Posts by geogadmin

The following article, “Visualizing gun deaths – Comparing the U.S. to the rest of the world,” was written by Katie Leach-Kemon and posted March 21, 2014. Dr. Leach-Kemon, a weekly contributor of global health visual information posts for Humanosphere, is a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: When it comes to gun violence, the United...

Five major Geography graduate awards and five undergraduate awards were handed out on May 22, 2014, just prior to the Geography Colloquium presentation, “Farming the Rock: Biogeochemical Controls on Intensive Agriculture in Polynesia,” by Professor Oliver Chadwick. Our Vice Chair, Professor Phaedon Kyriakidis, presented the graduate awards for Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, the Leal Anne Kerry Mertes...

According to a Queen Mary University of London news story, “gardeners wanting to rid their spring flowerbeds of pesky snails may have to ditch the beer traps and egg shells and revert to developing a strong throwing arm.” The article, posted May 16, 2014 and titled “Best way to rid a garden of snails revealed by QMUL scientist,” goes on to state: The new study published today (Friday 16 May) in the journal...