Appetite: Evaluation of Year 5, 2017 – 2018

This Appetite evaluation report covers the period of April 2017 and March 2018. Appetite is a Creative People and Place programme funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England, which aims to get more people in Stoke-on-Trent experiencing and inspired by the arts

Appetite: End of Year 6 report 2018 – 2019

Appetite is one of twenty-one current Arts Council England Creative People and Places programmes. This report focuses on the evaluation of Appetite’s programme of arts events and activity which took place between April 2018 and March 2019, marking the end of the second phase of the programme

Get Talking Hardship Report

Get Talking Hardship was a community research project commissioned by the Hardship Commission in Stoke-on-Trent and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund through VOICES. The research was led by Staffordshire University. The lead researchers recruited a team of 43 community researchers who were trained and supported to conduct research with over 250 across Stoke-on-Trent between February and June 2019. The findings from the research informed the Hardship Commission’s five-year priorities. The project aimed to find out: • what people think about hardship and poverty in Stoke-on-Trent. • people’s ideas for what can be done to make life fairer and easier for people. The report outlines the Get Talking methodology and participants, the research findings and suggested actions for change. It concludes with a list of recommendations made to the Hardship Commission

Pelagic ecosystem emissions of aerosol-forming substances in Antarctica and the Subantarctic

2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 11-16 February, in Portland, OregonClimate warming affects the development and distribution of sea ice south of the Polar Front around Antarctica and its associated ecosystems, but at present the evidence of feedbacks on climate through ecosystem-derived changes in the atmosphere is sparse. The PEGASO cruise visited the Antarctic region of the South Orkney Islands at the northern edge of the Weddell Sea, and the Subantarctic region of the South Georgia Island, in summer 2015. Each region was studied intensively in lagrangian mode over a few days and diel cycles. Oceanic measurements of plankton abundance, diversity, activity and physiology, plus organic matter characteristics, organic volatile compounds (dimethylsulfide, isoprene, halomethanes) and nutrient concentrations, were compared with simultaneous atmospheric measurements of aerosol numbers, size and composition. Samples of surface seawater and melted sea ice were bubbled in an aerosol-generation tank and the characteristics of the sprayed aerosol were monitored. This integrated study allowed to link phytoplankton bloom stages and the emission of aerosol-forming particulate and gaseous substances. For instance, we observed that the microbiota of sea ice and sea ice-influenced ocean are a previously unknown significant source of atmospheric organic nitrogen, including low molecular weight alkyl-amines. Given the keystone role of nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and iodine compounds in aerosol formation, growth and neutralization, our findings call for greater chemical and source diversity in the modeling efforts linking the marine ecosystem to aerosol-mediated climate effects in the Southern OceanPeer Reviewe

Oceanic Emissions of Aerosol-forming Substances in Antarctica and Subantarctic

POLAR 2018 - XXXV SCAR Meetings and SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, 19-23 June 2018, Davos, Switzerland.-- 1 pageClimate warming affects the development and distribution of sea ice around Antarctica and its associated ecosystems, but at present the evidence of feedbacks on climate through ecosystem-derived changes in the atmosphere is sparse. The PEGASO cruise visited the Antarctic region of the South Orkney Islands at the northern edge of the Weddell Sea, and the Subantarctic region of the South Georgia Island, in summer 2015. Each region was studied intensively in lagrangian mode over a few days and diel cycles. Oceanic measurements of plankton abundance, diversity, activity and physiology, plus organic matter characteristics, aerosol-forming organic volatile compounds (dimethylsulfide, methylamines, isoprene, halomethanes) and nutrient concentrations, were compared with simultaneous atmospheric measurements of aerosol numbers, size and composition. Samples of surface seawater and melted sea ice were bubbled in an aerosol-generation tank and the characteristics of the sprayed aerosol were monitored. This integrated study allowed to link phytoplankton bloom stages and the emission of aerosol-forming particulate and gaseous substances. Our findings call for greater chemical and source diversity in the modeling efforts linking the marine ecosystem to aerosol-mediated climate effects in the Southern OceanPeer Reviewe