Research Calendar

March 2010  
Tuesday 2 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
NASA film 'A tour of the cryosphere, Earth's frozen assets' and discussion of physical geographers' impact for REF
Chris Clark and Grant Bigg (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 9 Department of Geography Human Geography seminar
Including the social network in geographical analysis: some multilevel approaches
Mark Tranmer (Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 16 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
tbc
Darrel Swift (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 16 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
Bloomin' diatoms: seasonal records of late Quaternary Antarctic ice-ocean interactions
Eleanor Maddison (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Open University)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

April 2010  
Tuesday 13 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
Response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to contemporary climate change (1892-2100)
William Cheung (Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 13 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
Palaeo-subglacial lakes – a NERC Fellowship application
Stephen Livingstone (prospective NERC Fellow)
4pm, Room B8
Tuesday 13 Department of Geography Human Geography seminar
Estimating the costs of crime - and the value of crimes 'prevented' - across the New Deal for Communities area-based initiative
Adam Whitworth (Geography, University of Sheffield)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 20 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
The future of physical geography postgraduate research funding
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 20 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
(A)cultural geomorphology
John Wainwright (Geography, University of Sheffield)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 27 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
Plumbing new depths: the geophysical exploration of subglacial Antarctic lakes
John Woodward (Applied Sciences, Northumbria University)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 27 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
What I did in New Zealand during my sabbatical
Julie Jones (Geography, University of Sheffield)
4pm, Room B8
Tuesday 27 Department of Geography Human Geography seminar
tbc
Patel (Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Thursday 29 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
The largest late Pleistocene-Holocene explosive eruptions in the Kamchatka Peninsula, NW Pacific, and their tephra as a tool for distal correlations
Vera Ponomareva (Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatka, Russia)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

May 2010  
Tuesday 11 Department of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Forum
tbc
Tris Irvine-Fynn (Geography, University of Sheffield)
1pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 11 Department of Geography Human Geography seminar
The 'non-DAC donors' and the changing landscape of foreign aid: challenges to postcolonial geography
Emma Mawdsley (Geography, University of Cambridge)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Thursday 13 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
Paraglacial bedrock river incision - knickpoint retreat rates from cosmogenic nuclides
John Jansen (Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 18 Department of Geography Physical Geography seminar
Physical Geography PhD Student Upgrade Presentations
2-5pm, Ron Johnston Research Room
Tuesday 29 Department of Geography Human Geography seminar
tbc
Simon Kingham (Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
4pm, Ron Johnston Research Room

 

Convenors for departmental research forum:

Climate & Cryosphere: Grant Bigg (x27905)
Sediment Systems: John Wainwright (x 27951)
Social & Cultural Geographies: Nicky Gregson (x27943)