The University of Sheffield
Department of Geography

October 2012  
Tuesday 2 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
Increased glacier runoff enhances the penetration of warm Atlantic Water into a large Greenland fjord

Andrew Sole (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Monday 8 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Ships’ logbooks & the climate of nineteenth century southern Africa: preliminary results

Matt Hannaford (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 9 Department of Geography Physical and Human Geography Seminar Series co-hosted event
Mountains matter: The global importance of mountains
Martin Price (University of Highlands and Islands, Perth)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Monday 15 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Permafrost carbon and the greenhouse effect

Phil Wookey (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 16 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
Ocean influence on North Atlantic storms in a future climate
Tim Woollings (Meteorology, University of Reading)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 16 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Hospitality, asylum and the city: interrogating Sheffield's 'proud record' of welcome
Jonathan Darling (University of Manchester)
4:15pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Monday 22 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Exploring internal vs. external controls on Greenland outlet glacier behaviour

Stephen Livingstone et al (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 23 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
Glacier mice at Falljökull, Iceland: an unusual and extreme Arctic habitat
Nicholas Midgley (School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 23 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Internal Research Seminar
4:15pm, Room B8
Tuesday 30 October

Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
Dam-break megafloods’ landscape signatures: Can we reconstruct the flood details?
Paul Carling (Geography & Environment, University of Southampton)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

Tuesday 30 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Admissions to Acute Psychiatric Hospitals for Depression: A tale of Proximity?
Karyn Morrissey (University of Liverpool)
4:15pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

 

November 2012  
Monday 5 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Coastal upwelling across the Canary Current system – more, less or no change?

Tom Cropper (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 6 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
What we do and don't know about ice sheet dynamics and recent sea level rise
Jonathan Bamber (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol)
4pm, (venue tbc)
Tuesday 6 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Urban blindspots
Florian Kossak and Stephen Walker (Architecture, University of Sheffield)
4:15pm, Room B8
Tuesday 13 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
Think before you link: Dangers of aligning fossil proxy archives
Maarten Blaauw (Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 13 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Violence, space, and emergent urban landscapes
Jeff Garmany (KCL)
4:15pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Monday 19 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Recent fieldwork in Greenland

Andrew Sole (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 20 Department of Geography Physical Geography Seminar Series
A new concept for the palaeoceanographic evolution of Heinrich Event 1 in the North Atlantic
Jennifer Stanford (Geography, Swansea University)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 20 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Internal Research Seminar
4:15pm, Room B8
Tuesday 27 Department of Geography Physical and Human Geography Seminar Series co-hosted event
Ecosystems based adaptation: are we being conned? Thoughts from Mexico

Andrew Newsham (Institute of Development Studies)
4:15pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

December 2012  
Monday 3 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Modelling Greenland icebergs

David Wilton (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 4 Department of Geography Human Geography Seminar Series
Homelessness kills: an analysis of homeless mortality in early twenty-first century England
Bethan Thomas (Geography, University of Sheffield)
4:15pm, Room B8
Monday 10 Department of Geography Physical Geography Forum
Christmas walk
Tuesday 11 Department of Geography Physical and Human Geography Seminar Series co-hosted event
The ‘everyman’ of zero carbon housing: codified carbon performance and the imagined practices of future habitation
Gordon Walker (Lancaster)
4:15pm, Ron Johnston Research Room