UCL Department of Geography

UCL Department of Geography has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in June 2022. Resources uclgeography has populated their site with include: • Europe feels the heat: Extreme weather becomes the norm • David Fairman named UCL Technician of the Year • Promotions 2025-26 • Award-winning research on Amazonia • Mark Maslin's guide to climate change • Looking for lost maps - BBC Sounds • 5-14th August | (In)Forming Urban Agency • https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/aug/informing-urban-agency-more-textural-engagements-geographic-fieldwork • BBC Radio 6 Music - Looking for lost maps • Gibraltar scraps border checks with Spain • Rethinking cities: planning for more-than-human futures • Atmospheric impacts of spaceflight • Farmland to wildflower meadow • Who owns our shared human story? • 25 June | London Climate Action Week • Muki Haklay wins Test of Time Award for 2008 paper | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) • El Niño and climate change • Humanitarian access and protection under siege • Gulf Stream shifted north during ancient cold snap | UCL News - UCL – University College London • ARIA funding for ecosystem resilience monitoring • How Richard Dawkins evolved into a novelist | The Observer • 16 June | Racial dynamics in Brazilian cities • Unlocking the potential to quantify spacecraft pollution • I went from 100 rejections to founder at 22 • LinkedIn • 17 June | The New Hinterlands • 9 June | Understanding Social Class at UCL • Geoengineering and satellite pollution • Where will we get sulfur and helium from? • Coal plants as barriers to solar energy • Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Data Science and Cartography • Reckoning with the British imperial past | 13 May • Dr Eleanor Gershenson-Smith passes PhD viva with thesis examining air pollutants in Greater London | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Climate and Human History | 15 May • MSc Social and Geographic Data Science • Elaine Yeung, MSc Urban Studies | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Faces of UCL | About UCL • Geography PGR Representatives Host "Life After the PhD" Event | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Education as an “Export”? • Battarbee Lecture 2026 | 7 May • Inside BSc Geography: Gabrielle Pengyu Shao | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Four ways to tackle health and climate together • Eloise Marais addresses UN panel on environmental impacts of satellite re-entry • Eloise Marais addresses UN panel on environmental impacts of satellite re-entry | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Trump claims Venezuela does not meet trafficking standards—but what about the USA? - The Lancet • Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem | New Scientist • Professor Mark Maslin on BBC's The Climate Question • BSc Geography Insights: Rockets, soot and the atmosphere • Zhihan Pan, MSc Urban Studies | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • BSc Geography Insights: Conserving biodiversity • MSc Urban Studies graduate experiences • Viola Vercelli, MSc Migration, Politics and Society | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Graduate Open Day | 21 February • Vaidehi Jha, MSc Migration, Politics and Society | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Post-Brexit Student Mobilities | 26 March • Southeast Australia's palaeoclimate | 26 March • Palaeoclimate for Policy | 26 February • Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships • UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship • Research Excellence Scholarship • Plio-Pleistocene Hydroclimate of South Africa | 12 February • ‘Decision-support’ tools for the assessment of co-benefits 10 February • Maia Watson-Hearne wins RGS Dissertation Prize • Shun-Te Wang, MSc Environment, Politics and Society | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • MSc Environment, Politics and Society • MSc Migration Politics and Society • Dr Jian Chen passes PhD viva • Planning reforms in England • MSc Remote Sensing and Environmental Mapping • Wilfred Jana passes PhD viva • MSc Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration • MSc Urban Studies • MSc Climate Change • MSc Environmental Modelling • Palaeoecology to UK conservation | 4 February • MSc Conservation • Hidden in Plain Sight | 3 February • BSc Geography Insights: Assessing lake recovery pathways • Atlantic Ocean currents stayed strong during the last ice age, study finds | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • BBC Inside Science - Answering Celebrity Science Questions • BSc Geography Insights: New perspectives on housing? • Jennifer Nikkel, MSc Environment, Politics and Society | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Late Pliocene Pacific Ocean Overturning | 29 January • Amur tigers and leopards in N. Korea | 28 January • Postgraduate Taught Open Event | 28 January • Retreat of the central British–Irish Ice Sheet | 22 January • Seasonally Resolved Multiannual Droughts | 15 January • Overcrowding in housing: the persistence of ethnic disparities • www.ucl.ac.uk • Safeguarding Space: Environmental issues, risks and responsibilities | UNEP - UN Environment Programme • Using local ecological knowledge to study threats to Amur tiger and leopard recovery in N. Korea | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Nicole Graff, MSc Environment, Politics and Society | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Client Challenge • Generation One | Episodes 11 and 12 • More-than-Terrestrial Diplomacy • Pondweed, politics and poo | 10th December • Evolving Optics of the State | 9th December • Everyday Urban Governance • Exploring Temperance and Life Assurance in Victorian Britain | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • 5 reasons the COP30 failed to deliver • GEO100 • Saw-tooth shaped Quaternary climate cycles | 4 December • Postgraduate Open Event | 3 December • Adaptation as Next Frontier of Climate Action • Capital and The Abyss | 2 December • Anatomy of a cold stage | 27 November • Disability History Month • Islamophobia Awareness Month • Beyond Creative Placemaking | 25 November • The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture | 25 November • Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education • Be the Ripple • UCL Sustainability Plan 2025-35 • UCL Generation One: The Climate Podcast • 21st Century Challenges with Professor Mark Maslin • Air pollution and inequality Research in The Lancet • Microplastic Pollution in UK Woodland Soil • Undergraduate Open Event | 15 November • The relative role of direct orbital forcing | 13 November • Crowdmapping for food security • Post-Brexit Student Mobilities • The Library of Lost Maps | 11 November • Record Year of Dissertation Prizes • Phosphate-oxygen isotope analysis | 5 November • The Library of Lost Maps | Portico Magazine • What causes coral reefs to collapse? | 30 October • Prize for Dissertation on London Heatwaves • Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs • Changing threats of tropical cyclones | 28 October • Religion, Poverty, and Development • The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship • Naomi Marques Embalo Receives High Commendation • How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead satellites? • Maps – lost, secret and revealing - BBC Sounds • Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet | Climate crisis | The Guardian • Open Science Award for Global Collaboration on Forest Research • Migration and Society launch | 21 October • Bridging Theatre and Climate Justice: Ava Potter’s Award-Winning Dissertation | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • Changes in the South Pacific hydroclimate | 16 October • Seven UCL Geography Student Ambassadors Graduate with First-Class Honours • Explore seafloor data at Ronne Entrance | 8 October • Caleb Tan wins RGS-IBG PolGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize • New Issue of Migration and Society • Uninvited Participation | 7 October • The Library of Lost Maps | 6th October • UCL Generation One: The Climate Podcast | Climate Change - UCL – University College London • Dr Rebekah Horner celebrates PhD success • Oil and Gas Air Pollution is a Killer • Ashley Seah: Exploring Language, Identity and Home • Why staying engaged matters • Isild Gueudet, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Exploring Postcapitalist Communities • London’s Cally Festival • Gender-Inclusive Climate Action • Tracking Toads and Pond Histories: New Fieldwork on Heathlands in Surrey | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • UCL Graduations • Protecting Congo’s Peatlands: Aligning Conservation with Community Livelihoods | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences • North Korea’s hidden wildlife trade • Noam Obermeister, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • The Briefing Room • Oil exploration in the Congo basin rainforest could be a disaster for nature and the climate | Environment | The Guardian • Teaching & Learning Administrator • Clearing • BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, 14/08/2025 • Laboratories and Safety Manager • Fieldwork Spotlight: Mapping Digital Urban Futures • Thinking Allowed - Dogs - BBC Sounds • Geography Technicians Showcase Expertise at UCL East • RGS Fieldwork Apprenticeships • Julian Swinkels, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Mexico Threatens Legal Action Over SpaceX Rocket Debris • Trees Alone Can’t Stop Climate Change • The Gulf Stream is on the verge of COLLAPSING, scientists warn • Vincent Hansmann, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Caihong Li, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Pushpa Arabindoo Speaks at Cities Forum 2025 • Southern