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The first of this year’s crop of national dissertation prizes for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Geographers has been announced.

1. Miles Harrison has won the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize awarded by the Developing Areas Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for his study: Empowering the poor? The effects of formalising informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The DARG dissertation committee were especially impressed by the amount of data Miles collected, applying a mixed methods approach based on interviews and questionnaires. His study made important contributions to the study of housing tenure in the largest Tanzanian city.
2. Congratulations also to Charlotte Hudson, who is Runner-Up in this year’s British Hydrological Society undergraduate dissertation prize for her analysis of the Impacts of climate change on river flows in Siberia’s Lena River Basin and its implications for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Charlotte's project, supervised by Professor Julian Thompson, developed a MIKE SHE/MIKE 11 hydrological/hydraulic model of the Lena River Basin in Siberia. The model was used to simulate the impacts of a series of climate change scenarios on the river’s freshwater contributions to the Arctic Ocean and, in turn, to assess their implications for large-scale ocean circulation. Four of the scenarios indicate that Siberian flows would increase sufficiently to weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key part of the Earth’s climate system. Charlotte presented a poster paper based on her work at the British Hydrological Society’s National Hydrology Symposium in mid-September, during which she was formally awarded her dissertation prize. She has also received a British Hydrological Society/JBA Trust/ Environment Agency studentship award to support her studies on the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Geography MSc in Climate Change starting later this month.

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