Considering the future of the IPCC

14th September, 2023

 

The next Assessment Report — the Seventh — of the UN's IPCC, faces some difficult decisions about how the Panel can stay relevant to the science, politics and policies of climate change.

As it considers its future, an international team of social scientists, led by Mike Hulme, has recently published a Commentary in the journal Nature Climate Change, offering three different institutional future pathways for the IPCC.

Welcome new students!

17th August, 2023

 

Congratulations to everyone who received their results today. We are looking forward to welcoming new students to the Geography Department at the start of term.

We are busy preparing materials to welcome you. We will be in contact in early September with more information about induction to the Geography Department.

For those eligible it would be great if you could make an application to the Geography Scholarship for Black and mixed Black heritage students. Applications close on 3 September.

A T 'Dick' Grove, 1924-2023

7th August, 2023

 

Alfred Thomas Grove, known universally as Dick, died at home in Cambridge on 9^th July 2023, aged 99. Dick was a University Lecturer in Geography from 1954 to 1980, after which he became Director of the African Studies Centre at Cambridge. He also became Vice-Master at Downing College during the 1970s. He made major contributions to the understanding of environmental change in Africa, especially in dryland regions.

A full appreciation of his life is available to read.

Becky Dell is appointed Assistant Professor in Glaciology at the Scott Polar Research Institute

3rd August, 2023

 

We are delighted to announce that Dr Becky Dell has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in Glaciology at SPRI, starting October 1st this year.

Becky first arrived at SPRI in 2017 for her PhD, which focussed on developing remote sensing and machine learning methods for the study of ice-shelf stability in Antarctica. Since completing her PhD in 2021, Becky has worked within the Institute as a European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Fellow.

Becky has significant expertise in both remote sensing and fieldwork-based studies of Antarctic ice shelves, which will continue to be of considerable benefit to the research, teaching, and outreach of both SPRI and the Geography Department.