Crete Field Trip
The field trip to Crete (June 16-23rd 2009) involved three staff (Dr Alan Howard, Richard Tegg, Ken Beard) and 28 students registered for the degree in Human and Physical Geography…
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Crete Field Trip
The field trip to Crete (June 16-23rd 2009) involved three staff (Dr Alan Howard, Richard Tegg, Ken Beard) and 28 students registered for the degree in Human and Physical Geography…
Return to Reading
We arrived back at the University of Reading at 10.00pm to clear blue skies and an air temperature of 20 degrees, which one in the party described as “freezing”. Even…
Chania
As our flight to Gatwick was leaving fairly late in the day at 6.00pm we took the opportunity to make a last minute change to the field class programme and…
GHS 3 NHS 0
Minor medical drama this evening as one group member suffering from a recurrence of tonsilitis required prompt medical attention after a worrying rise in body temperature. Access to the local…
delphini fire
I appear to have missed the big event of 2009 despite the drama unfolding only yards from my hotel room balcony. I can only assume I had punctuated the 8am…
health and safety part II
Busy day for field class staff in Loutro today necessitated our return journey via small motor boat cruiser, the driver (I hesitate to say ‘captain’) of which appeared unwilling to…
Coastal footpath
Our students (and staff) spent the day walking the coastal footpath between Loutro and Chora Sfakion observing and analysing the geomorphology and biogeography to provide additional context for the more…
36 degrees and 9 kilometres
all the students and staff walked from loutro to chora sfakion on the coastal footpath today. with temperatures surpassing 36 degrees most took the opportunity to lounge on sweetwater beach…
36 degrees and 9 kilometres
all the students and staff walked from loutro to chora sfakion on the coastal footpath today. with temperatures surpassing 36 degrees most took the opportunity to lounge on sweetwater beach…
Ilingas Gorge
Measuring the extent of the December 2000 floods in Ilingas Gorge. Sunny day in Crete – 32 degrees.
arrival
We arrived safely in Chora Sfakion at about 6.30pm after a smooth journey from Reading. As in 2007, we’re staying at Nikos and Georgia’s harbour front taverna, the “Hotel Livikon”.…
How blogging may help students deepen their learning
If you would like to find out about how and why weblogs (‘blogs’) might be used to enhance learning watch this interesting video: http://lindsayjordan.edublogs.org/2009/05/29/blogging-with-students-how-and-why/ or read Lindsay’s full paper at:…
Wind farm deaths
a little late for this year’s energy resources exam… BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’.
Song Contest outcome
No surprise that Norway were run away winners on Saturday night and I would have liked Azerbaijan and the UK to have been 2nd and 3rd. The model correctly predicted…
Song Contest 2009
The outcome of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Moscow tonight, May 16th, will be (according to our computer model): 1. Norway 0.7 2. Greece 1.7 3. Turkey…
Sky Cam map featured by the Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey has featured my “Sky Cam” implementation of their OpenSpace API. On my webpage you can click on a map marker to view the latest skycam image. The…
Clearwater and Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger will be celebrating his 90th birthday on May 3rd 2009 with a benefit concert in aid of the Clearwater Organisation. Seeger was responsible for promoting the project to…
Norway 12 UK 0
The first run of our “Eurovisionomics” model for 2009 indicates that Norway are clear favourites to win the Eurovision Song Contest next month in Moscow. The model predicts another disappointment…
Norway 12 UK 0
The first run of our “Eurovisionomics” model for 2009 indicates that Norway are clear favourites to win the Eurovision Song Contest next month in Moscow. The model predicts another disappointment…
Tag clouds – data visualisation
A tag cloud or word cloud is a visual representation of the relative word content of a website or feed. The word cloud displayed in this post is computer-generated every…
WordPress – headers already sent error
Annoying problem sometimes encountered when installing WordPress software and running the installation routine: "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at…" Means there is a…
CNN coverage
To mark the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, CNN has published a commentary that quotes extensively from my book “The Don McLean Story: Killing Us Softly With His Songs“.
Skycam map using OS Openspace AJAX
We have been doing some work with AJAX methods provided by the OS Openspace API. To help anyone else out there working on this we have provided a simple example…
Fuel costs in the UK
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, would have us believe that his Government has done the car-driving British public a favour by suspending a proposed 2 pence per litre increase in…
Eurovisionomics
Following Russia’s victory in the Eurovision Song Contest our prediction proved surprisingly correct and was picked up by various media outlets as further evidence of neighbourly voting ruining the contest…
WordPress blog posts – pre 1970
Bloggers date stamping posts prior to 1970 will encounter an error using WordPress as the script processes dates in Unix format. The solution is found here and works well: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/27367?replies=23#post-194153
Simple OS Openspace map
We have created a simple map displaying real-time data for a local weather station in Wiltshire using the OS Openspace API. At present the page refreshes in order to reload…
Using wordpress through a proxy server
Where the web server hosting the WordPress site is located behind a proxy server, the WordPress admin and user may experience technical problems. Symptoms include: – very slow loading of…
Don McLean on Breakfast TV
It was good to see Don back on British TV this morning appearing on BBC 1 and giving our book a good plug.
Holland field class
At the University of Reading, I was course director for the MSc Modelling and Management of Surface Freshwater Systems 1998-2003 during which we held an annual field trip to Holland…