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School of Geography and the Environment Podcasts

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These online audio resources consist of lectures, seminars and interviews from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
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Episodes

Long-period temperature records in the British Isles

Prof Chris Folland, University of East Anglia and Met Office Hadley Centre, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015.

May 20, 201525 min

Long-period precipitation records in the British Isles

Prof Tim Burt, University of Durham, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015 Oxford University's Radcliffe Meteorological Station is the longest running continuous weather station in the UK. On 15 May, the Met Office presented an award to the University 'in recognition of 200 years of continuous climate observations at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford'.

May 20, 201532 min

Are we bigger than the biosphere? An ecologist's examination of our human dominated planet.

Prof Yadvinder Malhi delivers the 2nd School of Geography and the Environment Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on 12 February 2015. "We live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the Age of Us. The defining feature of this age is that sum of human activity (how many we are and what we are doing) has become large compared to the natural processes of the biosphere. How can we measure how "large" we are, and how has our impact on the planet varied throughout human history? I examine thi...

Mar 24, 201555 min

Water Lives: forging a science-policy interface

Exploring the interface between science and policy-making at Water Lives - a science-policy symposium for Freshwater life in Brussels, January 2014. Listen to find out what every scientist should know about policy-making. Presented by Helen Scales. Produced by Paul Jepson. Supported by Biofresh. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 226874.

Mar 31, 201426 min

Geography, Inequality and Oxford

Danny Dorling delivers his inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'. Danny Dorling's talk outlines how geography is increasingly important for revealing inequalities - over the last third of a century, inequalities in health and wealth have been rising and rising fastest in the last 5 years. The last period in recent history when we enjoyed relative equality was back in the 1970s - the time when Danny himself was living and schooled in O...

Feb 17, 201454 min

Modelling the emission and transport of Saharan dust

Jamie Banks, Atmospheric Physics, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201113 min

Aeolian research

Marcelo Zarate, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Soanta Rosa, Argentina, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201117 min

Water landscapes in central Sahara

Savino di Lernia, University of Rome, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201117 min

Hominid dispersals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia

Huw Groucutt, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201118 min

Groundwater and irrigation in Balochistan, Pakistan

Dr Daanish Mustafa, Dept. of Geography, King's College London, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201115 min

Livelihood sustainability in drylands

Professor Andy Dougill, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.

Feb 24, 201115 min

Earth: A Three Act Structure

Relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues.' Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.

Jan 28, 201155 min
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