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Research Seminar Series (Physical Geography) - Hilary Term 2005
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in the SCR, Dept. of Geography, Mansfield Road on Tuesdays from 11am unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Dr Kathy Willis. All welcome!
Week 1: Tuesday 18 January 2005
Linking the historical and contemporary components of the global bird diversity gradients.
Professor B. Hawkins, University of California, Irvine.
Week 2: Tuesday 25 January 2005
Will climate change save mahogany from extinction?
Dr N. Brown, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford.
Week 3: Tuesday 1 February 2005
Rock breakdown research: Setting the agenda.
Dr H. Viles, SoGE, Oxford.
Week 4: Tuesday 8 February 2005
Quaternary climate change and aridity in Australia: the aeolian evidence.
Professor P. Hesse, Maquire University, Sydney.
Week 5: Tuesday 15 February 2005
Early human dispersal through Southeast Asia and Australasia - routes and timings.
Professor M. Bird, University of St Andrews.
Week 6: Tuesday 22 February 2005
Climate change and human responses in the northern hemisphere desert belt.
Dr N. Brooks, University of East Anglia.
Week 7: Tuesday 1 March 2005
Palaeoecology and Current Environmental Problems - Is palaeoecology still a 'quaint but irrelevant speciality'?
Professor H.J.B. Birks, University of Bergen, Norway.
Week 8: Tuesday 8 March 2005
Free distributions and property rights: the exploitation of natural resources in mobile pastoral systems.
Professor R. Benke, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.