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1. Eventbrite Account:
AmagsFuturelandscape
Amags2022!
2. Email rosemary about account 11st April
3. need a link of teams to create event
4. poster待定

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Welford Road Cemetery | NatureSpot

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chesney.rebecca@googlemail.com

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Hashtag #spotoutside2022   Monthly plan 

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Hashtag #spotoutside2022   Monthly plan 

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- email sent to put heiko and rebecca in contact
- will need to wait for their reply to confirm the date
- meeting before the talk to come up talking points
- send invitations/ promote the event .. (work with marketing?)
- collect ppt from heiko and rebecca
- set up housekeeping (icome across a sample)
- technical run before the talk

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Because our visitors will be mainly composed by university students, using social media helps to improve exposure. Therefore, we want to cooperate with marketing team to create a hashtag on Instagram, which people can post photos and videos about natural and urban landscape.

This event will happen 1 month before the exhibition. The selected works based on alternative landscapes will be presented in the exhibition.

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To accompany the exhibition Alongsiding: Anna Lucas with the Arts Council Collection at the University of Leicester - a collaborative project between the artist Anna Lucas, and Art Museum & Gallery Studies MA students (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester) - this online screening event was conceived in partnership with Phoenix.

Lucas' Trevety (2002) and Trevety 2 (2003) were screened alongside the artist Margaret Salmon's work Gibraltar (2013) and Ramapo Central (2003). The two artists then discussed these films, and wider themes, in a live in-conversation.

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Anna Lucas & Margaret Salmon in Conversation | Phoenix Leicester

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To accompany the exhibition Alongsiding: Anna Lucas with the Arts Council Collection at the University of Leicester - a collaborative project between the artist Anna Lucas, and Art Museum & Gallery Studies MA students (School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester) - this online screening event was conceived in partnership with Phoenix.

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Professor Heiko Balzter — University of Leicester
//My research focuses on contemporary environmental change processes related to climate change and human impacts on biogeochemical cycles and biophysical systems. As a result of a combination of natural and human-induced processes, climate change is occurring at unprecedented speed. Climate change as a global challenge requires a reliable global monitoring and forecasting system to deliver information that policy makers and business leaders can trust. Satellite remote sensing systems are now delivering operational observations from space that have revealed unknown features of Planet Earth.//
UK land becoming more urban - Geographical Magazine

Navtej Johal on Twitter: "What if we could stop the worst effects of deforestation? Award-winning research by a team at @uniofleicester has created an app that helps prevent illegal logging. It could address a big cause of #climatechange. Thank you to @heiko_balzter & @GreenpeaceUK h/t @davidshukmanbbc https://t.co/VZzOSkBuWf" / Twitter

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Professor of Physical Geography & Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research

Royal Society, Wolfson Research Merit Award,

Royal Geographical Society, Cuthbert Peek Award,

Copernicus Masters, Sustainable Living Award

Contact details

Personal details

Dipl.Ing. agr, Dr. agr. (PhD)

I am a research professor and Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research at the University of Leicester. I chair the Programme Coordination Team of the UKRI Landscape Decisions Programme which has over 50 constituent funded projects. In the National Centre for Earth Observation, I lead the Official Development Assistance Programme. I hold the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2011), the Royal Geographical Society's Cuthbert Peek Award 'for advancing geographical knowledge of human impact through earth observation' (2015) and the Copernicus Masters Award (Sustainable Living Challenge 2017) for my work on deforestation monitoring.

I received the degree of Dipl. Ing. agr. (equivalent to MSc) from Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, in 1994 and the Dr. agr. (PhD) from the same University in 1998.After my PhD, I worked in the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, from 1998-2006, as Radar Remote Sensing Specialist, Head of the Biophysical Modelling Group and later Head of Section for Earth Observation. I was appointed to the Chair in Physical Geography at the University of Leicester in 2006 and served as Head of Department of Geography from 2008-2011.

