News

We are celebrating another new professor in EEES, following the promotion of Dr Pallavi Anand to Professor of Ocean Biogeochemistry.

Pallavi is internationally recognized for her multidisciplinary research in Ocean Biogeochemistry, Palaeoclimate, and Diversity and Inclusion. Here we offer a brief overview of Pallavi's contributions.

We are celebrating a new Professor in EEES. Dr Susanne Schwenzer has recently been promoted to Professor of Planetary Mineralogy.

Susanne has made contributions in research, teaching and public engagement over her impressive career. Here we offer a brief overview of Susanne's contributions.

10% of the population are dyslexic. My name is Dr Anne Jay, and I am dyslexic. Dyslexia brings challenges that have a considerable impact on OU student success. A key struggle for people with dyslexia is written communication.

On 22 November Professors Clare Warren, Mark Brandon and Richard Holliman, and Dr Barbara Kunz travelled to Manchester for an OU Graduation Ceremony. We were joined by Professor Dave Rothery from Physical Sciences.

An EEES researcher is leading a new Natural Environmental Research Council-funded project to improve our ability to predict climate change using cutting-edge analysis of fossilised algae molecules. 

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book Deciphering Earth's History: the Practice of Stratigraphy. The book is a practical guide to using the rock record to decipher the timing, rate and duration of events in Earth history.

We have a new Head of School, and a new Professor in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Open University. And they’re the same person.

Many congratulations Professor Carlton Wood (and good luck)!

We are looking for a Research Associate to work within the Floodplain Meadows Partnership team in EEES. The post is fixed-term and part-time.

The postholder will join an established team of staff responsible for delivering the recently awarded ‘Flourishing Floodplains’ project in the Severn and Avon Vales in Gloucestershire.

New research published in the high-profile journal Science has explored the reproductive complexity of plants.

The researchers found that the reproductive complexity of plants increased in two separate pulses during the course of plant evolution.

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