News Releases Jan 2010
19 February 2010
Southampton Geography Highlighted in RGS Parliamentary Briefing
The work of Southampton geographers figured prominently in a parliamentary briefing provided by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) on 9th February.
19 February 2010
Glacsweb probe now monitoring landslides in Tijuana, Mexico
Prof. Jane Hart (Geog) and Dr Kirk Martinez (ECS) have now installed the Glacsweb probes into a test site to monitor landsliding associated with flash flooding at Los Laureles Canyon, Tijuana, Mexico. This is a pilot project (installed Jan. 2010) funded by NOAA. Two probes buried within sediment record temperature, pressure, moisture and tilt every 20 minutes and then this data back to the UK where it can be viewed on: http://www.sdcoastalstorms.org/index.cfm?method=cPortal.Data)
22 January 2010
New Postgraduate opportunities within the School of Geography
A wide range of new postgraduate research study opportunities are now available...
27 January 2010
Southampton scientists help new global initiative to assess Haiti earthquake damage
Scientists from the University of Southampton joined a network of over 700 scientists and engineers from universities and other establishments across the world, to give their time over the weekend (23 and 24 January) to assess the impact of the Haiti earthquake. Volunteers from the University’s Schools of Geography, Engineering Sciences and Electronics and Computer Science worked with the Surrey office of Californian research company ImageCat, to provide an accurate and comprehensive assessment of the extent of the devastation.02 November 2009
Urban Social Geography: the Sixth Dimension
Steven Pinch has recently co-authored (with Paul Knox) the sixth edition of Urban Social Geography (Knox and Pinch, 2010). One of the longest running of all human geography undergraduate texts, previous editions have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Greek
29 September 2009
Sensing sub-glacial processes: wireless success
Last summer 6 newly designed wireless probes were installed 60m into the ice and subglacial sediment at Skalafellsjökull, Iceland as part of the EPSRC funded Glacsweb (Glacier wireless sensor network) project. Unfortunately communications were lost, and it was assumed the new system had failed. However, last week, during an expedition to investigate the system, communications were re-established with the probes! Five out of the six sent their data back to Southampton, making these probes not only the most successful, but the most long lived. The sensor data collected indicated the range of subglacial processes occurring within a small area.
13 August 2009
Eco-guardians. Protecting the world's coral reefs.
Some of the world’s rarest and most fragile coral reefs and the economies that depend on them will be better protected thanks to a major international marine project led by the University of Southampton.
13 August 2009
NERC Grant Enables Geographers to Explore Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions on the Eastern Seaboard of North America
A new research project to explore the atmospheric and terrestrial impacts of past changes in the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current has been announced by the Natural Environment Research Council, led by Dr Paul Hughes.
13 August 2009
Past Climates Preserved in Peat - Which May Help Us Face The Future
Researchers from the School’s Palaeoecology Laboratory (PLUS) have pioneered much work on the Holocene climate record from peatlands. Two important papers, based on NERC-funded research by PLUS members and others, have just been published.
13 August 2009
House of Commons Internship for Postgraduate.
Every year the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) offers two PhD students a three month Internship at the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit. Dawn Robbins applied and was fortunate to be chosen. Here she talks about her experience.16 June 2009
The Geography of Commercial Design
This Economic and Social Research Council funded project* analysed the geographical distribution of design consultancies across Britain. It used a large programme of over 100 in-depth interviews with designers to examine the causes of this distribution and the experiences of design agencies in different regions. It confirms the enormous concentration of design consultancies in London and the South East and finds that some city-regions, such as Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, and Manchester, have differing types of smaller design clusters that tend to be based on local and regional markets.
16 June 2009
MSc and BSc Dissertation Prizes
MSc Student wins RGS-IBG prize for dissertation. BSc Student wins Majorie Sweeting award for dissertation16 June 2009
Where are they now?
Where are they now? Stories of two former students academic successes in their continuing career. A high profile article publishing Master's Thesis research and Promotion to a Chair at the University of Glasgow15 May 2009
Annual Gregory Lecture: Acid Rain and Acid Lakes
Thursday 21st May 2009 5pm 17th Annual Gregory Lecture Acid Rain and Acid Lakes: has the problem been resolved? Prof Rick Battarbee FRS, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Change, Department of Geography, University College London. Shackleton Building (B44) Lecture Theatre A.
12 May 2009
Professor Wrigley to Chair International Geography Conference
Professor Neil Wrigley has accepted the role of Chair of Conference for the Royal Geographical Society with IBG (RGS-IBG) international conference to be held in London in 2010. As Chair he will provide the intellectual leadership and direction for the conference, including setting the theme, plenary topics and speakers, and Chairing the high profile events during the conference.
12 May 2009
Spinning Out From Southampton
Steven Pinch and Peter Sunley have a paper about to be published in the journal Venture Capital on the development of businesses that have spun-off from research undertaken in the University of Southampton (Pinch and Sunley, forthcoming). There are now well over 50 of such spin-offs related to the University of Southampton (some of which are amongst the most successful of all UK university-inspired businesses) and, if the number of indirect spin-offs is taken into account, the number is over 100. The research, funded by the British Academy, examined the role of venture capitalists in the development of the cluster of high technology, university-inspired, business spin-offs that have located in the immediate Southampton region (see map for the location of recent firms).
25 March 2009
20% of Research is World-Leading!
School of Geography - 20% of Research is World-Leading!
28 January 2009
Rapid Climate Change Increases Wildfire Activity
School of Geography - Rapid Climate Change Increases Wildfire Activity
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