and Transregional Responses to Displacement • UCL ranked among top 10 universities • Creating Spaces of Sanctuary • Farah Sadek, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Mapping the Hidden Geographies of Gambling • How will the space race affect our environment? • UCL Geography Masters Open Event | AM • UCL Geography Masters Open Event | PM • Job: Research Fellow (DOWES • Desert Island Sustainability Risks, Mark Maslin • Future Geohazards Climate Crisis Conference • Linescapes: Sketches and Illustrations in Research • UCL Careers Tasters • Hannah Reid, MSc Environment, Politics, and Society • Sonia Sonia, MSc Environment, Politics, and Society • Sara Khachatourian, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Sophie Thorpe, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Kartika Zayad, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Matthew Doyle, MSc Environment, Politics, and Society • Paige Moldenhauer, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Annabel Hill, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • Catherine Hollander, MSc Environment, Politics and Society • South–South Collaboration in Responses to Conflict and Displacement • Generation One: From sidelines to solutions • Professor Mark Maslin on BBC Inside Science • Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi • Job | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) • Job | Centre Manager - Geographic Data Service (GeoDS) • Scientists worry Trump's budget cuts will halt satellite air pollution studies: 'It's incredibly short-sighted' • Feng Yin on Earth Observation, Crop Monitoring, and a PhD Journey that Came Full Circle • The Battarbee Lecture 2025 • Students Share Research Worldwide • Uneven Development in a Contentious Global Economy • Housing Booms in Gateway Cities • Vivien Lee presenting at the GISRUK 2025 Conference • Job: Research Fellow (DOWES: Disclosing the Overlooked Wetlandscape Ecosystem Services) • Job: Senior Research Fellow (Geospatial Engagement Lead) • Will the Hole in the Ozone Layer Close? • Caroline Bressey on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • North Korea’s illegal wildlife trade • 2025 Student Choice Awards • Professor Waters on Youth Visas • Alumna Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2025 • Battarbee Lecture 2025 • Katy Perry’s Spaceflight Sparks Debate • Successful Launch of ESA’s BIOMASS Satellite • Are we on course to decarbonise shipping? • Reflecting on ‘Hinterland Ecologies in the Anthropocene’ • Mark Maslin answers your questions on Inside Science • CHRYSES: Mapping Environmental Health Crises • Researching night lights and natural disasters • Postgraduate climate programmes • Record Number of Students Visit Gibraltar for Fieldwork • Lecturer in Geographies of Health • Lecturer in Environmental Governance • Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Geospatial Data Analysis and Cartography • Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Environment, Politics & Society • Project Administrative Officer (Regional Futures) • Job Alert: Project Coordinator, International Research Consortium • Ian Patmore and Technical Team Shortlisted for National Papin Prizes • Professor Ayona Datta Elected as Academy of Social Sciences Fellow • Researching night lights and natural disasters: UCL student Jade Baker reflects on her internship • Undergraduate Open Days • UCL Environmental Radiometric Facility • UCL Information Session • Housing Booms in Gateway Cities: The Role of Surplus Demand • Sarah Lim on the AAG Conference • Living with Lynx by Jonny Hanson | London Book Launch • Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy • GeoTunes • Honorary Professorship for Henry Yeung • Festival of Early Stage Researchers • Women in STEM Panel • Funding • Earth’s natural climate changes may be predictable • Here’s your chance to nominate individuals for UCL200’s Faces of UCL! • GeoTunes: Equal Parts • Maps and Society - ‘Discoveries from the UCL Map Library’ • Love Your Planet 2025: UCL’s Call to Action for Climate Crisis • Funding for Student-Staff Projects • ExtendED Learning • Can you use AI in exams and assessments? • Apply for a Millennium Fellowship • Get involved in National Student Money Week • Early warning system for climate tipping points given £81m kickstart • Major Grant to Improve Climate Tipping Point Forecasting • Evaluating Early Warning Signals Against Past Climate Tipping Points • Exam Season Toolkit • Careers in Sustainability for a Greener Future • WP Summer Programme • Happy Valentine’s Day! • Get ready to celebrate 200 years of UCL! • Chiles on Friday - 07/02/2025 - BBC Sounds • Data Journalist • Elon Musk's rocket explosion caused dangerous chemicals to pollute atmosphere • LibWizard • Student Sustainability Forum • Student training: Climate Communication workshop • Repair Café • Protecting Privacy in Location Data: Louise Sieg’s Journey from UCL to