Understanding the earth's climate and how it is changing can help us plan for the future and react to global challenges facing the world. Through independent research, supervisory meetings, and departmental seminars, this research programme provides the opportunity to conduct an in-depth research project in an area of physical geography, and aims to build key skills for positions in research, spatial planning, and environmental consultancy and management. The School of Geography offers the opportunity to work at doctoral level alongside academics whose research has been internationally recognised. Researchers in the School include Professor Mark Macklin, whose expertise lies in river systems, global environmental change, and in catchment hazard and pollution issues, Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology, Edward Hanna. Students can benefit from a supportive academic community, where ideas and experiences are shared with the aim of advancing knowledge. Lincoln's physical geographers are working on projects exploring geoarchaeology and environmental history, quaternary environmental change, ecosystem and human health, floods, droughts and climate change, GIS and remote sensing, glaciology and climatology, coastal and marine environments, and large river systems and deltas.