With a background in the Royal Marines and latterly working for the United Nations, Henry Chamberlain has been involved in ensuring aid reaches places that need it most at times when only a few dare to go. In this lecture he will give us insight into the troubles in getting support, materials and food to these far-flung places and the strategies used to overcome them. He will also be sharing images and stories from some of these expeditions.

Featured image: Henry Chamberlain

Upcoming regional event

Biogeomorphology of wetlands in the drylands of southern Africa - Professor Michael Grenfell

[Online] Biota in the seasonal wetlands of southern Africa have developed adaptations to the cyclicity of constraint and opportunity. In this talk, we’ll explore patterns of ‘bumpy’ relief moderated by these biota that are  fundamentally important to understanding water and particulate distributions, biogeochemical cycling, and ecosystem structure and function at landscape scale.

21 April 2021

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