the OECD • Could the UK actually get colder with global warming? • University of Sanctuary • How to Get Started in Charities and NGOs • UCL Grand Challenges x ChangeMakers: Funding for Student-Staff Projects • Far From Home: International Students on Spending Lunar New Year in London • Gaming for Change: PUBG MOBILE’s Impact on Global Conservation • Undergraduate Courses | UCL Department of Geography • UCL Social & Historical Sciences Postgraduate Open Event • Launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs • Love Your Planet 2025 • Professor Marais Inaugural Lecture: Environmental Risks of Unregulation • Professor Marais Inaugural Lecture • Nature and the Outdoors: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Hitchings • Five ways to make aviation more sustainable right now • The collaborative power of AI and citizen science in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals • Fees and funding • Unwrap creativity: Unique gifts from UCL’s entrepreneurs • Current exhibition at the Main Library • How UCL has been transforming lives through knowledge exchange in 2024 • Online careers resources library • Shaping UCL's Health and Safety future • UCL students are getting into the festive spirit! • Communicating the Natural World with Dr Helen Czerski • Exploring Falkland Islands' Ecosystems • BBC Inside Science: Is flood forecasting failing? • The Leadership Race 2025 | Students Union UCL • How you can get your CV reviewed (by AI!) during the Winter closure • Methane in the climate system: mapping emissions from satellites • BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, The Final Frontier • Parenting and (Im)mobility in Uncertainty: Jin L. Li on Transnational Families and Passing Her Viva • Over-60s who live apart from partners have better wellbeing, study finds • Is this the first-ever WhatsApp Map? • New Issue of Migration and Society Published: Global and Intersecting Solidarities • New Book Explores Refugee Experiences Through Photography and Writing • Cop29: five critical issues still left hanging after an underwhelming UN climate summit in Azerbaijan • Bioscience and environmental science at UCL given major government boost • Bogotá’s ‘LGBTQI+ houses’ are transforming support for displaced LGBTQI+ Venezuelans | Nature Cities • Senior Research Data Scientist • What is net zero? What is blue carbon? Experts explain key climate terms • Explore Postgraduate Opportunities at UCL Geography • BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, COP29: Are climate summits working? • UCL Graduate Receives Highly Commended Recognition for Dissertation on Urban Inequality in Columbia • Inventory counts air pollution cost of space launches and re-entries • Geography Undergraduate Dissertation on Latin American Art in London Earns High Commendation • Behind the Bar: researching the lives of Black Victorian barmaids • UCL at COP – COP16 and COP29 delegations announced • Doing Ethnography: Notes from the Field • Professor Paul Longley Speaks at UN Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation • 60 Seconds with...Professor Eloise Marais • Black History Month Hike - Tilbury Fort! | Students Union UCL • UCL Geography Graduate Wins RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Dissertation Prize • Student Sustainability Forum: Climate and Biodiversity COPs | Students Union UCL • Go Abroad Week • Exploring Coral Reefs • BBC Inside Science - Are our carbon sinks failing? • UCL Undergraduate Open Event • Professor David Thornalley Joins Global Call for Urgent Action on Atlantic Circulation Decline • UCL Press Play • New funding for a pioneering service to make better use of data from smart devices • The Atlantic Ocean's currents are on the verge of collapse. This is what it means for the planet • Eloise Marais Appointed Co-Model Scientist of GEOS-Chem • The Realities of Working and Job Hunting in the Non-Profit Sector • University interest in ‘suboptimal’ Turing scheme wanes • First database of pollutant and CO2 emissions from satellite megaconstellations • Professor Chris Brierley Appointed Co-Chair of the Met Office Academic Partnership • Events and Open Days • UCL Geography Secures NCEO Funding to Boost Environmental Research • William Stewart and Jason Dittmer Win ‘The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Article Award’ • The Future of Conservation • BBC Inside Science, How green is space travel? • A Month at Sea: Insights from Research Cruises in the Subpolar North Atlantic • Knowledge Exchange Framework • Call for Applications - ARC Community Ambassadors • A Student's Guide to UCL - Postgraduate Students • Arrival international student orientation • Disagreeing Well across Generations • Virtual Worlds: Corals at the Grant Museum • Study Reveals Key Changes in the North Pacific Jet Stream Due to Climate Change • Policy Fellowship with the Land and Nature team at the National Trust • Disrupting the