November 2016 - January 2017 /geog news...• Saadia Khan, Research Intern - 19/12/2016 • Dr Catherine Walker, Research Associate - 31/10/2016 Forthcoming Visitors • Professor

November 2016 - January 2017

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Welcome from the Head of Department ��2

Congratulations ��3

Staff ��3

Graduation Celebrations ��4

Sun, Sand and Shakes: Californian Drylands 2017 ��5

Working with Schools ��6

New Interactive Touchscreen ��6

News Snippets ��7

Erasmus News ��7

A spotlight on equalities and diversity ��8

Events ��9

Research News ��10

Research News ��11

Joe Orton Symposium ��12

Recent Publications ��12

Top Tweets ��13

Top Tweets ��14

Welcome to this first edition of the Geography newsletter for 2017� I hope you all had a restful holiday and all the best for the coming year� Welcome back to our students who have just said goodbye to semester 1 and are embarking on their second semester of studies� I hope that you feel re-charged and ready to start learning again� 2016 was a busy and a successful year for the Department and there are many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead� Let me summarise:

•A few weeks ago we celebrated with friends and family members of our graduates, many of whom had achieved the degree of Masters of Science� A significant number of our PhD students also graduated� A wish everyone of them the best of luck in their future careers and to keep in touch� Everyone who passes through the doors of Geography is an Alumni member� Join our LinkedIn alumni group to maintain the links� A number of pictures from the day are included in this newsletter�

•Colleagues in the department continue to have success in winning grantincome (Dr Matulis, Professor Balzter, Dr Upton, Professor Page, Dr Kaduk, Professor Lees, Dr Coles, Dr Madge, Dr Whelan, Dr Brown)� This funding includes some of the first grants to be awarded under new Government initiatives around Overseas Development Assistance and the Global Challenges Research Fund� We have welcomed and continue to welcome new Post-Doctoral Research Associates and Assistants into the Department to support our project work� Get in touch if you want to find out more about how you can contribute to project work in the Department� My colleagues are working on some amazing research� One example is the Leicester Urban Observatory� Professor Lees and Dr Brown are both contributing to this exciting, local project that launched last week - with the Who’s Who of Leicester Life in attendance�

• This year’s NationalStudentSurvey for the third year cohort is about to commence and our third year students will at first be gently encouraged to complete the survey before the pressure (from IPSOS MORI) ramps up� It is important that you complete the survey� It is fair to say that the results from the National Student Survey in recent years has felt like a kick in the teeth� I believe that many of the issues expressed as free comments could have been resolved if we knew about them at the time - the NSS results do not come out until the late summer, a long time after our third years have graduated - sopleasegiveusachancetoputthingsright� This is especially important if you are going to be distracted from the most intense period of work you have ever undertaken in your lives so far� Let your personal tutor, your teacher, the office or myself know if we can help while we can�

•We have put greater effort this year into mid-moduleevaluations and closing the evaluation and feedback loops – I hope you have noticed� Many of our students will have held performance related discussions with your personal tutor following an initiative by Dr Kaduk, our student performance officer� We have also put on a number of extra sessions related to supporting the dissertation� Colleagues have told me about some wonderful presentations that have been made� Despite a number of staff departures and absences, we have not cancelled any modules (I did try – but both students and staff told me it was a bad idea), staffhaveralliedanddelivered� Our attendance monitoring data tells us you are showing up for lectures� We are in a win-win situation�

To help you to understandwhatwedo to ensure your learning experience is the best that it can be, EmilyCannell (3rd year student and chair of the student-staff committee), NathanAlbon and myself have made a set of short videos

that are on our YouTube Channel and also on the Facebook page� These videos hopefully convey some of the efforts that staff make to support your career development, manage any mitigating circumstances and importantly ensure that you marks are fair and correct� We also take a look at how your degree classification is determined� Take a look and if you have any suggestions for other topics that you want covered then let us know� I am thinking about one that explains how we assess and agree the dissertation mark – again to reassure you that we get it right�

•We transformedourUndergraduatecurriculumin2016 and created a teaching programme that is exciting and challenging� It is also one that reflects the needs of a modern Geography graduate� I’d like to thank Dr Claire Jarvis on behalf of the Department for leading that piece of work� We continue to receive acclaim from our external examiners who are very impressed with the breadth and depth of the teaching we provide�

