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# Cambridge araştırmacıları iklim değişikliğini 900 yıldır haritalıyor
# Coğrafya Günü: Rezervasyonlar açık!
19 Haziran 2017
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Rezervasyonlar, 6 ve 7 Temmuz 2017 tarihleri arasında Cambridge Üniversitesi Açık Günü kapsamında Coğrafya Açılış Günü Bölümü için açıktır. Gelin ve bize katılın ve birlikte bölüm dersi, ders sohbetleri ve Bölüm hayatı ile ilgili bölümleri ziyaret edin. Personelin ve öğrencilerin – ya da gelip görelim, bütün gün Hukuk Fakültesi'nde konuşuyoruz
Şimdi rezervasyon yap.
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16 Haziran, 2017
Son güncellemelerinde şu personelleri tebrik ederim:
Dr Bhaskar Vira, Profesöre
Dr. Poul Christoffersen'den Reader'a
Dr Charlotte Lemanski, Kıdemli Öğr.Gör.
Herkese tebrikler!
# Coğrafya Bilim Labları Platinum NUS Yeşil Etki ödülüne
16 Haziran, 2017
Tephrokronolojide yeni gelişmeler
14 Haziran 2017
Kuvaterner Geokronoloji, Cilt 40, Sayfalar 1-146 (Mayıs 2017):
Küresel bir tarihleme aracı olarak tephrokronolojiyi ilerletme: volkanoloji, arkeoloji ve paleoiklim araştırmaları uygulamaları Christine Lane, Simon Blockley, David J. Lowe, Victoria Smith ve Takehiko Suzuki tarafından düzenlendi
# Cambridge ve Yakutsk, Rusya arasındaki araştırma işbirliğinin uzatılması
# Amerika'nın aşınan kenarları: tarladan hikayeler
12 Haziran 2017
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Doktora öğrencisi Victoria Herrmann, iklim değişikliğinin Amerika'daki topluluklar üzerindeki etkilerini araştıran saha çalışmasını bir dizi blog yazısı ve makalesinde belgeliyor. Victoria, şu anda kıyı şeridi erozyonu ve iklim değişikliği nedeniyle doğrudan etkilenen topluluklarla röportaj yaparak ABD ve bölgeleri boyunca seyahat etmekte ve etkilerini yaşam şekilleri üzerine kaydetmektedir.
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# Araştırmalar ortaçağ Batı Sibirya köyünü ilk kez doğru bir şekilde tarihlendiriyor
9 Haziran, 2017
Çevresel Sistemler Analizi Profesörü Ulf Buentgen'in yer aldığı bir ekip tarafından Dendochronologica 'de yayınlanan yeni araştırmalar, ilk kez Rusya'nın Kuzey Sibirya'sında ortaçağda bir yerleşim gerçekleştirdi.
Buchta Nakhodka yerleşimi Batı Sibirya'nın kuzey kesiminde bulunan ve tamamen kazılan arkeolojik alan. Ekip, yapımı 13. yüzyılın ikinci çeyreğine yerleştirecek yerleşimdeki en önemli arkeolojik kerestelerden 13'ü kesin olarak tarihlemek için dendrokronolojik (ağaç halkası analizi) teknikleri uyguladı.
Ekip, edebiyat analizi, arkeolojik, dendrokronolojik, etnografik ve (arke) zoolojik kanıtları birleştirerek, Buchta Nakhodka'nın eski sakinleri ile Batı Sibirya'daki ve İzlanda'daki diğer eski uluslar arasındaki ilişkileri önermişti.
Batı Sibirya'nın kuzey kesiminin ortaçağ yerleşim tarihine eşsiz içgörüler sunarken, ekip Avrasya'nın yüksek kuzey enlemlerinde başlatılacak daha disiplinler arası araştırma projelerini teşvik etmeyi umuyor.
Maya O. Sidorova, Ulf Büntgen, Gulzar T. Omurova, Oleg V. Kardash, Vladimir S. Myglan, Batı Sibirya'nın en kuzeyindeki tamamen kazılmış ortaçağ yerleşiminin ilk dendro-arkeolojik kanıtı Dendrochronologia, Cilt 44, Haziran 2017, 146-152. Sayfalar, ISSN 1125-7865, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2017.05.004
# İngiltere'nin jeolojik çıkışının arkasındaki gerçek hikaye
8 Haziran 2017
# Natura Urbana, Alman Biyolojik Çeşitlilik Film Ödülüne aday gösterildi
8 Haziran, 2017
Natura Urbana'nın NaturVision Film Festivalinde Alman Biyolojik Çeşitlilik Film Ödülüne aday gösterilen film olan Profesör Matthew Gandy'yi tebrik ediyoruz.
'Natura Urbana', Profesör Gandy'nin ERC tarafından finanse edilen Urban Nature Rethinking projesinin bir bölümünü oluşturur.
# Monaco Monarkalı Prens Albert II SPR Patronu oldu
# Üniversiteler yeni bir bilim dalında hazır mısınız?
7 Haziran 2017
# Ateşe benzeyen modern Liverpool savaşlarında nasıl savaşılır
6 Haziran 2017
Üniversite öğretim görevlisi Dr. David Beckingham Liverpool Üniversitesi Basın tarafından 'Lisanslı Şehir: Liverpool'da İçki Düzenleme 1830-1920' adlı yeni kitabı ile röportaj yapıyor.
On dokuzuncu yüzyıl İngiltere'sinde birkaç şehir, kaydedilen sarhoşluk yüzünden Liverpool ile yarışabilirdi. Liverpool'un imparatorluk etkisinde yaşanan sivil toplum gururu, şehrin sokaklarındaki mezhep huzursuzluğundan ve fahişelikten gecekondu bölgelerinde çocuk ihmaline ve aşırı ölüm oranına kadar alkol ile bağlantılı olabilen sosyal sorunlar yüzünden kaygı uyandırıyordu. Liverpool'da içki ticaretiyle kentin vatandaş seçkileri arasındaki belirgin bağlantılar nedeniyle artan bu tehlikeler kent yaşamını belirginleştirdi ve alkolü politik bir konu haline getirdi. İçki tehlikelerine karşı koymak için bir sessizlik hareketi ortaya çıktıkça, kampanyacılar politika üreticilerine hükümetin kabul edilebilir alanını yeniden hayal etmeye meydan okudu. Ulusal liderler sıklıkla pratik ve felsefi açıdan lezzetli olan konular üzerinde anlaşamadıkları halde, Liverpool'daki sosyal reformcular şehirdeki barlarda ve bira salonlarında içki satma izni veren sistem üzerinde yoğunlaştı. Lisans reformuyla, daha sonra övüneceklerdi, Liverpool Liverpool'un itibarını sarhoşluğun başkenti olan İngiltere'ye çevirdi. Lisanslı Şehir içki içmek için yapılan savaşların modern şehri nasıl oluşturduğunu ortaya koyuyor. Bu nedenle, lisanslamanın günümüzdeki sorunlu içki suyunu düzenleme konusunda donanımlı olup olmadığını belirlemektedir.
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# 1964 Grup Cambridge'e döndü
5 Haziran 2017
# Ulf Buentgen ile ekoloji tartışması
5 Haziran 2017
# Cambridge Coğrafyacısı nükleer risk hakkında konuşuyor
2 Haziran 2017
# İki bölüm araştırmacısı Leverhulme Bursu kazandı
# Fırtınalı Jeomorfoloji: yeni EGU blogu
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James Tempest, Dr Iris Moeller ve Prof Tom Spencer'ın da bulunduğu bir ekip tarafından Avrupa Jeosciences Birliği blogunda yayınlanan yeni bir yazı, aşırı fırtına ve sel olaylarıyla sel riski konusundaki anlayışımızı iyileştirmede jeomorfolojinin oynayabileceği rolü araştırıyor. Buna ek olarak, jeomorfolojik bilimin, şimdi kıyı bölgelerindeki sulak alanların oluşturulması gibi doğa tabanlı yönetim yaklaşımlarını sunmak için nasıl düzenli olarak kullanıldığını göstermektedir. Bu tür yaklaşımlar, aşırı olaylardan kaynaklanan hasar ve tahribatın azaltılmasında etkili olan daha sürdürülebilir sel ve fırtına savunma biçimleri sağlamaktadır.
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# Cambridge, fungal ekoloji bilim adamlarını ağırlıyor
30 Mayıs 2017
# Biyoçeşitlilik Uyumsuz: kim etkileniyor ve nasıl?
30 Mayıs, 2017
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Doktora öğrencisi Oliver Taherzadeh tarafından hazırlanan yeni bir raporda, İngiltere'de Biyoçeşitlilik Düşüşü'nün kabul edilmesi araştırılıyor. Bu araç, başka yerlerde koruma geliştirmeleriyle bir yerde biyoçeşitlilik kayıplarının telafi edilmesini sağlamak için tasarlandı. Makalenin bulguları, biyolojik çeşitlilik kaybını ve telafisini düşünürken doğaya erişim, ortak miras alanlarının sahiplik statüsü ve dağıtımcı adalet konularını daha geniş bir anlayışa ihtiyaç duyduğunu gösteriyor.
O. Taherzadeh, P. Howley, 'Ne için net bir kayıp yok, kimin için? Çevre, Kalkınma ve Sürdürülebilirlik, (2017). Doi: 10.1007 / s10668-017-9967-z
