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Earth Systems
Academic and research staff and their interests

Dr Alona Armstrong
Peatland science, soil erosion

Dr Uwe Balthasar

Dr Brian Bell
Lava field architecture, rift basin evolution, volcanic processes

Dr James Bendle
Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoceanography, Organic Geochemistry

Professor Paul Bishop FRSE
Landscape evolution, Late Holocene human-environment interactions

Professor Roderick Brown
Thermochronology, Geodynamics, Digital Geoscience

Dr David Brown
Volcanology, Sedimentology, Mineralogy

Dr Gordon Curry
Taxonomy, Geochemical proxies, Ancient Biodiversity, Computing,

Professor Maggie Cusack FRSE
biominerals: crystallography, isotopes, trace elements, proteins

Dr Tim Dempster
Metamorphism, Thermochronology, Accessory minerals, Orogeny

Dr Gordon Dickinson
Conservation, resource management and management of natural resou

Dr Kate Dobson
landscape evolution, thermochronology, fission track, (U-Th)/He

Dr Simon Drew

Dr Jane Drummond
GIS data quality, Mobile GIS

Anne Dunlop
Photogrammetric aspects of environmental monitoring

Dr Derek Fabel
Cosmogenic nuclide methods and their applications

Dr Stephanie Flude

Dr David Forrest
Map design in GIS, topographic map design, tourist mapping ;

Dr Jim Hansom
Coastal processes, forms and evolution, polar environments

Dr Andrew Henderson
Palaeolimnology and palaeoclimatology, isotope geochemistry

Dr Rebecca Hodge
Fluvial geomorphology, modelling, sediment transport

Professor Trevor Hoey
gravel-bed rivers, sediment sorting, sediment transport modelling

Dr Nick Kamenos
Responses of marine ecosystems to climatic variability

Dr Martin Lee
Mineral weathering, electron microscopy, planetary geology.

Dr Zhenhong Li
InSAR, GPS, space geodesy, measurements, earthquakes

Dr Alistair McGowan
Analytical palaeobiology, palaeobiogeography

Dr Fiona Meade
Magma chamber processes, Magma-crust interaction

Dr Esperanza Muñoz-Salinas

Dr Alan Owen
Palaeobiology, palaeobiogeography, biodiversity change

Dr Cristina Persano
landscape evolution, low temperature thermochronology

Dr Vernon Phoenix
Environmental Geochemsitry

Dr Rhian Thomas
Fluvial geomorphology, cellular modelling, ecohydraulics, mussels

Dr Jaime Toney
Paleoclimate, Organic Geochemistry, Limnology, Oceanography

Dr Leenah Vihermaa

Professor Susan Waldron
Biogeochemical cycles, isotopic tracers, water quality, ecology.

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