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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…
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…
The influences on hydrology and ecology in coastal wetlands
…a depth of 3 meters below the surface using a Cobra TT percussion drill. Water samples were taken from the groundwater and surface water when it was present in October…
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….
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…
What’s cooler than a Enzo Ferrari?
…cores were transported down to School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin for ITRAXTM core scanning. The ITRAXTM core scanner takes high resolution radiographic and optical images…
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…
Know your customers and competitors too!
…with good competition – usually very short lived! Whatever your field remember – it’s a small world. Images and facts from around the world reach our laptops in seconds so…
Shall we talk about the weather?
…be plenty of snow. How does the weather affect other nations (do they complain as we do)? Well it seems they do and in 2011 they have had a lot…
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…
Sunderbans Revisited
…October 2010 Rory has been working on his PhD project at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) regarding the late-Holocene and contemporary sedimentary provenance…