Klaus Dodds
@klausdodds
Prof/Executive Dean for School of Life Sciences and Environment @RoyalHolloway Fellow @AcadSocSciences Hon Fellow @BAS_News Tweeting in personal capacity
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08-07-2010 12:23:15
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Our Head of Department James Philip McEvoy has just returned from a trip to India as part of Royal Holloway delegation where he met Naresh Loudya and Priyanka Mishra, alumni of Lopez-Juez Lab RHUL Biology who are both now based IISc Bangalore. Naresh gave James the tour of his new labs
Bee orchids are beginning to flower Royal Holloway campus, just in time for the start of RHUL Biology practical field ecology course on Monday! #wildflowerhour
'Russia’s reported discovery of 510 billion barrels of oil in Antarctica has led to warnings of a new ‘Cold War’ of sorts' #geographer Klaus Dodds RHULGeography
writing in The Spectator
#geographyteachers good for #geopolitics & Arctic
#geographer inthenews
spectator.co.uk/article/are-we…
What's that? A new map viewer bringing together all the data of the Antarctic Digital Database? Freely available?!
Go enjoy yourself zooming into bits of Antarctica, map lovers ⬇️
add.scar.org
The BAS ✨MAGIC✨ team looks after this project for Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Over the last few evenings, this fantastic art installation has lit up the roof of Royal Holloway Library and Archives as part of the ‘Cave Hunters and the Truth Machine’ exhibition. The audience was captivated by the display & the schoolchildren’s lanterns added an eerie glow as the beasts emerged!
Are we heading for a new “Cold War” in Antarctica? spectator.co.uk/article/are-we… A few reflections from me via the The Spectator about #Russia and #Antarctica .
Is Russia’s geological reseach in the Weddell Sea legitimate scientific activity, or a pretense for oil and gas prospecting in Antarctic waters? And what does this mean in the context of the Antarctic Treaty? Analysis by Klaus Dodds on new podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/pol…
A new #openaccess paper by Céline Mavrot & Fritz Sager 'The local tackling of global issues: a governance paradox in federal states' addresses a blind spot in
addressing the governance paradox of the local
tackling of large-scale issues.
doi.org/10.1080/216226…
The analysis in 'Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia' flips public scrutiny from focusing on the effectiveness of the classic geopolitical interventions. By Merdeka agus saputra & Katherine G. Sammler. doi.org/10.1080/216226…