# NCK Cambridge Botanik Bahçesi gezisi
26 Mayıs 2017
# Toplum yeni bir bilim türü için hazır – akademik mi?
25 Mayıs 2017
# Esnek şehirler: yeni film
25 Mayıs 2017
# Kamchatkan volkanik külü dünyayı yarı yarıya dolaştı
24 Mayıs 2017
# Coğrafya Silver Green Impact Award
ödülüne layık görüldü
23 Mayıs, 2017
# Yeni film: Gelir eşitsizliğini azaltmada nelerin yapılması gerekiyor?
22 Mayıs 2017
# Avrupa Birliği ve Disunion: film
19 Mayıs 2017
# Yeni kağıt: Negatif lüminesans
18 Mayıs 2017
# Coğrafya öğrencisi bir yaban domuzuyla diplomatik bir olaya karıştı.
18 Mayıs, 2017
# Scientia: Bizi korumak için doğayı kullanma … doğa
17th May, 2017
# ERC RUN at the AAG 2017
16th May, 2017
# Votes for Water: Nepal Elections
15th May, 2017
# This Cambridge Life: Bhaskar Vira
12th May, 2017
Department Reader Dr Bhaskar Vira is profiled in 'This Cambridge Life' where he talks about boarding school in the Himalayas, conservation and never having studied Geography…
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# SPRI Library catalogue search now online
12th May, 2017
# New Cambridge research tracks changes to supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet
11th May, 2017
# Using tree rings to date a 650 year old volcanic eruption
10th May, 2017
# David Nally discusses Malthus and food security
9th May, 2017
# Professor Andrew Cliff awarded the Victoria Medal
8th May, 2017
# The Department of Geography is now on Instagram
8th May, 2017
# Cambridge Geography at Latin American Studies Association 2017
5th May, 2017
# 'This Cambridge Life': Rachel Mumford
5th May, 2017
# Polar PhD student explores the Russian Arctic
4th May, 2017
# Bhaskar Vira Delivers keynote to the United Nations
3rd May, 2017
# Building resilience in socio-ecological simulations
2nd May, 2017
# New book: Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance
27th April, 2017
# Cambridge Geography makes it 10 years at the top
26th April, 2017
# How does climate change affect the behaviour of certain species?
26th April, 2017
# The Future of Cities: Film
25th April, 2017
# Cambridge Coastal Research: live press conference
24th April, 2017
# Charlotte Lemanski wins Geographical Association Award
24th April, 2017
# SPRI Review 2016
21st April, 2017
# Climate and Environment Dynamics researchers at EGU 2017
21st April, 2017
# Water on Antarctic Ice Shelves
20th April, 2017
# What is the future of nature conservation?
20th April, 2017
The conservation movement is experiencing heated internal debates about what, why and how to conserve. Particular divisions exist over the role of corporations and capitalism, and over whether conservation should be motivated by biocentric or anthropocentric goals. Unfortunately, these debates have been dominated by powerful individuals, most of whom are men from the world's richest countries. Recent research by affiliated lecturer Chris Sandbrook and colleagues based on a small sample of conservationists has revealed a wider range of perspectives than those articulated by the dominant individuals. Now, they are taking their study to the next level through the Future of Conservation Survey that will gather data from a large sample of conservationists to reveal new insights into how they perceive the issues raised in the recent debates, and also which form of conservation each respondent most closely aligns to. Anyone who considers themselves a conservationist is welcome to take part!
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19th April, 2017
# Participatory Geographies: Away weekend
18th April, 2017
Department Leverhulme Research Fellow Dr Sam Halvorsen is organising, together with the Royal Geographic Society Participatory Geographies Research Group and the Participation Lab at Reading University, an away weekend from the 30 June- 2 July on Participatory Geographies.
The Participation Lab will run a one day workshop on the theme of Participation for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Digital technologies and innovation on Friday 30 June. PYGYRG will then host the weekend events at the Reading International Solidarity Centre.
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# The Late Antique Little Ice Age in Nature GeoScience
13th April, 2017
# Increasing UK productivity through city support- ESRC briefing
12th April, 2017
# The original Brexit: ice-age waterfalls
10th April, 2017
# Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices
6th April, 2017
# Into and out of the Younger Dryas at Haemelsee, Northern Germany
5th April, 2017
# Vacancy: University Lecturer in Physical Geography
3rd April, 2017
The Department of Geography wishes to appoint a suitably qualified scholar to a University Lectureship in Physical Geography from 1 October 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter. We seek to recruit a dynamic and collegial individual who will have strong research interests and expertise in the linkages between climatological, ecological and Earth surface processes. We encourage applications from researchers developing and combining the analysis of natural proxy archives, field or experimental methods, data mining and/or numerical model simulations to further our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of Earth systems, including within coupled human-environmental systems.
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# Two Rains: Cambridge research into the Indus Civilisation
3rd April, 2017
# Undergraduate Open Days 2017
30th March, 2017
# Improving the links between marine science and policy
30th March, 2017
# Geography in Cam Magazine
29th March, 2017
# Climate Change in the Eurasian Late Antiquity (4th-8th Century)
28th March, 2017
# Interventions on Europe's political futures
27th March, 2017
# How does livelihood affect people's perception of deforestation?
23rd March, 2017
# Occupy and the dilemmas of social movements
21st March, 2017
# Muddy Fun at the Science Festival 2017!
20th March, 2017
# Changing Court Spaces: Policy, Architecture and Experience
17th March, 2017
# Measures of poverty and well-being still ignore the environment
16th March, 2017
# The Great Austerity Debate: New Documentary
15th March, 2017
# Volcanology and the ERC
14th March, 2017
# New film on coastal research
13th March, 2017
In a new film on the University's Youtube Channel, University Lecturer Dr Iris Möller explains how an understanding of natural processes and landforms can help us develop win-win solutions for reducing flood risk.
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# How does geography affect participatory governance?
10th March, 2017
In a new article published in the International Development and Planning Review University Lecturer Charlotte Lemanski explores the phenomenon of participatory governance and urban structures within Cape Town. Participatory governance has become a mainstream feature of city management, endorsed by governments and aid agencies as a platform for state-civil society engagement. However, it is often criticised for problems with implementation and fundamental imbalances of power. Lemanski introduces into these debates the role played by the urban spatial and temporal structural context in shaping citizenship experiences of participatory processes. Based on fieldwork in a electoral ward of Cape Town, a geopolitical space with a wide socio-economic range of citizens, the paper demonstrates how the spatial and temporal landscape of the city is not a neutral technical backdrop for participatory processes, but is active in creating and perpetuating inequalities that are institutionalised through processes of participatory governance.
- Lemanski, C.2017. Unequal citizenship in unequal cities: participatory urban governance in contemporary South Africa. International Development Planning Reviewv. 39, p.15-35. doi:10.3828/idpr.2017.2.
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# Protest Camps in International Perspective
8th March, 2017
8th March, 2017
# Geography at the Science Festival
6th March, 2017
# Cambridge Coastal Research at the European Geosciences Union
3rd March, 2017
# Rethinking Urban Nature: website is live!
2nd March, 2017
2nd March, 2017
# How can salt marsh vegetation dissipate waves during storm surges?
1st March, 2017
# The global gag rule and maternal health
28th February, 2017
# Mapping ice sheet dynamics
27th February, 2017
# How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities
23rd February, 2017
# Cambridge part of project exploring the mitigation hierarchy in biodiversity and conservation
22nd February, 2017
# Imagining infrastructures workshop
20th February, 2017
# Film screening of Geography Graduate's film 'Facing the Mountains'
17th February, 2017
# Geography PhD Student featured in 'Cambridge's postgraduate pioneers'
16th February, 2017
# Mapping malaria on a local scale
15th February, 2017
# Department of Geography hosts Distinguished Visitor Professor Professor Didier Fassin
15th February, 2017
# Geography researchers part of a project to understan Ethiopia's volcanoes
14th February, 2017
# India's militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works
13th February, 2017
# How can we tackle abuse in the global garment industry?
9th February, 2017
# How do wildfires affect boreal forests?
7th February, 2017
# New Cambridge research explores South African Middle
6th February, 2017
# New research with Cambridge Coastal Research Unit explores the coastal protection of salt marshes and climate change
3rd February, 2017
# What is the impact of a massive volcanic eruption?
2nd February, 2017
# New book: Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient
1st February, 2017
# Phil Gibbard on NPO 2 TV programme 'Tegenlicht /Backlight'
30th January, 2017
# Cambridge News: New podcast by Geography lecturer Dr Alice Evans
27th January, 2017
# Conference: Researching South-South Development Cooperation
25th January, 2017
# Fossilised tree and ice cores help date huge volcanic eruption 1,000 years ago to within three months
24th January, 2017
# Department of Geography welcomes new Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis Ulf Büntgen
20th January, 2017
The Department of Geography welcomes a new Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis: Professor Ulf Büntgen.
Professor Büntgen was previously Head of the Dendroecology Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. He studied geography, geology and cartography at the University of Bonn, Germany (1999-2003), and obtained his Ph.D. (2006) and Habilitation (2011) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is conducting fieldwork all over the globe to provide answers to his main research questions: How did and does climate change? How did and do ecosystems respond to such changes?
His most recent publications include:
Andrew C, Heegaard E, Halvorsen R, Martinez-Pena F, Egli S, Kirk PM, Bässler C, Büntgen UAldea J, Høiland K, Boddy L, Kauserud H (2016) Climate impacts on fungal community and trait dynamics. Fungal Ecology 22: 17-25
Bosela M, Popa I, Gomory D, Longauer R, Tobin B, Kyncl J, Kyncl T, Nechita C, Petrás R, Sidor C, Seben V, Büntgen U (2016) Effects of postglacial phylogeny and genetic diversity on the growth variability and climate sensitivity of European silver fir. Journal of Ecology 104: 716-724
Büntgen UDi Cosmo N (2016) Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE. Nature Scientific Reports 6
# CUGS Talks: Lent Term 2017
19th January, 2017
# Department of Geography Annual Report 2015-16
18th January, 2017
# New book: 'Seeing Like a City', Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift
17th January, 2017
# Department of Geography hosts Distinguished Visitor Professor Don Mitchell
15th November, 2016
The Department of Geography is committed to bringing internationally renowned scholars to Cambridge, under our Distinguished Visitors Scheme. Our most recent guest was Professor Don Mitchell of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, who came to Cambridge for the first time in his career, giving a public lecture, a research seminar, and a graduate seminar. Professor Mitchell has made key contributions in a number of fields, particularly in cultural geography and cultural theory, in his focus on labour and the political economy of landscape, and in relation to struggles over urban public space. Continue reading …
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# Event: Geography and neo-vitalism
31st October, 2016
# Distinguished Visitor: Professor Don Mitchell
31st October, 2016
# Here come the drones
21st October, 2016
# Anthropocene: The journey to a new geological epoch
5th October, 2016
# Policy Forum investigates the geography of the court system
5th October, 2016
# All the World's a Stage: Gray and Smith collaborate with Menagerie Theatre on play
4th October, 2016
# Releasing the Commons: in discussion with Professor Jeremy Gilbert
31st August, 2016
# Book prize for Matthew Gandy
22nd July, 2016
# Matthew Gandy elected Fellow of the British Academy
21st July, 2016
# Book Launch: Professor Matthew Gandy 'Moth'
18th May, 2016
# Ron Martin awarded prestigious Victoria Medal
14th May, 2016
# Prof Matthew Gandy book launch in Paris
13th May, 2016
# Rachel Meunier, Newnham College, wins Royal Geographical Society's Alfred Steers Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2015
4th May, 2016
# Healthy saltmarshes for coastal defence
3rd May, 2016
# The Green Revolution as Philanthropy
19th April, 2016
For the last number of weeks, HistPhil – a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors – has hosted a forum on the Green Revolution. In the latest post, Dr. David Nally explains how elite ideas about saving the poor and 'reforming the world' contributed to the making of the Green Revolution.
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# Sebastian Keibek wins new researcher's prize at the Economic History Society Conference
18th April, 2016
Congratulations to Sebastian Keibek, a PhD student at CAMPOP, who was joint winner of the new researcher's prize at the Economic History Society 2016 Annual Conference, held on 1-3 April at Robinson College, Cambridge. The title of Sebastian's paper was: 'The regional and national male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1820'.
