11/03/2014
Adam Walton meets some of the scientists who will be showcasing their research in the 2014 Bangor Science Festival.
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Bangor Science Festival 2014
This week鈥檚 programme features the paper-munching microbes that are turning landfill into biofuels; an undersea sand dune the size of a twelve-storey building; Anglesey鈥檚 Antarctic origins; and how we can harness peat bogs to combat flooding and climate change. What draws these different areas of scientific research together is the 2014 Bangor Science Festival.
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Adam meets some of the scientists whose work is being showcased at the Festival. Dr. James McDonald from Bangor University鈥檚 School of Biology is giving a talk entitled 鈥楳arvellous Microbes鈥�. He tells Adam about his work on bacterial enzymes and how we can harness them. We also meet two geologists: Dr. Katrien van Landeghem who鈥檚 investigating giant undersea sand dunes and the ice sheets which swept across the British Isles in the last ice age; and Angela Honey from GeoM么n, the Anglesey Geopark, who鈥檚 leading walks on the Anglesey coast as part of the Festival.
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And we hear from wetlands expert Dr. Christian Dunn. He鈥檚 recreated a peat bog on the roof of Bangor University鈥檚 science building and he tells Science Caf茅 producer Jeremy Grange about the importance of peatlands in preventing flooding and climate change.
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Bangor Science Festival, which is part of National Science and Engineering Week 2014, runs from 14th 鈥� 23rd March.
Broadcasts
- Tue 11 Mar 2014 18:30麻豆约拍 Radio Wales
- Sun 16 Mar 2014 06:30麻豆约拍 Radio Wales