We were very pleased to launch TEMPEST – our database of historical weather events – at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual…
Digital Data: Opening up the Weather Archive – Geo at #RGSIBG17
Join us on Wednesday 30 August at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference for our Geo sponsored session ‘Digital Data: Opening…
Revisiting the effects of climate change on salamander body size: the role of natural history collections
Our recent paper, The relationship between climate and adult body size in redback salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), found that salamanders were larger…
Multiple stressors and ecological surprises
The expanding global human population, now about 7.5 billion, is increasing the pressure that we as a species put on…
Opening-up (to) the politics of Anthropocene science
A group of scientists working for the International Commission on Stratigraphy recently recommended that the start of the Anthropocene epoch,…
Journal metrics and linguistic hegemony
Geography is a uniquely international discipline. It is concerned with describing and explaining the world in all its infinite variety.…
Drawing, remembering, knowing: natural history and the ecological imagination
By Meredith Root-Bernstein (Aarhus University) Geo: Geography and Environment recently published my personal essay about how natural history practices have…
Uneven geographies of openness and information
By Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia, UK) Open access to information and data appears to be a cause which has…
Learning from guano: In search of a paleo-seabird proxy
By Jessica Conroy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Take a vacation to the Galápagos Islands and you’re bound to see…
Open for collaboration
This week (Oct 19th-25th) is Open Access Week, with the theme of ‘Open for Collaboration’. Open Access Week is organised…
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