News Archive 2007
- Scientific Committee on Information and Data
- What’s in a Name
- A Researcher in the Department has won an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the geography and ethnicity of people’s names.
- Endangered Plant Discovery Could Signal Climate Change
- A team from the Department’s ECRC (Environmental Change Research Centre) has found a new example of a rare and endangered plant in a Welsh lake, it has just been confirmed
- From Dust to Dust: an Award-Winning Paper
- Departmental Reader wins an award from the Environmental Research Letters journal for his paper on how dust from the Sahara ends up in the Amazon.
- Dissolved organic carbon trends explained
- Don Monteith, a Senior Research Fellow in the department, has published a Letter in this week's Nature (22nd November) discussing the causes of rising levels of Dissolved Organic Carbon in surface waters.
- UCL undergraduate geographers in Tunisia
- Ray Harris and Russell Hitchings, aided by Lauren Wagner, led a third year undergraduate field course to Tunisia this November
- New theory of Human evolution
- Professor Mark Maslin and Dr Beth Christensen have edited a special issue of the Journal of Human Evolution which focuses on the connections between African palaeoclimates and early human evolution.
- Department Wins Grant To Study Past Climate Event
- Head of Department Mark Maslin has won a NERC QUEST grant of £650 thousand to study an ancient climate event.
- Fifty Years of Geography
- Former UCL Geographers held a reunion fifty years after they first entered the Department as undergraduates in 1957.
- Towards a Better Bus System
- The Department’s Professor Alan Gilbert was in Bogota to advise on its rapid bus system.
- The Fawcett Fellowships – Support for School Teachers
- Two school geography teachers have started on the Fawcett Fellowships that fund teachers on a 4-month stay in the department to refresh their knowledge in their subject.
- Ice Ice Baby
- The Head of Department, Professor Mark Maslin, has just returned from a unique expedition to the High Arctic, where he helped 12 young people from around the world understand climate change during a sailing trip to Svarlbad in Norway, where they made arts and science projects to help raise awareness of what climate change is doing to the region.
- Department Student Wins Top Essay Prize
- Graduate student Angela Self of UCL Environmental Change Research Centre (UCL ECRC) has scooped first prize in the 2007 Wellcome Trust and ‘New Scientist’ science essay competition.
- At Home and Away Development and the Diaspora
- Dr Ben Page has drawn up a list of recommendations to help UK-based African Community groups develop their home towns.
- The GRAPHIC Initiative
- Richard Taylor has joined a panel of international experts examining the impacts of climate change and development on groundwater resources
- Mapping France
- Emeritus Professor Hugh Clout delivered the keynote speech at the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
- Geography of the Young
- A book co-edited by the Department’s Dr Ruth Panelli is out now.
- Perspectives on Tall Buildings in London
- Two Department members spoke at a conference tracing the history of tall buildings in London. Dr Richard Dennis’s paper recalled ‘Babylonian flats in Victorian London’, and Dr Andrew Harris‘s addressed ‘The High-rise Battle of Bankside’.
- UCL Geography in NERC Science Highlights
- Investigations into measuring forest growth from space, led by Dr Lewis in collaporation with the NERC Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics, have been listed amongst the twenty climate change science highlights in the NERC 2006-07 annual review.
- Egypt's Global Warning
- Fieldwork by Roger Flower and Kevin Keatings investigating the effects of environmental change in ancient Egypt will be shown on a documentary for the TV Discovery Channel. The film will reveal new research into the reason for the downfall of Egypt's ancient civilization
- Landscape, Heritage and Memory
- Professor Emeritus David Lowenthal has delivered a series of lectures in the U.S this month on cultural memory. He has also had a number of works published recently, including a paper entitled 'Islands, Lovers, and Others'.
