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Theme 3 Members
*Theme Leaders are: Sandy Tudhope and Mark Inall*
| Name; Institution | Research Interests |
| Adrian Finch; St Andrews | Luminescence emissions of minerals; Geochemistry of coral and speleothem aragonite, Mineralogy of Climatic Proxies, Reconstruction of High-Resolution Climatic Data; Petrology and Petrogenesis of Alkaline Rocks in South Greenland |
| Alan Owens; Glasgow | palaeontology (from alpha taxonomy to biodiversity change), palaeobiogeography, Caledonide terrane evolution, sedimentary geochemistry and stratigraphy |
| Alan Werritty; Dundee | Climate change and flooding and societal responses to increased flood risk: Developing proxy methods to extend flodd record back several hundred years. |
| Alastair Dawson; Aberdeen | Quaternary palaeoclimatology; Quaternary coastal change and sea level change; Tsunamis; coastal processes; flood risk |
| Alberto Perez-Huerta; Glasgow | Climatic and environmental proxies using trace elements and stable isotopes in calcareous organisms; Crystallography and physical properties of biominerals in calcite-shelled organisms; Palaeoecology and evolutionary palaeobiology; Brachiopod faunas; Biogeochemistry of fossil faunas |
| Alison Reeves; Dundee | Water quality: Sediment fingerprinting; Use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to study oil binding in sediments; Changes to EU legislation regarding the aquatic environment; Water resource management and environmental impact assessment |
| Andrew Black; Dundee | Physical hydrology; The impacts of hydrological change; Hydrometry |
| Andrew Dale; SAMS | Physical Oceanography - modelling and observations. Physical processes in coastal, shelf and shelf-edge environments, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of horizontal dispersion and the biological impacts of this dispersion |
| Ben Brock; Dundee | glacier-climate relationships, principally the surface energy balance and numerical melt modelling of snow and ice masses, the Quaternary evolution of glaciated landscapes and mountain hydrology and meteorology. |
| Brice Rea; Aberdeen | Glacial and periglacial geomorphology/geology; Centrifuge modelling; Glacier-climate interactions; Glaciology; landscape evolution; High-latitude -altitude weathering processes and rates; Physical and geotechnical properties of deep-ocean sediments; Applications of borehole logging |
| Caroline Nichol; Edinburgh | The use of multi scale remote sensing (ground, airborne and satellite) for detecting seasonal changes in photosynthesis, light use efficiency and stress |
| Chris Merchant; Edinburgh | Satellite meteorology and climatology; air-sea fluxes; science communication |
| Dan Sinclair; SAMS | Marine aqueous geochemistry; development and application of proxy records for paleoclimatology and paleoceanography; understanding the chemical processes within inorganic and biological systems; carbonate systems |
| David Stevenson; Edinburgh | Atmospheric chemistry modelling; Interaction between air pollution and climate change. |
| Dmitri Mauquoy; Aberdeen | Long-term climate and environmental change; Geochronologies; Palaeoecology; Holocene climate change; Pollen/non-pollen microfossil, plant macrofossil and testate amoebae analyses |
| Doug Benn ; St Andrews | Debris covered glaciers; climate change; glacier lake outburst flood risk; glaciation of the Everest region, Snowball Earth hypothesis; Glacier modelling |
| Douglas Mair ; Aberdeen | Influence of glacier hydrology on glacier motion; 3-D patterns of stress and velocity in glaciers; Changes in the mass-balance, geometry and dynamics of Arctic ice-caps |
| Duncan Cook; Glasgow | human-environmental interaction during the last several thousand years in Australia (Tocal Homestead Lagoon), Mexico (Palenque, Chunchucmil), Belize (Blue Creek) and Guatemala (Cancuen) |
| Finlo Cottier; SAMS | Physical oceanography; oceans and seas of the Arctic and the Antarctic; shallow, coastal seas of the Arctic, particularly in the waters north of Norway; |
| Frank Mayle; Edinburgh | Quaternary palaeoecology of the humid tropics |
| Gabi Hegerl; Edinburgh | Climate modelling and climate observation; Climate diagnostics and statistical climatology; variability and changes in climatic extremes, Constraining future climate change; the use of proxy data to study climate variability and change during the last millennium. |
