Talk – Saturday 25th September: The re-emerging donors: challenges and opportunities for foreign aid and development
11.15-12.15
Dr Mawdsley will focus on the growing number of ‘non-traditional’ aid donors (from China, India and Venezuela, to the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe), and ask what their impact is likely to be on development and humanitarian interventions. She will also explore the challenges they pose for the ‘traditional’ donors
Talk – Saturday 25th September: That sinking feeling: Where does Venice go from here?
13.45-14.45
Dr Spencer discusses the links between the fragile city of Venice and its lagoon, considering the impacts of both the periodic closure of the lagoon by the controversial MOSE storm surge barriers and the proposed development of port and new urban infrastructure on the lagoon margins
Exhibition – The changing face of Geography
Open both days from 9am-5pm.
An exhibition of posters on some current departmental research and on alumni memories.
Current research
- On the influence of mesoscale and microscale diabatic processes and their Representations in a Cloud Resolving Model on atmospheric deep convection triggering, organization and intensity – Atmospheric Processes
- Hidden worlds made visible – a Geoarchaelogical case study from the Rio Puerco Basin, New Mexico, USA – Julie Boreham
- Towards sustainable coasts – Cambridge Coastal Research Unit
- The role of tidal range in bio-physical feedbacks on coastal saltmarshes – Cambridge Coastal Research Unit
- Complexity in the climate system – Michael Herzog and Hans Graf
- Volcanological investigations of Mount Erebus, Antarctica – Clive Oppenheimer
- Gender in East Africa – Molly Warrington