I am a member of the LULUCF (Land Use / Land Use Change and Forestry) Scientific Steering Committee for the UK National Greenhouse Gas Account. Previously, I was Principal Investigator of the European Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation Research Training GIONET (€3.5m), and principal or co-investigator in many Earth observation projects including the ESA projects GLOBBIOMASS, BIOMASS CCI+ and ForestMind and the UK Space Agency International Partnership Projects Forests2020 and EASOS. I am also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, member of the American Geophysical Union, British Ecological Society, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and Chartered Management Institute, as well as fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Statistical Society.

Impact, enterprise and outreach

I am a member of the editorial board of the MDPI journal " Remote Sensing", one of the leading journals in its field. I served as national representative for the UK on the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Programme Board, on the NERC Expert Group on Food Security, and an expert group by the Valuing Nature Network on 'Key principles of economic valuation'.

Industrial companies often support research financially, and I have worked together with the Satellite Applications Catapult, Bluesky International, Airbus, Geospatial Insight, Telespazio, CGI, and a number of other companies.

Teaching

I am module convenor of the MSc module GY7709 Satellite Data Analysis in Python and contribute lectures to other modules.

Publications

My publications can be accessed on Google Scholar.

I am director of the My research over the past 20 years has made extensive use of advanced Earth observation and remote sensing. My Centre for Landscape and Climate Research most significant contributions to knowledge in the discipline in remote sensing of forest biomass (Balzter et al., 2007a, 2007b, 2002; Garcia et al., 2017; Gaveau et al., 2003; Ningthoujam et al., 2017; Rodriguez-Veiga et al., 2019, 2016; Rodriguez-Veiga et al., 2020; Rodríguez-Veiga et al., 2017) have contributed to the establishment of ESA's Climate Change Initiative and the BIOMASS satellite mission (Le Toan et al., 2011). I have pioneered machine learning applications to satellite data (Balzter et al., 2015; Pourshamsi et al., 2018) and developed 'big satellite data' solutions such as an automated processing chain for Sentinel-2 images to detect deforestation with machine learning (random forests) published as an open source Python package (Roberts et al., 2020). These methods were implemented in organisations in Kenya, Colombia and elsewhere (Forests 2020 project, ) and won a European Copernicus Masters Award.

My research focuses on contemporary environmental change processes related to climate change and human impacts on biogeochemical cycles and biophysical systems. As a result of a combination of natural and human-induced processes, climate change is occurring at unprecedented speed. Climate change as a global challenge requires a reliable global monitoring and forecasting system to deliver information that policy makers and business leaders can trust. Satellite remote sensing systems are now delivering operational observations from space that have revealed unknown features of Planet Earth.

Forest ecosystems play a crucial role in global biogeochemical cycles and in stabilising the climate system. Through heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration and fires they release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and through photosynthetic carbon sequestration they reduce the atmospheric fraction of carbon dioxide. Deforestation is thought to be a major contributing factor to global anthropogenic carbon emissions. Global initiatives such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) aim to protect forest resources in support of climate mitigation policies. The geographic locations and strengths of global terrestrial carbon sources and sinks and their temporal variability are still subject to much speculation. I have developed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and LIDAR techniques for mapping forest canopy height and forest biomass. I am principal investigator in many satellite data exploitation programmes including TerraSAR-X, Tandem-X, Disaster Monitoring Constellation, ENVISAT, ERS-1/2, Sentinel-1 and 2, JERS-1, NovaSAR-S, ALOS and ALOS-2. The paper in Nature by Lynch et al. (2013) makes the case for radar satellites for forest monitoring.

I have had a long-standing involvement in the Copernicus programme that established the European land monitoring core service. In 2014 my group completed the delivery of the UK CORINE land cover map 2012 for the GIO-Land programme. Some of our forest-related research is co-funded by industry, for example on tree disease mapping from airborne data (Barnes et al. 2017).

PhD Supervision

Earth observation, Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Services, Forest monitoring, Satellites, Deforestation, REDD+

I am interested in supervising students on the following topics:

Novel uses of Earth observation and models for ecosystem services

Methods for using the Copernicus Sentinel satellites for forest monitoring (tree diseases, biomass, disturbances)

Non-carbon benefits of preserving forest ecosystems

Enquiries: If you are interested in studying for a PhD in the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research (CLCR), please make informal enquiries via pgrgeog@le.ac.uk or clcr@le.ac.uk.
Find out more information about Geography PhDs including more research areas, how to apply, funding and entry requirements.
Research Postgraduates

Find out more about our current research postgraduates.

