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 …
Summer Geoging… Reviving Mayson’s Ordnance Model of 1875.
October 25, 2013
Gary Priestnall writes about digitally reconstructing a Victorian Landscape Model… This project aims to use a range of digital technologies to explore a physical model of the Lake District created by Thomas and Henry Mayson in 1875 which gave tourists to Keswick an unprecedented view of the landscape they were about to explore. Huge efforts …
Summer Geoging … Rio de Janeiro State University
October 18, 2013
Dr Stephen Legg writes about an ongoing collaboration with Dr André Reyes Novaes at Rio de Janeiro State University… Following a three month visit to the School last year, I was invited to spend August with Dr André Reyes Novaes at Rio de Janeiro State University. André had come to Nottingham to develop his work on journalistic …
Summer Geoging… Lake Baikal, Siberia
October 11, 2013
The Geog Blog returns from its summer break with a series of posts from members of the School about research work undertaken through the summer vacation. These blogs will take us from Siberia, to Brazil, Greenland and Jordan amongst other amazing places; so as the nights draw in enjoy travelling with us to sunnier climates …
Geog On… ‘the city’, ‘remote sensing’ and ‘ecosystem services’
May 20, 2013
After a slightly long Easter break Geog On… catches up with itself with three new podcasts… On the city: Alex Vasudevan talks about contemporary urban geography On remote sensing: Doreen Boyd discusses remote sensing and the amazing data you can get from cctv cameras! On environmental services: Jamie Tratalos talks to Matt about the work …
A day in the life of a Geographer – John Pearson
May 8, 2013
Many thanks to former Geography student John Pearson for providing us with another blog about his current career. ‘One of the constant features of working in an Embassy abroad is receiving high level visitors. Over the last few months, I have been heavily involved in that. In March, Lord Stephen Green (Minister for Trade and Investment) visited …
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