| Geoffrey Boulton ;Edinburgh | Sedimentation in polar and glacial terrestrial and marine environments; Quaternary palaeoenvironments; modelling of ancient and modern ice sheets; rheological properties of sediments; remote sensing |
| Gordon Curry; Glasgow | Development of a comprehensive digital (WWW) resource for biodiversity research;Isotope geochemistry |
| Greg Cowie; Edinburgh | Biogeochemistry; organic geochemistry; biomarker applications in modern and palaeoenvironmental settings; organic matter cycling and preservation in marine sediments; studies of natural and pollutant organic compounds in marine and terrestrial environments. |
| Hugh Pumphrey; Edinburgh | Microwave limb sounding; developing techniques for the UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) and the EOS AURA satellite |
| James Bendle; Glasgow | Paleoceanography/paleoclimatology; Molecular biogeochemistry; Development of biomarker proxies of environmental parameters, and their application to answer key questions concerning processes or environmental conditions in ancient and modern environments. |
| Jeremy Wilkinson; SAMS | Sea Ice |
| Jim Hansom; Glasgow | Geomorphology; Coastal processes, forms and evolution; Polar environmental change and its management. |
| John Rowan; Dundee | Sediment transport; Hydromorphology; European Water Framework Directive (WFD); Application of environmental radionuclides; Geomorphology of sediment sinks; environmental reconstruction, resource management and environmental impact assessment and the hydromorphology of rivers and lakes. |
| John Howe; SAMS | Bottom-current influenced sedimentation in the deep-sea; Fjordic and shelf sea glaciomarine sediments and records of rapid climate change; Seabed mapping of modern and ancestral depositional processes; High-latitude margins |
| John Moncrieff; Edinburgh | Land-atmosphere exchange of radiately active gases (CO2 and CH4); transport and diffusion in the Planetary Boundary Layer. |
| Kate Darling; Edinburgh | Molecular evolution, speciation, biogeography and ecology of planktonic foraminifers. Enhancement of Palaeoceanographic proxies. |
| Kate Heal; Edinburgh | Biogeochemical cycling; treatment of mine drainage in wetlands; sustainable urban drainage; hydrochemical processes in upland catchments. |
| Laetitia Pichevin; Edinburgh | Nitrogen isotopes, marine nutrient inventory, abrupt climate change, silicon isotopes |
| Mads Huuse; Aberdeen | Seismic interpretation of the shallow crust; Glacial reservoirs; Deepwater sedimentary systems; Fluid flow in basins; Sediment remobilization; Carbonate contourites. |
| Maggie Cusack; Glasgow | Biomineralisation; Interdisciplinary research including interpretation of climate proxies, material properties of biominerals, organic-inorganic interactions in synthetic crystal growth and detailed crystallography. |
| Mark Inall; SAMS | Internal wave generation by tidal flow over topography; Deep Sea (Wyville-Thomson Ridge); Shelf Sea (Malin Shelf, Iberian Shelf) and Coastal (NW European and Arctic fjords); Internal wave energy decay and associated vertical mixing in all these environments. |
| Martin Kirkbride; Dundee | Debris-covered glaciers in Europe and New Zealand; Glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains; Glacial- geomorphological applications of tephrochronology; Holocene glaciers and climate in Iceland |
| Martin Lee; Glasgow | Developments in electron microscopy; Mineral and rock weathering; Feldspar mineralogy and its uses; Biomineralization; Extraterrestrial materials |
| Mary Elliott; Edinburgh | Paleoceanography; paleoclimatology; understanding the origin and mechanisms of abrupt climate change. Study of climate archives 1) microfossils deposited in deep-sea sediments and 2) marine bivalves. |
| Michael Bird; St Andrews | The global carbon cycle on a range of timescales; Quaternary climate change records and their intersection with archaeology, geochronology and palaeoecology |
| Neil Stuart; Edinburgh | Geographical Information Science; hydrology. GIS supported methods to solve practical problems of land and water resource management. GIS applications for developing nations. |
| Nick Kamenos; Glasgow | Climate change and marine ecosystems; Climatic and ecological proxies for the Holocene; Fisheries and marine ecosystems; Ecosystem service provision |
