Event Archive

The Energy Trilemma: how do we balance energy security, affordability, and environmental sustainability?

Join us online for an insightful discussion on one of the most fundamental challenges of our time: the energy trilemma or how we ensure communities have access to the energy they need at a cost they can afford whilst not destroying the planet in the process.

Research Facilities Showcase 2023

A spectacular, interactive, interdisciplinary and not to be missed Research Facilities Showcase Event will be held in the IMS Building at Foresterhill on Wednesday the 6th December 2023, located in the Institute of Medical Sciences Atrium and selected Facility presentations taking place in The Rowett Institute, Rowett Seminar Room.

Reflections on COP27

Representatives from the University of Aberdeen attended the United Nations Conference of the Parties, COP27, that took place in Eqypt from 6-18 November.

Do We Need to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere to Meet our Climate Targets?

The Paris Climate Agreement states the goal of keeping global temperature increases well below 2 degrees C above preindustrial times, with every effort being made to keep them lower than 1.5 degrees C.To do this, we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions immediately and aggressively across all sectors of the...

Amplifying Women's Voices for Climate Change

A panel discussion as part of our International Women's Day and British Science Week programme of events.

An Overview of the Paris Agreement after COP26

AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022: Professor Voigt will give a brief overview of the topics that were discussed at COP26 as well as their outcome.

Transitions in food systems, land use change and it's effects on biodiversity

Join us for this online event and hear from researcher Dr Roslyn Henry about their research on climate, biodiversity and land-use.

UK Rice Research Consortium 2021

Targeted at delegates who are research group leaders and advanced researchers in this topic

AUCEL COP26 Panel Discussion Series

Join us for critical overviews of COP26 negotiations in November 2021.

Cop26: Sustainable Futures

A series of expert-led online panel discussions exploring topics such as renewable energy, transport, climate change and net-zero.

The Energy and Climate Crisis in Africa - Lessons from colonialism, sustainable business models and resilient African communities

As part of our Black History Month and COP26 celebrations this event will explore the way in which Africa has approached the climate crisis and the lessons that can be learned from this approach.

*RESCHEDULED* Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference 2020 plus 1

This virtual conference explores all aspects of public communication of science and technology; and brings together scientists, researchers and practitioners in the field.

Climate change goes underground: impacts of climate change on soil microbes and their functioning

Franciska De Vries. Professor of Earth Surface Science, Faculty of Science, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

What's soil got to do with climate change: let's dig deeper

Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe. Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced.

Marine Ecological Forecasting and Climate Services

Mark Payne. Senior Researcher, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark

From Birds to Butterflies: Making Connections with Stable Isotopes

Keith Hobson. Professor and visiting researcher at the University of Western Ontario

Searching for medicines in extreme environments

Marcel Jaspars. Chair in Chemistry, Natural & Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen

EVENT CANCELLED - Archaeological Research in Progress 2020

This event was cancelled

ARP 2020

POSTPONED: CAFE MED - The pros and cons of antibiotics

Bringing the public, researchers and clinicians together

EVENT CANCELLED - Introduction to Offshore Decommissioning

2-day ECITB approved course

POSTPONED: CAFE MED - Genotype Hype: can your genetic code predict disease risk?

This event was cancelled

Bringing the public, researchers and clinicians together

EVENT POSTPONED - CAFE MED - The Rural Cancer Riddle

This event was cancelled

Please note this event has been postponed. Bringing the public, researchers and clinicians together

Scottish Life Sciences: The Summit 2020

Scotland's Life Sciences sector does not just punch above its weight, it is a world leader.

CAFE MED - Making Pregnancy Predictable - from the oral pill to fertility apps

Bringing the public, researchers and clinicians together

Talk: From sea creatures to Polar flora: Scottish and Arctic narratives from the North of the World

This event was fully booked

Lecture organised by the Friends of Aberdeen University Library

The Andrew Carnegie Lecture - From "Obsolete" to "Brain Dead": Crises in the Transatlantic Alliance and the Future of European Defence

Dr. Seth A. Johnston is a fellow of the Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.