Guidelines for the organisation of an international postgraduate programme on earth science and environmental planning

2006 ◽  
pp. 513-525
Author(s):  
Antonio Cendrero
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Postgraduate Programme

scholarly journals Quantitative Analysis of Anthropogenic Morphologies Based on Multi-Temporal High-Resolution Topography

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Xiang ◽  
Shi Li ◽  
Keyan Xiao ◽  
Jianping Chen ◽  
Giulia Sofia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Geomorphic Features ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Science Community

Human activities have reshaped the geomorphology of landscapes and created vast anthropogenic geomorphic features, which have distinct characteristics compared with landforms produced by natural processes. High-resolution topography from LiDAR has opened avenues for the analysis of anthropogenic geomorphic signatures, providing new opportunities for a better understanding of Earth surface processes and landforms. However, quantitative identification and monitoring of such anthropogenic signature still represent a challenge for the Earth science community. The purpose of this contribution is to explore a method for monitoring geomorphic changes and identifying the driving forces of such changes. The study was carried out on the Eibar watershed in Spain. The proposed method is able to quantitatively detect anthropogenic geomorphic changes based on multi-temporal LiDAR topography, and it is based on a combination of two techniques: the DEM of Difference (DoD) and the Slope Local Length of Auto-correlation (SLLAC). First, we tested the capability of the SLLAC and derived parameters to distinguish different types of anthropogenic geomorphologies in 5 study case at a small scale. Second, we calculated the DoD to quantify the geomorphic changes between 2008 and 2016. Based on the proposed approach, we classified the whole basin into three categories of geomorphic changes (natural, urban or mosaic areas). The urban area had the most clustered and largest geomorphic changes, followed by the mosaic area and the natural area. This research might help to identify and monitoring anthropogenic geomorphic changes over large areas, to schedule sustainable environmental planning, and to mitigate the consequences of anthropogenic alteration.

Integrating Macrostrat and Rockd into Undergraduate Earth Science Teaching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoebe A. Cohen ◽  
Rowan Lockwood ◽  
Shanan Peters
Keyword(s):  
Science Teaching ◽  
Earth Science

Geological Katabasis : Geology and the Christian Underworld in Kingsley's The Water-Babies

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Rachel Fountain Eames
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Geological Society

Charles Kingsley's lifelong interest in geology is well documented – from the gentleman geologists of his early novels and his membership of the Geological Society, to his introduction to earth science for children, Madam How and Lady Why (1870) – but the influence of geological ideas in The Water-Babies (1863) has been largely overlooked. Instead, academics have broadly categorised the novel as an ‘evolutionary parable’, emphasising Darwinian influences to the exclusion of contemporary geology. I propose that there is a distinct geological subtext underpinning The Water-Babies. Acknowledging both its scientific and religious contexts, I argue that Kingsley integrates elements of his geological studies into clear stratigraphic forms in the novel; that these ideas recur in the novel's surface geography and are informed by his reading of contemporary geologists; and that The Water-Babies is part of a longstanding generic tradition of Christian geological katabasis that can be traced back to Dante's Divine Comedy (1555).

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