Simon Gosling reports from the 19th International Congress of Biometeorology in New Zealand
December 16, 2011
I have spent the last week at the 19th International Congress of Biometeorology (ICB), which has been hosted by the University of Auckland. It has been an interesting, exciting and busy week. I attended the conference for a number of reasons; firstly in my capacity as the Chair of the Students and New Professionals Group …
Sarah Metcalfe goes Stateside
December 15, 2011
I’ve just returned from nearly two months based at the US Geological Survey (USGS) at Menlo Park, south of San Francisco. I was there to work with Dr. John Barron on the history of the Mexican, or North American, Monsoon which is key to bringing summer rain to much of Mexico and the states of …
Suzanne McGowan talks about her ‘Flying Doctor’ visit to Malaysia
December 13, 2011
It’s the end of November and the plan is to go over to our campus in Malaysia for two weeks. The School of Geography started a Masters course in Environmental Monitoring and Management here last year and we are aiming to replicate the modules that we do in the UK at the Malaysian campus. I …
Matt Jones and Suzanne McGowan talk us through what they got up to in this semester’s Fieldwork Week
November 14, 2011
We’re writing this on Saturday evening from our rented cottage near Hawkshead Hill in the Lake District. We’ve had a busy few days up here to finish off what has been a packed fieldwork week. On Monday and Tuesday we led field trips for our first year Physical Landscapes of Britain module up to what …
My final day in Westminster
November 4, 2011
Yesterday was my final day in Westminster on the Royal Society Pairing Scheme. There is no sitting in the House of Commons this Friday and I also had to return to Nottingham for my lecturing commitments, which included a 9am lecture on Friday morning. Otherwise I would have certainly attended Parliamentary Karaoke in the Sports …
A Week in Westminster for Simon Gosling… Day 3
November 3, 2011
Yesterday was my busiest day in Westminster so far. The day kicked off with an Environment and Climate Change (ECC) Select Committee Meeting in one of the Committee rooms of Portcullis House. The Committee posed questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne. The main questions were centred around the …
A Week in Westminster for Simon Gosling… Day 2
November 2, 2011
I spent half of yesterday attending seminars/talks that had been organised by the Royal Society and the other half shadowing Mr Barry Gardiner. In the morning, Sir John Beddington, gave a stimulating talk about the role of the Government Office for Science (GoS), and his role within. He introduced us to Foresight, which is the …
A Week in Westminster for Simon Gosling… Day 1
October 31, 2011
Today was very much like the first day of work at a new job. i.e. a great deal of very interesting, fascinating, and important information to take in, in a very short amount of time! My first day on the Royal Society Pairing Scheme, with Mr Barry Gardiner MP (Ed Miliband’s Special Envoy for Climate …
A Week in Westminster for Simon Gosling…
October 27, 2011
Throughout next week (31 Oct to Nov) I’ll be blogging about my experiences as one of the participants on the Royal Society Pairing Scheme. I’ll be spending a week in Westminster, shadowing Mr Barry Gardiner MP, who is Ed Miliband’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment and MP for Brent North. With my research expertise in …
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