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Centre for Environmental Science

About the Centre for Environmental Science

This facility has a laboratory suite supporting research and teaching in Environmental Science. Including aquatic resources, environmental change, biodiversity, conservation and sustainability. This includes laboratories and field equipment for the collection and study of environmental samples including insects, pollutants, water, sediments and vegetation.

Our laboratories

  • The Keith Barber Microscopy Laboratory: Microscope laboratory with a range of microscopes for observing and photographing specimens.

  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for high magnification imaging and elemental analysis.

  • Chemical Preparation Laboratory: Extraction laboratory for microplastics.

Research

The Centre for Environmental Science brings together an interdisciplinary team working across environmental science, human and physical geography, sustainability, environmental health, and ecological research. Our work examines how people and societies interact with environmental systems and how these relationships shape healthier, more sustainable futures.

Research spans major themes including:

  • environmental change
  • landscape and ecological dynamics
  • population–health interactions
  • wider sustainability challenges 

The Centre also contributes to applied fields such as environmental policy, pollution, and circular economy systems.

Our facilities support both laboratory based and field based environmental research, enabling the study of biological, chemical, and physical samples including soils, sediments, vegetation, water, microplastics, insects, and other biota. Together, this interdisciplinary approach enables the Centre for Environmental Science to deliver high impact research that addresses some of the most pressing environmental and societal challenges of our time.

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Contact us

Contact us

For more information, get in touch.
geoglabs@soton.ac.uk
Centre for Environmental Science, Shackleton Building (Building 44), Highfield campus, University of Southampton, SO167 1BJ

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Our research addresses climate change, social and health inequalities, sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity, poverty and recession.

Ocean and earth science

We’re a major European centre for oceanography and marine geoscience. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework 98% of our overall research was rated world leading or internationally excellent.

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