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An online learning platform which aims to help researchers working in environmental sciences to develop new skills, share knowledge and build experience launched on Tuesday the 11th of October 2022. The Geosciences Advanced E-Learning Academy, or GAEA, provides postgraduate education providers and the wider research community with a virtual educational space supported by the UK’s NERC Facilities for geoscience.
BOSCORF runs two short training courses each year for PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). We also provide one-to-one training on specific instruments, in case your project requires it.
PhD candidate Hannah Muir is visiting BOSCORF this year on several occasions to split sediment cores taken from coastal and marine habitats around the Isle of Man. Her PhD research will investigate the ability of these sediments to store carbon, known as ‘blue carbon’.
Daniel James, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, visited BOSCORF this week with a collection of speleothem samples. Together with Rebecca Garnett, BOSCORF’s X-ray imaging scanner operator, he collected high-resolution radiograph and laminograph images on 15 speleothem slab samples.
This week the filming was on location for a new series of online courses provided collaboratively by BOSCORF and National Environmental Isotope Facility. At a scenic coastal location in southwest Scotland the filming of the BOSCORF course commenced.For an upcoming series of online courses on the Geo-Biosciences Advanced E-Learning Academy (in short GAEA platform) several video clips were filmed. The course on argon-argon dating, for example, will launch spring 2022, with further courses being made available throughout the year.