Cambridge PhD student named in 100 most influential

Former Polar Studies Cambridge PhD student and Gates Scholar Victoria Herrmann has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in climate policy for 2019, according to Apolitical. She now leads the Arctic Institute's research on climate change and community adaptation in Arctic communities.

National Geographic features Cambridge research

A feature in National Geographic exploring the fall of the ancient Roman wine centre of Elusa profiles the work of Professor Ulf Buentgen on the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the impact of a cluster of volcanic eruptions in the mid-6th century on life across Europe and Asia.

Sea Change: how Cambridge Geography is working to protect East Anglian coasts

Featured in the latest Research Horizons, the work of Tom Spencer, Iris Moeller and the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, explores how coastal communities can work with nature, rather than against it, to protect them from flooding, while collaborating with local authorities in the East of England, the Environment Agency, stakeholders including the National Trust, and the Universities of East Anglia (UEA) and Essex, to develop and test more sustainable approaches to flood defence.

Changes in ocean 'conveyor belt' predicted abrupt climate changes

A new study published in Nature Communications is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts. An international team of scientists with lead author Dr Francesco Muschitiello studied one of the key sections of the ocean circulation system AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) –where North Atlantic water sinks from the surface to the bottom of the ocean. They confirmed that changes in the ocean conveyor belt preceded abrupt and major climatic changes during the transition out of the last ice age, referred to as the last deglaciation. The study is the first to determine the time lags between past changes to the AMOC and major climate changes.

Cambridge Geography at EGU 2019

The EGU General Assembly 2019, Europe's largest gathering of geoscientists, is taking place in Vienna on 7–12 April 2019. Once again, the Department of Geography at Cambridge is well represented by over 30 presentations of varying types.