims to shed light on what is being done to correct this bias and also explain how ocean temperature can be predicted from surface air temperature.
Segun Bamidele
Going underground: friendly fungi and their underground networks
Dr Angela Hodge
(Reader in the Department of Biology, University of York)
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are ancient fungi that form beneficial associations with the majority of plants including many important horticulture and arable crops. The fungus benefits the plant in a range of ways, which we will discuss including the current interest in adding these fungi to soil as ‘biofertilizer’ inoculum.
Angela Hodge
Nitrous oxide - the greenhouse gas no one should be laughing about
Dr Ben Keane
(NERC Independent Research Fellow, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York)
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas 265 times more powerful than CO2 – the vast majority emitted from agricultural soils. What if we could manage soils to consume N2O instead? We will discuss how soil biology can reduce N2O and other greenhouse gas emissions to combat anthropogenic climate change.
Ben Keane
Get a leg up: how animal limbs are built for success
Grace Gardiner
(MSc Student in Zooarchaeology, University of York)
Animals’ legs are made for their environments, whether they’re swimmers, climbers or anything in-between. In this talk, I’ll work from the bones outwards to show how different animals’ unique limb morphologies give them a leg up on life.
Grace Gardiner
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