Geosciences

Seminars

Towards Local Sustainable Development Through Tiger Conservation; Case Study of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, India

Date
15 May 2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Bhawar Vishvendra Raj Singh, Mohanlal Sukhadia University. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

The Role of Sewage and Legacy Pollution in Standing Waters: a case study at Rutland Water

Date
13 December 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Savannah Worne, Loughborough University and Erika Whiteford, Nottingham Trent University. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Impact of organic pollutants from informal settlements on sustainable development goals and river sediment quality, Nairobi, Kenya

Date
03 May 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Dr Christopher Vane, Head of Organic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

PhD students seminar

Date
07 December 2022 (13:30-15:30)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Third year PhD students in the Geoscience Theme will perform presentations outlining their research and progress in one of two events per year, one taking place in each semester. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

What can (local) ecological knowledge tell us about mammal populations and wildlife trade in North Korea?

Date
23 November 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Joshua Powell, Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and University College London. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Blooming blanket weed: managing nuisance algae in UK freshwater bodies

Date
24 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Hannah Kemp, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Quantifying the sensitivity of all life stages of the mayfly to elevated nutrient concentrations in rivers and streams

Date
18 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Hannah Markham, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

High climbers in high carbon

Date
18 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With John Hickson, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Changes in Arctic plant communities: the roles of climate and geodiversity

Date
11 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Oliver Baines, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

CANCELLED - Unlearning and Tackling Racism in Geography and the Geosciences

Date
05 May 2022 (10:30-11:30)
Location:
Online
Description
With members of the School of Geography URGE (Unlearning Racism in the Geoscience) Group. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

How does soil type impact PAH dermal bioavailability?

Date
02 March 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Alison Clayson, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Seminar with Joshua Jonah and Tianyang Du

Date
24 February 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
'Impacts of Urban Heat Island on Human Health in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and Environ'; and 'An assessment of thermal pollution in rivers due to cooling water from power plants using a newly developed thermal pollution index'. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Seminar with Ali Ben Mustapha and Grant Vernham

Date
02 February 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Ali Ben Mustapha and Grant Vernham, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Seminar with Karla G. Hernandez-Aguilar and Laura Turner

Date
12 January 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Karla G. Hernandez-Aguilar and Laura Turner, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Sustainable urban water management strategies in Chinese cities – the Sponge City Program (SCP): opportunities for Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) development among Chinese cities

Date
15 December 2021 (09:00-10:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Faith Chan, University of Nottingham, China Campus. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Lumps, bumps and dirt: using glacial landforms and sediments to reconstruct glacier dynamics

Date
08 December 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Ben Chandler, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Big Fish, Little Fish, Plastic Box

Date
20 October 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Tom Stanton, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Catchment Detachment: Our Global Water Quality Challenges

Date
26 May 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Sarah Cook, Biosciences, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests and Global Environmental Change

Date
19 May 2021 (14:30-15:30)
Location:
Online
Description
With Jennifer Powers, University of Minnesota, USA. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Assessing the impact of the 2019-2020 bushfire season on Australia's 26,000 plant species

Date
29 April 2021 (09:00-10:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Rachael Gallagher, Macquarie University, Australia. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

The isotherm race: biotic responses to global warming

Date
21 April 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Jonathan Lenoir, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Effect of data trade-offs on flood risk modelled using high and low complexity hydrological models in a highly urbanized data-sparse coastal region

Date
10 March 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Olumese Efeobokhan, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Geosciences seminar with Laura Hunt and Abdulaziz Alsaleh (University of Nottingham)

Date
03 March 2021 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
Online
Description
Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Geosciences seminar with Annegreet Veeken and Amit Kumar

Date
04 February 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Annegreet Veeken and Amit Kumar, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

The role of anthropogenic litter as novel habitat for macroinvertebrates living in urban streams

Date
09 December 2020 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Hazel Wilson, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Reconstructing the Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate of southern Jordan using sedimentary archives

Date
18 November 2020 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Ahmed Alshdaifat, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

What drives specialisation and diversification in island floras?

Date
14 October 2020 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Vanessa Cutts, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Exploring locational criteria to optimise biofuel production potential in Nigeria

Date
15 July 2020 (14:30-15:30)
Location:
Online
Description
With Basiru Shehu, University of Nottingham.

Ponds of the tropical Asian mega-deltas: Socio-ecological systems at risk

Date
01 July 2020 (15:30-16:30)
Location:
Online
Description
With Heather Moorehouse, Lancaster University.

A century of limnological evolution and interactive threats in the Panama Canal: Long-term assessments from a shallow basin

Date
11 June 2020 (15:00-16:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Jorge Salgado, University of Nottingham.

Reconstructing episodic and long-term salinity increases in coastal lakes and wetlands over the late Holocene

Date
28 May 2020 (11:00-12:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Lucy Roberts, University of Nottingham.

Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate on Lake Ecosystems: An Introduction to the Energy-Mass Flux Framework

Date
07 May 2020 (11:00-12:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Peter R. Leavitt, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Society, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada and Institute for Global Food Security, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Archaeogenetics and Crops: Using DNA to Resolve Histories of Human–Plant Relationships

Date
24 April 2020 (11:00-12:00)
Location:
Online
Description
With Andrew Clarke, (Archaeogenetics), Future Food Beacon/School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham.

