The Department’s research activities are organised around three themes:

• Human Geography
• Physical Geography
• Geographical Information Science

Within each theme there are particular areas of research specialisation.

• Research Facilities
• Research Projects

Recent Departmental Publications

• Powell, D.M., Larrone, J.B., Reid, I. and Barzilai, R. (2012). The bed morphology of upland single-thread channels in semi-arid environments: evidence of repeating bedforms and their wider implications for gravel-bed rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3199.
• Burwell, C., Jarvis, C. & Tansey, K. (2012): The potential for using 3D visualization for data exploration, error correction and analysis of LiDAR point clouds, Remote Sensing Letters, 3:6, 481-490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2011.629233
• Leal, A., Berrio, J.C., Raimundez, E., & B, Bilbao. 2011. A pollen atlas of premontane woody and herbaceous communities from the upland savannas of Guayana, Venezuela. Palynology, 35(2): 226-266.
• Romero, M. H., Flantua, S.G.A., Tansey, K., & Berrio, J.C. 2011. Landscape
  transformations in savannas of northern South America: Land use/cover changes since 1987 in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia. Applied Geography 32: 766-776.
• Kaduk, Jörg, and Los, Sietse O., 2011.  Predicting the time of green up in temperate and boreal Biomes, Climatic Change, 2011, 107 (3-4), pp. 277-304.
• M. H. M. Groot, R. G. Bogotá, L. J. Lourens, H. Hooghiemstra, M. Vriend, J. C. Berrio, et al. Ultra-high resolution pollen record from the northern Andes reveals rapid shifts in montane climates within the last two glacial cycles. 2011. Climate of the. Past, 7, 299-316.
• Bradley, A. V., Gerard, F. F., Barbier, N., Weedon, G. P., Anderson, L. O., Huntingford, C., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Zelazowski, P. and Arai, E. (2011), Relationships between phenology, radiation and precipitation in the Amazon region. Global Change Biology, 17: 2245–2260. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02405.x

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