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# Book Launch: Dr. Michele Lancione 'Rethinking Life at the Margins'.
18th April, 2016
# Olga Petri's publication selected for Editors' Choice
18th April, 2016
Olga Petri, PhD student supervised by Dr Philip Howell, has had a publication nominated to be one of the five publications chosen by Miles Ogborn, Editor of Journal of Historical Geography to be highlighted in Editors' Choice. Editors' Choice provides a selection of content, hand-picked by journal editors.
The publication is called 'At the bathhouse: municipal reform and the bathing commons in late Imperial St. Petersburg', Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 51, 2016.
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# Global carnivore conservation at risk
11th April, 2016
# More on the 'Anthropocene'
10th April, 2016
At the recently held Anthropocene symposium at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, Professor Philip Gibbard of the Department of Geography shared his view on the subject of the 'Anthropocene'.
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# The difference between the UK, Britain, the British Isles, the North and South of Ireland explained
7th April, 2016
Dr David Nally and the Ordnance Survey were asked by journalist Katy Harrington to help explain the meaning of various political-geographical designations such as the UK, Britain, the British Isles, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. How difficult could that task be? The result is a sort of Beginners Guide to naming "these islands"!
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# Rights to Nature Workshop
4th April, 2016
On 23rd and 24th June, the Department will be hosting a Workshop: Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies to the neoliberal environmental agendasponsored by Geoforum.
The 'Rights to Nature' workshop aims to create a dialogue among scholars and activists working on the neoliberalization of nature and environmental policies. We will be discussing the relation between nature, capitalism, and politics, and the possibility of an alternative environmental political agenda in Europe. For further details, please see the Conference Webpage.
The workshop will be held in the Keynes Hall at King's College, Cambridge, on the 23 and 24 June 2016. We invite activists and scholars engaged in environmental movements in Europe to join us. Please email Elia Apostolopoulou (email@example.com) or Jose A. Cortes Vazquez (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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# Undergraduate Open Days 2016
21st March, 2016
# One Hundred Years of Coral Reef Mapping
10th March, 2016
# Global wetland loss
24th February, 2016
# Dr Emma Mawdsley awarded prestigious teaching prize
17th February, 2016
# Prof Tania Murray Li, Distinguished Visiting Fellow
8th February, 2016
# New PhD opportunities now available
2nd February, 2016
The call for applications to the NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data, Risk and Environmental Analytical Methods is now open. Students wishing to study for a Ph.D. on this programme should visit the website for the full list of available projects and information on how to apply. A total of 10 fully funded studentships will be available to those eligible for NERC funding. The deadline for applications is Friday 26th February 2016.
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# Online Geography Learning Resources for Sixth Form Students
1st February, 2016
Do you want to find out more about climate change, sea level rise, evidence based policy-making, biodiversity or nature-society relations? If so visit the Geography online learning resources website.
This is hosted by the University's HE Plus programme which has just registered its 10,000th participant. While the programme encourages and prepares academically high-achieving state school students to make competitive applications to top universities, including Cambridge, its online learning resources are freely available to anyone aiming to make a competitive application to university, as well as those seeking to support them. The Geography pages also include links to other sources of geographical information, linking particularly with the Royal Geographical Society. You can discover more about 21st Century Challenges, Geography in the News, and the Hidden Histories of Exploration.
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# Dr Charlotte Lemanski filmed for Geographical Association
25th January, 2016
Charlotte Lemanski has been filmed by the Geography Association as part of their series of videocasts for post-16 students. Filmed in in our very own geography library (with thanks to Robert Carter), and using images provided by Tatiana Thieme, Charlotte discuss the challenges of 'urbanisation' and 'urban poverty'. Follow the links to watch the films.
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# The era named after Man may have begun on Earth – the biggest change since the Ice Age
20th January, 2016
# First Year PhD Graduate Forum
22nd December, 2015
First Year PhD students will present their research topics at a Graduate Forum on Tuesday, 12 January 2016.
The presentations will start at 10.00 am in the Seminar Room, in the main building of the Geography Department.
# The human layer
15th December, 2015
# Future Cities Prize Fellowships
10th December, 2015
# 'Unprecedented' storms and floods are more common than we think
9th December, 2015
# Cambridge research on sustainable flood defences on Arte TV
7th December, 2015
# Departmental seminar: Challenges for an improved understanding of sea level extremes and coastal flood mitigation
30th November, 2015
The Departmental seminar on 3rd December will be given by Dr Kevin Horsburgh, National Oceanography Centre, who is the Head of the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate (MPOC) at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). He also leads NOC's professional partnership with the Environment Agency (EA) and the Met Office for the UK Coastal Monitoring and Forecasting service which provides operational coastal flood forecasts. All welcome!
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# Professorship of Geography (1993) and Professorship of Environmental Systems Analysis
29th November, 2015
The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Geography (1993) and the Professorship of Environmental Systems Analysis invite applications for these two Professorships, to take up appointment as soon as possible. Candidates will have a high international reputation; a visionary agenda for world-leading research in the environmental sciences; and demonstrable ability to energise research and teaching across the Department of Geography and wider University environment.
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# David Stoddart Memorial Dinner
26th November, 2015
# Cambridge ESS NERC DTP PhD studentships
25th November, 2015
Cambridge Earth System Science NERC Doctoral Training Partnership provides PhD opportunities across the NERC remit with research projects tackling problems of global significance within the research themes of Climate, Biology and Solid Earth. Projects are now being advertised. Applicants from the UK and EU are eligible to apply. The deadline is Wednesday, 6 January 2016.
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# PhD Project – The Political Ecology of Trees and Birds in Ghana
19th November, 2015
A new PhD studentship with Department of Geography and RSPB is being advertised. The deadline for applications has been extended to 7 December 2015. Read more …
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# Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD Opportunities 2016
9th November, 2015
Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD topics to start October 2016 are advertised on the Cambridge Earth System Science Doctoral Training Programme website. Members of the Geography Department / SPRI have projects advertised across all three themes of Climate, Biology and Solid Earth. Further general information about the application procedure is available.
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# Phil Gibbard appointed Secretary-General of the International Commission on Stratigraphy
9th November, 2015
# Professor AbdouMaliq Simone: Distinguished Visitor
1st November, 2015
# Four Professors retire
30th October, 2015
On 27th October, the Department celebrated the careers of four immensely distinguished senior colleagues reaching retirement this Autumn: Professors Tim Bayliss-Smith, Ron Martin, Bob Haining and Hans Graf. Present and former academic colleagues gathered for dinner in Queen's College Old Hall (including five former Heads of Department, and our senior member, A. T. (Dick) Grove, who started his teaching career in Cambridge no less than 66 years ago), to discuss how to cope without them. Keith Richards proposed the toast, celebrating their research in poetical form.
His four Haiku are below: the challenge is to identify who is who (Keith vetoed also placing the limericks in the public domain)!
Paths, trends, waves and shocks;
Competing regions and places;
W(h)ither policy….?
Nature, hot and cold;
People hunt, herd, farm, cut wood,
Use ecosystems.
Volcanoes, plumes, ash;
Updrafts, nimbus, and downpours;
Sub-grid processes.
Mapping, modelling
Time-space process; crime and health.
Action Geography!
# Matthew Gandy elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
30th October, 2015
Matthew Gandy has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of his role as "an internationally renowned interdisciplinary researcher in cultural, environmental and urban geography."
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# PhD project – The political ecology of trees and birds in Ghana
21st October, 2015
A new PhD studentship with Department of Geography and RSPB is being advertised.
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# Sea-level rise threatens over 60% of Indo-Pacific coastal wetlands
16th October, 2015
# Sam Matthew wins 2015 Political Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
5th October, 2015
Sam Matthew, Emmanuel College, has been selected as joint winner of the 2015 Political Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, 'The Ghosts of Gulu: Affect, Emotion and Mysticism in Northern Uganda'.
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# On Ecuador's Buen vivir
4th October, 2015
# Victoria Bellamy, St Catharine's College, awarded HGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2015
28th September, 2015
Victoria Bellamy, who graduated from the Geography Department with a First Class degree in July 2015, has been awarded the Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society Dissertation Prize 2015 for her project entitled: Cultivating virtuous citizens: conflicting spatial practices in London's Victoria Park. Victoria's dissertation was described by the judges as 'the most thorough piece of historical research, not just in the empirical work undertaken but in engaging seriously with historical perspective to examine the complexities and processes that produce and reproduce places, identities and ideas. This was an interesting and well-written dissertation with a good sense of the intellectual contribution it was seeking to make.'
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# Dr. Bhaskar Vira chairs H.H. the Dalai Lama and Lord Rowan Williams in Dialogue session on Environment
25th September, 2015
# Jog-raphers triumphant at Chariots of Fire race
23rd September, 2015
# Ecuador's Buen Vivir: Implementation, challenges and ways forward
21st September, 2015
# Climate Change, Salt Marshes, and Coastal Protection
7th September, 2015
# Sam Matthew, Emmanuel College, awarded PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2015
25th August, 2015
Sam Matthew (Emmanuel College) was selected as a joint winner of the 2015 Political Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for his disseration 'The Ghosts of Gulu: Affect, Emotion and Mysticism in Northern Uganda'.
Sam's dissertation was described by the judges as 'a well-developed and theoretically informed engagement with questions of politics and the political in everyday life' which presented 'a number of interesting and insightful ideas' and did 'a good job of weaving empirical examples with theoretical ideas'.
This was an ambitious and exciting project that combined elements from across the geography degree.
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# Lectureship vacancy
23rd June, 2015
The Department is currently advertising a fixed-term Lectureship in Human Geography, to start on 1st October 2015. The successful candidate will have broad interests in the area of development studies, with particular emphasis in urban, environmental, social and/or post-colonial geographies. See more information and how to apply online.
# Journeys that show John was our king of the road
10th June, 2015
# Progress in Geography Conference for Sixth Form Students
8th June, 2015
# Trinity College Geography Event
8th June, 2015
Trinity College will be hosting a Geography recruitment event on Friday 3 July (11.00-12.15). Dr Nick Cutler, College Lecturer in Geography and an Admissions Tutor at Churchill College, will talk about the undergraduate Geography course at Cambridge. He will give guidance on preparing a competitive application and answer questions about the Cambridge admissions process. After the event, attendees will be able to participate in the tours and lectures organised by the Geography Department as part of the University Open Day. If you would like to attend, please email email@example.com.
