Our Centre for Environmental Science is today celebrating its 50th birthday with two days of VIP and alumni visits, presentations and discussions to reflect on what they have achieved together and to look forward to the next 50 years.
Pictured: One of the photos sent to Environmental Science social media to help celebrate 50 years of Environmental Science at Southampton. See gallery below.
During the last 50 years, the ES team has produced over 300 peer-reviewed research publications- many including students; been active in over 40 countries; and graduated over 2000 students and 70 PhD researchers.
The event is being hosted by the Environmental Science team (Malcolm Hudson, Simon Kemp, Pete Shaw, Kate Parks, Rebecca Collins, Ian Williams, Jake Snaddon and Vicky Domingues Almela) and their special guests are:
- Megan McCubbin, BBC Wildlife presenter and President of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust;
- UoS alumni Josh Davies, Sustainability and Responsible Banking Senior Manager at Santander UK and
- Professor Jane Stout, Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action and Professor in Botany, Trinity College Dublin.
Places are already allocated – with over 170 guests expected – but look out for a special review of the event, with photographs, interviews and videos, in the next edition of Staff Matters early in May.
To help celebrate the event, alumni and supporters were invited to send in their best tree hugging photos to Facebook and Twitter.
A series of blogs by ES lecturers appeared on SUSSED in the run up to the event and you can read these using the links below:
Simon Kemp: Sustainability and Higher Education
Ian Williams: Five decades as an environmental scientist
Malcolm Hudson: plastic pollution
More about sustainability at the University.
