Chasing the trail of nitrogen pollution through the Anthropocene

Professor Chris Curtis will describe the evolution of the science around nitrogen deposition impacts in his inaugural lecture.

The effects of human activity  on the global nitrogen cycle (through fertilizer production and burning fossil fuels) form one of the defining features of the Anthropocene, to the extent that nitrogen isotope signals in remote lake sediments have been used to support the formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch. In his inaugural lecture, Professor Curtis will describe the evolution of the science around nitrogen deposition impacts, bringing us up his present day studies in the mountain regions of South Africa.

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