Between the tercentenary of the Spanish Armada (1888) and the end of World War I, an extraordinary transformation took place in British knowledge about Spain. Thanks to the twin pulls of Romantic Spain and the Spanish Civil War this transformation has been largely forgotten, but its implications are significant. From...

Auroral emissions are stunning, natural phenomena which have been observed in the skies at high-latitudes for thousands of years. As well as being beautiful, they provide key scientific information on how the outer magnetised environment of the Earth – known as the magnetosphere – is connected and influenced by solar...

Land is an undervalued resource in many countries. It has and continues to be widely contaminated by industry. And yet we rely on healthy soil to underpin our industrial economies. In addition, wastelands are a blight on the landscape and are very likely to have a negative impact on a...

Recent years have seen significant uptake of 'smart' phones where the end user has access to a host of different functionality such as email, internet and multimedia including on-board high definition (HD) video cameras. New innovations in this area will see the form factor of smart devices being modified, so...

I have made international contributions to three areas of climate change impacts research: the changing risks of extreme rainfall and flooding, developing climate change scenario methodologies for local and regional scale studies, and examining the impacts of climate change on water resource systems in the developed and developing world. This...