Staff Interests and Projects

Below is a list of staff who make up the Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction and Modelling research group in the Department of Geography, their interests and some ongoing projects.

Dr Andy Dugmore - Tephrochronology; Quaternary environmental reconstruction; Human -environment interactions; Iceland and the North Atlantic islands. Work in Iceland, Scandinavia and British Isles supported by National Science Foundation of America, NERC and the Leverhulme Trust.

Professor Peter Furley - Tropical biogeography; tropical soils and land development; savanna and forest ecology in the New World tropics. Monitoring forest degradation and forest management. Remote sensing and GIS applications in tropical biogeography. Current projects: Soil micro-variation and tropical forest growth (supported by Natural History Museum). Savanna research in Zimbabwe (supported by EU). Biodiversity monitoring and assessment in Nepal (with UNEP-WCMC Cambridge; supported by the Darwin Trust). Paleo-environmental change in tropical lowlands, Belize (supported by Leverhulme Trust).

Dr Adrian Hall - Tertiary and Quaternary geomorphology and geology of Scotland

Dr Alun Hubbard - Process glaciology; geophysical techniques; modelling and investigation of glacier response to climate.

Dr Nick Hulton - Glacial modelling; glaciology; climate change; high performance computing; Geographical Information Science.

Dr Bob McCulloch - Environmental reconstruction, using palynology, tephrochronology, geomorphology and stratigraphy, to study climate and landscape change in Patagonia, Mexico, Iceland and Scotland.

Dr Anthony Newton - Pre- and post-Hispanic landscape change in Michoacan (Mexico); the impact of tephra layers on central Mexican lake systems; human-environment interactions in Iceland; tephrochronology (Iceland and Mexico); pumice in the North Atlantic region; web development and databases.

Professor David Sugden - Glacial and polar geomorphology; the polar regions. Antarctic ice sheet stability and modelling the dynamics of the Patagonian ice cap (supported by NERC).