Following devastating floods in 2020, five successive failed rainy seasons caused drought which exposed millions of people to acute food shortages in East Africa. The field project, MASIKA, is the first of its kind and aims to understand the atmospheric processes operating at the start the rainy season.
Almost two billion people don't have reliable access to safe drinking water. For rural communities in some countries around the world, handpumps are vital for drinking water, washing, bathing, laundry and for watering livestock and irrigating crops. However, one in four handpumps are not working at any given time and effective systems often aren't in place to manage their upkeep. Dr Patrick Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, and colleagues have helped build a system to identify and fix faulty pumps sooner.
Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment has appointed Dr David Moreno-Mateos as Associate Professor in Physical Geography who will take up post on 1st September 2023. Dr Moreno-Mateos will replace Rob Whittaker (Professor of Biogeography), who retires from the School later this year. The new appointment is in association with Oxford's St Edmund Hall where Dr Moreno-Mateos will hold the position of Tutorial Fellow in Physical Geography.
What does an energy efficient transport system look like? Will electric vehicles stop climate change? What transport injustices exist in our societies? These are just a few of the questions currently being addressed by the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), a research institute that puts just and human-centered mobility futures at the heart of its research. Founded in 1973 through an endowment of the then Chartered Institute of Transport, the TSU is now part of SoGE and this year celebrates 50 years of research excellence.
The rise in demand for plant-based foods and meat substitutes could unlock opportunities for UK food businesses, according to a new report from the University of Oxford.
The number of days with temperatures exceeding 30° has increased in India. The Hindu explores the reasons citing evidence-based research involving Oxford's Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Louise Slater and led by Dr Jiabo Yin, Wuhan University (China).
New opinion piece involving doctoral researcher Lucinda Hiam and Professor of Geography Danny Dorling explains how the cumulative consequences of austerity policies initiated by the 2010 Coalition Government created conditions that allowed COVID-19 to do more damage in the UK than in many of its neighbours. Read in full via The BMJ.
Alumna Natalie Chung (MPhil 2021), founder of V'air Hong Kong, voyaged alongside accomplished deep ocean activist Dr Sylvia Earle to advocate for policies to protect nature's most important carbon sink - the Ocean.
How do microbiomes impact human health and development, and how is this affected by individual and societal behaviour? Professor Jamie Lorimer joins as Fellow of the CIFAR's Humans and the Microbiome Programme, an interdisciplinary research project that unites social and natural scientists, as they investigate.
The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) at Somerville College is launching a new scholarship for Indian students from lower caste backgrounds and/or first-generation students. The School of Geography and the Environment looks forward to welcoming Oxford's inaugural Phule scholar Niharika Singh on the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance in October.
Dr Chloë Strevens is interviewed by student Raphaella Mascia on her journey from growing up on her family's farm in Ireland to becoming an ecologist and Course Director of Oxford University's Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management master's programme.