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# Dr Charlotte Lemanski awarded Royal Geographical Society Award
3rd June, 2015
# Undergraduate Open Days 2015
3rd June, 2015
# After the Iron curtain: Poor parenting and state intervention in cross cultural perspective: a one-day workshop
1st June, 2015
# Visit SPRI Prints
26th May, 2015
# Trinity College geography essay competition
20th May, 2015
Trinity College's annual Geography Essay Competition is now open to entrants. The competition is open to Year 12 students in UK schools. Essays should be on the following topic: "At a fundamental level, geography is the study of places. What is the most important place in the world, and why?"
Further details are available from the Trinity College website. Potential entrants can also contact Nick Cutler, the College's Director of Studies in Geography, for guidance. The closing date for entries is 30 June 2015.
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# Dr Tom Spencer organises International Discussion Meeting on 'Stormy Geomorphology'
8th May, 2015
# New study highlights the role of forests in addressing hunger
8th May, 2015
# Perspectives on the Nepal earthquake
1st May, 2015
# The Victorian dog: a new book on the historical and cultural geography of petkeeping
30th April, 2015
# Dr Charlotte Lemanski awarded best Urban Studies journal paper of 2014
30th April, 2015
Dr Charlotte Lemanski has been awarded the best of paper of 2014 by the journal Urban Studies for her article "Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: theoretising across southern and northern cities", which was published in the November 2014 issue, Volume 51(14), pp2943-2960. The journal is now offering free access to this article.
Charlotte wrote a short blog post about the article when it was first published, and has also completed a vodcast related to the article and the award, which should be online soon.
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# Charlie Barlow and Dr Charlotte Lemanski present at ESRC housing seminar
25th March, 2015
Charlie Barlow (final year PhD student) and Dr Charlotte Lemanski were both invited to present their research related to mixed-income housing at an ESRC seminar on "Marketplace Exclusion: Representations, Resistances and Responses" organised by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research.
Charlie Barlow spoke about his PhD research on mixed-income condominiums in Chicago, while Charlotte Lemanski spoke about her research on mixed-income housing developments in post-apartheid South Africa. The event attracted a mix of housing specialists including both academics and practioners.
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# TalkScience: Scientists in Extreme Environments
24th March, 2015
# Cambridge Science Festival Geography and UCCRI activity
16th March, 2015
# Science Festival event – Splash and Squelch
11th March, 2015
# New European Alternative Finance Report launched
26th February, 2015
Two members of the Department of Geography, Mia Gray and Bryan Zhang, are co-authors of the new report Moving Mainstream: The European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Report. The report captures an estimated 85%-90% of Europe's online platform-based alternative finance market. Seen until recently as a niche activity, online alternative finance including equity-based crowdfunding and peer-to-peer business lending has become a vital and increasingly commonplace source of essential funding throughout Europe for SMEs, start-ups and many other businesses, says the report.
While previous studies had charted alternative finance in the UK, this report is the first to cover other European countries in detail. Since its publication, the report has received extensive press coverage across Europe, from the Financial Times, Le Monde, The Telegraphto Der Spiegel and Bloomberg.
The European online alternative finance market grew by 144% last year to nearly €3b and could top €7b in 2015, according to the first comprehensive pan-European benchmarking of alternative finance produced by the new Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School and professional services organisation EY, of which Gray and Zhang are both members of the Managing Board.
Online alternative finance, comprising platform-based financial transactions outside traditional banking, grew across Europe from €1.21b in 2013 to €2.96b in 2014. The overall European alternative industry is on track to grow beyond €7b if the market fundamentals remain sound and growth continues apace.
In 2014, €201m of early-stage, growth and working capital funding was provided to European SMEs and start-ups by alternative finance platforms. The volume of online alternative business funding has been growing steadily at around 75% year on year, and the estimated number of start-ups and SMEs funded through online alternative finance platforms has been growing at an even faster average rate of 133% over the last three years to around 5,801 SMEs or start-ups in 2014.
Mia Gray, co-author of the report says: "On-line platform-based alternative finance is burgeoning across Europe. However, it's distribution, diversity, and regulation is highly geographically uneven. This report is a first step in exploring these dynamics in various economies. The new Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance will enable us to critically examine this nascent industry from a geographical perspective."
The new Centre provides a disciplined research framework to support the fast-growing structures and activities of alternative finance, in order to address the growing needs of academics, policymakers, regulators and industry; the Centre plans to launch a research programme, host a Global Alternative Finance Data Depository, and organise conferences, networking events and a Fellowship programme.
Moving Mainstream: The European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Report is available to download for free at www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/ccaf/movingmainstream
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# Departmental Seminar with Prof. Richard Dawson (Newcastle University) on Thurs Feb. 26th
25th February, 2015
Please join us for the second of this term's talks as part of the Department of Geography's Main Departmental Seminar Series with Prof. Richard Dawson (Newcastle University) on Thursday, February 26th at 4.15pm for his talk entitled 'Adapting Cities and Their Infrastructure to Global Change: An Integrated Modelling Approach to Understand Risks and Tradeoffs'.
The seminar will be held in the Small Lecture Theatre in the Main Geography Building on the Downing Site and will be followed by drinks in the Common Room. After the seminar, a group will be going to dinner with Prof. Dawson. All welcome!
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# New book on Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain published
19th February, 2015
# CAMPOP featured by ESRC as one of greatest achievements in social science research
2nd February, 2015
Today the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) is featured by the ESRC for its achievement in transforming our knowledge of Britain's demographic past. This is part of a year-long celebration of the social sciences and how they have contributed to society by the ESRC to mark their 50th anniversary.
Work undertaken at CAMPOP means that we know know a great deal more about the demographic and family history of England than we do of any other nation. It has also provided important knowledge about the demographic transition in Britain in more recent times, analysing census data from Scotland, England and Wales. The group's research has shed light on areas ranging from child mortality and family structures to housing and employment, and was crucial in revolutionising our understanding of how industrialisation first occurred in world history. The research group has been innovative in its methods of data collection and analysis, involving amateur and family historians in data gathering. A recent development has been an expansion of work using GIS (Geographical Information Systems), which is already producing many new insights.
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# Geography Seminar Series: Prof. Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies (Feb. 5th)
30th January, 2015
# Professor Ash Amin awarded Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University
30th January, 2015
# Valley on South Georgia named after Nigel Leader-Williams
26th January, 2015
# Vacancy for a 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography
21st January, 2015
The Department is currently advertising a 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography, with a closing date of 12 February. Further information is available.
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10th January, 2015
# Nereus PhD studentship
7th January, 2015
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship on the Nereus programme, with the topic of Mangroves, Fisheries and Community Livelihoods. Deadline for application is 4th February.
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# The social risks of using drones for conservation
10th December, 2014
# David Stoddart (1937-2014)
1st December, 2014
# Professor of Geography vacancy
17th November, 2014
The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Geography (1993) invite applications for this Professorship, to take up appointment as soon as possible. Preference will be given to persons whose work is connected with Physical Geography. Candidates will have an outstanding research record of international stature in Physical Geography and the vision, leadership, experience and enthusiasm to build on current strengths in maintaining and developing a leading research presence.
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# Does it help conservation to put a price on nature?
13th November, 2014
# Alternative finance market set to double in 2015
7th November, 2014
# UCCRI student reports from Future Earth meeting
6th November, 2014
# The Ethnographic Experiment
4th November, 2014
# Connecting health research and disaster research: global health, disaster risk reduction and disaster response
27th October, 2014
The Environmental Systems and Processes Research Group is delighted to welcome Dr Ilan Kelman to the Department on Tuesday, 28th October. Dr Kelman, Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, will talk on 'Connecting health research and disaster research: global health, disaster risk reduction and disaster response' in the Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography at 1pm.
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# Dr David Turnbull workshop on nation state and sovereignty
21st October, 2014
The Nature, Cultures, Knowledges research group is delighted to host Dr David Turnbull for an early career workshop at the Geography Department on Wednesday, October 22nd, 11-12.30pm. The title of the workshop is "The Nation State and Sovereignty: Renarrations, Reterritorialisations, and Keeping the Commons Alive: Bringing Performativity, Connectivity, Movement and Embodied Cognition to the Task".
Dr Turnbull is a Senior Research Fellow at the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab at Melbourne University and will be known to many people for his thought-provoking writings on topics as varied as postcolonialism; indigenous mapping; narrative traditions of space; and performativity. The workshop will be attended by a group of early career researchers encompassing postgraduates and postdoctoral students.
# Anthropocene: is this the new epoch of humans?
16th October, 2014
# Festival of Ideas 2014
16th October, 2014
# Scott Polar Research Institute awarded £500,000 by Heritage Lottery Fund
8th October, 2014
# Salt marsh plants key to reducing coastal erosion and flooding
7th October, 2014
# Cambridge Conservation Seminars 2014-2015
6th October, 2014
# Geography undergraduate dissertation wins national prize
30th September, 2014
# New study finds Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable to climate change
29th September, 2014
# Valuing what nature does for us
8th September, 2014
# Prof. Nick Blomley Seminar 4pm Friday 12th September
1st September, 2014
# New book on criminal corpses
21st August, 2014
# Fixed-term Lectureship in Human Geography
5th August, 2014
The Department currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Human Geography, working in the areas of historical, political and/or economic geography. The post is available from 1 October 2014 to 30 June 2016. The successful candidate will also be considered for a Bye-Fellowship at Fitzwilliam College for the same period. College duties will be separately remunerated, and will include up to four hours per week of supervision (small group teaching).
