Fieldwork Week!
November 14, 2014
Week seven of semester one is Fieldwork Week… Lectures are put on hold to allow students and staff to get out and undertake fieldwork without interrupting their lecture and practical classes. Last week our students were in Berlin, at the British Geological Survey, and out and about on various reaches and hillsides across the UK; …
From Windermere to Malaysia…
November 7, 2014
PhD student Heather Moorhouse blogs from Malaysia… Now in my fourth and final year, I have begun the most feared period of the PhD process, the big Thesis write-up (or the big T for short). I recently returned home from three years in Nottingham to write-up my findings on my PhD project which looks at …
New research facility the “Centre for Environmental Geochemistry”…
November 4, 2014
Our new Professor of Isotope Geoscience Prof. Melanie Leng introduces the new centre… This year saw the opening of a new research facility in Nottingham, the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. The Centre brings together existing geochemical facilities and groups within the University of Nottingham and the British Geological Survey (out at Keyworth). The CEG aims …
The 2014 Annual School of Geography Careers Networking Event
October 24, 2014
Simon Gosling, Associate Professor in Climate Risk and the School of Geography Careers Officer, talks about yesterday’s annual careers networking event. The School of Geography’s third annual careers networking event was held at the Ropewalk yesterday evening (23rd October 2014). Geography students from all three undergraduate years came to chat with eight alumni guests …
From John Pearson … The Transport of the Future: selling UK vehicle expertise to Mexico
December 20, 2013
Mexico is now the eighth largest vehicle producer in the world. It is getting a lot of attention as more companies set up production facilities here. Just last month, the Mexican media was full of plans for Audi to build its first production plant in Mexico, in Puebla. This will be the first “premium brand” …
From John Pearson … Technology and Tacos
November 29, 2013
Between now and the end of term we are pleased to welcome back former UoN Geography student John Pearson to the Geog Blog with a series of posts about what he is up to now… ‘A key priority for the British Embassy in Mexico City is encouraging inward investment to Britain. There are various large …
“A Day in the Life Of…” – The 2013 School of Geography Careers Networking Event
November 28, 2013
Simon Gosling, Lecturer in Climate Change & Hydrology and the School of Geography Careers Contact, talks about last month’s annual careers networking event. The School of Geography’s second annual careers networking event was held at the Ropewalk last month on Halloween. It was jointly organised between the School of Geography and GeogSoc, the student Geography …
Summer Geoging … Jordan
November 21, 2013
This summer I spent just over 2 weeks out in the desert of eastern Jordan working with 3 different archaeological excavations. This was the first field trip as part of a new set of funding from the Council for British Research in the Levant to investigate Palaeoenvironments of the Late Glacial Transition in the Eastern …
Summer Geoging … Diggers 2012
November 15, 2013
Briony McDonagh blogs about her summer fieldwork… While other members of the School of Geography have spent the summer conducting fieldwork in places as far afield as Brazil and Siberia, my research has kept me rather closer to home. In fact, my most recent field experience took place just a couple of hours down the …
Summer Geoging … Disko Island, west Greenland
November 5, 2013
Appropriately for Fieldwork Week Mark Stevenson and Joe Bailey tell us about their summer trip to Greenland… As part of my doctoral research, I went to Disko Island, west Greenland, in August of this year to continue my research into carbon cycling in Arctic lakes. I was joined by Joe Bailey, who is also a …
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