Speculative City: Power, Property and Community Resistance in London • Carbon. A Biography • Uncovering the Past: James Kneale meets Mel C • London NERC Summer School July 2024 • sway.cloud.microsoft • Tips and Insights for Incoming UCL Department of Geography Students • UCL Geography Student Wins Joanna Stillwell Prize for Outstanding Dissertation • Mozambique forest stores huge amounts of carbon • Season 4 - Flushing Out the Truth: Sewage and Public Health in the UK • The brothers on a four-month voyage through the Arctic Circle • Report halts production of natural gas at a UNESCO Heritage Site • Student spotlight: Ami Kashima • Uncovering Earth’s Secrets • Unibuddy • Opinion: Most marine protection measures are not working • Reception in memory of Professor Russell Hitchings • The Gulf Stream is wind-powered and could weaken from climate change • Managing Climate, Population, and Migration • Gulf Stream's fate to be decided by climate 'tug-of-war' • Five ways to improve the global voluntary carbon credit markets • WhatsApp Maps? • Nairobi Policy Roundtable • Drivers of forest cover change • Exploring hybrid queer spaces in China • Apply to be a Student Residency Advisor • Studying in our libraries on Tuesday 25 June • Election Espresso: Disagreeing Well Coffee Morning • How to avoid housing scams in your search for student accommodation • Graduate Open Events • Discover LinkedIn Learning • UCL startup wins Bronze Medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 • Drivers could cut EV charging costs with new scheme • Funding Talk Postgraduate Students • John Adams • Russell Hitchings • Celebrate World Ocean Day - World Ocean Day Project • UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences Postgraduate Open Event • Summer Jobs Market • Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecology • Lucas Wu, BSc Geography and Economics • Major declines reported in South Korean big cat trade • Generation One: The Climate Podcast • UCL Fawcett lecture for Geography Teachers. • Giant sequoia in the UK • Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s) - Nature Communications • Green Fair Volunteering | Students Union UCL • Libraries open 24 hours during assessments • Support and wellbeing • Academic communication support (Moodle) • Exams and assessments • National Student Survey (NSS) • Project and Communications Coordinator – ASSHURED • The First Europeans • Geography Open Days • Funding Q&A • UCL Walking Tour • UCL Community Choir • Volunteer at Earthfest 2024 - London's flagship sustainability event | Students Union UCL • Fraud in the age of cryptocurrency: protecting your digital wealth • Who will be London's next Mayor? | Students Union UCL • Study • Meet our Geography MSc Programme Convenors’ Online Event • California map shows where state will become underwater from sea level rise • Climbing Asian Badger • ‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN report • Africa’s rising cities • Science Communication Slam! | Students Union UCL • Time to switch off whilst we recharge over Easter! • Dr Eloise Marais Has the Most-Read Article on Air Pollution from the Space Sector • Anna Hutchinson, MSc Global Migration • Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape • UCL Geography Alumnus Awarded 2023 Urban Geography Early Career Researcher Prize • Nelanie Dilchand, MSc Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration • Does the Turing Scheme help disadvantaged students? • UCL Geography Women in Physical Geography • Exam Toolkit - Relax, Rest, Revise, Repeat! • Vital ocean current may be approaching ruinous tipping point • Addressing Global Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Social Sciences • Cassandra Dummett, MSc Conservation • Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung Discusses New Book • Spotlight on... Mark Maslin • Ravina Bains, MSc Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration • Potassium depletion in soil threatens global crop yields • International Festival | Students Union UCL • Research Fellow in Coastal Science • Clementine Andre, MSc Global Migration • Industrial pollution leaves its mark in Mediterranean corals • UCL – University College London • 2°C before 2030 • 2,000-foot-long ice core • Ramsar Convention Secretary General Visit • Varvara Karipidou Receives the Next Economy Trust Fellowship • Alana Bourgeois, MSc Conservation • Skiing competitions are being changed by global warming • Tyler Valiquette Awarded Next Economy Trust Fellowship • RB Smith, MSc Conservation • Research Fellow - Making Africa Urban • Global groundwater levels declining rapidly, but they can recover • Wanxin Yang, MSc Remote Sensing and Environmental Mapping • Vivian Kong, MSc Global Migration • UCLGeoggers • Value chain approaches to improve early warning systems • Director appointed to lead the UCL Grand Challenges programme • Diversity in the governance of marine protected areas