Our new #openaccess paper is out!
"Conservation-focused Digital Twins: The current landscape and lessons learned from the Dangermond Preserve"
by @science.nature.org @spatialucsb.bsky.social Maggi Kelly + yours truly
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
#gischat 🧪 ⚒️ #geogchat #geogsky
"Conservation-focused Digital Twins: The current landscape and lessons learned from the Dangermond Preserve"
by @science.nature.org @spatialucsb.bsky.social Maggi Kelly + yours truly
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
#gischat 🧪 ⚒️ #geogchat #geogsky
Frontiers | Conservation-focused digital twins: the current landscape and lessons learned from the Dangermond Preserve
As conservation challenges intensify, digital twins—virtual models that integrate real-time data and simulations—offer a powerful new approach to understandi...
www.frontiersin.org
November 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Our new #openaccess paper is out!
"Conservation-focused Digital Twins: The current landscape and lessons learned from the Dangermond Preserve"
by @science.nature.org @spatialucsb.bsky.social Maggi Kelly + yours truly
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
#gischat 🧪 ⚒️ #geogchat #geogsky
"Conservation-focused Digital Twins: The current landscape and lessons learned from the Dangermond Preserve"
by @science.nature.org @spatialucsb.bsky.social Maggi Kelly + yours truly
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
#gischat 🧪 ⚒️ #geogchat #geogsky
🌎 Looking for new ways to make learning meaningful and relevant for your students?
Join "Inspiring #Geographic Thinking: From Ideas to Classroom Practice," a free workshop for #educators, future teachers, and faculty interested in bringing geographic thinking into the classroom. buff.ly/84n4yIu
Join "Inspiring #Geographic Thinking: From Ideas to Classroom Practice," a free workshop for #educators, future teachers, and faculty interested in bringing geographic thinking into the classroom. buff.ly/84n4yIu
October 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I see Vice-President Trump is re-vitalising his idea to buy Greenland again. Here's what I wrote in September 2023 about his 'reasoning'. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/president-...
dredfern.substack.com/p/president-...
President Trump, Greenland, Australia, and the mining of rare earths
Connections between global governance, global systems, place, and climate change
dredfern.substack.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:04 AM
I see Vice-President Trump is re-vitalising his idea to buy Greenland again. Here's what I wrote in September 2023 about his 'reasoning'. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/president-...
dredfern.substack.com/p/president-...
Latest post on my Substack, a Q and A on the Water cycle. Coming soon - my perspective on Oxbridge interviews for geographers. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/quiz-time-4
dredfern.substack.com/p/quiz-time-4
Quiz time (4)
The Water Cycle
dredfern.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Latest post on my Substack, a Q and A on the Water cycle. Coming soon - my perspective on Oxbridge interviews for geographers. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/quiz-time-4
dredfern.substack.com/p/quiz-time-4
Climate change and death rates (from both heat and cold). This is very useful. #Geogchat.
open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
Do more people die from heat or cold? How will this change in the future?
An overview of temperature-related deaths, and how this might change with climate change.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Climate change and death rates (from both heat and cold). This is very useful. #Geogchat.
open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...
How to handle A level Geography skills (AO3) questions - my advice to students. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/an-ao3-que...
dredfern.substack.com/p/an-ao3-que...
An AO3 question and answer
The water cycle
dredfern.substack.com
October 9, 2024 at 10:42 AM
How to handle A level Geography skills (AO3) questions - my advice to students. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/an-ao3-que...
dredfern.substack.com/p/an-ao3-que...
Studying wildfires? #Geogchat Targeted at AQA A Level Geography:
dredfern.substack.com/p/the-forest...
dredfern.substack.com/p/the-forest...
The forest fires in Jasper (Alberta) – July 2024
[Another small surge in subscribers – from Whitley Bay and Settle, amongst others.
dredfern.substack.com
September 11, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Studying wildfires? #Geogchat Targeted at AQA A Level Geography:
dredfern.substack.com/p/the-forest...
dredfern.substack.com/p/the-forest...
New Substack post on Population futures, with regard to China. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/population...
dredfern.substack.com/p/population...
Population futures
A focus on China
dredfern.substack.com
September 1, 2024 at 9:23 AM
New Substack post on Population futures, with regard to China. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/population...
dredfern.substack.com/p/population...
Latest post on Substack: sexual violence in India, an indicator of social and cultural development. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/sexual-vio...
dredfern.substack.com/p/sexual-vio...
Sexual violence in India
Rape, and for the women of India, there are even dangers in going to the toilet.
dredfern.substack.com
August 24, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Latest post on Substack: sexual violence in India, an indicator of social and cultural development. #Geogchat
dredfern.substack.com/p/sexual-vio...
dredfern.substack.com/p/sexual-vio...
