Directorate

SAGES Director

Dr. Andy Kerr, Director SAGES, University of Edinburgh

In summer 2009, I took over as Director of SAGES. I have been working at the University of Edinburgh since 2008, having spent the previous few years working in the private sector. I am also Director of E3 International, an environmental company which works with major corporations and non-governmental organisations to support their responses to the shift in environmental regulation - from traditional command and control measures to more subtle, more complex and more sophisticated approaches often characterised by market-based instruments and mechanisms. I obtained my doctorate in climate change from the University of Edinburgh, examining the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet.

My professional interests lie in: Solving the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emission whilst raising global living standards; Building societies' resilience to the changing climate. I seek to shape and influence national climate and energy policy frameworks; emissions trading schemes (carbon markets); and the communication of climate science. I work with the academic, private and public sectors. Notable publications with which I have been involved recently include the Scottish Government's Climate Change Delivery Plan, which sets out the measures for meeting Scotland's challenging emission reduction targets, and the publication of the 3rd edition of the book which I co-author, Climate Change & Emissions Trading.

For more information about my work and publications please go to my home page

SAGES Science Director

Trevor Hoey, SAGES Science Director, University of Glasgow.

In 1989, Trevor was awarded a PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and he became a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Geography in 1990. From 1990 to 1992 he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Trevor joined the University of Glasgow in 1992 as Lecturer in Geography and was later promoted to Senior Lecturer. He was appointed Professor of Numerical Geoscience in 2003 and two years later became Head of Department. His research interests include: Sediment transport processes in gravel-bed rivers;The dynamics of braided rivers;Numerical modelling of sediment transport and landscape evolution and the geomorphological basis of river management. for more information about Trevor please go to his univesity staffpage.

SAGES Administrative Secretary

Stephanie West, SAGES Administrative Secretary, University of Edinburgh