Posts by lzzeb
Blog of Blogs 2019
December 12, 2019
2019 has been a busy year here at the School of Geography, and to round up the year and give you an idea of what we do, we have put together a collection of blogs relating to research from the School, which we hope you will enjoy. We would also like to wish you a …
Map of the month. Mapping Industry in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
December 5, 2019
A blog by Dr Andy Cook In November 2019, the former Czechoslovakia commemorated the 30th Anniversary of what became known as the ‘Velvet Revolution’ – a series of largely peaceful protests that heralded the end of four decades of state socialist rule in the country. Given the significance of this anniversary, it proves useful to …
Amsterdam International Water Week Conference 2019
November 27, 2019
A blog by Dr Emily O’Donnell The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) brings together leaders from government, the private sector and academia to explore a new era of sustainable water management. It is a global movement committed to a future in which a circular and sustainable water environment is achieved. One of the core topic …
European Society for Environmental History conference 2019
October 15, 2019
A blog by Dr Robert Hearn From the 21st to the 25th August, I attended the 10th biennial conference of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), hosted by the Estonian Centre for Environmental History (KAJAK) at Tallinn University. Celebrating the society’s 20th anniversary, this year’s conference explored the theme of ‘Boundaries in/of Environmental History’. …
Mt St. Helens Field-course 2019 Student Perspective
A blog by Charlotte Evans The Mt St Helens 1980 eruption is a hard case-study to avoid as a Geography student. It tends to re-occur throughout GCSE and A-Level studies, and I have always been fascinated by it. When the opportunity presented itself to visit the volcano and study the surrounding landscape, I knew I …
ISRS2019 in Vienna, Austria
October 10, 2019
A blog by Alexandra Zieritz About 8 months ago (how time flies…) I started my Anne McLaren Fellowship at Nottingham UK after having spent four years at the Malaysia Campus. During that period, my focus was on developing networks and disseminating my work in Malaysia and the wider Southeast Asian region. As one of my …
BP prize winners
October 9, 2019
A blog by Matt Jones School of Geography alumnus Josh Townsend visited Nottingham last week to present our first BP Environmental Geoscience prizes. These awards are made to our undergraduate Environmental Geoscience students based on their dissertation proposals and provide funds to help them with their dissertation fieldwork undertaken over the summer vacation. This year …
The Goldschmidt conference
October 8, 2019
A blog by Professor George Swann Why do you go to a conference? One of the most common questions I’m asked when I mention that I about to head off to such an event. Some might simply see a conference as a glorified holiday. Whilst conferences can indeed be an opportunity to travel somewhere new, …
Bird diversity and mining
Lucy Benniston writes about her undergraduate dissertation research… After months of searching through old maps, emailing landowners and researching local history, in August I finally had a list of woodland sites I would be able to sample. For my dissertation research I would be visiting 15 different woodlands in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire to record the …
Topographical art, landscape history and current landscape management policies in NW Italy
A blog by Professor Charles Watkins The coast and mountainous interior of North West Italy were popular with British tourists and travellers in the nineteenth century. The number of visitors rapidly increased after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and from 1835 onwards more and more of these people settled along the coast. Many visitors …
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