CFFRC: Let’s remind ourselves what it’s all about
December 19, 2012
The Service Level Agreement between UNMC and CFFRC has recently been signed and the first set of postgraduate students being funded by CFFRC will be starting very soon. It is probably a good time to just take a step back and reflect on what CFFRC is all about. This University of Nottingham youtube video, although …
Droning On: The MEME Project and ETH Zurich
December 18, 2012
You might be aware that drones are used in some of the research carried out at UNMC. The drones, which took the pictures shown in the links below, were being flown as part of research conducted by the ETH Zurich, Ecosystem Management Group, who are studying the reproductive ecology of dipterocarp trees and forest Carbon …
Dominic Foo: Book Launch on Process Integration
December 15, 2012
A book launching event was held during the 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers, in conjunction with the 4th International Conference On Chemical And Bioprocess Engineering (SOMChE-ICCBPE-2012) recently at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia (21-23 November 2012). The new book entitled “Process Integration for Resource Conservation”, was authored by Professor Ir Dr Dominic Foo, the Founding …
Seeing the world through the eyes of an orangutan
December 14, 2012
I was just digging around youtube (as you do), searching for the University of Nottingham and I came across this video from Neil Mennie. It was posted on the 27th Nov 2012. It’s well worth a watch if you want to know what the Cognitive and Sensory Research Group at UNMC are up to. Or, …
The detectives of corrosion
December 10, 2012
“Corrosion costs the oil and gas industry billions of dollars every year, it can also have far reaching environmental consequences. But so far no one has managed to stop corrosion happening. ” This is the start of a recent press release from the University of Nottingham, which describes the work of Andrew Spowage and his …
View of UNMC Campus from a Drone
December 9, 2012
We have recently posted several blogs about drones, particularly the work of the MEME project. The drones being used at UNMC are predominantly being used to track elephants in Borneo but the use of this technology is almost limitless (might be worth thinking about how you could use drones in your own research). As an …
A new era of food coatings
December 7, 2012
An article has just appeared on the National Geographic web site. It focuses on the work of Asgar Ali. The article begins: “Every day we face a maximum payload of packed shelves deburring, sticky texture of fruits, home and fret that the sticky coating used to protect crops, almost impossible to wash off.” The full …
Military Technology Offers Hope for Malaysian Wildlife: Drones and Elephants
This is the closing of a piece that has recently appeared on Voice of America (you can view the full article here). “Professor Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz explained how researchers are tracking elephants to help keep villagers safe. ‘What we see is an animation of data collected through the GPS satellite collar on the elephants to …
We want your research news
December 6, 2012
This blog has many aims, which includes disseminating the world class research that is being undertaken at UNMC. So far, we have only had a limited number of reports in this area (for example see here), but this is because we have not made calls for your research successes. We have disseminated other research being …
Learning to live with elephants in Malaysia
November 2, 2012
If you are interested in the MEME project that is being led by Ahmisa Campos-Arceizto you might be interested in the interview that was recently published on Mongabay.com. This is the most popular digital media about tropical biology conservation. It is quite a long interview but interesting and informative. The interview can be viewed here.
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