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Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology research

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Overview

Research Contact: Dr Nicolas Midgley

Taught on our outstanding Brackenhurst Campus just north of Nottingham, the Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology Subject Area explores the interaction between people and the environment. The Subject Area explores environmental issues, including the principles underlying the exploitation of natural resources, and waste management.

Group

The Natural Environment Group's research areas include:

  • Nutrient cycling, eutrophication and algal bloom control in aquatic environments
  • Pollutants in soils, waters and sediments
  • Integrated waste-water treatment and water-energy-food security
  • Peatland management
  • Natural flood attenuation
  • Application of GIS, Remote Sensing, UAVs and spatial analysis
  • Glaciers and associated geomorphological change since the Neoglacial
  • Environmental effects of space weather and changes in the geomagnetic field

The following Projects are linked to this Subject Area:

Case Studies

The following impact case studies are linked to this Subject Area:

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