Attention Nottinghamshire based GGG readers! Here is an interesting event for you.
Event Name:
Professor Tim Burt’s lecture, titled Long-term monitoring of the natural environment: perceptive science or mindless monitoring
Date: Wednesday 23rd January 2008 Time: 6pm
Location:
Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Lecture Theatre, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, UK.
Details:
Long-term observation of the natural environment has too often been dismissed as low-grade science which contributes little to our understanding. However, the value of long observational records has recently been recognised, for example in relation to global warming and the impact of pollution. This lecture will use examples from the UK to argue that well designed monitoring programmes provide our best chance of studying effects that can only be identified over long periods of time and for revealing new questions of interest that could not be anticipated at the time the measurements were begun. Case studies will cover some of the UK ’s longest records of climate and water quality, and will even include some ‘blue skies’ thinking about heavy rainfall and floods!
Professor Tim Burt is Professor of Geography and Master of Hatfield College at Durham
University . His research interests include hydrology, geomorphology and water pollution; a recent focus has been the export of dissolved organic carbon from Pennine catchments. He is also interested in long climatic records and has run weather stations at Oxford and Durham , the two longest records for any university in the country.
Booking:
This lecture is free to attend but will be ticketed. To book your place at this event please click here to email the Events Team
