Perthshire Society of Natural Science
Environment, Nature and Cultural Heritage.
Last Friday evening, Professor Jennifer Smith from the University of Glasgow presented the findings from the Speak for Yersel project – a series of quizzes investigating how use of Scots words (both overt and covert) and grammatical phrasing are distributed around Scotland, both geographically and broadly by class, and explored its interaction with Gaelic in the north-west Highlands.
A video of the evening is available on our YouTube channel:
For the first talk in our 8th Curious Minds season, Professor Bill Austin from St Andrews spoke about “Blue Carbon”.
Oceans absorb 30% of our CO2 emissions and 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But some marine habitats can sequester 10 times as much Carbon per acre as a terrestrial forest.
Professor Austin Bill spoke about the potential benefits of Blue Carbon and about government initiatives, both in Scotland and beyond, to conserve this vital and useful habitat.
This video is available in 4k on YouTube:
For further investigation, see:
Project Seagrass: https://www.projectseagrass.org/
Blue Carbon at St Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/…/sustainability/blue-carbon/
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