| Paul Bishop; Glasgow | Cenozoic landscape evolution; Holocene environments and people in the tropics. |
| Peter Clift; Aberdeen | Marine geology; Sedimentary geology; Climate change; Geochemistry; Subduction tectonics; Solid Earth-Climate Interactions in Asia - Geology of the Asian Monsoon |
| Philip Gillibrand; SAMS | Physical oceanography and modelling of coastal and shelf seas; Exchange and mixing processes in fjords; Bio-physical modelling; Palaeoceanography of inshore waters; Oceanography and marine mammals |
| Raja Ganeshram; Edinburgh | Application of stable isotope and trace metal techniques to problems in marine geochemistry and palaeo-oceanography |
| Richard Bates; St Andrews | Applied geophysics for environmental, engineering and archaeological studies, Palaeo-environmental Reconstruction, Multicomponent Seismic |
| Robert Duck; Dundee | Physical sedimentology and environmental geology/geophysics; Sedimentation and hydrodynamics in lacustrine, coastal and estuarine environments; Sediment flux and provenance determination |
| Robert Ellam; SUERC | Igneous petrogenesis and mantle geochemistry; Climate records from annually-banded carbonates; Crustal fluids and fluid-rock interaction; Environmental geochemistry; Sr isotope stratigraphy, oceanography and hydrology |
| Robert Harwood;Edinburgh | Atmospheric composition and dynamics; remote sensing of the stratosphere and upper troposphere, especially using microwave limb sounders; numerical modelling of atmosphere (using 1, 2 and 3-D models). |
| Roger Hipkin; Edinburgh | Aspects of the Earth's gravity field |
| Roy Thompson; Edinburgh | Climate change; geomagnetism; palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism; Chronologies of recent terrestrial, lacustrine and marine sediments; Time-series analyses. |
| Ruth Doherty; Edinburgh | Coupled climate and atmospheric chemistry modelling; Climate variability; Climate change and variability effects on ecosystems and their uncertainty |
| Sandy Tudhope; Edinburgh | Tropical climate variability and change; growth of recent corals and coral reefs; stable isotope and trace element chemistry of coral skeletons; Quaternary palaeoenvironments; carbonate sediment production, transport and deposition. |
| Simon Tett; Edinburgh | Methods to reconstruct past climate from paleo and instrumental data; Modelling future climate; The quantitative analysis of models and observations of climate change in order to constrain the future. |
| Tim Boyd; SAMS | Internal tides and waves; Polar oceanography; Adapting and using novel technologies such as profiling drifters, autonomous underwater vehicles, and moored instrumentation to the study of these processes |
| Toby Sherwin; SAMS | Monitoring the circulation of the north-east Atlantic; Mixing in stratified flows; Pollutant transport to the Arctic: the investigation of pollutant sources and transport pathways to the Arctic using stable lead isotopes. |
| Tom Ball ; Dundee | The interface between social and legal systems and environmental hazards in the context of global change. Main foci are planning, environmental management, and flooding |
| Tony Fallick; SUERC | The genesis and evolution of ore bodies; Diagensis of sedimentary sequences & evolution of hydrocarbon reservoirs; Fluid-rock interactions; Crustal evolution; Biogeochemical applications of stable isotope analysis. |
| Tracy Shimmield; SAMS | Human impact on the marine environment; Natural and man-made radionuclides as tracers of marine processes; Global climate change; Holocene environmental change |
| Vernon Phoenix; Glasgow | Microbial Geochemistry; Exobiology (how life evolved and inhabit our ancient Earth and other planets); Probing biomineralization processes using Synchrotron based FTIR |
| Vincent Le Fouest; SAMS | Physical-biological coupling; Plankton dynamics modelling; Bio-optics of freshwater influenced coastal waters |
| Walter Geibert; SAMS/Edinburgh | Ocean Circulation, Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate |
| William Austin; St Andrews | Quaternary Environmental Change; North West European Shelf Sea Palaeoceanography; Tephrachronology and Radiocarbon Dating; Benthic Foraminifera as palaeoenvironmental indicators; Holocene and modern day dynamics of benthic foraminifera from the Celtic Sea. |