50th Anniversary of Hoggar Mountains Expedition to the Sahara

November 24, 2015

Many thanks to Dennis Jones for providing us with these images and account of a UoN expedition in 1965. After receiving a BSc in Geology in 1966 Dennis had a successful career working in the exploration and mining industries – his brief cv follows his post. As with so many important events in one’s life, the Hoggar Mountains Expedition to southern …

Answering the big questions in climate change impacts science

March 5, 2015

This week, a team of environmental modellers from the School of Geography have been presenting their research at a major workshop on modelling climate change imapcts, at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in Laxenburg, Austria. The team comprises of Dr Simon Gosling (Associate Professor of Climate Risk), Dr Nick Mount (Associate Professor …

Going Underground – exploring old mines in the Peak District

When Daniel Defoe travelled around Derbyshire during his tour of Great Britain in the late seventeenth century, he unexpectedly witnessed a miner emerging from a lead mine near Brassington: “we were agreeably surprised with seeing a hand, and then an arm, and quickly after a head, thrust up out of the very groove we were …

What on earth do you actually do?!

February 6, 2015

As a surveyor in the Oil and Gas industry there is a question I get asked a lot: what on earth do you actually do?! Unfortunately, there is no simple answer, but the question is a good one, in that everything I do in my job, is on the earth! Geography, and in particular geomatics, …

Pigeon chat

January 30, 2015

I’m beginning to get a reputation. “I’ve seen something about pigeons recently” is how most people greet me these days, and I can barely come across anyone anymore without them talking to me about my feathered research subject. Who’d have thought pigeons would provide such a talking point?   But, then again, it has long …

A Geographer, pretending to be an Engineer, in Zambia…

December 5, 2014

…actually, as a human geographer based in the Faculty of Engineering, I pretend to be an engineer most days. There is however, logic to this madness. I am a research fellow on the ‘Barriers’ project which is a School of Geography (Co-Investigator Dr Sarah Jewitt) and Faculty of Engineering (Co-Investigator Dr Mike Clifford) EPSRC funded …

Environment Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (and a bit about the West African Monsoon!)

November 28, 2014

Former Nottingham Geography student Rachael Lem has just started the second year of her NERC funded PhD within the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool. There’s more about Rachael’s PhD at the foot of this post, where Rachael tells us what she’s been up to in Liverpool alongside her PhD work… ‘We are …

Music – bringing people together

Geography alumnus John Pearson, now of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, returns to the Geog Blog with a final report from his posting to Mexico. John will return to the Geog Blog in the new year and let us know how he’s settling back into life in the UK and his new role at the …

GeogSoc on Geog Blog…

November 21, 2014

Thanks to Kieran Phelan and his GeogSoc committee for their post below… It’s an extremely busy time of year for all at University! Whilst it’s wonderful to see the vacation period, with all its very exciting festivities, appearing on the horizon, it’s still a very stressful period, filled with coursework, internship and graduate scheme deadlines! …