Fieldnotes from…. Orkney and Iceland

For a week in each of February and March Dr Claire Cousins visited Mars analogue sites in Orkney and Iceland with Glasgow-based contemporary artist Ilana Halperin and Art Historian Dr Catriona McAra (Univ. Aberdeen) for a Knowledge Exchange project lying at the art-science interface called ‘From Extraterrestrial to Cultural Landscapes’. For this project the team … Read more

Salt delivery from the Indian Ocean helped end the ice ages

Scientists from St Andrews and Cardiff Universities, along with international colleagues, have discovered the source of warm super salty water that rushed up the Atlantic 15,000 years ago, ushering in the end of the last ice age. The study, published in Nature (Wednesday 10 May 2023), comes as ocean temperatures are reaching record highs and waters … Read more