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Darwin Day Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Visit to Charles Darwin’s House, Down House, Kent,
England
Provisional Programme
Travel : This is a day trip.
We will meet at the GARE DU
NORD AT 6h00 to leave Paris at
7h13 am on the Eurostar. We then
travel by coach from Saint
Pancras in London to Darwin’s
House at Downe in Kent. We will
catch the 20h01 Eurostar back to
Paris. We arrive back in Paris at
23h17.
Passports and visas : You will
need a passport or identity card if
you are French.
If you are from a country which
is not in the Schengen Group
(Europe) you need a visa for the
UK. It takes 4 weeks for a visa so
if you do not have a visa already
please do not sign up. A visa for
France will not allow you to enter
the UK.
Cost : The total cost per student
is 16 Euros for the day.
We will arrive at the village of
Downe at about 10h15 – 10h30.
10h30 – 11h30 a short welcoming
talk in the village hall by Angela
Darwin on the Darwin personal
family history, Professor Jim
Moore will give you a short
briefing on the significance of
Darwin’s move to the village of
Downe.
We will then stop for a quick
lunch and at 13h00 meet again in
the village hall for two short
conferences by Jim Moore and
Randal Keynes.
You will then be free to visit
Darwin’s House and garden
which are 10 minutes walk from
the village hall.
There will be a number of Darwin
experts present on the day to
answer your questions. At 17h00
we will meet in the coach park
to depart at 17h15.
Food: You must provide your
own food, lunch must be finished
by 13h00 (you can eat in the
Village Hall, oin a field near the
house) the pub in Downe village.
is very slow and, so please do not
eat there . Don’t forget to bring
your supper picnic too!
Our experts for the day:
Angela Darwin (great granddaughter of Thomas Henry
Huxley) who has given the
majority of the objects in Down
House. She will present the
House, its history and information
on the objects there.
James Richard Moore, will talk
about
Darwin
and
the
controversies of his life and
research. He is a renowned
historian of science at the Open
University and the University of
Cambridge and visiting scholar at
Harvard University, and author of
several biographies of Charles
Darwin. (presence not confirmed)
Randal Hume Keynes: OBE
British conservationist and writer.
He is the great-great-grandson of
Charles Darwin and author of a
book “Annie's Box”, subtitled
Darwin, His Daughter, and
Human Evolution, an exploration
of his famous ancestry.
He has taken a major role in the
campaign to have Down House,
Darwin's
former
home,
designated a UN World Heritage
Site. (presence not confirmed)
Alister Hayes : Alister Hayes
works for an NGO called Wild
London.
He
will present
Darwin’s work in and around his
house in Downe.
THERE ARE 49 places for the
trip. Sign up quickly to guarantee
your place.
You must sign up online at
http://master.ufr918.upmc.fr/
open from 4th September to the
15th September 2015.
Pay by cheque, 16 euros, to
“l’Agent
Comptable
de
l’UPMC” with your name
clearly written on the back of
the cheque (this is very
important) and give the cheque
to Sylvie Buisson secretary of
Masters courses, Batiment S,
Ground Floor by the 15th
September AT THE LATEST.
To be on the waiting list please
send an e mail to Sylvie Buisson
[email protected],
she
will manage the waiting list in
case of cancellations.
International Environmental Science Research Seminars
2015
Cycle de Conférences en anglais (obligatoire)
Friday 4th September 2015, 12h00-13h15 Amphi B1
Learning the Skills of Effective Science Communication
Dr David T Jones, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Being an effective public speaker is an essential skill. But a lot can go wrong when you give a presentation.
Nerves can sabotage your performance. Many speakers fail to deliver a clear message, while others simply
bore their audience to death. And we have all seen speakers end badly by giving faltering or unconvincing
answers to audience questions. Having to communicate scientific content makes the whole process even
more complicated. But the skills to effective science communication can be learnt. This presentation
highlights what you need to know.
The speaker : Dr Jones has a BSc Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD in
Zoology at University of Reading. He is a researcher in the Soil Biodiversity Group at the Natural History
Museum, and an external lecturer in CEP at Imperial College. His publications focus on soil macroinvertebrates and his research interests include:
Termite ecology, biogeography and taxonomy
The ecology of British earthworms
Invertebrate sampling methodologies
The effect of metals on woodlice life history strategies
As well as doing fieldwork in the UK, he has also worked in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, Africa,
Madagascar, Central and South America, Australia and New Guinea.
Monday 12th October 2015, 18h00-20h00
A Social Licence to Frack? The Contours of the Shale Gas Debate in the UK
Professor Michael Bradshaw , Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, UK
Abstract: The British Geological Survey has identified that there are substantial shale gas deposits in parts of
the UK. However, the geological existence of a resource does not make it a commercially viable reserve that
can be exploited. This lecture explores the current status of shale gas development in the UK. It then
examines the arguments for and against shale gas development in what has become a highly polarized
debate, both in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. The lecture concludes that current popular opposition in the
UK demonstrates a failure on the part of the Government and the nascent shale gas industry to make their
case; but it also demonstrates a lack of public understanding of the nature of the UK’s energy system and the
many challenges that it faces.
