Professor Ulf Büntgen is presenting a talk, Tree Rings and Radiocarbon, at the AMS Beyond 2020 Symposium at ETH in Zurich on Friday 21 September. The AMS Symposium presentations will be livestreamed tomorrow morning, with Professor Büntgen presenting at 11.45 (time local to Zurich).
Coastal management could prevent rising sea levels causing large scale loss of coastal wetlands
18th September, 2018
A new study, by a team of researchers led by members of the Department's Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, finds that coastal management could prevent rising sea levels causing large-scale loss of coastal wetlands.
Previous studies have predicted catastrophic coastal wetland loss as sea levels rise. However, this new research shows that the global area of coastal wetland could increase if coasts are managed so that they have alternative spaces to grow: areas where sediment could build up, uninhibited by built infrastructure such as sea walls and cities, and where wetland plants could develop. Coastal wetlands could then expand inland in response to sea level rise.
The research was led by Dr Mark Schuerch, former postdoctoral research fellow at CCRU (now University of Lincoln) with the CCRU Director Professor Tom Spencer and including Dr Ruth Reef (now University of Monash).
Charlotte Lemanski speaks at Speculative Infrastructures workshop, Sheffield
7th September, 2018
Charlotte Lemanski discusses her work at the Speculative Infrastructures workshop, held at the University of Sheffield 6-7 September, sponsored by the Urban Geography journal.
Discussing her recent research on infrastructural citizenship within the framework of 'displacement', she also explores the temporal nature of the displacement of expectations and hopes for South Africans awaiting public infrastructure.
Based on the largest ever volunteer effort by the international tree-ring community, including 67 scholars from 57 institutes around the world, the global extent and seasonal timing of the rapid increase in atmospheric Carbon-14 concentrations from the two largest cosmogenic events in 774 and 993 CE is presented for the first time ever.
The research team included the Department's Professor Ulf Büntgen, Professor Clive Oppenheimer, and Paul J. Krusic.
Sir David Attenborough joins a celebration of the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership
4th September, 2018
Sir David Attenborough was at the University last week to join an event celebrating the achievements of the alumni of the Masters in Conservation Leadership. The event brought together, for the first time, over 120 alumni from the first eight cohorts of the Masters in Conservation Leadership, along with many of the conservation researchers and practitioners based in Cambridge who contribute to the delivery of the Masters course. The event was designed to celebrate the Masters, and to strengthen the global network of alumni, who come from over 70 different countries, so that it helps them to achieve enhanced conservation impact. The course is based in the Department of Geography.
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