• Later in this year, wewillformaSchoolwiththeDepartmentofGeology� This will be the most significant structural change to the Department’s functioning in many years� The are many opportunities but also many challenges in doing this� A team of academics and administrative staff from both departments are working together to ensure that the School moves forward with a joined-up vision and direction� Hopefully, for our students, this structural change will be seamless and there will be no impact on the delivery of our teaching� Let me know if you have any questions�

Please get in touch if you would like more information on any of the topics covered above�

Welcome from the Head of Department

Department of Geography

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•BernardSpies has successfully defended his PhD thesis on ‘Land Cover Classification Using Multi-Frequency SAR over Semi-Arid and Forested African Landscapes’ with minor corrections� Bernard’s supervisor is HeikoBalzter�

• GraceSykes has successfully defended her PhD thesis on ‘The University Bubble: Undergraduate perceptions and experiences of ‘risk’/’risks’ during their transition to, through and beyond university‘ with minor corrections� Grace’s supervisors are Peter Kraftl (Birmingham) and GavinBrown

StaffFarewell and good luck• EhsanKhalefa, Research Associate - 31/12/2016

• DrClaireSmith, Lecturer - 31/12/2016

Welcome to the Department• DrFraserBaker, Research Associate- 01/11/2016

• DrSueEaston, Research Associate - 01/02/2017

• SaadiaKhan, Research Intern - 19/12/2016

• DrCatherineWalker, Research Associate - 31/10/2016

Forthcoming Visitors• ProfessorAbdelmonemAmer, Professor of Soil and Water

Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, Egypt, has been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in CLCR from 1 March to 31 May 2017�

• DrJesusAdolfoAnayaAcevedo from Universidad de Medellín, Colombia, will visit CLCR in spring 2017� He will work on “Identification and monitoring of deforestation in the pluvial Pacific Coast of Colombia”

Congratulations •Graduating PhD students in January were: BashirAdamu, FirdosAlmadani, AzadRasul, PedroRodriguezVeiga, BernardSpies and ZamZamHassan� (Graduation reception photos on next page)

•HeikoBalzterhas had NERC innovation funding for National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) approved for a project: ‘Deforestation early-warning service concept for Kenya’�

• The CentreforLandscapeandClimateResearch(CLCR) have won further grant success for the Institution� ProfessorSuePage and DrJoergKaduk have secured the funding from NERC to work on a project titled Securing long-term ecosystem function in lowland organic soils (SEFLOS) led by Professor Davey Jones of Bangor University� They will also collaborate with colleagues from Oxford�

• LorettaLees has secured an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie grant titled ‘Spirits of displacement and diaspora’, Co-investigator will be Stefano Portelli who will start in August 2017�

• LorettaLees has secured an ESRC grant beginning 1 February titled ‘Gentrification, displacement, and the impacts of council estate renewal in C21st London’ with a launch in London on 27 February at Cambridge House, London�

• LorettaLees has been invited to be a new editorial board member of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers�

• LorettaLeeswas the most read author in the department on the week commencing 31 October 2016 according to ‘ResearchGate’�

•MartinPhillips has secured a Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentship� This studentship is titled ‘Rural gentrification and transformations in the rural real estate complex’ and is joint with Loughborough University�


Graduation Celebrations This year’s winter graduation ceremony was held on Friday 20th January 2017 for Masters and PhD students� The department held a reception in F33 to give everyone a chance to congratulate the students on their achievement� Watch the University Graduation Ceremony video�


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However, the trip definitely wasn’t all work� My favourite day was the hike up the largest dune in Kelso Dune field which had breath-taking views of the area� Here, we discussed how aeolian transport of sand from the Afton Canyon fan had led to the formation of the dunes and heard the unusual and impressive “singing sands”� There was also a surprise at the top which I won’t spoil for anyone going on next year’s trip� We ended the day with a visit to Peggy Sue’s, a 1950s Diner where I had the best pie and milkshake I’ve ever had!

