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Category: Climate Change

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Climate Change Student Stories

Video: PhD student a keynote speaker at international climate change and heritage conference

Adam Markham, a UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student is one of the keynote speakers at next week’s International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) conference in Chile.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, May 13, 2025 (9:31pm)Wednesday, May 14, 2025 (10:11am)
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Stormy Barley Field
Climate Change Research

Climate, crops and crisis – Professor Ingrid Mainland outlines ongoing research in Norway

Professor Ingrid Mainland talks to BBC Radio Orkney’s Cameron Stout on the Climate, Crops and Crisis research project under way in Norway.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 13, 2024 (9:26am)Friday, September 13, 2024 (9:26am)
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(📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Bronze Age Climate Change Iron Age Neolithic Research

Institute researchers heading to Norway for project investigating prehistoric climate change

Professor Ingrid Mainland and Associate Professor Scott Timpany have been awarded funding to participate in the international ‘Climate, Crops and Crisis’ research project.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, September 2, 2024 (11:06am)Monday, September 2, 2024 (11:06am)
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Climate Change Research

Institute director shares knowledge at sustainable development conference

Professor Jane Downes was among the experts participating in the NORA – UNESCO Network Conference in Edinburgh on Friday.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, May 2, 2024 (8:22am)Thursday, May 2, 2024 (2:23pm)
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Climate Change Postgraduate

Funded PhD studentship looking historic landscapes and climate change adaptation

Newcastle University is inviting applications for a four-year PhD studentship looking at historic landscape character and climate change adaptation

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, April 29, 2024 (12:30pm)Monday, April 29, 2024 (12:34pm)
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Climate Change Conference

Institute’s island issues experts welcome group from USA and Ireland

The UHI Archaeology Institute and Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust (REWDT) hosted a field trip to Rousay earlier this month.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, April 19, 2024 (8:47am)Friday, April 19, 2024 (8:47am)
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Climate Change Research

South Pacific cultural heritage survey – new reports now available

Earlier this year, Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards were back in the Cook Islands and Niue as part of an ongoing project to document endangered cultural heritage sites.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, September 6, 2023 (8:19am)Friday, May 17, 2024 (9:30am)
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View over Rarotonga, Cook Islands. (Lawrence Shaw)
Climate Change Research

New project to document endangered heritage sites in Pacific islands

The UHI Archaeology Institute is one of the partners in a new research project to assess methods to document endangered cultural heritage sites in the Cook Islands and Niue.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, February 27, 2023 (8:00am)Sunday, February 26, 2023 (9:38am)
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The moai statues of Easter Island. Under threat from climate change. Photograph: Jane Downes.
Climate Change Orkney Rapa Nui Seminar Video

Video: Island Stories – archaeology and climate change

The recording of Professor Jane Downes’s welcome seminar for students, which looks the effect of climate change on archaeological heritage.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (9:00am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:55am)
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Climate Change

Archaeology and Climate Change – free talk by institute director in Stromness

Professor Jane Downes, the director of the UHI Archaeology Institute, will deliver a free talk in the Stromness Golf Club, Orkney, next Friday evening.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, July 21, 2022 (9:19pm)Thursday, July 21, 2022 (9:19pm)
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Skara Brae 3D model
Climate Change Neolithic

Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement

A new 3D model of Skara Brae is offering online visitors an immersive digital experience of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in Orkney.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, December 17, 2021 (7:00am)Friday, December 13, 2024 (3:30pm)
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Picture: Jane Downes
Climate Change

Archaeology Institute director delivers 2021 Dalrymple Lectures

Professor Jane Downes will be in Glasgow next month to deliver the 2021 prestigious Dalrymple Lectures.

The lectures are taking place during COP26 and explore the role of archaeology and heritage in addressing the central concerns of this global meeting.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, November 8, 2021 (6:22am)Thursday, November 11, 2021 (9:32pm)
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Links of Noltland
Climate Change

Talks consider how Westray can adapt to the impact of climate change

On Thursday evening, Professor Jane Downes will deliver a talk in Westray on her research into climate change causes and effects and how these impact our communities.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, September 28, 2021 (1:53pm)Tuesday, September 28, 2021 (1:53pm)
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Sukur World Heritage Site
Climate Change CVI-Africa

Online seminar to explore impact of climate change on culture and heritage

Climate change and its effect on culture and heritage is the subject of a CVI Africa online seminar next week.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 3, 2021 (12:08pm)Friday, February 20, 2026 (11:58am)
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Climate Change Rousay Swandro

‘Gateway to the Atlantic’ project outlined at international science coalition’s inaugural assembly

A presentation on the Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project was delivered by Dr Ingrid Mainland, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, on Monday as part of the inaugural assembly of the BRIDGES UNESCO Sustainability Science Coalition.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, May 25, 2021 (1:56pm)
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Climate Change CVI-Africa

Official launch for CVI Africa project

To mark Africa Day, a new international project focusing on the impact of climate change on African heritage sites officially launches today, May 25.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, May 25, 2021 (11:05am)Friday, February 20, 2026 (11:57am)
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Climate Change News

Coastal erosion at Skara Brae in the spotlight

Julie Gibson, Orkney’s county archaeologist and UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer, features on tonight’s BBC1 Scotland programme Disclosure: how you can stop climate change at 7.30pm.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, March 29, 2021 (9:42am)Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (3:07pm)
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Climate Change Research Seminar

‘Learning from Northern people’ seminar on Friday

What the people of the Arctic can teach us to help respond to climate change is the subject of a University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research seminar this Friday, November 27.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, November 25, 2020 (2:30pm)Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (7:31pm)
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