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Dr Jean-Christophe Comte and Samson Oiro receive RGS Environment and Sustainability Research Grant
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...
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David Watts & Ben Marsden (History) welcome new ESRC PhD student
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...
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Aberdeen Geography students amongst most satisfied in Scotland
The results of this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) shone a welcome spotlight upon the University of Aberdeen’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...
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Dr Tavis Potts takes part in debate on the future of marine planning in Scotland
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...
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NERC funding for Greenland Ice Sheet research
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...
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Volcanoes vs Glaciers: Museum Lates at the British Science week
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...
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Honorary Fellowships of the RSGS awarded to Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip
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...
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Geography lecturer co-organises Dagstuhl 'Computational Transportation Science' workshop
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...
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Study deepens understanding of polar ice streams
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have deepened our understanding of how polar ice escapes into the ocean by studying a site in mainland Europe.
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Geography receives pump-priming funding to explore expansion of GIS course provision
Brice Rea, Matteo Spagnolo, David Green, and Caitlin Cottrill have received pump-priming funding from the University (via the Scottish Funding Council Knowledge Transfer Grant) to undertake market research into the expansion of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provision within Geography. Initially, this will focus on Continuing Professional Development course opportunities for...