"Erik Swyngedouw will be giving the 1st Infrastructural Geographies Annual Lecture, on "Enjoying Climate Change". 08 May 2024, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge Geography! All welcome"

🔬🍃 Activism & science: what space is there in science for activism around the climate and biodiversity crises? 🗓️ 13 May 📍 CRASSH crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41105 Join us for a half-day event, open to academics, students and members of the public, where we will explore such questions

MPhil student Zuhri James has just published a path-breaking article on the Minneapolis Sound in Antipode. James brings together insights from musicology, cultural theory, and critical Black geographies to provide a unique perspective on post-war Minneapolis

Congratulations to MPhil in Holocene Climates student, Crystal Fu, for receiving the award for best student talk at the PalaeoArc conference in Stockholm last week 👏

Congratulations to Chris Sandbrook for being named in ENDS Report Power List 2024 as one of the UK’s leading academics shaping the science on environmental issues👏

For my final event as a postdoc at Cambridge Geography, I'm thrilled to host Mohammed Elnaiem from Decolonial Centre to discuss genocide and organised abandonment in Palestine, Congo, Haiti and Sudan at CRASSH, Cambridge. 📅 19/6 at 14:30, Cambridge & online. Register ⤵️ crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/42829/

Earlier in the year our Part IB students went to Morocco, Gibraltar, Berlin, Cornwall and the Fens to conduct fieldwork and practice their Geography skills #fieldtrips #NationalFestivalofFieldwork

Congratulations to Cambridge Geography alum Harriet Bulkeley on receiving an OBE in The King's Birthday Honours 👏

Among those graduating on Thursday will be Jo Fang (a 3rd-year Cambridge Geography undergrad) who’s been awarded the Choate Fellowship to study at Harvard University, 13 years since it was awarded to Callum Williams (2008, #Geography; Callum Williams): caths.cam.ac.uk/choate Cambridge University

Today we have published our latest work in Nature Geoscience Slush accounts for more than half on Antarctica’s surface meltwater area at the peak of the melt season! The paper is freely available here: doi.org/10.1038/s41561… Ian Willis Dr. Alison Banwell Sophie de Roda Husman 1/5

We are currently hiring for two posts: Geospatial and Quantitative Skills Specialist. Applications close on 22 July jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47152/ Undergraduate Administrator [Temporary Cover]. Applications close on 21 July jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47051/

Books begin to feel real when they have a cover: #PlantationWorlds will be out with Duke University Press soon! Thrilled that the painting is my long-time favourite #PaulKlee!

Congratulations to Wolfson PhD student Carolyn Smith on winning a CSAR award for research! 🌟 Read a profile on Carolyn and find out more about her work on volcanic risk & ensuring agency for Indigenous peoples in community-state communication 👉 wolfson.cam.ac.uk/news/politics-…

We are open today and tomorrow 10am to 4pm. Our staff and students are ready to welcome you and answer any questions you have about #Geography #OpenDays #CambridgeUniversity

In journeying back 2 million years, Dr Aidan Starr hopes to fill in the missing chapters of our oceans and predict where the story might lead. cam.ac.uk/stories/dr-aid… via @cambridge_uni

We were sad to learn that Emeritus Fellow Prof. Michael Chisholm FBA (1951, #Geography; Fellow 1976–96), Emeritus Professor Cambridge Geography, died at home in Cambridge on 9 July. Our flag is at half-mast today in his memory: caths.cam.ac.uk/michael-chisho… Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

A huge congratulations to Dr Matthew Adeleye (Matthew Adeleye) who have been awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship 👏 #UKRIFLF

Congratulations to Emerita Professor Susan J Smith (Susan J Smith) on her appointment as the thirty-second President of the The British Academy

Really enjoyed taking part in this podcast on the Blue Economy. Honoured to be part of this - with some amazing guest speakers! Cambridge Geography open.spotify.com/episode/1wnvtu…

This prestigious prize by the WTO has been won by my fabulous former PhD student, Misbah Khatana, for her work on women's entrepreneurship and gender equality in trade in Pakistan. Congratulations, Misbah! Misbah is an alum of Girton College, Cambridge University and Cambridge Geography CUGS