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Department Of Geography
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Human Geography
Physical Geography
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- Coastal Evolution
- Earthquake Hazard
- Human Impacts and Coastal Hazards
- Land Uplift and Subsidence
- Late-Quaternary sea-level and environmental changes
Research Facilities
- Dedicated GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory
- Soil, sediment and micropalaeontology laboratory equipment
- Dedicated design and imaging unit
- Dedicated ICT support team
- Statistical and textual analysis
- Microscopy laboratory equipment
- Field survey and sampling equipment (DGPS, corers etc.)
- Specialist geo-technic and enivonmental laboratory equipment
- Wet and dry sediment analysis laboratory
- Stable isotope facility
- Audio-visual laboratory
- Air conditioned laboratory for high precision chemical analyses
- Geotechnical laboratory
- Microfossil preparation laboratory
- Sediment biomarker laboratory
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Gas chromatographs
- High performance liquid chromatography
- Coulter laser particle granulometer x 2
- Particle shape analyser
- Gamma ray spectrometer
- Scanning UV-visible spectrometer
- Dionex DX500 ion chroatographs
- TOC analyser
- Elemental (C, H, N, S, O) analyser
- Climatic cabinet
- Geotek multi-core sensor
- Scanning facilities up to A0
Research Projects
Human Geography
- Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC)
- Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia, The
- Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, law and policy, and theory
- Contested Borders: Non governmental public action and the technologies of the war on terror
- Data Wars: New Spaces of Governing in the European War on Terror
- Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies (DEEPEN)
- Designing and Consuming: objects, practices and processes
- Designing out Fatness
- Durham - CMI Knowledge Exchange Laboratory, The
- Ethical Production in South Africa: Advancing a Cultural Economy Approach
- Evaluating the County Durham Worklessness and Health Support Programme, County Durham Primary Care Trust, £550,000
- Everyday Sanitation: A comparative study of Mumbai's informal settlements
- Fat Studies and Health at Every Size
- Geographical variation in the provision and use of health services
- Health and wellbeing impacts of welfare to work interventions on lone parents and their children, CSO Scotland, £60,000
- Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Grant, £1 million
- Health, life insurance and financial inclusion
- Housing for health
- InCluESEV - Interdisciplinary Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability
- Migration, Health and Wellbeing: Comparative Perspectives from Britain and France
- Multispeed Cities and the Logistics of Living in an Information Age
- Pathways of Housing Wealth and Well-being: precipitants and consequences of mortgage equity withdrawal in BHPS and HILDA
- Politics of Chinese engagement with African development: Case studies of Angola and Ghana, The
- Rethinking the digital divide: the software-sorted society
- Rising Powers, Clean Development and the Low Carbon Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, The
- Risk-based modelling of diffuse agricultural pollution
- ROBUST: Regeneration Of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology, EPSRC, £1 million
- Rural-urban dynamics in a globalising world: Changing livelihoods and settlement patterns in frontier regions of Africa and Asia
- Sources of Resilience to Adverse Social Environments
- Spiritual Machines? Debating the moral dimensions of new technologies
- Strategic Science: Research Intermediaries and the Governance of Innovation
- Tackling Inequalities in Obesity
- Trading places: The complex economy of housing markets
- Transnational Climate Change Governance
- Urban Transitions: Climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems
- Waste of the World
- Winners and losers in contrasting labour markets? Socio-economic and spatial inequalities in the population health effects of economic recession and economic growth, BUPA Foundation, £130,000
Physical Geography
- Accelerated upland erosion following recent wildfire damage, Northern Lake District
- Asian Monsoon climate variability
- Boulby Geoscience
- British National Space Centre (BNSC) Customer Partner Project
- Climate Change and Glacier Dynamics in the Caucasus and the Mountains of Southern Siberia
- Coastal Behaviour and Rates of Activity (COBRA)
- Constraining Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance Using Salt Marsh Sediment Sequences
- Debris Flow Fan Dynamics (2008 - 2011)
- Deglacial history of the southeast sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, The
- Determination of a new Global GPS-derived surface velocity field and its application to the problem of 20th Century sea-level rise, The
- Direct Measurement & Sampling Of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth: Multidisciplinary Investigation Of Life In Extreme Environments & West Antarctic Ice Sheet History
- Flow structures and flow partitioning at river channel bifurcations
- Fluid dynamics and bed morphology of large natural open-channel confluences: 3D field quantification and numerical modelling, The
- ForestSAFE
- Fragile Crescent, The: Settlement Change during the Urban Transition
- Generation, preservation and prediction of sandy braided alluvium: an integrated ground penetrating radar, digital photogrammetry and probabilistic modelling approach
- Geochronology and dynamics of the western sector of the Greenland Ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum, The
- Glacial and climate history of South Georgia, sub-Antarctic
- Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System (GRADES - QWAD)
- Identification and characterisation of ice stream sticky spots: an improved understanding of ice stream basal mechanics and shut-down
- IGCP 449 / 518
- IGCP 495
- Improved models of West Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment through new crustal motion data
- Interaction between the ocean, atmosphere and ice sheet dynamics along the Greenland margin
- International Landslide Centre
- Land and sea-level changes around Britain
- Landslide assessment and flood erosion risk from the North Yorkshire floods
- Marine Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Late Quaternary Ice Sheet History and Sedimentation on the Greenland continental margin
- Microscale modelling of debris flow super elevation
- Millennial-scale history of the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
- Monitoring Programme for the Whitby TV mast site
- Monsoon climate, sea-level change and major cultural changes in the Yangtze lowlands, China
- Numerical testing of hypotheses for the recent thinning and acceleration of Greenland outlet glaciers
- Peat mass movements and geomorphological impacts of extreme rainfall
- Production in aquatic peri-urban systems in South East Asian
- Reconstructing ice sheet history using relative sea-level (RSL) observations and modelling
- Reconstructing ice stream behaviour during marine ice sheet collapse
- Reconstructing intermediate water temperature response to Pliocene - Pleistocene climates
- Recurrent Holocene palaeoseismicity and associated land / sea level changes in the Greater Anchorage Area
- Streamlined bedrock terrain and fast ice flow, Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland: implications for ice stream and ice sheet dynamics
- Swale-Ure Washlands Project, The
- Teesmouth Sediment, Enteromorpha and Water Flux Study
- Terrestrial record of former Arctic ice streams: elucidating the controls on ice stream location and vigour, The
- Testing the instability mechanism for subglacial bedform production
- Thinning History of The Foundation - Thiel Trough Ice Stream: A Key Control On Deglaciation of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Weddell Sea embayment
- Three-dimensional quantification of coherent flow structures in large alluvial channels: a new approach using multibeam sounding.
- Timing and rates of ice sheet thinning in the Ellsworth Mountains, Weddell Sea Embayment: constraints on West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics
- Understanding contemporary change in the West Antarctic ice sheet
- Understanding Marine Ice Stream Retreat Using Numerical Modelling and Geophysical Data
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