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Royal Society, Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Geographical Society, Cuthbert Peek Award, Copernicus Masters, Sustainable Living Award Dipl.Ing. agr, Dr. agr. (PhD) I am a research professor and Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research at the University of Leicester.

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anna lucas and margaret salmon: screenings and in conversation

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Anna Lucas and Margaret Salmon: Screenings and In Conversation

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Eventbrite - Phoenix presents Anna Lucas and Margaret Salmon: Screenings and In Conversation - Thursday, June 24, 2021 - Find event and ticket information.

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In conversation between Rebecca Chesney and Heiko Balzter

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In conversation between Rebecca Chesney and Heiko Balzter

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Target audience: students, people part of the university and wide public

Theme: use of data for research and artistic practice, how art and science intersect

Expected outcome: to learn more about XX, to have people reflect on climate change...

Layout:
1. moderator gives a brief introduction (Rebecca's project 66 million , Waterlines and Professor Balzter's BIOMASS program)

2. Rebecca give a presentation
- Why use scientific data to create art and future expectations about combining environmental responsibility with artistic projects

3. Professor gives a presentation
- current projects about deforestation monitoring and remote sensing technology and future focus

4. Through your projects on environmental change, what kinds of challenges human activity brings to natural diversity? How do you see a sustainable future?

5. Artists' role and geographist's role when facing environmental problems? what do you expect people to resonate from your work?

6. For Rebecca, what intersection do you find when using scientific data to create art? For Professor Balzter, do you find your project artistic in some way?

Ticketing: Eventbrite
Donation to charity?

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Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University 2017

Filmed in 2016 in California, 66 Million is a two screen video installation showing two different landscapes: one in the intensely farmed agricultural land of Central Valley, demanding huge quantities of water to irrigate the land and feed the crops; the second of a hillside forest in Yosemite National Park showing the extent of dead trees caused by years of drought, bark beetle attack and increase in wild fires.
Travelling past mile upon mile of intensely farmed agricultural land the first screen is in direct contrast to the second that shows a still shot of a Yosemite hillside with swathes of dead and dying trees.
Duration 5.23 minutes

Installation view of at the Peter Scott Gallery 2017

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Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University 2017 Filmed in 2016 in California, 66 Million is a two screen video installation showing two different landscapes: one in the intensely farmed agricultural land of Central Valley, demanding huge quantities of water to irrigate the land and feed the crops; the second of a

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Professor Heiko Balzter (Personal information)

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Professor Heiko Balzter (Personal information)

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This is what I wrote to Heiko: '...I am writing to ask if you might be interested in an art-science event our art students are organising. They are currently planning an exhibition in our building using the Arts Council Collection and working with environmental artist Rebecca Chesney (http://rebeccachesney.com). Rebecca works with environmental data to create artworks that reflect on climate change, nature, landscape, and so on. She is very grounded and systematic—often quite sciency and yet producing works that are very much art. She has done quite a bit of work on maps such as here: http://rebeccachesney.com/styled-35/  She is driven by environmental responsibility. She is very down-to-earth and very nice.
The students are planning an event to go with the exhibition and thought it might be very interesting to compare the work of a very visual environmental scientist with an environmental artist, to consider how each contributes to how we respond to the environment and as part of that discussion to consider how environmental data are deployed. I’ve just been looking at your BIOMASS mission paper and see you have really beautiful images with great visual impact.
Anyway, at this stage, I just wanted to ask if you might be up for being involved in an event—it might be a conversation with images? If so, the students will be in contact with you and tell you what form the event will take and we can also put you in contact with Rebecca. Last year they did the event online as part of the Phoenix Art Centre events. It was a conversation between two artists who worked in film and was brilliant.'

Heiko said:

'Thanks for approaching me. I am happy to be involved in an event, subject to a suitable date. We could potentially also promote it within Space Park and/or the new environmental institute.'