Contributing Staff :

John Anderson is a palaeolimnologist interested in the effects of environmental stress (nutrient enrichment, acidification, metal pollution) on lakes.  He uses diatoms and lake sediments to study climate forcing of lake ecosystems during the Holocene.

Joanna Bullard is an aeolian geomorphologist whose research involves the erosion and deposition of sediment through the interaction of wind fields and landforms. Current work focuses on the Simpson-Strzelecki Desert, the Atacama Desert, and West Greenland.  

Jeffrey Evans’s research interests are in Quaternary ice mass reconstruction and environmental change in the Arctic and Antarctica, as well as glacial and glacially-influenced sedimentation and geomorphology of high latitude terrestrial, fjord, continental margin and deep ocean environments.

David Graham is a sedimentologist and geomorphologist with a particular
interest in glacial environments. His research focuses on the controls on
glacial landform genesis, and digital data collection and analysis
techniques in the Geosciences.

Richard Hodgkins research interests are in the monitoring and modelling of the hydrology of glaciers and glacierised catchments, particularly the spatial and temporal dimensions of the hydrological response of high-latitude systems to meteorological forcing at melt season to multi-decadal time scales.

Jonathan Millett is a terrestrial plant ecologist.  His primary interests are in forest ecology and nitrogen cycling.  He is particularly interested in internal nitrogen cycling in plants and in linking this process with processes at larger scales (i.e. plant population ecology and community ecology). 

Helen Rendell is a geomorphologist with interests in environmental change and particular expertise in the application of luminescence dating to late Quaternary sediments. She is also interested in contemporary processes such as soil erosion in Mediterranean environments.

Stephen Rice is a fluvial geomorphologist. His specialisms are in the sedimentology and lotic ecology (e.g. salmonid and invertebrate habitats) of gravel-bed rivers. Recent research papers have appeared in Journal of Sedimentary Research, Water Resources Research, Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, among others.

David Ryves is a palaeolimnologist interested in environmental change over the Holocene in freshwater and coastal ecosystems, focussing on diatom records.  Current research includes using lake sediments to explore long-term
epidemiology of tropical diseases in Uganda and reconstructing salinity
changes along the Danish coast over the Holocene. Recent papers have
appeared in Limnology & Oceanography, The Holocene, Freshwater Biology and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences.

Paul Wood is a hydro-ecologist with a particular interest in the ecological significance of river flow variability over a range of temporal and spatial scales. His research focuses on the role of low flows (drought) and floods in influencing aquatic invertebrate communities in riverine, spring and cave ecosystems.

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