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UAV-derived greenness and within-crown spatial patterning can detect ash dieback in individual trees
(2024-04-01)Ash Dieback (ADB) has been present in the UK since 2012 and is expected to kill up to 80% of UK ash trees. Detecting and quantifying the extent of ADB in individual tree crowns (ITCs), which is crucial to understanding ... -
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa
(Elsevier, 2024-08-01)Data infrastructures are expanding rapidly across African societies, renewing the promise of modernisation, and providing a massive data resource to the dominant tech powers of the world. Google's private undersea cable, ... -
When is translation geography?
(2024-01-01)ABSTRACT: Translation has been central to the history of geography. Geographers are constantly thinking and writing in translation, reading translations and translating themselves and others. Yet translation as a practice ... -
White Guys in the Borderlands: Boundary Surveying, Imperial Technoscience, and Environmental Change in the Nile Valley and at Lake Rudolf (Turkana), 1898-1909
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)Through a focus on British imperial boundary surveys in Anglo-Ethiopian borderlands, this article argues that an elite White masculine subjectivity emerged from surveying’s technical practices. I suggest, drawing on Barad ... -
Platform ‘glitch as surprise’: The on-demand domestic work sector in Delhi’s National Capital Region
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-01)The emergence of on-demand domestic work sectors in cities across the world has been called the ‘Uber-isation of domestic work’. In India, the sector and its surrounding hype was short-lived as some of the country's key ... -
Diesel and Crude Oil Biodegradation by Cold-Adapted Microbial Communities in the Labrador Sea
(American Society for Microbiology, 2021-09-28)Oil spills in the subarctic marine environment off the coast of Labrador, Canada, are increasingly likely due to potential oil production and increases in ship traffic in the region. To understand the microbiome response ... -
Geological processes mediate a microbial dispersal loop in the deep biosphere
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Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes.
(Nature Research, 2023-11-11)Tidal marshes store large amounts of organic carbon in their soils. Field data quantifying soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks provide an important resource for researchers, natural resource managers, and policy-makers working ... -
Carbohydrates from <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function
(Nature Research, 2021)Bacterial biofilms represent a challenge to the healthcare system because of their resilience against antimicrobials and immune attack. Biofilms consist of bacterial aggregates embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance ... -
Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
(Wiley, 2023)The Pliocene Epoch (∼5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an example of a climate system in long-term equilibrium with ... -
Evaluating the Drivers of Quaternary Dust Fluxes to the Western North Pacific: East Asian Dustiness and Northern Hemisphere Gustiness
(Wiley, 2023)Quantifying variability in, and identifying the mechanisms behind, East Asian dust production and transport across the last several million years is essential for constraining future dust emissions and deposition. Our ... -
AI literacy in geographic education and research: Capabilities, caveats, and criticality
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2023-09-25)Concerns about runaway artificial intelligence (AI) – including large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT – are at the forefront of contemporary political, social, and scientific discourse. This commentary provides a first ...