Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dunham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Joe Hattersley - Climate Action: Carbon Dioxide Removal in Mine Waste through Weathering
In this episode of the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton, we are joined by Joe Hattersley (BSc Environmental Geoscience) to explain why you should care about mine waste. We discuss how strange fluids draining from huge mine waste piles in the mountains of Cyprus relate to Carbon Dioxide removal, circular thinking, and a variety of SDGs. Plus, the episode offers some advice and insights from Simon and the university experience.
Very good journal article on enhanced weathering and tailings: Frontiers | Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Potential of Waste Materials From Metal and Diamond Mining (frontiersin.org)
Article on the waters of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. A little geochemical and geology heavy but great context: Active near-surface mobilisation of slab-derived geochemical signatures by hyperalkaline waters in brecciated serpentinites - ScienceDirect
Small and friendly article on the asbestos mine (less complex geology): https://www.visitsolea.com/amiantos-asbestos-mine/?lang=en
The Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium is part of the 2024 Student Takeover Season where we celebrate the fantastic sustainability research work of our Undergraduate Students.
Guest: Joe Hattersley (Third-Year BSc Environmental Geoscience Student)
Host: Prof Simon Kemp
Editor: Sophie Green
If you are interested in engaging with more sustainability-related material take a look at both Instagram and X: @meliorapodcast