#geogchat. AQA Geography: for students and teachers of wildfires, from Hannah Ritchie.
'How big are global wildfires this years?'
substack.com/home/post/p-...
'How big are global wildfires this years?'
substack.com/home/post/p-...
How big are global wildfires this year?
They're tracking much higher than the decadal average.
substack.com
August 19, 2024 at 7:22 AM
#geogchat. AQA Geography: for students and teachers of wildfires, from Hannah Ritchie.
'How big are global wildfires this years?'
substack.com/home/post/p-...
'How big are global wildfires this years?'
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I love a forgotten preorder (I ordered this last year when I was teaching Y9 geography and had no idea what I was doing!) #historyteacher who sometimes is a #geographyteacher
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yay! It came! I'm really looking forward to it. I've already (before it even came) found some cool tools! @glennwiebe.bsky.social the windows frame is cool!! @madisonteacher.bsky.social can't wait to dig in!
July 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎓 such a great clear thread. Start with what pupils think they know. Explain history of an idea and how science revisits and develops it. Explain current view using diagrams. Pupils teach each other, as a check for understanding. #GeogChat #GeoSky
1/ When teaching plate tectonics to pupils, it's important to note that they will probably be coming with prior misconceptions about how plates move. So ubiquitous is the mantle convection cells model that that's how pupils will probably think plates move.
But they would be wrong! to think that...
But they would be wrong! to think that...
September 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I love this podcast, all sorts of discussions on what is fact and what is not, lots of good geography ones on renewables, migration and pensions! Go check it out! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?
Plus, Migrants vs Pensioners and Ed Miliband’s energy auction claim
www.bbc.co.uk
September 21, 2024 at 7:54 AM
I'm running a new programme through the RGS-IBG for (primarily) postgraduates to build skills in peer review - do apply & circulate amongst your geography students!
We're planning on running it quite frequently if it goes well, so keep an eye out for future dates as well #geosky
We're planning on running it quite frequently if it goes well, so keep an eye out for future dates as well #geosky
Are you a postgraduate geography student or early-career researcher looking to gain experience in academic publishing?
📚 The newly established RGS-IBG Peer-Review Academy could be the perfect opportunity for you
⬇️ Apply now rgs.org/research/res...
❗️ Deadline: 4 October 17:00 BST
📚 The newly established RGS-IBG Peer-Review Academy could be the perfect opportunity for you
⬇️ Apply now rgs.org/research/res...
❗️ Deadline: 4 October 17:00 BST
September 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
New open access monograph published today in IHR/Royal Historical Society book series, Martin Spychal's Mapping the State English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act:
uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping... . Of interest to British political historians and historical geographers among many others.
uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping... . Of interest to British political historians and historical geographers among many others.
Mapping the State - University of London Press
The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, the legislation reshaped constitutional arrangement...
uolpress.co.uk
September 19, 2024 at 9:03 AM
This 60-minute webinar, delivered by Catherine Owen, will provide non-specialist teachers with the tools, strategies and knowledge they need to deliver engaging and accurate lessons on Natural Hazards. #GeogChat
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tickettailor.com/events/coopere…
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This 60-minute webinar, delivered by Catherine Owen, will provide non-specialist teachers with the tools, strategies and knowledge they need to deliver engaging and accurate lessons on Natural Hazards. #GeogChat
tickettailor.com/events/coopere…
tickettailor.com/events/coopere…
April 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Take a look at the resource - local action is a big part of it. There are lots of other fab resources out there as well - any opportunity to flag them up to teachers is great. Would love to hear about other flooding resources people have come across. #GeogChat
April 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Take a look at the resource - local action is a big part of it. There are lots of other fab resources out there as well - any opportunity to flag them up to teachers is great. Would love to hear about other flooding resources people have come across. #GeogChat
A must read for all with an interest in the geography curriculum #GeogChat
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What state is geography education in today?
Whilst there are signs of strength, there are also challenges that could undermine everyone's hard work...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
What state is geography education in today?
Whilst there are signs of strength, there are also challenges that could undermine everyone's hard work...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social
Geography: challenges and opportunities for the subject
Dire warnings about geography being sidelined in schools have not come to pass, writes Mark Enser, but changes still need to be made to secure the future of the subject
www.tes.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A must read for all with an interest in the geography curriculum #GeogChat
Great to see this Geography Update from ERA - highly recommend subscribing- era.org.uk #GeogChat
February 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great to see this Geography Update from ERA - highly recommend subscribing- era.org.uk #GeogChat