Lincoln School of Geography

13/06/2022

The 3rd year Environmental Management students have produced some amazing educational games with Dr Theresa Mercer, that they will be using for outreach with local schools.

09/06/2022

We currently have a vacancy for a 'Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Geography', within the Department of Geography here at the University of Lincoln.

More details and how to apply can be found here:

Lecturer salary from: £34,304Senior Lecturer salary from: £39,739The Department of Geography at the University of Lincoln seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Human Geography. Geography at Lincoln has outstanding student...

26/05/2022

Our 1st year students are enjoying a fieldtrip this week, staying at
Butlin's in Skegness.

The trip is based around the concept of sustainability and lives within an environment and has has four key themes running through it: deprivation, the economy, ecosystems & natural hazards

12/05/2022

Congratulations to Department of Geography - Class of 2021, who graduated at Lincoln Cathedral on 4th May 2022. We are very proud of you all 🙂 👏👏👏

01/04/2022

Edward Hanna has been awarded 11,850 EUR from the International Arctic Science Committee and 6000 CHF from the World Climate Research Programme to support a workshop on "Ice sheets: weather versus climate" that he is lead-organising, to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 23rd-24th August. This two-day workshop will explore the degree to which short-term fluctuations and extreme events in the ice sheets (both Greenland and Antarctica) in the last two decades reflect their longer-term evolution and response to ongoing climate change. The workshop, which is also co-sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, will consist of a mix of invited keynote talks and panel/discussion sessions with a diverse mix of world-leading and early-career scientists that will address these crucial issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
https://climate-cryosphere.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ISMASS_workshop2022.pdf

21/03/2022

A new PhD Studentship is now open to applications, titled 'Large Scale Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems: Rivers to Sea Connectivity” (REST-COAST). Closing date 15th April 2022. More details can be found here:

The University of Lincoln offers a range of studentships and research opportunities for exceptional doctoral candidates through its Research Investment Fund.

17/03/2022

Edward Hanna, Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts and eleven colleagues at external institutes have published a paper "Meteorological effects and impacts of the 10 June 2021 solar eclipse over the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland" in the Royal Meteorological Society's WEATHER journal: Meteorological effects and impacts of the 10 June 2021 solar eclipse over the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.4175

This paper presents a pioneering report of the meteorological effects of a partial solar eclipse across a wide region. Using large networks of official weather stations and a regional climate model simulation, the authors found meteorological effects of the 10 June 2021 eclipse in the UK, Iceland and Greenland.

A meteorological model was used to show that the eclipse reduced the daily Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt by about 10%. Solar photovoltaic and wind renewable energy production across the UK were also affected. Results from this work are useful for helping to understand and adapt to some impacts of climate change (sunshine and wind changes).

We present a pioneering report of the meteorological effects of a partial solar eclipse across a wide region. Using large networks of official weather stations and a regional climate model simulation...

15/03/2022

Edward Hanna and colleagues have published a new paper "Extended North Atlantic Oscillation and Greenland Blocking indices 1800–2020 from new meteorological reanalysis" in the MDPI Atmosphere journal: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/3/436 (March 2022).

Based on newly available meteorological datasets, the authors constructed and analysed extended seasonal records of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Greenland Blocking indices spanning 1800 to 2020. These new climate datasets, which are important measures of jet stream air flow change, represent a major backward extension of the previously available records and enabled the authors to evaluate the effect of natural- and human-related climate fluctuations on North Atlantic atmospheric circulation.

Edward was lead author on the study which also included co-authors Tom Cropper and Richard Cornes (National Oceanography Centre), Richard Hall (University of Bristol/Imperial College London) and Mariano Barriendos (University of Barcelona).

Based on newly-available meteorological reanalysis, we compile and present extended seasonal series of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Greenland Blocking indices spanning 1800–2020, which we analyse for evidence of significant trends. This represents a major backward extension of the....

04/03/2022

A vacancy has just gone live in the Department of Geography for a Post-Doc Research Assistant - Greenland Climate Change. More details can be found here:

The Department of Geography is rapidly developing its research profile in the areas of meteorology and climate science and has a very active Lincoln Climate Research Group. This includes a new NERC-funded 2.5-year project on the Causes and Impacts of...

25/02/2022

An article has been published in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education around 'The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning'. We offer some insights and lessons learnt to help other academics and practitioners adopt this approach (with Andrew Kythreotis, Joseph Harwood, Zoe Robinson, Sharon George, Josh Brown and Toby Sims). 50 free eprints are available with the link below:

(2022). The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Ahead of Print.

15/02/2022

Congratulations to the schools Andrew Kythreotis, Edward Hanna and Theresa Mercer who have just won £25k from the UK QR Strategic Priorities Fund to produce interactive communication and policy dissemination tools for Lincoln Climate Commission 👏👏👏

14/02/2022

Congratulations to our very own Prof. Edward Hanna and Dr. Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts who have been successful with their July 2021 NERC Standard Grant proposal application. This is for a £643,993 award led by Hanna at Lincoln (lead PI), working together with the Universities of Exeter, Oxford, Reading and Sheffield, to study the "Causes and impacts of Greenland atmospheric blocking changes".

This project aims to provide a step-change in understanding the causes of atmospheric blocking changes over Greenland, their relation to variations in the North Atlantic atmosphere and oceanic circulation systems, their consequences for climate change and extreme weather conditions over Greenland and the wider North Atlantic region, and their impacts on the Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance and global sea-level rise. The grant is for 30 months and is expected to start in late spring/early summer.