The School of Geography has a suite of laboratories for physical geography and environmental science teaching.
The Teaching Laboratory is fitted out with extensive bench space, fume hoods and sinks. It contains a wide-range of equipment essential for geographical teaching and research activities.
This facility is used for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Students can perform a number of experiments and skill-of-hand exercises, which are designed to introduce them to laboratory practice and laboratory record-keeping.
The River Laboratory offers unparalleled facilities in London for research aimed at understanding the behaviour of rivers. Digital camera equipment and supporting software enables river morphology to be captured in 3D. Two flumes – a sediment transport demonstration channel and a river simulator – allow geographers and environmental scientists to explore the ways in which changes in the magnitude of river flows can affect not only the movement of materials downstream but the shape and configuration of the bed too.
The ability to give objects a spatial component is a very important factor when undertaking fieldwork and it is an area where advancements in computing have revolutionised how this can be done. Within the field of physical geography and environmental science, we utilise geospatial technologies to collect and process high quality, high resolution spatial data which can be incorporated into understanding processes in the landscapes we work in.
The Geospatial Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art computers to be used in processing modelling data and other programs, such as ArcGIS.