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Dr von Ploetz was appointed Ambassador last year , having served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the German Foreign Office , where he was responsible for European integration , economic , cultural and legal affairs . The new department will combine the resources of Glasgow 's Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and Strathclyde 's Department of Ship and Marine Technology comprising wide-ranging expertise , unparalleled laboratory facilities , an extensive research portfolio with a large population of high-calibre staff and students and an international reputation in a number of key areas of Marine Technology . This variable has been traditionally measured at several hundred snow courses throughout the mountainous regions of the western U.S. How to extrapolate these widely dispersed measurements remains a fundamental problem in estimating the total water volume in the mountains . The unique strength of the research team is that it is interdisciplinary , drawing on expertise from the University 's Department of Clinical Physics . For example , ERS-1 coverage extends to 82deg ., while Geosat and Seasat extend only to 72deg .. The conferences , entitled ' An update on childhood nutrition ' and ' Hot topics in human nutrition ' have been organised by the University of Glasgow 's Department of Human Nutrition . " Professor Chris Packard of the University of Glasgow 's Department of Pathological Biochemistry at the Royal Infirmary who led the research team , says that the discovery has three important consequences . Commenting on the findings , Professor Graham Watt , of the University 's Department of General Practice said : " These are very large differences , and the fact that they are getting bigger rather than smaller , is worrying . From Peltzer and Rosen ( 1995 ) .