Monday 26th October 2015, 18h00-20h00
Processes in Pleistocene Climate: tying together ocean, land and atmosphere for past
climate reconstruction
Dr Christopher Day, Oxford University Department of Earth Sciences, UK
Abstract: Earth's climate is a complex system of interacting oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial processes.
Multiple climate record types (e.g. marine cores, ice cores, stalagmites) are therefore required to understand
the major controls on the global climate system, itself a precursor to making predictions about future
climate. I will discuss the challenges (e.g. accurate dating of climate events) and the benefits (e.g. additional
checks on the interpretation of climate records) of integrating climate archives of different types, with
discussion based around climate reconstruction work in southern Chile, currently underway at Oxford Earth
Sciences.
Biography: Working within the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, I am an isotope
geochemist focusing on palaeoclimate reconstruction for the purpose of improving our understanding of the
climate system. I lead/take-part in expeditions to seek out caves in important (and sometimes remote) areas
for climate. When not in the field, I have my own cave back in the laboratory, a carefully controlled
experimental setup that allows me to mimic the cave environment and to test the impact of each variable
independently.
Monday 9th November 2015, 18h00-20h00
Bees, pesticides and politics
Professor Dave Goulson, University of Sussex, UK
Abstract: Bees are subject to numerous pressures in the modern world. The abundance and diversity of
flowers has declined, they are chronically exposed to cocktails of agrochemicals, and they are
simultaneously exposed to novel parasites accidentally spread by man. In recent years considerable attention
has focussed on one group of chemicals, the neonicotinoids, and the impacts they may be having on bees.
These chemicals are currently subject to a partial and temporary ban, but this remains controversial and is
strongly opposed by the agrochemical industry and some governments. I will discuss the evidence that these
chemicals may be harming bees, and more broadly what impacts they may be having on wildlife. I will
question whether our modern system of farming is necessary, sustainable or desirable, and suggest
alternative ways forward.
Dave Goulson received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Oxford University, followed by a doctorate
on butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University. Subsequently, he lectured in biology for 11 years at the
University of Southampton, and it was here that he began to study bumblebees in earnest.. He is the author
of 230 scientific articles on bumblebees and has also published Bumblebees; Their Behaviour, Ecology and
Conservation,( 2010) A Sting in the Tale, a popular science book about bumble bees, (2013) now translated
into German, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Chinese and Danish. A Buzz in the Meadow (2014).
Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, a charity which has grown to 8,000 members.
He was the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s Social Innovator of the Year in
2010, was given the Zoological Society of London’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology in 2013, was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013, and given the British Ecological Society Public
Engagement Award in 2014. In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50
most influential people in conservation.
Monday 23rd November 2015, 18h00-20h00
Rewilding – issues associated with restoring faunal communities
Professor Hamish McCallum, The Griffith School of Environment, Queensland, Australia
Abstract : It is becoming increasingly clear that simply setting aside land as conservation reserves is
insufficient to maintain biodiversity. Human influences on natural environments are pervasive and active
management and restoration is necessary to prevent further extinctions. One idea that is increasingly
discussed is the notion of “rewilding”, reintroducing species into areas from which they disappeared many
years ago to restore functional ecosystems.
Top predators are often considered as candidates for rewilding. Evidence from a variety of ecosystems
shows that top (apex) predators can play a key role in maintaining biodiversity. Because apex predators are
always relatively rare and because they often are perceived to be direct threats to people and their livestock,
they are often amongst the first species to disappear from human-influenced environments. Apex predators
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also arouse strong emotional reactions – both positive and negative – from people, so any proposal to
reintroduce them is inevitably controversial. Even more controversial are proposals to introduce species that
may never have existed in a particular region, because they perform similar ecological functions to now
extinct relatives that did occupy those regions. For example, there are proposals from serious ecologists in
Australia to introduce Komodo dragons to replace giant lizards that went extinct tens of thousands of years
ago.
I will discuss some of the scientific, philosophical, sociological and political issues raised by rewilding. I
will particularly use dingoes and Tasmanian devils as case studies from Australia, but also consider North
American and European examples.
Hamish McCallum is a Professor in The Griffith School of Environment in Queensland, Australia, the
oldest and largest School of Environment in Australia. He was Head of the School from 2009-2014 and is
now on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a quantitative ecologist
with particular interests in conservation biology and disease ecology and completed a Ph.D. at Imperial
College, London in 1982. Since then, he has been a member of academic staff at the University of
Queensland, the University of Tasmania and at Griffith University. Professor McCallum has published more
than 130 scientific papers and one book
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