Welsh Journals

WELSH GEOGfíAPHICAL NEWS Congratulations to. Professor J.A. Taylor on his award of a Personal Chair at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Jim Taylor took a First Class Honours degree in Geography at Liverpool University in 1945 and was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Geography at Aberystwyth in 1950. Since then he has progressively moved to Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and, now, Professor. He has published widely, notably in three research fields agricultural geography, climatology and biogeography and has written or edited nine books. Professor Malcolm Newson on his appointment to the Chair of Geography at Newcastle University after long and distinguished field research at the Institute of Hydrology at Plynlimon in central Wales. Some of his latest research is (appropriately) published in the current number of Cambria. Dr Robert A. Dodgshon, who has been appointed as a University of Wales Reader in Geography at Aberystwyth. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Research Grants Dr Henry Lamb has been awarded an N.E.R.C. Research Grant of 40,577 over 3 years, starting January 1985, entitled 'Pollen-vegetation relationships and recent lake-sediment deposition in the Middle Atlas, Morocco' This project will include a survey of modern pollen deposition in lakes in the Middle Atlas, as a basis for interpretation of fossil pollen data from sediment cores. Catchment vegetation will be recorded by ground-based and remote-sensed survey, using the new Departmental image processing facility run by Neil Chisholm. The research will also elucidate recent sediment deposition rates in two of the lakes by sediment analysis and Lead-210 dating of multiple short cores. An attempt will be made to relate whole basin deposition rates to catchment erosion rates. Helicopter Survey Following the successful use of the motorised hang-glider for photographing eroding blanket peat on Plynlimon Summit in 1982, a helicopter was commissioned in the spring of 1985 to rephotograph the same terrain thus affording a comparison with the 1982 photography and a calibration of peat-hag recession and erosion rates over the three year period. It was planned at the same time to take photographs of Llanbrynmair Moors, recently ploughed and drained for afforestation. and the College Campus.