Welcome
The School of Geography and the Environment is an intellectually vibrant, research-intensive academic department at the centre of British geography.
The School has:
research excellence in its core disciplines
one of the UK's leading
Undergraduate Honour Schools in Geography
a world-class
International Graduate School
Forthcoming Seminars - Weeks 8 and 9 Hilary Term 2010
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 8: 1pm, Monday 8 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Smouldering subsurface fires in the earth system.
Guillermo Rein, BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, University of Edinburgh
SoGE Special Seminar
Week 8: 4pm, Monday 8 March 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE
Antarctica: A student's journey.
Aaron Holdway, D.Phil. Candidate, SoGE.
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 8: 4.15pm, Tuesday 9 March 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE
No seminar.
Research Seminar Series
Week 8: 4.30pm, Tuesday 9 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Dar es Salaam and the impact on forest condition, biodiversity and carbon storage.
Prof. Neil Burgess, Professor of Conservation Science at University of Copenhagen and Senior Conservation Scientist at World Wildlife Fund.
Transport Studies Unit Seminar
Week 8: 5pm, Wednesday 10 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Transport policy: What it can and can't do?
Prof. Bert van Wee, University of Delft.
SoGE Special Seminar
Week 8: 4pm, Wednesday 10 March 2010, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE
Serengeti behind the dikes: Re-wilding experiment in Oostvaardersplassen, the Netherlands.
Dr Frans Vera, Staatsbosbeheer, Wageningen University Research.
Research Seminar Series
Week 8: 4.30pm, Thursday 11 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE
Expanding South Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories of Canada.
Dr Derek Ford, Professor Emeritus, Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University.
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests Seminar Series
Week 9: 4.15pm, Tuesday 16 March 2010, H O Beckit Room (MSc Room 1), SoGE
C-Questor - the evolution of an integrated environmental idea.
Jeff Burley, Director-Emeritus, Oxford Forestry Institute, and Michael Chambers, Founder, C-Questor Group.
Forthcoming Events
7.30pm, Friday 12 March 2010, Science Oxford
Focus on Low Carbon Living Photographic Competition - Exhibition
A public exhibition of the photos entered into the UKERC's Focus on Low Carbon Living Photographic Competition.
10am - 4pm, Tuesday 30 March 2010, A J Herbertson Room (Board Room), SoGE, Oxford
Finance, Institutional Investors and Long-term Investing: financing a more sustainable world?
An all-day workshop focusing on different aspects of institutional investment, finance and the long-term - all welcome.
15 - 16 April 2010, SoGE, Oxford
1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference: Integrating Research, Expanding Knowledge
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together researchers with interest in desert and dryland people and environments. The conference goal is to stimulate debate and collaboration across the multiple academic departments that investigate, monitor, conserve and work in arid and semi-arid regions.
4 - 9 July 2010, University of Oxford
UNIQ Geography Summer School
A brand new summer school open to UK state school students currently in the lower sixth form (Year 12).
