Bingdian Wang

Bingdian Wang

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Physical Geography; Glaciology; Quaternary; Atmospheric Sciences

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GEOG12012 Tutorials and Profile of a Research Geographer

Undergraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2024

Overview

Your tutorials support your other core modules in human and physical geography. The tutorials assist you in enhancing and gaining confidence in all the fundamental skills that you learnt in Semester 1, such as essay writing, communication skills, critical thinking, independent work and teamwork. As in semester 1, you will also work on a group assignment. Here you will critically engage with a research geographer, by reading selected pieces of their work and interviewing them to further understand their research background, including trajectory, methods, and critical approach. The interview and your analysis will be conducted, written and submitted as a group. Support will be provided through your tutorial programme; however careful time project and time management skills will need to be employed in this student-led piece of work.

GEOG20351/GEOG20352 Glaciers

Undergraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2024

Overview

Glacial and periglacial environments are of major importance for understanding and reconstructing modern and past climatic and environmental change. This course will examine glacial and periglacial processes in modern-day settings and show how this knowledge can be used to reconstruct past glacial and periglacial environments. Examples will be referenced from the British Isles and around the world.

GEOG20502 Spatial Thinking with GIS: Constructing and Exploring Virtual Worlds

Undergraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2024

Overview

Geography is about much more than mapping. However, the construction, analysis and interpretation of maps are still fundamental to the discipline and central to what it means to be a Geographer. Geographical Information Science (GISc) and associated systems (GIS), allow us to go beyond mapping and into the realm of virtual words. We can use a range of spatial data sources to generate new knowledge about people and places, about the built and natural environment and about the fundamental processes which shape our world. If you’ve always been intrigued by maps and the power of location, this is the course for you. Lecture examples and practical work encompasses both human and physical geography. You will also be encouraged to explore ways in which what you learn might be applied to your personal interests in Geography. Assessments comprise a space-time assessment of student locations (Block 1 - Assignment 1) and a choice from three guided practicals related to the analysis of distance, terrain and site suitability (Block 2 - Assignment 2). You will complete all three guided practicals, but submit one practical write up for Assignment 2.

GEOG20621 Skills for Geographers

Undergraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2024

Overview

Skills for Geographers is here to help you develop your research skills. It will enable you to consider and enhance skills that you are learning through your modules and broader university life, and teach you new research skills to undertake critical real-world enquiry in human and physical geography.

GEOG60662 Dissertation Support

Postgraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2025

Overview

This unit is designed to support students through the process of planning and executing their dissertation. Students will receive skills training specific to dissertation research including research methods and approaches, research design, project planning, ethics, and risk assessment.

GEOG60951 GIS and Environmental Applications

Postgraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2025

Overview

Geographical Information Science and Systems are now at the heart of much environmental research. This is true whether research is conducted from with the ‘home’ discipline of Geography or from an array of aligned areas and conducted by universities, agencies or the public sector. Increasingly considered as a distinct way of doing science, it is important to have knowledge of both GIS principles and their application to real-world problems and issues.

GEOG72901 Climate Change: Past, Present and Future

Postgraduate course, The University of Manchester, 2025

Overview

This course unit provides an overview of the nature, drivers and timescales of climate change. Anthropogenic climate change and its forcings will be situated within the context of long-term, historical climate change. The course unit will review the Earth’s climate system and provide an introduction to climate dynamics across a wide range of timescales from geological deep-time, through Quaternary ice ages, to millennial and rapid changes. The unit will draw on case studies and examples from diverse climate records and offer opportunities for discussion and debate around abrupt change, tipping points, sensitivity/variability, uncertainty as well as provide an introduction to the climate modelling approaches that underpin future climate projections. The course unit seeks to provide a rich context for the study and understanding of past, current and future climate change.