I am a Physical Geographer interested in understanding landscape responses to abrupt climate changes in the recent past. I am also the #MScQuatSci director
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Ian Matthews retweeted
Showcasing the excellent work of @RHULGeography technical staff as part of the Technician Commitment, following today's staff open meeting @RoyalHolloway #TechnicianCommitment #Geography #RHULGeogResearch
Are you interested in past and current climate change? If so, why not apply to our MSc in this subject? This MSc is an update of our internationally recognised MSc in Quaternary Science. royalholloway.ac.uk/studying…
If you want to know more about the course, contact me or attend our next online open day event on the 6th March royalholloway.ac.uk/student-…
Or better still, if you can, come and visit us in person @RHULGeography on the 13th March. We can show around the place and get you to meet @CQRRHUL members eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgradu…
Ian Matthews retweeted
Pollen identification practical today for our GG2041 students. This work builds on the coring fieldtrip and core description work last term to build an understanding of how the climate & environment have changed through time.
#rhulgeogundergrad #studygeography #geographydegree
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You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉
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Ian Matthews retweeted
Huge congratulations to Dr Dorothy Weston who passed her PhD viva with minor corrections. Dorothy's PhD thesis is entitled: A tephrostratigraphic approach to constrain the sequence of glacial retreat & sea-level change during the Last Glacial Termination in north-western Scotland
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Congratulations to Samantha Newman who was awarded both the Edward Derbyshire prize for top student in the 22/23 MSc #QuaternaryScience cohort & the Philippa Holmes memorial prize for her dissertation which used rodent fossils to reconstruct past climate 🎉👏 #CQRLQL
Ian Matthews retweeted
Professor Siwan Davies received the Hoggan Medal 2023 for her research into how chemical analysis of microscopic volcanic ash particles can help reconstruct past climate changes. #LSWMedalau @siwanmdavies @swanseageog @swanseauni
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Ian Matthews retweeted
A successful maiden voyage for our new coring platform! @CQRRHUL colleagues travelled to the Lake District and collected lake sediment cores which will contribute towards our research projects and postgraduate training #RHULGeogResearch #FieldworkFriday #RHULGeogPostgrad
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Congrats to our #QuaternaryScience MSc cohort 22-23 on their final dissertation presentations. Fantastic to see the breadth of research topics which included #palaeoecology #geochronology #palaeontology #archaeology #conservation & #hydroclimate. Best of luck! 👏#RHULGeogPostgrad
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In October 1958, many of the Summer Isles were auctioned in Edinburgh.
Barrabel Mason (12), her siblings Fiona and Donald, and cousin Phillip, pooled their pocket money and bid on Sgeirean Glasa ("grey skerries").
Won for £50, it had excellent rockpooling.
#OldWeirdScotland
ALT a partial map of the Summer Isles with the Sgeirean Glasa indicated with a multicoloured arrow. (Map from NLS collection)
ALT a list of the final sale prices for the Summer Isles put up for auction in 1958.
Ian Matthews retweeted
Excited to advertise a #postdoc in #volcanology @EarthSciStA @univofstandrews - looking at #tephra records in #icecores as part of my @UKRI_News project...more info here tinyurl.com/25hpjwjz and feel free to get in touch! @vmsg_uk @nonschistyjobs @IAVCEI_COT