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# IPS Fellowship at the Library of Congress
30th July, 2014
# IPS Fellowship at the Library of Congress
14th July, 2014
# Geography PhD student in Nature Climate Change, July 2014
1st July, 2014
# The Shrinking Commons Symposium
24th June, 2014
# Shane McCorristine collaborates on Antarctic Pavilion at Venice Biennale
17th June, 2014
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Guardian University Guide
14th June, 2014
# Pan-Inuit Trails Atlas Launched at SPRI
10th June, 2014
# Susan Smith awarded RGS-IBG Victoria Medal
9th June, 2014
# Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure: 50th Anniversary Conference
4th June, 2014
# Active groundwater reservoir found beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
3rd June, 2014
# Royal Society Resilience event at Hay Festival
29th May, 2014
# The Randolph Glacier Inventory 3.2
28th May, 2014
# Professor Ron Martin awarded Doctorate of Science
7th May, 2014
# Dr Mia Gray wins Teaching Excellence Award
30th April, 2014
# Open Days for prospective Undergraduates – Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th July 2014
30th April, 2014
# Hidden Lands & Sealed Mountains – Geography Library Art Exhibit
30th April, 2014
# Three lectureship posts
10th April, 2014
# Professor Phil Gibbard awarded the André Dumont Medal
5th April, 2014
# Geography graduate students win top two prizes at prestigious conference
28th March, 2014
# More calories from fewer sources means more profit and less nutrition
25th March, 2014
# Doran Lecture
17th March, 2014
# Cambridge Literary Festival
14th March, 2014
# Julian Dowdeswell awarded the IASC Medal for 2014
27th February, 2014
# Prof. Jon Harbor: Reconstructing spatial & temporal patterns of past glaciation of the Tibetan Plateau, Tian Shan, & Altai Mountains using geomorphic mapping & cosmogenic radionuclide dating
18th February, 2014
# Overtopping not river bank failure
17th February, 2014
# Professor Paul Robbins, Distinguished International Fellow in Cambridge February 10-14
5th February, 2014
# Book prize: Atlas of Epidemic Britain: a Twentieth Century Picture
4th February, 2014
# Brave New Epoch: a search for humankind's mark on the Earth
30th January, 2014
# Assessing coastal 'bio-buffers' from space
27th January, 2014
# Cambridge in Davos
24th January, 2014
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# Ash Amin awarded CBE in 2014 Queen's New Year's Honours for Contribution to Social Sciences
21st January, 2014
# Chris Sandbrook appears on the BBC Radio 4 Shared Planet series
20th January, 2014
# Departmental Seminar: Professor Alison Blunt on 'At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urbanism'
17th January, 2014
# Coastal Unit surveys storm surge levels
6th January, 2014
# 4 degree temperature rise will end vegetation 'carbon sink'
16th December, 2013
# Lakes discovered beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet using radar
15th December, 2013
This study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reports the discovery using airborne radar of two subglacial lakes 800 metres below the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The two lakes are each roughly 8 to 10 square-kilometres in area, and at one point may have been up to three times larger than their current size.
Subglacial lakes are likely to influence the flow of the ice sheet which, in turn, impacts global sea-level change. The discovery of the lakes in Greenland will help researchers to understand how the ice will respond to changing environmental conditions.
The work was undertaken by Steve Palmer, Julian Dowdeswell, Poul Christoffersen and Toby Benham at the Institute, in collaboration with colleagues at the universities of Texas and Bristol.
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# The Storm Surge: In- and Outdoors!
6th December, 2013
# Space for Giants
5th December, 2013
# Departmental Seminar: Professor Anson Mackay on 'Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia using Palaeoecology'
22nd November, 2013
# Research Seminar 21st November: Dr. Ariel Handel
19th November, 2013
# Graduate student gives evidence to Parliament
13th November, 2013
# Departmental Seminar Thursday Nov. 14th: Professor Andrew Barry
6th November, 2013
# David Nally awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
4th November, 2013
# Dissertation Prize
30th October, 2013
# Library display: fieldwork in Bhutan
24th October, 2013
# Departmental Seminar Series opens with 'Expecting the Best and the Worst from Synthetic Biology'
1st October, 2013
# 30-year-old mystery solved?
1st October, 2013
# Dr Ian Willis speaks at the Cambridge Alumni Festival 2013
26th September, 2013
# A new application for the International Chronostratigraphic Chart!
16th September, 2013
# Glaciologists at SPRI to explore Antarctic source of sea level rise
10th September, 2013
# The Big Bang Theory
30th August, 2013
# Professor Ron Martin appointed as member of Government's Chief Scientific Officer's Foresight Project on the Future of Cities
9th July, 2013
# New book on interdisciplinary approaches to temporary work and unfree labour
1st July, 2013
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Guardian University Guide
4th June, 2013
# Ron Martin gives the Annual Gregory Lecture
28th May, 2013
# Professor Keith Richards awarded Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
13th May, 2013
# Climate change: can nature help us?
8th May, 2013
# Kelby Hicks
25th April, 2013
# Archaeologists say that the 'Anthropocene' is here – but it began long ago
22nd April, 2013
# Masters in Conservation Leadership students shine alongside Sir David Attenborough at CCI Conservation Campus launch
12th April, 2013
# Debating the right to food
8th April, 2013
# Last letter of Captain Scott finally revealed in full – 101 years on
29th March, 2013
# Gang labour in the UK on Radio 4, Thinking Allowed
26th March, 2013
# The Geographical Unconscious: mapping the supernatural in current research
25th March, 2013
Recent decades have witnessed the release of a multitude of studies looking at imaginative and spiritual geographies, maps and monsters, and the psychical landscape of the supernatural. Taken together, this corpus has acted to problematise any reductionist "breaks" which theorise a "decline of magic" (Keith Thomas) or "disenchantment of the world" (Max Weber) in modernity. During this period human geography has undertaken "affectual" and "emotional" turns, while researchers in cultural and literary studies have been working with the "supernatural turn" of the "uncanny nineties". Maintaining a broad field of vision, the theme of this workshop is the geographical unconscious. This meeting brings together contributions ranging from early modern studies to the Arctic humanities to examine and compare the political and cultural agencies at work.
We invite our contributors to present 20-25 minute papers which would set out their current approaches and subjects in an area currently at the centre of several critical developments in the humanities and social sciences. What is the relationship between particular places and their supernatural inhabitants? Can we speak of spirits of place? How do scientific travellers and explorers appeal to the world of dreams, memories, and desires in their practices? What role does haunting play in narratives of life and death? Can otherness ever be accurately mapped?
For more info and to RSVP contact Dr Shane McCorristine.
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# Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left
14th March, 2013
A new book by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift has been published: Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left (Duke University Press, March 2013). A sample chapter can be accessed online.
"Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift provoke us to ask what are the new ways of being human in the twenty-first century and what are the new forms of political action to meet these challenges."—David Starkauthor of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life.
# Cost of Conservation debate at Science Festival
9th March, 2013
# Retribution and restoration: Bosnia on trial
19th February, 2013
# Icy debate on BBC's 'The Forum'
15th February, 2013
# Water under the ice
14th February, 2013
# The journals of William Hooper: Inuit ethnographer and evangelical
12th February, 2013
# Our natural wave buffers
1st February, 2013
# The future of smallholder farming
31st January, 2013
# Dr Iris Möller calls for new priorities in coastal management policy
20th January, 2013
# The Magic of Mud
18th January, 2013
# Snow Lab
17th January, 2013
# Reducing deforestation in the Amazon
10th January, 2013
A Conservation Leadership alumnus, Francisco Oliveira Filho, is heading the efforts of the Brazilian Government to reduce deforestation and land clearance in the Amazon.
His work involves detecting and deterring illegal clearances of forest using helicopters and satellite imagery, and confiscations and arrests, as recently featured in the Guardian newspaper.
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# "Highest Camp in Antarctica" rediscovered atop active volcano after 100 years
19th December, 2012
Precisely one century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, Clive Oppenheimer has located their highest campsite, and retraced their ascent of Antarctica's most active volcano.
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# Subaltern agents of colonialism in Solomon Islands
16th December, 2012
# International Workshop Examines War Crimes Trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina
13th December, 2012
An international workshop led by Dr Alex Jeffrey and held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has emphasised the disadvantaged position of victims and witnesses within war crimes trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event was co-organised by the ESRC-funded Localising International Law research project (RES-061-25-0479) at the University of Cambridge and the Bosnian programme of the Swiss NGO TRIAL. The event included presentations by Dr. Jeffrey, Dr. Michaelina Jakala (Newcastle University), Selma Korjenić (TRIAL), Edin Ramulić (Izvor, Prijedor), Anisa Suceska-Vekić (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network) and Almir Alić (ICTY Sarajevo). Attendees included representatives from United States Department of Justice, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations Development Programme, Victims Associations and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A representative International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) remarked "the event offered a clear message that victims of crime have to come back to the centre of social attention and that they should be provided with legal support teams and representatives who would work for their own good, because in the current social reality perpetrators enjoy many more benefits offered by the judicial system then the victims." A representative of the US Department of Justice saw the research project and the workshop as a crucial intervention in debates concerning transitional justice in Bosnia: "the research should benefit anyone interested in working to develop and sustain effective criminal justice institutions and to promote the fair administration of justice for victims of war crimes. I came away with a much better understanding of how the public and victims perceive the court system in BiH. The attendees were true stakeholders; to hear about their specific experiences and views was extremely useful."
# QPG joins GSI3D as a Consortium Member
10th December, 2012
# Atlas of the Great Irish Famine wins book award
4th December, 2012
# Pamela Anderson visits Department project in Honduras
26th November, 2012
# Feeding Seven Billion: Global Food Security debates
22nd November, 2012
# Race and the 'Pink Tide': Race relations in left-leaning Latin American countries
22nd November, 2012
# Physical Principles of Remote Sensing
22nd November, 2012
# A Geographical Perspective on the Great Irish Famine
29th October, 2012
# Professor Sarah Whatmore, Departmental Seminar, October 18, 4.15pm
18th October, 2012
# Understanding the relationship between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people
15th October, 2012
# Modelling impacts of a warming world across sectors
4th October, 2012
# Cambridge Conservation Seminars
3rd October, 2012
# Professor Neil Smith, 1954-2012
1st October, 2012
# Multidisciplinary research maps human migration out of Africa
18th September, 2012
# Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base
18th September, 2012
# The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia
12th September, 2012
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Guardian University Guide
13th August, 2012
# Alumni weekend 2012
25th July, 2012
# A hopeful sign of further democratic change in Burma
23rd July, 2012
# From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape
23rd July, 2012
# Volcano expert comes in from cold for TV special
11th July, 2012
# Open Days for prospective Undergraduates – Thursday 5th & Friday 6th July 2012
3rd July, 2012
# Chris Jeans awarded the Collins Medal
28th June, 2012
# ESRC-NERC PhD Studentship
27th June, 2012
ESRC-NERC PhD studentship available. Project title 'Understanding and Policy Framing of Coastal Conservation under Sea Level Rise'. UK or EU applicants are eligible.
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# Philippa Williams appointed to three year fixed-term lectureship in Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London
9th May, 2012
Philippa Williams has been appointed to a three year fixed-term lectureship in Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.
# Agroforestry and sustainability in the humid tropics
2nd May, 2012
# Land of Strangers – new book by Ash Amin
30th April, 2012
# The Scott Polar Research Institute and the Times World Atlas (13th ed.) Map of Greenland
19th April, 2012
# Volcano exhibitions
10th April, 2012
# David Harvey elected Honorary Fellow of St John's College
10th April, 2012
# History of Chambers of Commerce
10th April, 2012
# Liz Watson awarded Pilkington Teaching Prize
10th April, 2012
Liz Watson has been awarded one of this year's Pilkington Teaching Prizes. The awards are made by the Cambridge Foundation in recognition of excellence in teaching; they will be presented at a ceremony in June.
