This year Earth Day is focused on ‘Our Power, Our Planet’, inviting everyone around the globe to unite behind renewable energy, and to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030.
With around 80% of global trade carried by sea and 30–50% of CO2 absorbed by the ocean, the urgency to conduct maritime activity in a clean and sustainable manner is clear. We will be joined by
Sarah Fear
and
Dr Stavros Karamperidis
who will discuss the current research underway in Clean Maritime, including the VBEV project which Sarah recently presented at the Maritime Battery conference in Sweden.
In conjunction with the Staff Sustainability Network’s spring campaign focused around Water, we will also be joined by
Dr Rupert Goddard
, currently working on Resilient Catchment Communities and
Dr Eva Perrin
, working on BactiQuick.
Join us this Earth Day for a lunchtime of talks focused on research underway in waterways, rivers and harbours near you.
Refreshments will be provided, please feel free to bring your lunch along.
Agenda
11:45: Arrival and hot drinks
12:00: Welcome from
Dr Hanne Knight
and
Amy Bennett
12:05:
Sarah Fear
and
Dr Stavros Karamperidis
– This talk will explore the current Clean Maritime projects underway at the University. Current projects span a wide portfolio of research, from maritime cyber security, marine autonomy and advanced engineering to biological and environmental sciences, the arts and big data.
12:15:
Dr Rupert Goddard
– Resilient Catchment Communities, a collaborative project and approach in community monitoring of river resilience, and capacity building and capability in the design, implementation and monitoring of nature-based solutions to deliver integrated catchment management.
12:25:
Dr Eva Perrin
– BactiQuick, a validation study of an innovative AI-based early warning system for river contamination utilising continuous monitoring data including a novel rapid bacterial screening device.
12:35: Q&A
This event is open to all and registration is essential.