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Lucknow the hidden gem of India
…and the Indian rebellion of 1857 Claude Martin was a Frenchman who had served in the French East India Company. After their defeat by the British East India Company he…
2011 – Expect big things from Van Walt
…and grow. Secondly, it may have been the holiday period but we’ve been busy preparing for 2011 – our plans are ambitious and, because many of the initiatives will affect…
A very organised chaos
…images. His information was plentiful and somewhat overwhelming in quantity but I’m sure he said that there were as many as nine Delhis. In fact, according to the government website…
16th QRA International Postgraduate Symposium Durham 2011
…superb 2011 Postgraduate Symposium, and thank them for all their hard work over the three days. We look forward to seeing everyone again at next year’s QRA Symposium at Aberdeen…
An update from our India correspondent by Rory Flood
…hours of car journeys to cloistered ports and steaming across the estuarine-deltaic islands of the Sundarbans of West Bengal, India. Since October 2010 I have been working on my PhD…
An insatiable demand for data
…were plastered with framed images and yet they ordered more frames, kilometres of them. And throughout my career which now spans almost 40 years I’ve experienced the same about data….
What’s cooler than a Enzo Ferrari?
…another orbit, the see that an electron has been knocked out of a lower orbit and decide to take up that space on the lower orbit). When the electron from…
Sunderbans, West Bengal, India
…on deck under a mosquito net and this afforded me a wonderful night sky and amazing sunrises in the humid sultry air. In the four days we sampled mainly with…
Sedimentology – the stuff of legends!
“What could be cuter Than to feed a computer With wrong information But naïve expectation To obtain with precision A Napoleonic decision?” Adding more notes to my ‘to-do’ list I’m…
Sedimentology – the stuff of legends!
“What could be cuter Than to feed a computer With wrong information But naïve expectation To obtain with precision A Napoleonic decision?” Adding more notes to my ‘to-do’ list I’m…
Why is soil solution sampling important?
…to come across a paper by Steven Falivene, dated November 2008 on Soil Solution monitoring in Australia (http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/imagesDB/news/SoilSolutionreportIM0408-FINAL.pdf). A lengthy and detailed account of his research on the sustainability of…
Prospecting for gold in the Congo
…images from these and many other locations are always filled with huge drilling rigs, life-sized Tonka trucks and landscapes scrapped bare following the excavation of precious resources. But at the…