Photo: Ms Marston delivering her presentation entitled "Exploring Human - Biodiversity Interactions across Malta and Gozo."
The Institute for Earth Systems organised its fifth Graduate Launchpad on 4 July, between from 09:00 to 13:00 at Lecture Theatre 1, University of Malta Msida campus. The Launchpad is an event that is organised by the Institute in order to showcase the research carried out by the students of the Institute.
This year’s event was compèred by Ms Lara Bajada Young and Ms Nicole Camilleri, both final year B.Sc. (Hons.) students in Earth systems. During this event, seven third year students, two postgraduate students and a Doctoral candidate had the opportunity to present the results of their research to an audience that was made up of practitioners, regulators, civil society activists and other professionals in the Environmental sector. The subjects that were treated during these presentations are a reflection of the wide range of topics that are dealt with during the 3-year undergraduate course in Earth Systems and include pollution science, ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation, oceanography, climate science, soil erosion, aerobiology, energy and water efficiency and nature – human connectedness.
In addition, during this event two third year B.Sc. (Hons.) students, Mr Jérèmie Tranchant and Ms Shirley Muscat were presented with the Award for Academic Excellence, which is awarded to students obtaining consistently high grades (80 ECTS at grade A or better and 20 ECTS at grade B or better) during the first two years of the course. As in previous years, the vouchers that accompanied the Award certificate were kindly donated by HSBC (Malta) Foundation.
