Linking life and landscape: How geomorphology and ecology rule the world

Mark Blacksell Public Lecture
Coa Valley, Portugal
Coa Valley, Portugal
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  • Room 003, Babbage Building, University of Plymouth

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The Mark Blacksell Lecture Series aims to bring scholars working at the forefront of geography to the University of Plymouth to present their research to a public audience. The lecture series is named after Professor Mark Blacksell, a human geographer at the University before his retirement.
This year's lecture is being delivered by Professor Heather Viles, Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation at the University of Oxford.
What would the Earth’s surface look like without plants, animals and microbes? Is there a signature of life on Earth? Have life and landscape co-evolved?
These are the sorts of ‘big picture’ questions that the field of biogeomorphology looks at. But it also deals with more practical issues, such as nature-based solutions, rewilding and nature recovery. This talk will introduce biogeomorphology, illustrate the approaches and methods it used, and give some examples of recent ‘big picture’ and practical research.
The free lecture starts at 17:00 and is open to all. Registration is required and will open shortly.
Email paul.simpson@plymouth.ac.uk for further information.
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About the speaker

Professor Heather Viles is a geographer with major interests in geomorphology and heritage science. Much of her research focuses on the application of science to heritage conservation. She is Associate Head (Research) for the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation; Oxford lead and Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Art, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA); and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Sustainable Heritage, University College London. She leads the Oxford University Heritage Network.
Heather's research is highly interdisciplinary and involves studies at the interface of geomorphology with ecology, engineering geology, environmental chemistry and materials conservation.
Professor Heather Viles, University of Oxford
 

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