# Whose fault is famine? Starvation in the face of plenty
9th April, 2012
# Year 12 Geography and Land Economy Masterclass – Saturday 31st March 2012
30th March, 2012
Come and experience undergraduate teaching at Cambridge…
For the first time, the Year 12 Subject Masterclass series, run by the Cambridge Admissions Office, are offering a Masterclass in Geography and Land Economy. A chance for you to experience undergraduate teaching, speak to current Cambridge students, and hear about how to apply to two of the leading university courses in the world.
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# Assessing protected area effectiveness
30th March, 2012
# Strengthening the bond between policy and science
15th March, 2012
# Talking Green Economy
15th March, 2012
# Science Festival 2012 events
10th March, 2012
# The Eruption after tomorrow
7th March, 2012
# Studentship: Emerging disease transmission in Western Uganda
1st March, 2012
# CUCAP – Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography
1st March, 2012
# Can digital games and virtual worlds help us save nature?
24th February, 2012
# Studentship: Nippon Foundation Nereus Fellowship
7th February, 2012
# John Pilkington – talk: "A Stroll through the 'Axis of Evil'"
7th February, 2012
# MPhil courses
1st January, 2012
# Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD Opportunities
1st January, 2012
Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD Opportunities
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# Austerity: we are not all in it together
21st November, 2011
# Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland
31st October, 2011
A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left Ireland. Today the world is watching as millions in Africa face a similar fate: starvation in the midst of plenty. Dr David Nally's analysis of what happened in his native Ireland less than two centuries ago reveals some shocking parallels with what is happening in Africa.
The book was also picked up by the Huffington Post, where David has written a piece looking at the parallels between historical and contemporary famines.
Dr Nally appeared on 'Everyday Ethics', BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday 7 Aug 2011 [Listen (MP3 file)]. He was also interviewed by The Clare Champion, in an article Parallels in famine-stricken societies.
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# Professor Susan Owens elected a Fellow of the British Academy
31st October, 2011
Professor Susan Owens has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July 2011. Professor Owens is Professor of Environment and Policy, Head of the Department of Geography, and a Professorial Fellow of Newnham College. Her research lies in the field of environmental governance, with particular interests in land use, environment and sustainability, and in the role of knowledge, ideas and expertise in policy formation and change. She is currently a member of the Research Committee of ESRC, the Council of the Royal Geographical Society and the Advisory Group for the Royal Society's Science Policy Centre; previously, she has served on the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and a number of other public bodies. She was appointed an OBE in 1998.
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# Dr Laurent Frideres wins Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) prize
31st October, 2011
Dr Laurent Frideres has won the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) prize for the best PhD thesis in economic geography, Spatial Industrial Clustering and Competitive Advantage: Comparing Firms Inside and Outside Industry Clusters.
# David Duhig wins First Prize in the RGS Climate Change Research Group dissertation award
31st October, 2011
Recent undergraduate student, David Duhig of St Catharine's College, has won First Prize in the RGS Climate Change Research Group dissertation award. The title of David's winning dissertation is The response of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland to climate change computed using a coupled mass balance ice flow model.
# Scientists raise concerns regarding erroneous reporting of Greenland ice cover
31st October, 2011
# Confronting homophobia in South Africa
31st October, 2011
# A Closer Look at Famine – Why do famines still plague us?
31st October, 2011
David Nally and Gerry Kearns have published an article in the latest Chronicle of Higher Education on the geopolitics and history of subsistence crises. Read more (access available until 23rd October).
# Talk: Is the future of food GM?
31st October, 2011
As part of the Festival of Ideasthe Faculty of Law played host to a fascinating talk on the future of GM crops.
Guest speakers Dr. David Nally (University of Cambridge, Geography), Professor Sir David Baulcombe (University of Cambridge, Botany), and Dr. Jack Stilgoe (University of Exeter, Science Policy) shared their different perspectives on this highly complicated, multi-disciplinary issue. The session was ably chaired by Dr Robert Doubleday (also from the Department of Geography).
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# MPhil in Conservation Leadership
1st October, 2011
# Professor Julian Dowdeswell awarded Louis Agassiz Meda
13th June, 2011
Professor Julian Dowdeswell has been awarded the Louis Agassiz Medal of the European Geosciences Union. The medal was established to honour outstanding scientists whose work is related to Cryospheric Sciences. The medal will be presented during the General Assembly of the Union in Vienna in April 2011.
# Fiona McConnell elected to Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College
13th June, 2011
Fiona McConnell, who was an undergraduate in the Department and then completed her PhD at Queen Mary, has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College.
# Peter Dyson wins Undergraduate Dissertation Prize of the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
13th June, 2011
Peter Dyson of Emmanuel College, has won the 2010 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize awarded by the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group for his dissertation entitled 'Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting 'Reality' in Dharavi, Mumbai'.
# Andrew Tedstone awarded runner-up prize in the British Hydrological Society Student Award
13th June, 2011
Andrew Tedstone of Fitzwilliam College has been awarded the runner-up prize in the British Hydrological Society Student Award for his work entitled: 'The subglacial drainage system of the Hagafellsjokull-Eystri'.
# Chetan Kumar elected to non-stipendiary Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall
13th June, 2011
Chetan Kumar (until recently PhD student at the Department) has been elected to a non-stipendiary Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, concurrent with his work at the Department as Research Associate on a project on ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in India.
# Greenland's glaciers double in speed
13th June, 2011
The contribution of Greenland to global sea level change and the mapping of previously unknown basins and mountains beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet are highlighted in a new film released by Cambridge University this morning.
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.
As Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute (part of the Department of Geography) at the University of Cambridge, this film follows him to Greenland and the Antarctic as his research reveals the challenges we all face from climate change.
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# Icelandic eruption
13th June, 2011
Clive Oppenheimer, Reader in Volcanology and Remote Sensing in the Department, was on the BBC Today programme on 25th May 2011 talking about the Icelandic eruption. You can listen to the programme online. He also writes in the Guardian on the subject.
Georgina Sawyer and Evgenia Ilyinskaya, also from the Department, are currently making their way to Iceland to monitor the ash plume.
Clive will be at the forthcoming Hay Festival to talk about his new book Eruptions That Shook The World.
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Guardian University Guide and the Complete University Guide
13th June, 2011
The Guardian University Guide has once again given top place to the Geography Degree at Cambridge for 2012. The Complete University Guide also placed Cambridge Geography top.
Our online course guide has full details on the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
# Clive Oppenheimer speaks at Hay Festival
1st June, 2011
Speaking at Hay Cambridge volcanologist, Clive Oppenheimer, warns of volcano threat.
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# Rex Walford
28th March, 2011
Staff in the Department were shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Rex Walford OBE, in a boating accident on the River Thames on January 2nd 2011. Rex was well known to many staff through his work as a University Lecturer in Geography and Education (in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge), as a past Vice President and council member of the Royal Geographical Society, and as past President of the Geographical Association, including his long-standing association with local branch of the GA. He will be remembered for his wit, wisdom and endless curiosity for all things geographical; his loss to education geography is incomparable. A full appreciation of Rex's contributions to geography, and more widely to the arts, can be found at
# The national census
28th March, 2011
# Centre for Gender Studies – Public Forum in association with The Guardian Newspaper and kindly supported by Cambridge University Press
1st November, 2010
The Centre for Gender Studies in association with The Guardian Newspaper, kindly supported by Cambridge University Press, hosts 3 major international events in London. World class experts engage directly with the public on topics of gender and radical bio-medical advances of the 21st Century. What can the latest scientific advances tell us about gender, what will be possible in the future and why does it matter?
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# Trade-offs in conservation
10th September, 2010
# Karenjit Clare wins 3-year Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford
24th August, 2010
Former PhD student and now Lecturer and Bye-Fellow of Girton College, Karenjit Clare has won a 3-year Junior Research Fellowship at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
# Alan Baker elected Fellow of the British Academy
24th August, 2010
Alan Baker was elected a Fellow of the British Academy on 22 July.
# Adrian Hayes
24th August, 2010
The Department regrets to report the death of Adrian Hayes on 13 August 2010. Adrian's funeral will take place on Thursday 26 August at 1.00pm at the Arbory Trust Woodland Burial Ground at Barton Glebe, near Cambridge. Adrian's family requests that no flowers are sent for the funeral. Adrian's family wishes it to be known that his friends and colleagues are very welcome to attend the funeral.
# Franz Huber accepts an ESRC-funded research fellowship at OU Business School
21st June, 2010
PhD student, Franz Huber, has accepted an ESRC-funded research fellowship for two years at the Open University Business School.
# Professor Philip Gibbard awarded honorary doctorate degree
21st June, 2010
# Dr Jim Duncan is awarded AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors
12th April, 2010
Dr Jim Duncan is awarded the AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors in Washington, April 2010.
# Jenny Gold awarded Andrew Hill Clark Award
12th April, 2010
PhD student Jenny Gold has been awarded the Andrew Hill Clark Award by the AAG Historical Geography Group for the best PhD paper.
# Evelyn Landerer awarded Frederick Soddy Award
12th April, 2010
This year's Frederick Soddy Award, administered by the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, has been awarded to Evelyn Landerer of the Scott Polar Research Institute (part of the Department of Geography), to fund her PhD fieldwork on changing experiences of space and movement in Siberia.
# The Anthropocene: a new Epoch of geological time caused by humans?
12th April, 2010
In 2002 the chemist Paul Crutzen suggested that we are now living in a new geological interval of time that is dominated by human activities. He termed this the Anthropocene. Since then the term has been widely but informally quoted by a range of earth and environmental scientists, has attracted much public attention, and has been the focus of suggestions that it be formally incorporated into the Geological Time Scale. A recent article (Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Will Steffen & Paul Crutzen 2010 The New World of the Anthropocene Environ. Sci. Technol., 44, 2228–2231) examining the nature, scale and status of the Anthropocene as a potential new geological epoch has appeared highlighting key themes such as the effects of anthropogenic influence on global change (e.g. sea level rise, ice sheet stability, ocean acidification, biodiversity) and how this will be reflected in a distinctive geological record. The proposal of the term Anthropocene is controversial has and has triggered comment in various places, including National Geographic News on 6th April 2010, which includes a quote from Professor Phil Gibbard of the Department.
The New World of the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2010, 44 (7), pp 2228–2231
Publication Date (Web): February 25, 2010 (Viewpoint)
# Steven Bland awarded Participatory Geographies Research Group Dissertation Prize
25th January, 2010
Recent Undergraduate, Steven Bland of St Catherine's College has been awarded the Participatory Geographies Research Group Dissertation Prize for his dissertation entitled: 'The Challenges and opportunities facing the movement for radical climate action in the UK'.
