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Prof. Kevin Edwards delivered the keynote address at the Quaternary Research Association Discussion Meeting (‘New approaches, new insights; how developments over the last 30 years have changed our understanding of the palaeoecology of the British Isles during the Holocene’). The meeting took place on 6-7 September at the National Museum...

Dr Jean-Christophe Comte and PhD student Samson Oiro have received a £10k Environment and Sustainability Research Grant from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for a project entitled, ‘East African groundwater resources under climatic and human pressure: A comparative study bringing field evidence to water sustainability in Kenya.’                                                                     The overall aim...

David Watts (Geography) and Ben Marsden (History) have been awarded a PhD studentship by the Economic and Social Research Council, through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. The PhD, which has attracted collaborative funding from the Association of Meat Inspectors Trust, will examine the history of meat inspection in...

The results of this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) shone a welcome spotlight upon the 51cg’s Department of Geography and Environment. Physical Geography received a 92% satisfaction rating from its students, ranking it first in Scotland overall, while Human and Social Geography ranked second across Scotland with a satisfaction...

On the 15th of June Dr Tavis Potts participated as an invited panel member on a debate over the future of marine planning in Scotland. The panel, held in honour of the late Professor Laurence Mee, was hosted at the inaugural Sea Scotland conference in Dundee. The panel session closed...

Dr Brice Rea is part of a team, led by the University of Durham, which have just received £600k+ funding from NERC for a four year project on “Greenland in a warmer climate:  What controls the advance & retreat of the NE Greenland Ice Stream”. The NE Greenland Ice Stream...

As part of the British Science Association’s Aberdeen Branch activities for British Science Week, volcanologist Dr Luca De Siena battled, in a double-header, against glaciologist Dr Brice Rea (ably supported by the rest of the glaciology team – Dr Matteo Spagnolo, Dr Danni Pearce and Dr Ramón Pellitero Ondicol). Each...

The Board of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) have invited Drs Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip to receive the Society’s Honorary Fellowship, in recognition of their “valuable contribution to the development of the Scottish Geographical Journal, for successfully co-editing it for the past six years, establishing it as a...

Geography and Environment Lecturer Dr Caitlin Cottrill recently co-organised a workshop on ‘Computational Challenges in Cooperative Intelligent Urban Transport’ with colleagues from the University of Augsburg, the University of Örebro, and the Free University of Berlin. The workshop, which took place at the prestigious Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for...

Scientists at the 51cg have deepened our understanding of how polar ice escapes into the ocean by studying a site in mainland Europe.