Events 
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Boat tour to the Floating Ballast Seed Garden
18 May 2013, 5.30 pm
Arnolfini Box Office, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA -
International Fascination of Plants Day
19 May 2013, 10 am
University of Bristol Botanic Garden, The Holmes, Stoke Park Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, BS9 1JG -
Volcano risk lunch - understanding volcano-seismic crises at volcanoes
21 May 2013, 12 pm
G38, Earth Sciences, Wills -
Convocation Lecture 2013: Biodiversity in Europe
22 May 2013, 6.30 pm
The School of Chemistry, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS -
Spatio-temporal modelling workshop
29 May 2013, 9 am
Verdon Smith Room, Institute for Advanced Studies -
Global Change seminar: Did iron cause a productivity spike in the Northwest Pacific 14,000 years ago?
29 May 2013, 1 pm
Seminar Room 1, Geography -
Sir John Beddington inaugural lecture: The challenges of the 21st Century
30 May 2013, 5.30 pm
Lecture Theatre 1, School of Chemistry, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS -
Global change seminar: Dr Manoj Joshi University of East Anglia
5 June 2013, 4 pm
SR1, Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS
News
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University research project shortlisted for Mayor's Bristol Genius Award
[17 May 13]
An ambitious scientific project which aims to transform Bristol’s urban environment for pollinating insects, while making Bristol more attractive for residents and visitors, has been shortlisted for this year's Bristol Genius Award. -
New study assesses glacier contributions to sea level rise
[16 May 13]
Melting glaciers account for one third of observed sea level rise, according to a new study published today in Science. -
Tamsin Edwards blogs on ice2sea project about sea level rise
[16 May 13]
Cabot Institute members Tamsin Edwards, Willy Aspinall and Jonathan Bamber are amongst some of the world's leading researchers from the ice2sea programme led by the British Antarctic Survey to calculate the likely impact of melting ice on global sea levels. -
Historic atlases paint picture of a changing world
[16 May 13]
Hundreds of beautiful images from a collection of very rare and extremely valuable atlases dating from 1574 to the 1970s have been made available online for the first time, thanks to a project at the University of Bristol.