# Britain's island heritage: reconstructing half a million years of history
25th January, 2010
The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
Deep below the Bay of Biscay, where the English Channel meets the Atlantic Ocean, layers of sediment hold precious information about how Britain came to be separated from mainland Europe. Until recently, the clues had remained hidden, off limits owing to the impracticalities and cost of obtaining long-piston core samples and high-resolution acoustic data in this area. However, thanks to an Anglo-French collaboration between Professor Phil Gibbard, who leads the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group in the Department, and PhD student Sam Toucanne and his colleagues from the University of Bordeaux, the seabed has now yielded its secrets. In doing so, it provides the final instalment in a story that has been unfolding for two decades, since Professor Gibbard first began his detailed palaeogeographic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the southern North Sea.
This work has recently been featured in The Independent, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and others.
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# Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism
25th January, 2010
# All poor, but no paupers: a Japanese perspective on the Great Divergence
6th January, 2010
A set of Leverhulme lectures to be held at the Law Faculty on 5pm on 1st, 3rd, 8th and 10th February 2010, to be given by a Visitor to the Department, Professor Osamu Saito, Cambridge Group and Hitotsubashi University.
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# Apply to Cambridge!
26th October, 2009
# The Politics of Presence in Latin America
26th October, 2009
# Franz Huber receives the 2009 Early Career Regional Studies Association Award
19th October, 2009
Phd student Franz Huber has received the 2009 Early Career Regional Studies Association Award.
# Katya Shipigina awarded Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Student Prize
19th October, 2009
Katya Shipigina, PhD student at the Scott Polar Research Institute, has been awarded the Student Prize of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society for her MPhil thesis
# Christopher Fitzsimmons wins British Hydrological Society Undergraduate Dissertation Award
19th October, 2009
Christopher Fitzsimmons, who graduated from St Catherine's College this summer, has won the British Hydrological Society Undergraduate Dissertation Award.
# End of an era: new ruling decides the boundaries of Earth's history
19th October, 2009
After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists, led by Cambridge Professor Phil Gibbard, has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary Period by 800,000 years.
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# Alumni Weekend 2009 events
24th September, 2009
# Research Clusters
16th June, 2009
# Conor Farrington wins Harold Blakemore prize
8th June, 2009
Conor Farrington has won the Harold Blakemore prize, awarded by the Society for Latin American Studies, for the best essay by a UK based PhD student in the field of Latin American Studies.
# Quaternary definition led by Cambridge Geography Professor
8th June, 2009
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has elected to formally define the base of the Quaternary at 2.6 million years before present, and also to lower the base of the Pleistocene — an epoch that encompasses the most recent glaciations — from its historical position at 1.8 million years to 2.6 million years ago. The decision, finalised on 21 May, will now be passed to the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) for ratification, which is expected shortly.
The vote shifts an 800,000-year slice, formerly part of the Pliocene Epoch, into the Pleistocene. "It's kind of a land grab," says Philip Gibbard, a geologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who has fought for the redefinition since 2001. "But we see it as just putting straight a mistake that was made 25–30 years ago. "In 1985, the beginning of the Pleistocene was defined at 1.8 million years ago, calibrated to an outcropping of marine strata in southern Italy. But some geologists have long felt that was a localised, arbitrary boundary that did not reflect worldwide changes — and argued instead for the 2.6-million-year mark, when the entire planet cooled".
The term Quaternary was adopted in the early 1800s, when geologists divvied up fossil records of Earth's history into four periods: the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary. The first two terms were discarded long ago, and although Tertiary is still sometimes used, in recent decades some geologists came to consider the Quaternary an outmoded relic. In 2004, a major publication left the Quaternary out of the ICS timescale altogether, making it vulnerable to extinction from scientific nomenclature. In place of the Quaternary, it extended the prior 'Neogene', which began 23 million years ago, up to the present. The Quaternary community went into open revolt but now peace reigns, as the term is safely defined for the first time in its history.
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# Open Days for prospective Undergraduates – Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd July 2009
8th June, 2009
Geography Open Days for prospective students will this year be on 2nd & 3rd July 2009.
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# Colloquium: The Inhabited Arctic
4th June, 2009
Colloquium: The Inhabited Arctic at SPRI (17th June)
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4th June, 2009
Workshop: Community-based Action and NRM in an era of Neoliberalism (June 19)
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# Workshop: Trading Across Scales: Current Perspectives on Managing Wildlife Use
4th June, 2009
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by The Independent and the Education Guardian
20th May, 2009
The Education Guardian University Guide 2010 has once again given top place to the Geography Degree at Cambridge. The Independent's Complete University guide also placed Cambridge Geography top.
EducationGuardian.co.uk's guide to universities and colleges claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on UK higher education. The tables use a range of criteria.
Professor Richard Smith, Head of Department, said:
We are pleased to report that we have once again appeared as the top UK university Department of Geography in the Independent's Complete University Guide published on 30 April 2009 and the Guardian's list of top Universities for teaching Geography published 12 May 2009.
Our online course guide has full details on the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
# Kim Beazley's AAG paper awarded 2009 Development Geographies Specialty Group Paper Award
6th April, 2009
Kim Beazley's AAG paper "Who Directs the Destinies of the Displaced? Interrogating Notions of the Powerless Oustee" has been awarded the 2009 Development Geographies Specialty Group Paper Award at the upcoming AAG meeting in Las Vegas.
# Franz Huber wins RGS-IBG EGRG prize
6th April, 2009
Franz Huber, one of the Department's economic geography PhD students, has won the prize of the RGS-IBG EGRG, for the Working Paper Prize (new for 2009): Social capital of economic clusters: towards a network-based conception of social resources
# Freeze Frame – historic polar images at SPRI
28th March, 2009
Freeze Frame – historic polar images at SPRI
# Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD Opportunities 2009
28th March, 2009
Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD Opportunities
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# Graduate studentships
28th March, 2009
Graduate studentships
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# Annual Report 2007-8
4th February, 2009
Annual Report 2007-8
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# Comparative Colonialisms
8th January, 2009
Comparative Colonialisms: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
# Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 result
6th January, 2009
The Cambridge University Department of Geography was ranked first jointly with the Departments of Geography at the Universities of Bristol, Durham and Oxford in the 2008 RAE Assessment Exercise. The percentages of research assessed were 30% at 4*, 40% at 3*, 25% at 2* and 5% at 1*. There were 49 Units of Assessment submitted in Geography and Environmental Studies across UK institutions.
# Princes visit University of Cambridge to meet experts on global trends
10th December, 2008
Their Royal Highnesses Prince William and Prince Harry were in Cambridge on 28th-29th October 2008 to attend a two-day seminar on the social and ecological challenges facing society.
Amongst the University presenters was Professor Bill Adams of the Department of Geography.
The seminar was hosted by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI) and focused on a number of global trends: poverty, environmental limits, climate change and security.
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# Heart of the Sahara
21st October, 2008
John Pilkington: 'Heart of the Sahara' – 22nd October
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# Alumni weekend: 26th-27th September
15th September, 2008
Alumni weekend: 26th-27th September
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# Geography welcomes the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies
8th September, 2008
The Centre for Gender Studies is an international locus for cutting-edge gender research and a wide community of academics from across the disciplines interested in gender. The Centre is now part of the Department of Geography.
A seminar day will take place on 29th September.
# Seminar presentation by Ingo Kirchner
12th June, 2008
Seminar presentation by Ingo Kirchner
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# 2007 Ashby Prize
19th May, 2008
The Scott Polar Research Institute and Dept. of Geography are pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Powell, a former Ph.D. student (supervised by Dr. M. T. Bravo and Prof. K. S. Richards) and ESRC Research Fellow at the Scott Polar Research Institute/Geography, has been awarded the 2007 Ashby Prize by the editors of Environment and Planning 'A' in recognition of the exceptional quality of his paper on the geography of experimental field practices in the Arctic. The research for the paper was carried out as part of his doctoral work and subsequently submitted for publication. The full reference for the paper is Richard C. Powell (2007) 'The rigours of an Arctic experiment': the precarious authority of field practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970 Environment and Planning A 39(8) 1794-1811.
# Zeldovich Medal
19th May, 2008
The Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) has awarded Dr. Kauzar Saleh with the Zeldovich Medal for 2008 in Space Studies of the Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate. This award is given jointly by COSPAR and the Russian Academy of Sciences to recognize excellence and achievements of early career scientists.
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Education Guardian University Guide 2009
13th May, 2008
The Education Guardian University Guide 2009 gave top place to the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
EducationGuardian.co.uk's guide to universities and colleges claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on UK higher education. The tables use a range of criteria.
Professor Richard Smith, Head of Department, said:
We are delighted that we have sustained leading position in the provision of a Geography Degree course that is so highly rated. We seek to provide an educational environment that will continue to satisfy the aspirations of the extremely high quality of those who apply to read Geography in Cambridge.
Our online course guide has full details on the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
# 25 years of Family Forms and beyond
13th May, 2008
Conference: 25 years of Family Forms and beyond
# The Anthropocene
29th April, 2008
Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say that we may be witnessing a transformation of the World as profound as the end of the age of the dinosaurs, and entering a distinctive new geological period.
Writing in the February issue of the Geological Society of America, GSA Today, Britain's leading stratigraphers (experts in marking geological time, including Phil Gibbard, Professor in the Department) the Geological Society of London's Stratigraphy Commission argue that industrialisation has wrought changes so substantial that usher in a new epoch – the Anthropocene.
# Julian Dowdeswell awarded Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
29th April, 2008
Professor Julian Dowdeswell has been awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for 2008. This is one of the two most prestigious medals awarded by the RGS.
# Open Days for prospective Undergraduates – Thursday 3rd July & Friday 4th July 2008
29th April, 2008
The Department is running Open Days on Thursday 3rd July & Friday 4th July 2008.
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# Networks in Society and the Economy
12th April, 2008
Networks in Society and the Economy
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# University Scholar broadcasts live from the bottom of the ocean
24th March, 2008
A former University student is taking part in a series of unique underwater classroom tutorials off the coast of the Florida Keys. Read more …
# Will Harvey wins prestigious post-doc research fellowship at the University of British Columbia
24th March, 2008
PhD student Will Harvey, who has just submitted his thesis has won a prestigious post-doc research fellowship at the University of British Columbia.
# Alumni Talk: From Cambridge Geography to the Olympics
9th March, 2008
The first in a series of our Alumni talks – careers talks by former students of the department – will be on Monday 10th March, at 5pm in the Large Lecture Theatre.
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# Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD opportunities – October 2008
11th February, 2008
Physical Geography / Environmental Science PhD opportunities – October 2008
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# Ecosystem services and human well-being: Interrogating the evidence
11th February, 2008
Seminar series, 15th January: Ecosystem services and human well-being: Interrogating the evidence
# Former students abroad featured in the media
14th January, 2008
Joe Powell, a student who graduated from the Department last year and has gone to Makerere University in Uganda to do a Masters degree. He has written about his experiences in the Guardian.
Additionally, former student Tim Bromfield has also been involved in the Katine development project being featured/supported by the Guardian.
