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 …

Map of the month. Pakistan, India and mapping the contested accession of South Asia’s princely states

October 3, 2019

A blog by Philip Jagessar Earlier this year the government of India controversially revoked article 370 of the constitution which had given the long disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir a degree of autonomy from the rest of India. Pakistan loudly protested this unilateral move by India and rising tensions have revived fears of a …

The 2019 Mount St Helens field course – a staff perspective

October 1, 2019

A blog by Stephen Dugdale In early September 2019, 15 students from the School of Geography, accompanied by Prof Colin Thorne, Dr Steve Dugdale, Dr Liam Clark and PhD candidate Hazel Wilson, travelled to the US state of Washington to learn about the ongoing impacts of the eruption of Mount St Helens. Now in its …

Attending the IMGS in New Zealand’s South Island

A blog by Alastair Munro, PhD researcher in the School of Geography Earlier this summer, I was fortunate enough to attend the 18th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS), 30th June – 5th July, in New Zealand. For me, the trip was one of several firsts; my first long-haul flight eastwards, first-time setting foot in the …

The Potential of Carbon Storage in the Forest Formation, Trinidad Summer 2019 Fieldwork

A blog by Leah Ragbir Fieldwork in the Caribbean sounds like the ideal situation. The cool breeze, brilliant sunshine and picturesque scenery make it a dream location. My dissertation on the Potential of Carbon Storage in the Forest Formation, Trinidad provided me with such an opportunity to carry out work in the Southern-most island of …

Science Group mapping a new future for Attenborough Nature Reserve

September 26, 2019

Suzanne McGowan reports on the first meeting of the Attenborough Science task group Attenborough Nature Reserve is facing some important changes. Located between Beeston and Chilwell, and in the confluence of the Trent and Erewash Rivers, the reserve is an immensely popular site for local recreational and nature activities. The reserve is designated a Site …