During our time in Death Valley we saw some unique sites, including Devils Golf Course and Bad Water Basin, the lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere at nearly 100 m below sea level� The incredible opportunities provided by the field course will not be forgotten� The ten day Mojave field course allowed me to enhance and enrich my understanding of dryland geomorphology: seeing landscapes in the field proved a very effective way of understanding them and how they developed over timescales stretching back many tens of thousands of years� However, the trip didn’t end there: after the course we spent four nights in Las Vegas where we were able to visit all the hotels, see shows, ride roller coasters and eat amazing food like the cheesecake in the Cheesecake Factory�

On behalf of all the students that took part in the trip I would like to say a special thank you to Mark Powell and Andy Carr, who made the trip extremely enjoyable and without whom it would not have been possible� I would highly recommend the course to any second year Geographers who are interested in dryland environments and having a truly amazing and unforgettable experience�

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The Californian Drylands field course module provides the opportunity to study the Geomorphology of the Mojave Desert in the field� The ten day field trip enabled me to engage with and fully understand the morphology of the desert landscape, giving a completely different experience to learning through lectures�

Our field location was Zzyzx Desert Studies Centre in California� The field centre itself had stunning views located at the foot of the Soda Mountains and adjacent to the dried bed of Soda Lake� During the first week of the trip we studied the geomorphology of the Mojave River which flows into the Mojave Desert from the San Bernardino Mountains, near Los Angeles� We considered the present day hydrology of this desert river as well as its late Quaternary geomorphological history, including the formation of palaeo lake systems when the climate was cooler and wetter�

Lake Manix, for example, was a palaeo lake that was the terminus of the river at the last glacial maximum (LGM: c� 22,000 years ago) when the cooler, wetter climate sustained greater, and possibly even perennial, river flow� We deduced this fact by considering the form of the landscape and the nature of the sediments which contained preserved fossils of freshwater molluscs� At about the time of the LGM the lake overflowed, causing the incision of Afton Canyon and the deposition of the Afton Canyon alluvial fan� The incision of Afton Canyon connected the river to the downstream basins and we followed the route the river took to Death Valley where it finally terminated creating Lake Manly� I feel that learning in the field though observation was extremely beneficial to us as it gave first-hand experience of the landscape in a truly engaging way and enables us to draw our conclusions which is often difficult to do in lecture based modules�

Sun, Sand and Shakes: Californian Drylands 2017

The ascent of Kelso Dunes Not a bad spot for discussing hillslope geomorphology

he Devils Golf Course on the floor of Death Valley

The view into Death Valley

The group at the top of Death Valley

Handstands at Badwater, Death Valley, 100 m below sea level


Working with SchoolsNERC funded public engagementPhD student Helena White is one of 10 early career researchers (ECRs) taking part in the NERC funded public engagement project ‘Climate Explorers’� The project involves working with a childrens radio company (Fun Kids Radio) to produce audio and animated YouTube video content aimed at engaging primary school children (aged 7-12) with climate and climate change related content� We are working with academics from Manchester Metropolitan University, King’s College London, and the Met Office�

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STEM Outreach at WQEI CollegePhD student Berivan Esen has initiated STEM outreach activities with sixth form students at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College� She has given talks on the search for life on Mars and career paths to space research� Following the positive reception from students she has returned for more talks, highlighting the role the university has played in Mars exploration� Berivan plans to continue working with the same group of interested students, finding engaging ways to connect their A-Level curriculum with planetary science/geological research�

Helena White attending one of the ‘Climate Explorers’ workshops

New Interactive Touchscreen Some of you who are regular visitors into the Undergraduate Study area (F33) may have noticed the new touchscreen TV adorning the large wall of canvas pictures� The computer (hidden neatly behind the screen) is running on Windows 10 and contains various software that may come in useful including the Microsoft Office Suite, Google Earth, Arc GIS and Erdas Imagine� It is intended to enhance the students working practices either alone or collaboratively and we look forward to seeing it being utilised in imaginative ways�

For technical support and general usage advice please contact Adam Cox (acc18@le�ac�uk)


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News Snippets• HeikoBalzter will be giving a keynote talk on Earth

Observation for ecosystem services at the BES and BESS Joint Annual Symposium “Advances in Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services” which will be held from 24 - 26 April 2017 in Cardiff� Registration is now open�

• GavinBrown has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference in Barcelona, 14 - 16 September� Where he will be talking about his research on the geopolitics of sexual orientation and gender identity�

• LorettaLees has been interviewed on anti-gentrification law by Lexis Nexis, providers of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources� Read full interview�pdf

• LorettaLees has given a talk on ‘Resisting planetary gentrification: The cases of Istanbul, London and Rome’ at CURB (Centre for Urban Research) in York on 25 January�

• LorettaLees gave a keynote speech titled ‘Radicals Assemble! Demand Utopia!’ at People’s History Museum, Manchester�

• LorettaLeeshas been invited to chair a meeting at the Greater London Authority on the mayor of londons estate renewal guidance�

• SusanPage and other authors had a letter published in ‘Science’ magazine titled ‘Time for responsible peatland agriculture’� Read published letter�pdf

• The government recognises Leicester as a centre of excellence in satellite technologies and Earth observation and calls on the Chancellor for funding: www�researchresearch�com/news/article/?articleId=1364378

•Geography graduate and news presenter Lukwesa Burak discusses her time at Leicester, working for the BBC and celebrating staff excellence� Read full article

Erasmus NewsGeography has two new Erasmus partners, they were approved at the meeting of the CSE College Academic Committee on 25 January 2017�

Our new partners are:

CharlesUniversity, Prague, Czech Republic (Good for BA and BA human geography students)

WageningenUniversity&Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands (Good for both BSc and BA students)�


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A spotlight on equalities and diversityInequality is an ongoing, serious issue� Recent news reports, for example, have highlighted the disparities in graduate job opportunities and pay for different ethnic groups, the ongoing gender pay gap and the impacts of changing welfare reform on disabled people� As geographers many of us are concerned with highlighting the social and spatial variations in such inequalities� For example, inequality operates differently in different places (at home, work or café) and at a variety of intersecting scales, from micro aggressions of the body (think news about Trump), to the mesoscale of the workplace (think homophobic lad culture or verbal abuse/hate crimes post-Brexit) to macro scale of the globe (think Gender Development Index) and across various intersecting aspects of our identities (hence the term intersectionality), such as class, age or religion�

Equalities is therefore something that affects us all and is therefore the responsibility of us all� While we must be sensitive about speaking for others, (in)equality and privilege is something that influences our life chances, experiences and expectations on a daily basis� Responding to inequality can therefore take various formats, from personal interactions (whereby one is carefully attentive to issues of language, assumptions and stereotypes), to more structural issues (such as challenging departmental and institutional policies and procedures to become more inclusive and sensitive to diversity)�

The University of Leicester has an official commitment to challenging inequality within this institution and Equality and Diversity is deemed to be vitally important to its mission as a university and its institutional values� Consequently, the Equalities Unit has created a mandatory online training package for all staff to complete (link below)�This is to ensure that every staff member understands and supports attempts to advance

equality and diversity� The aim of the training package is not to add another irritating managerial exercise to an already overworked staff but rather to encourage staff to engage in the exercise with a genuine commitment to thinking about their behaviour and actions and the way that these may produce, uphold or challenge existing ‘micro- aggressions’ for others in their working environment on the basis of protected characteristics (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief -including lack of belief-, sex and sexual orientation), as well as nationality�

Clare Madge is the equalities officer in the department and Martin Phiillips is chair of the Equalities and Career Development Committee� Brett Matulis, Pedro Rodriguez Veiga and Gary Hancox also sit on the committee� We are your points of contact for equalities related issues in the department� The University’s equalities and diversity unit can also be contacted and the website also contains useful information see: www2�le�ac�uk/offices/equalities-unit�

Essentially equalities is about trying to create a world in which everyone is treated fairly, with justice and feels included and valued for who they are and this is something that we believe we can, and should, all be working towards�

Link to the online training module

Clare, Martin, Brett, Pedro and Gary


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Images of Research CompetitionA photo taken by PhD student Sara Thornton during her fieldwork in Indonesia has been shortlisted for the ‘Images of Research’ competition that is taking place in Queen’s Hall (Student Union) on the 9th of February� The exhibition will be open to the public from 11�00am - 4�00pm on that day if anyone wants to have a look at the shortlisted submissions! Unfortunately we are unable to publish Sara’s image until the competition has been judged so please find time to go along to view the exhibition to support Sara�

Astrobiology Reading GroupWith several staff and PhD students now working on biomarkers, extreme environments and Mars analogues we have started a reading group open to all PGR students (including those from Geology)� The reading group may also extend to Physics and Astronomy depending on the turnout�

Location and time: Meeting every two weeks, Bennett Building, 1-2pm� The next session will be on Monday 6 February�

Please contact Berivan Esen at be49@le�ac�uk for more information on the reading and the room (To be decided depending on numbers)�

EventsResearch Seminars•Wednesday1February, Dr Rob Harland

‘The spatial dimension of urban graphic objects’ F75a, 4pm

•Wednesday8February, Professor Jan Zalasiewicz ‘Scale, speed and trajectories of the Anthropocene’ F75a, 4�00pm

‘City Series’ LecturesA new series of public lectures that will explore the urban development, history and architecture of Leicester launched on Thursday 26 January�

The ‘City Series’ lecture programme is being developed by the ‘Leicester Urban Observatory’, a small group of planning professionals and academics from Leicester City Council, De Montfort University, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University�

City Mayor Peter Soulsby, who will deliver the first lecture in the series, said: “This is an exciting collaboration that will bring together a wealth of local expertise in urban studies, architecture and Leicester’s planning story and I am delighted to be giving the inaugural lecture�


The South African higher education sector is therefore a key player in international education in the African continent� However, only around 60% of these international students have moved; the rest are distance learners (DoHET 2015), distributed across the continent, particularly the SADC countries� In 2013, almost half of international distance education students (33,646) were from Zimbabwe (16,033) and 2,349 from Lesotho and 1,142 from Nigeria� However, despite their obvious significance in African higher education, little is known about distance education students in the African context� This project aims to fill this gap by providing the first detailed study on international distance education in South Africa�

ClareMadgewill be working with an international team on this ESRC-Newton funded project entitled: ‘Facilitating equitable access and quality education for development: South African International Distance Education’ Education (£629,302�04 in the UK and 2�5 million Rand in South Africa)� The project runs from October 2016 to March 2019 and the team are Prof Parvati Raghuram (Open University PI), Dr Ashley Gunter (University of South Africa South African PI), Dr� Bart Rienties (OU), Prof Paul Prinsloo (UNISA) and Dr Clare Madge (University of Leicester)� This project will build on Clare’s research interests in international study (Madge et al 2009; 2015), communicative technologies (Madge and O’Connor 2005; 2006; 2016; Madge et al 2009) and postcolonial theory (Madge et al 2012; 2014; Johnson and Madge 2016)�

Research NewsNew research project on international distance education in South AfricaSome of you will be going to study abroad in your third year in America, Europe or Canada� Geographers have been at the forefront of charting the nature of such forms of international education (IE) in these countries/regions� There are, however, other important geographical locations for international education� The Southern African Development Community (SADC), for example, has the highest ratio of student mobility in the world (6%, Chien and Kot, 2011) compared to a world average of 2%� South Africa is the primary destination for these students� The number of international students (IS) studying in South Africa has grown from 12,000 in 1994 to over 60,000 in 2009, which represents nearly 8% of the total 800,000 students in South Africa’s 23 public universities� Moreover, between 2000 and 2013 the number of African students registering for study in France dropped 1%, while those registering in South Africa increased 18% as study permits become harder to obtain in Europe (amongst other reasons)�

(Re)Connect the NexusFrom 30th January until 7th April, DrCatherineWalker, a postdoctoral research associate in the department, will be in Såo Paulo state, Brazil, conducting field research for the (Re)Connect the Nexus project� The project, funded by the ESRC Newton Fund, CONFAP and FAPESP, is a collaboration between Leicester, Birmingham and Northampton Universities and UNESP, the state university of São Paulo� It aims to consider young Brazilians’ experiences of and participation in

the food-water-energy nexus through bringing together the everyday experiences and concerns of young people with the perspectives of key professionals working in food, water and energy industries, government and environmental education� Catherine will be spending her time carrying out around 50 interviews with key professionals in the Vale de Paraiba and North Shore metropolitan regions of São Paulo state, supervised by DrBenColes�


Forests 2020 Earth Observation projectOur University is involved in a new £15m project funded by the UK Space Agency to help to protect tropical forests throughout the world�

The ‘Forests 2020’ project is set to help countries to improve the management and protection of around 300 million hectares of tropical forests - 12 times the size of the United Kingdom - and sees sustainability software and data company Ecometrica lead an international consortium that brings together many of the world’s leading experts on forest monitoring�

As part of the project, Ecometrica will sub-contract experts from the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester (led by ProfessorHeikoBalzter), and fellow Edinburgh company Carbomap, a specialist in LiDAR forest mapping�

Research NewsEndangered Species ProjectDrMoyaBurns has been successful in receiving a grant from The People’s Trust for Endangered Species to host an intern for 6 months� Her name is Saadia Khan and she recently graduated from the University of Northampton with a degree in wildlife conservation� Saadia’s project is titled : The impact of warmer, wetter winters on invertebrate food sources for hedgehogs in urban environments and the impacts for hedgehog survival during winter waking� It will involve monitoring hedgehog activity and invertebrate availability across the university sites through the winter� I am sure we would all like to see some hedgehogs pottering around the department when they wake up�

Congo Basin MappingA vast peatland in the Congo Basin has been mapped for the first time, revealing it to be largest in the tropics�

ProfessorSusanPage from the Department of Geography, who co-led the study, said: “Tropical peatland is one of Earth’s largest and most efficient carbon sinks� Development of tropical peatland for agriculture and plantations removes the carbon sink capacity of the peatland system with large carbon losses arising particularly from enhanced peat degradation and the loss of any future carbon sequestration by the native peat swamp forest vegetation�”

Read full article


http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2017-archive/january/study-reveals-congo-swamps-as-the-world2019s-largest-tropical-peatland

of drainage networks by 23 Ma in the central Sahara, southern Libya� Gondwana Research� http://dx�doi�org/10�1016/j�gr�2016�11�008

Onojeghuo,A., Balzter,H. and Monks, P�S� (in press): Tropospheric NO2 concentrations over West Africa are influenced by climate zone and soil moisture variability, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions (open discussion stage)

Rasul,A., Balzter,H. and Smith, C� (in press): Applying a normalized ratio scale technique to assess influences of urban expansion on land surface temperature of the semi-arid city of Erbil� International Journal of Remote Sensing�

Rodríguez-Veiga,P., Wheeler,J., Louis,V., Tansey,K. and Balzter,H. (in press): Quantifying forest biomass carbon stocks from space� Current Forestry Reports� (a new Springer open access journal without an impact factor to date)

Wei, J�, Malanotte-Rizzoli, P�, Li, M�-T� and Wang,H. (2016): Decomposition of thermal and dynamic changes in the South China Sea induced by boundary forcing and surface fluxes during 1970–2000� Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 10�1002/2016JC012078, http://onlinelibrary�wiley�com/doi/10�1002/2016JC012078/pdf

Zhang, Y�, Balzter,H., Liu, B� and Chen, Y� (2016): Analyzing the impacts of urbanization and seasonal variation on land surface temperature based on sub-pixel fractional covers using Landsat images� IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), doi:10�1109/JSTARS�2016�2608390, http://ieeexplore�ieee�org/stamp/stamp�jsp?tp=&arnumber=7756669&isnumber=4609444

Joe Orton SymposiumTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of playwright Joe Orton (1933-1967), the University of Leicester is hosting a one day interdisciplinary symposium on his life and work on Wednesday 9 August 2017�

Please note the deadline for 250-word abstracts for 20 minute papers is 30 April, 2017�

See events pages for further details�

Recent PublicationsArellano, P�, Tansey,K. and Balzter,H.(2016): Detection of Amazon Forest Degradation Caused by Land Use Changes� In: Blanco, J�A�, Chang, S�-C� and Lo, Y�-H� (2016): Tropical Forests - The Challenges of Maintaining Ecosystem Services while Managing the Landscape, Intech, Rijeka, Croatia, ISBN 978-953-51-2759-8, www�intechopen�com/download/pdf/52660�

Arellano, P�, Tansey,K.,Balzter,H.and Tellkamp, M� (2017): Plant family-specific impacts of petroleum pollution on biodiversity and leaf chlorophyll content in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador� PLoS-ONE, 12(1), e0169867, doi: 10�1371/journal�pone�0169867, http://journals�plos�org/plosone/article?id=10�1371/journal�pone�

Garcia, M�, Saatchi, S�, Casas, A�, Koltunov, A�, Ustin, S�, Ramirez, C�, Garcia-Gutierrez, J� and Balzter,H. (in press): Quantifying biomass consumption and carbon release by the California Rim Fire by integrating airborne LiDAR and Landsat-OLI data� Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences (Journal impact factor = 3�318)

Hounslow, M�W�, White,H.E., Drake, N�A�, Salem, M�J�, El-Hawat, A�, McLaren,S.J., Karloukovski, V�, Noble, S�R� and Hlal, O� (In Press) Miocene humid intervals and establishment


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