*CANCELLED* Geosciences seminar with Andrew Clarke (title TBC)

Date
08 April 2020 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Andrew Clarke, Future Food Beacon, University of Nottingham.

*CANCELLED* Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate on Lake Ecosystems: An Introduction to the Energy-Mass Flux Framework

Date
25 March 2020 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Peter Leavitt, University of Regina.

*CANCELLED* Geosciences seminar with Ahmad Alshdaifat and Vanessa Cutts

Date
11 March 2020 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Ahmad Alshdaifat, University of Nottingham and Vanessa Cutts, University of Nottingham.

Adopting deep learning methods in fluvial remote sensing

Date
19 February 2020 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Patrice Carbonneau, Durham University.

Patterns and mechanisms in the adaptation to novel climate and resource niches during range shifts

Date
05 February 2020 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Lesley Lancaster, University of Aberdeen.

The Hydroclimatic History of Sub-tropical Australia Inferred from North Stradbroke Island Lake Sediments

Date
17 December 2019 (12:30-13:30)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Charles Maxson, University of Nottingham. Part of the Geoscience Seminar Series.

Fieldwork findings, fables, fact and fiction

Date
05 December 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Fieldwork presentations, various University of Nottingham.

Exploring plague's niche through species and soils

Date
20 November 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A39, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Henry Fell, University of Nottingham.

Sea ice, diatoms, and organic carbon cycling in a warming Arctic Ocean

Date
12 November 2019 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
A44, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Graham Underwood, University of Essex. Part of the Geoscience Seminar Series.

Geosciences Seminar with Tom Stanton and Emma Higgins

Date
02 October 2019 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A44, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

Biogeochemical cycling in the North Pacific through the Mid Pleistocene transition

Date
27 March 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Andrea Snelling, University of Nottingham.

PhD presentations

Date
06 March 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar with Chloe Brown, University of Nottingham, and Simon Tarr, University of Nottingham.

Development of a water balance model for Shortan lake, Northern Kazakhstan

Date
20 February 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A42, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Marzhan Baigaliyeva, PhD.

A view from above: Using UAVs to identify liana infestation in Malaysian tropical forests

Date
20 February 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A42, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Catherine Waite, PhD.

Exploring the treasure trove: using natural history collections to study biodiversity

Date
23 January 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, London.

A Palaeoecological history of climate and fire impacts on terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems in Tasmania, Australia

Date
16 January 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Kirsten Beck, University of Lincoln.

Geography fieldworkers know their place...the diaries and many more stories

Date
12 December 2018 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar fieldwork presentation.

PhD year three presentations

Date
21 November 2018 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Charlotte Briddon and Savannah Worne.

PhD year three presentations: Interactive effects of hydrology and nutrient pollution on shallow freshwater lakes in the middle Yangtze floodplain

Date
31 October 2018 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A42, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Linghan Zen, PhD.

Achieving urban flood resilience through Blue-Green Cities

Date
11 October 2018 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A48, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Emily O'Donnell, University of Nottingham.

A sea of change: Impacts of reduced nitrogen and phosphorus loads on coastal phytoplankton communities

Date
26 September 2018 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Amanda O'Bryne (Burson).

People, politics, and the Peak: examining human activity and migration in the past

Date
09 May 2018 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A42, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research workshop by Dr Hannah O'Regan, University of Nottingham.

Cloud Compute Workshop

Date
28 March 2018 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A44, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research workshop by Simon Tarr, University of Nottingham.

Yet more clean socks. Further (mis)adventures in the field

Date
13 December 2017 (16:00-18:00)
Location:
A42, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar - Theme session: Fieldwork experiences.

Dragons feel the heat: ecological consequences of plantations on tropical lizards

Date
22 November 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
B21, Physics Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by James Hicks, School of Geography.

Bigging up behaviour on coral reefs

Date
25 October 2017 (16:30-17:30)
Location:
A44, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences research seminar by Dr Sally Keith, Lancaster University.

Playing with fire: the anticipated consequences of restoring fluvial dynamics in an ecologically important river

Date
15 June 2017 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Professor Christopher Gibbins (University of Nottingham).

Holocene and deglacial palaeoceanography from the SubAntarctic island of South Georgia

Date
10 May 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
a45, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Rowan Dejardin (PhD student, School of Geography, University of Nottingham).

Bering Sea high latitude nutrient and CO2 upwelling since 1.5 Ma

Date
05 April 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
a45, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Sev Kender (Senior Research fellow, School of Geography, University of Nottingham).

Response of tundra plant communities to climate warming: phenology, traits and composition

Date
28 March 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Anne Bjorkman (Aarhus University).

Late Quaternary volcanic ash records from East African lakes

Date
22 March 2017 (15:00-16:00)
Location:
A31, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Christine Lane (Professor, School of Geography, University of Cambridge).

The biogeography of plant functional traits - from roots to space

Date
15 March 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
a45, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Geosciences series seminar by Franziska Schrodt (Anne McLaren Fellow, School of Geography, University of Nottingham).

 

 

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