# Workshop: Experiencing the state: marginalised people and the politics of development in India
31st October, 2007
This workshop will be held on 23rd January 2008 in the Department.
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# Research seminars – Michaelmas term 2007
3rd October, 2007
Research seminars for this term
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# Second Life virtual world lecture from Cambridge Geography professor
25th September, 2007
Professor Philip Gibbard, from the Department of Geography, will speak for half an hour to an audience he himself cannot see using the 3D internet world, 'Second Life'.
The lecture will take place in Second Life at 7pm on Thursday, September 26th and will last for about 30 minutes, including the question and answer session.
See more details and the Lecture venue in Second Life.
The slides from Phil's talk are now available online.
# QPG members featured on BBC's 'Countryfile'
22nd September, 2007
# Catastrophic floods in the English Channel
1st August, 2007
There has been much interest in research on Catastrophic floods in the English Channel published in Nature19th July 2007.
# Undergraduate open days 2007
23rd June, 2007
Undergraduate open days
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# Annual Report 2005
9th June, 2007
Annual Report 2005
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# Jie Ding one of two winners of this year's RGS-IBG Hong Kong Research Grant
8th June, 2007
Jie Ding (PhD student) has been selected as one of two shared winners of this year's RGS-IBG Hong Kong Research Grant.
# Andrew Currah awarded EGRG (Economic Geography Research Group) annual prize
8th June, 2007
Recent former PhD student, Andrew Currah, has just been awarded the EGRG's (Economic Geography Research Group) annual prize for the best PhD dissertation.
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Guardian University Guide 2008
21st May, 2007
The Guardian University Guide 2008 gave equal first place to the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
EducationGuardian.co.uk's guide to universities and colleges claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on UK higher education. The tables use a range of criteria.
Professor Bob Haining, Head of Department, said:
"I am very pleased to see that we continue to score highly in these national comparisons. My colleagues and I will continue to make every effort to offer a first class education to the outstanding students who study here."
Our online course guide has full details on the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
# Research seminars – Easter term 2007
21st May, 2007
Research seminars this term
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# Ron Martin elected to three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
1st May, 2007
Ron Martin has been elected to a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, from October 2007 to September 2010 to research evolutionary economics and economic geography.
# Lectureships in Physical Geography and in Economic Geography
21st April, 2007
Lectureships in Physical Geography and in Economic Geography
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# Human Geography PhD opportunities – ESRC studentships
5th February, 2007
Human Geography PhD opportunities – ESRC studentships
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# Professor Sir Alan Wilson
29th January, 2007
# Research seminars for Lent Term
26th January, 2007
Research seminars for Lent Term
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# Symposium on Geopolitics
4th January, 2007
Symposium on Geopolitics – Friday January 12 2007
# Graduate Studentships
1st January, 2007
Graduate studentships
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# Christopher Rimmer awarded British Hydrological Society prize
29th November, 2006
Christopher Rimmer has been awarded second prize (cash and certificate as 'runner up') by the British Hydrological Society for his dissertation on 'The changing climate of Swiss hydroelectric power production: An analysis of the Haut Glacier D'Arolla meltwater discharge characteristics'.
# Will Harvey awarded EGRG (Economic Geography Research Group) prize
7th September, 2006
Will Harvey, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the EGRG (Economic Geography Research Group) prize for the best Masters Thesis. Will's thesis was entitled "Highly-skilled migration: An analysis of immigrant networks in biotechnology" and has formed the basis of his PhD work.
# Joseph Fisher has been awarded Joanna Stillwell Prize
7th September, 2006
Part II student Joseph Fisher has been awarded Third Prize for the Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations.
# Undergraduate open days 2006
13th May, 2006
Undergraduate open days
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# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Education Guardian 2006
11th May, 2006
Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Education Guardian 2006
# EGRG Annual Symposium 2006
11th May, 2006
EGRG Annual Symposium 2006
# Human Geography PhD. Opportunities – October 2006
11th May, 2006
Human Geography PhD. Opportunities – October 2006
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# Chloe de Pencier wins Landscape Research Group Dissertation Prize 2005
24th April, 2006
Chloe de Pencier of Sidney Sussex College has won the Landscape Research Group Dissertation Prize 2005. Her first class dissertation was entitled "Landscapes of the Mind: An Artist and his Public, Questions of Communication". The work was judged as "the best undergraduate dissertation or project based on original academic research and showing conceptual sophistication in the study of landscape".
# Robin Donkin
24th April, 2006
The Department received, with great sadness, news that Dr Robin Donkin, Fellow of Jesus College and a former member of the Department, died on 1 February 2006. Text of the eulogy spoken at the memorial service can be read online.
# European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Evolutionary Economic Geography
24th April, 2006
Cambridge hosted a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Evolutionary Economic Geography, convened by Prof Ron Martin (Cambridge) and Prof Ron Boschma (Utrecht) on April 3-5. Some 24 leading evolutionary economists and economic geographers from across Europe met to explore the construction of a new evolutionary perspective for studying the economic landscape.
# Physical Geography PhD. Opportunities – October 2006
1st February, 2006
Physical Geography PhD. Opportunities – October 2006
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# NERC studentships
1st February, 2006
NERC studentships available for MPhil degree in GIS and Remote Sensing
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# Geography and ethics
1st February, 2006
'Geography and ethics': this term's research seminars
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# Dr Clive Oppenheimer awarded the Murchison Award
23rd November, 2005
The Royal Geographical Society with IBG have awarded Dr Clive Oppenheimer the Murchison Award ('for publications enhancing the understanding of volcanic processes and impacts')
# Will Harvey made Editor of Contour
23rd November, 2005
Will Harvey has been made Editor of the RGS-IBG E-Journal Contour
# Sarah Radcliffe made Editor of Progress in Human Geography
23rd November, 2005
Dr Sarah Radcliffe has recently been made Editor of Progress in Human Geography (one of five editors)
# Simon Reid Henry awarded best PhD thesis in Economic Geography
23rd November, 2005
Dr Simon Reid Henry: AAG Economic Geography Speciality Group: best PhD thesis in Economic Geography for 2004.
# Rory Gallagher awarded prize in AAG's Sexuality and Space Speciality Group's student paper competition
23rd November, 2005
Rory Gallagher: Second Prize in the AAG's Sexuality and Space Speciality Group's student paper competition
# Al James awarded best UK PhD thesis in Economic Geography for 2003
23rd November, 2005
Dr Al James: RGS-IBG Economic Geography Research Group: best UK PhD thesis in Economic Geography for 2003
# Will Harvey awarded Millennium Scholarship
23rd November, 2005
MPhil student Will Harvey, who has received the highly prestigious Millennium Scholarship from the University.
# Mia Gray appointed secretary of the Economic Geography Research Group at the RGS
23rd November, 2005
Dr Mia Gray has become secretary of the Economic Geography Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society.
# Andrew Currah accepts lectureship in Geography at Oxford University
23rd November, 2005
Andrew Currah, PhD student in economic geography, has just accepted a lectureship in Geography at Oxford University.
# Cambridge Geography ranked top by The Times Good University Guide
10th October, 2005
The Department has come out top for Geography in the 'The Times Good University Guide'. The rankings are based on official assessments of teaching quality, research, average Ucas scores and percentage of graduates who go on to graduate-type jobs or further study.
The rankings for Geography are available at
http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/gooduniversityguide2005/20geography.pdf [PDF format].
Cambridge Geography was also recently ranked best degree by the Education Guardian.
# Cambridge Geography ranked best degree by the Education Guardian
10th October, 2005
The Education Guardian 2005 University Rankings gave first place to the Geography Degree at Cambridge, with 83% (6% clear of the next ranked University). A total of 84 Degrees were analysed in the survey.
EducationGuardian.co.uk's guide to universities and colleges claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on UK higher education. The tables use a range of criteria. A staff score (based on the teaching staff in each subject); entry qualification : (what it takes to get in); spend per student (how much money is put into teaching); staff/student:staff ratio; value added score (conversion of A-levels into a degree class), student destinations (postgraduate employment)j, and inclusiveness (recruitment of ethnic, disabled and mature students).
Professor Bob Haining, Head of Department, said:
"I am delighted at this recognition of the tremendous amount of hard work that colleagues put into teaching undergraduates in Cambridge. We are fortunate to have outstanding students, and we make every effort to offer teaching of the highest standard."
Our online course guide has full details on the Geography Degree at Cambridge.
# Research seminars for Michaelmas term 2005
10th October, 2005
Research seminars for Michaelmas term
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# Annual Report 2004
1st October, 2005
The Department's Annual Report 2004 is now online.
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# Ron Martin elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
31st July, 2005
In July 2005, Ron Martin was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
# Open Day for prospective Undergraduates – 7th July
1st July, 2005
Open Day for prospective Undergraduates – 7th July
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# Environmental Policy: Change and Continuity, North and South
1st May, 2005
Environmental Policy: Change and Continuity, North and South – one day conference on 13th May
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# ESRC studentships and Physical Geography PhD opportunities for UK students
23rd February, 2005
ESRC studentships and Physical Geography PhD. Opportunities for UK students – October 2005
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# Producing Rigorous and Relevant Graduate Research in Social and Economic Geography
1st February, 2005
Producing Rigorous and Relevant Graduate Research in Social and Economic Geography
# Geomed 2005: Conference on public health
1st February, 2005
Geomed 2005: Conference on public health to be held in September bringing together geographers, statisticians, epidemiologists, computer scientists and public health professionals.
# CCRU and Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation to assess tsunami impact on Western Indian Ocean coral reefs
24th January, 2005
An international coral reef assessment group, jointly co-ordinated by Dr Tom Spencer and Capt Phil Renaud, Executive Director of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, and led in the field by Annelise Hagan of the Department of Geography's Coastal Research Unit, leaves for the Seychelles on 7 January to assess tsunami impacts on the coral reefs and shallow banks of the southern Seychelles (5-10 deg S).
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# University-wide open day for Undergraduate admissions
14th June, 2004
University-wide open day for Undergraduate admissions – 1st July 2004
# Research Clusters
17th June, 2003
New information detailing the work of the five research clusters in the Department is now online.
# Professor Hans-F. Graf
17th June, 2003
Appointment of Professor Hans-F. Graf to the Chair of Environmental Systems Science
# New staff information online!
19th May, 2003
New staff information online!
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# Physical Geography Ph.D. Opportunities – October 2003
19th March, 2003
Physical Geography Ph.D. Opportunities – October 2003
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# Photos from Cambridge Festival of Science – National Science Week events
19th March, 2003
Photos from Cambridge Festival of Science – National Science Week events
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# Environment and Livelihoods in African Drylands
18th February, 2002
Environment and Livelihoods in African Drylands
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