London NERC DTP PhD Student at the Centre for Quaternary Reasearch (Royal Holloway, Department of Geography) supervised by Dr Adrian Palmer and Dr Ian Matthews.

My research is on the rate of retreat of the last ice sheet in Britain; primarily focusing on the timing of ice retreat, landscape response to deglaciation and subsequent abrupt climatic shifts. My main aim is to apply a multi-chronological approach for dating lake sediment records which provide high-resolution and annually resolved (varved) records of deglaciation and subsequent abrupt climatic change. 

Working PhD title: The nature and timing of deglaciation and landscape response to abrupt climatic change.

• Deglacial chronologies
• Tephrocrhonology
• Radiocarbon dating
• Geochronology
• Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
• Landscape change and response to abrupt climatic change
• Environmental change
• Non-destructive core scanning techniques
• sedaDNA and it's uses for reconstructing past environments

BSc Geography (Physical) at the University of Reading

My broad scientific background has a strong base within the many key components of physical geographyModule examples:

• Soils in the Environment, Hydrology, Geological Resources, Natural Hazards, Tropical Rainforests and Ancient Human Civilisations, Dryland Environments, Iceland Expedition Fieldclass and Quaternary Climate Change.

Dissertation title: A preliminary tephrostratigraphy for Loch an Eilein, Dava Mor, Scotland. Supervised by Dr Alison MacLeod.

MSc Quaternary Science (RHUL):

My specialised knowledge is focuse on the key aspects and principles of Quaternary Science as developed through the MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway.

Modules:

• Palaeoclimatology
• Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
• Micromorphology
• Glaciers in the Climate System
• Tephrochronology
• Palynology
• Palaeolimnology
• Paleoecology, Quantification and Dating 
• Scotland Expiditionary Fieldclass
• Techniques in Quaternary Research
• Dissertation: A critical analysis of the chronology of Rostherne Mere, UK. Supervised by Dr Adrian Palmer and Dr Alison MacLeod (Ext.). 

On completion of this master's course, I was awarded the Ed Derbyshire Prize for the overall top achieving student of my cohort.