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🌍 It's increasingly important that as climate change affects our water availability, we need to monitor and manage water resources to ensure supply to individuals, companies, and protect wildlife. 🌊 The Environment Agency (EA) plays an important role in managing water resources, including the abstraction of water, with abstractors needing to comply with conditions to reduce or stop abstraction. 💻 Join our upcoming webinar to hear more about how the Environment Agency is using a new digital service and its hydrometric network to manage England's water resources. 🗓️ Wednesday, 6 November ⏰ 12.00pm -1.00pm Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNZqs8Fy #WaterAbstraction #EnvironmentAgency

The Society is delighted to announce new support for the next generation of travellers and expeditioners - the Ran and Ginny Fiennes Award. 🌎The award was announced this week during an event to celebrate the legacy of the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to achieve a longitudinal circumnavigation of the Earth using only surface transport. The event also marked the moment at which the Society takes on the grantmaking work of the Transglobe Expedition Trust. The new award will sustain the Trust's work supporting humanitarian, scientific or educational projects that follow in the Transglobe Expedition's tradition of adventure and perseverance. 👉 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gZGae7yf

🌲 Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is one of the most pressing and complex challenges for global wildlife conservation. 🌐 Over 20 years of research at Oxford Brookes University has shown that conflicts about wildlife are often the result of different groups’ cultural values and priorities, and unequal power relations. 🔍 Findings from this research have informed international conservation guidelines, improved the skills of government wildlife agencies and conservation non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and influenced policy. Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKPmmimN #UsingGeography

🌍 Do you know an inspiring geographer making a real impact on the environment or in conservation? 🏆 In April this year, Dr Lola Fatoyinbo, Ph.D., a Research Scientist in the Biospheric Sciences Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, was awarded the second annual Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society Prize. The award, which recognises excellence in geographical research with a focus on wildlife conservation and environmental studies, honoured Lola for her commitment to conservation and work in partnership with organisations that protect ecosystems. During her prize lecture, she spoke about the power of satellite imagery and remote sensing data, and how these tools helped her create the first global map of mangrove height and carbon stocks, a project she spoke about with passion. 🛰️ 🎥 Watch Lola talk about what she's most proud of in her work. ⭐ If you know someone just as deserving, consider nominating them for the 2025 award. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eyfanTJs

Are you an established researcher or an early-career academic looking for support to take your project further? ✋ Our research grants could help. Each year, with the generous support of our donors, we provide funding for those doing research in different environments. From Arctic and high-mountain regions, arid and aquatic environments, to challenging fieldwork overseas, our grants can help support your research and development of new knowledge, and contribute to advancing geographical science. ✍️ 🌍 🌊 The Ralph Brown Expedition Award is a single annual award of £12,500, offered to the leader of an expedition working in an aquatic environment. ⛰️ The Thesiger-Oman International Fellowships offer awards of £8,000 for geographical research in the physical or human dimensions of arid and semi-arid environments. 🥾 The Walters Kundert Fellowship offers an annual grant of £10,000 to support post-PhD field research within Arctic or high mountain environments. 👥 The Gilchrist Educational Trust offers an award of £15,000 to support original and challenging overseas fieldwork carried out by small teams of university academics and other researchers. Interested? Head here for detailed information on each grant, including eligibility criteria and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/e4P2maHk ❗ The deadline for applications is 23 November 2024.

One of the many great things about our Explore symposium weekend is how it brings together like-minded people and introduces them to groups and businesses they might not have known could be so beneficial! 🤝   That's why we're excited to welcome several brilliant exhibitors to the Society next weekend!   If you're planning an upcoming expedition or looking to fill your knowledge gaps, these exhibitors are here to help you feel more prepared. 🥾   We're thrilled to have Firepot, a fond exhibitor of the Explore symposium, joining us again this year! Hear from founder, John Fisher, who shares how Explore has helped Firepot connect with explorers and travellers looking for quality expedition food. 🍲   👋 A big shout-out to all our other exhibitors joining us next weekend! We can't wait to see you: Endeavour Medical, Flaming Phoenix, Space Health Research, Equal Adventure, Overland Training Canada, Plas y Brenin, Voices of Maya (Charlotte Austwick FRGS), The Ulysses Trust, Remote Area Risk International®️, and Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO). 🎟️ If you haven't booked your tickets yet, head here: https://lnkd.in/gD7EYEMh Book now before it's too late! #RGSExplore2024

👏 Congratulations to the 22 Society Fellows recently awarded Chartered Geographer (CGeog) by our Council. Chartered Geographer is the only internationally recognised accreditation for geographers. It is awarded to those who demonstrate competence, experience, and professionalism in applying geographical knowledge, skills, and understanding in the workplace. 👉 To read who the newly accredited Chartered Geographers are, head here: https://lnkd.in/gbws2w7b

🚨 10 days to go! 🚨 We're just days away from our annual Explore symposium weekend, which runs from November 1 to 3, and we couldn't be more excited to see the building buzzing with field scientists, explorers, researchers, and adventurous travellers. 🌍🤝 For those just as excited as we are, here's a glimpse of what attendees experienced during last year's epic weekend. 👀 🎟️ With the countdown ticking, consider this a last call to grab your tickets! If you're still deciding whether to come, now's the perfect time to book before it's too late. 🔗 Head here to secure your tickets: https://lnkd.in/eC_KBvgZ #RGSExplore2024

🌐 The Fifth Assessment Report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that the warming of the climate is unequivocal and that human influence on the climate is clear. 📈 However, despite this report being published in 2014, existing government policy approaches around the world are struggling to limit global temperatures below the 1.5 to 2°C Paris target. Governments predominantly use top-down approaches that have limited opportunities for citizens to engage in and influence policy change. 👥 Researchers from Lincoln are using citizen social science to bring citizens and experts together to co-produce climate research and policies that build on citizens’ values, knowledge, and experiences. 🌍 This has influenced local climate policy, enhanced knowledge and awareness of the role citizen social science can play in tackling climate change, and informed climate conversations around the globe through the communities of the Anglican Church. Read more here 👉 https://ow.ly/Z8QE50TLUb7 #UsingGeography

Have you recently gone on an adventure with a specific purpose in mind? 🥾 Perhaps you've set off on a journey of self-discovery, pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and proving that you're stronger than you realise. 🌍 Maybe you've taken on a challenge as part of a team, pursuing geographical research together. ✨ If you have stories to share and wisdom to impart, why not consider becoming a speaker at one of our Microlectures events? For those unfamiliar, our Microlectures are an inspiring evening of short talks related to geographical journeys. The event brings together a selection of less experienced speakers chosen through an application process that's open to all. We're currently looking for speakers for our 2025 events, and we'd love to hear from you. 🚨 Applications are open until 5:00 PM on Friday, November 8 2024. ➡️ Interested? Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eZ5W7RcN For those attending tonight's Microlectures event, if you're sitting in the audience and think you could give it a go, we encourage you to apply! 📷 1️⃣ Anisah Barber, one of our previous speakers who gave the talk 'Helvellyn: chronic illness in the mountains'.