On 25 June 2021, our More than Maps Team attended Day 4 of the SARTRAC Annual Consortium Meeting #2 “Capacity Building – Outward Facing”. Capacity building is a key component of the SARTRAC programme and the Global Challenges Research Fund (click here for further information). As part of the ACM2 programme, PhD students Marie Schlenker and…
Month: July 2021
Designing a home-made floating case for GPS trackers for sargassum mat deployment
by Emma L. Tompkins, Robert Marsh, Sien van der Plank, Jadu Dash, Nikolaos Skliris, Yanna Fidai Our first UK-based fieldwork involved use of: a bathtub, chicken-wire, Play-Doh and a dip in the sea. Our objective – to make a home-made floating case for GPS trackers for sargassum mat deployment GPS trackers need to be housed…
Interdisciplinary Research Methods Workshop Series, July 2021
The next More than Maps workshop series is open for any members of the public interested in attending. We will be covering: Tuesday 13 July, 17.00-18.30 BST Introduction to Research theories and frameworks: The importance of evidence based policy in adapting to environmental change Wednesday 14 July, 17.00-18.30 BST Introduction to Remote sensing: Detecting environmental threats from…
Managing Climate Change Adaptation at the Coast through More than Maps
The University of Southampton SARTRAC* team is delighted to be part of the UK / Australia Season 2021, a collaboration between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. SARTAC will be organising and running a workshop series on the theme of “Managing Climate Change Adaptation at the Coast through…