Professor Graham Moon and Professor Jamie Pearce (University of Edinburgh) have assembled and curated a virtual special of the journal Health and Place devoted to papers focussing on how space, place and health geography impact on the tobacco epidemic. Professor Moon led a co-authored commissioned paper introducing the special …
New Pacific PhD’s arrived The PLUS group has gone rather tropical with the arrival of 3 new PhD’s Charlotte Hipkiss, Marjorie Fis and Nicola Strandberg, with funding from the AU and SPITFIRE. Between them and two other PhD’s (Marie Schenkler – Coastal change in Solomon Islands with Rob Nichols and …
Dr Andrew Power is currently PI on a 2 year ESRC funded project: ‘Self build Social Care’. This is a collaboration between geographers at Universities of Southampton (AP and Dr Hannah Macpherson) and Dundee, Education (Prof. Melanie Nind) and adults with learning disabilities in our local communities. We are examining …
Prof Steve Darby is involved in two new NERC research grants, worth a combined total of around £900k FEC, that have been awarded through a Newton Fund thematic programme on Hydrometeorological Hazards in SE Asia. Steve, along with Justin Sheffield and Craig Hutton, will be leading a team of UK …
When I was back home recently (Kurdistan Region/Iraq) I was invited for a talk on national TV (Kurdsat). The interview was focusing on the Worldpop and Flowminder works and projects around the world. What is the big data (Satellite imagery and mobile data)? The benefits of these datasets in many …
Siberia and the Russian Far East (SRFE) comprise a large proportion of all northern lands, and they are experiencing rapid climate warming. Their important role in global climate processes (e.g., permafrost thaw, forest fires, and associated carbon release) is poorly understood, partly because of general difficulties of access and because …
The UK can expect more large rural fires with global warming. After burning, how can the landscape and vegetation of our moorlands and heathlands best be restored, and their vital ecosystem services—such as carbon sequestration—be maintained? Paul Hughes and Mary Edwards will be collaborating with Bjorn Robroek (IfLS) on a …
On 22 November 2018 Malcolm Hudson gave an invited lecture entitled ‘Plastic Pollution- should we be worried?’ to the Royal Society of Chemistry at the National Oceanography Centre- exploring the environmental issues to an audience with an industrial background. Malcolm, who leads the University’s Marine Plastic Pollution Special Interest Group …
BRECcIA (Building REsearch Capacity for sustainable water and food security In drylands of sub-saharan Africa) is the largest funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project the University of Southampton leads at present. BRECcIA is funded under the first large-scale consortia call from GCRF (see https://www.ukri.org/research/global-challenges-research-fund/funded-projects/) – 37 projects are included …
Rice is the world’s major staple food crop occupying over 12% of global cropland area (FAOSTAT, 2010) which produces around 800 million tons (FAO, 2017). Nearly 90% of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asian countries (FAO, 2000). Therefore, information on agricultural plantation area, yield, and production are …
