Inspiring Minds Lecture Series - Change in the Arctic

Throughout the year members of academic staff from across the University will present an hour long lecture on a real life issue/question. As well as giving you a chance to experience undergraduate level teaching, the lectures aim to enhance your school/college studies and let you explore topics of interest.

Registration and light refreshments will be available from 4.30pm and the lecture will run from 5.00pm to 6.00pm. Staff and students will be on hand throughout the event to answer any questions you might have about studying at or applying to Loughborough.

We hope our inspiring lecturers will inspire you!

Parents, guardians and teachers are all welcome to attend.

Dr Richard Hodgkins
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the Earth, but what are the consequences? In this talk we will look at present and future changes in the Arctic itself and how we might be affected closer to home.

The Arctic is both home to significant indigenous populations, and a location for important – and contentious – economic activity.

A number of changes have now been detected in the ocean and atmosphere, in the snow and ice cover, in the cycling of water between land, atmosphere and ocean, and in the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Arctic. But could we be starting to see the impact of Arctic climate change much further south?