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Citizen Science reloaded: What next?

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 26 Jul 2012
By Dr Yoseph Araya
There's an ever-expanding range of projects where everyone's invited to join in with collecting data and doing experiments. Yoseph Araya shares a few of them.
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Discover more about volcanoes

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 10 Jul 2012
By The OpenLearn team
With the BBC reporting live from the world's most active volcano this week, we give you an insight into volcanoes with a series of articles,...
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Volcano research in Central America

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 13 Jun 2011
By Professor Hazel Rymer
As part of the 2011 Earthwatch Lecture series, Hazel Rymer revealed how research into plants might one day predict volcanic activity.
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Transport and sustainability

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Transport and sustainability Copyrighted imageCredit: S.Potter
Intermediate Level Duration 12 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit explores the issues around sustainable transport and how the role of technology and society can interact to lower the overall impact of transport.
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Watching the weather

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Introductory Level Duration 10 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
This unit describes how meteorological observations are made looking upwards from the surface of the Earth, looking downwards from satellites in space and from aircraft...
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Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources

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Intermediate Level Duration 8 hours Updated 19 May 2013
By The Open University
Energy resources are essential for any society, be it one dependent on subsistence farming or an industrialised country. There are many different sources of energy,...
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Science project course: environmental science practical project

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Science project course: environmental science practical project Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Advanced Level Duration 300 hours Updated 26 Apr 2013 Register by 09 Jan 2014
By The Open University
With this project course, you’ll undertake an independent investigation of a topic such as climate effects on phenology; tidal cycle/weather interactions and impact on seashore...
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Practical environmental science

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Practical environmental science Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Intermediate Level Duration 300 hours Updated 14 Apr 2013 Register by 10 Jan 2014
By The Open University
Explore the natural world through practical activities ranging from the use of satellite data for mapping land cover change to exploring the hydrology...
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Ecosystems

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Advanced Level Duration 300 hours Updated 24 Mar 2013 Register by 10 Oct 2013
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Explore the interactions between organisms and their environment that together form an ecosystem – from simple microbial communities to entire rainforests, and even the Earth...
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