I’m a mature student, undertaking doctoral research alongside my role as a lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands. I’ve always been fascinated by mountain environments, and have been fortunate enough to live and work in incredible places such as the European Alps, Canadian Rockies and Scottish Highlands. When I’m not teaching or researching, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, getting outside, and reading sci-fi!
Evolution of emerging post-glacial landscapes induced by a changing climate.
Supervisors: Edwin Baynes and Jeff Evans
Emerging post-glacial landscapes are highly dynamic and transient, with periglacial and fluvial processes at work in settings that exhibit a strong legacy of recent glaciation (Baynes et al., 2015). Under a changing climate an increasing number of landscapes are under threat of transitioning from glacial to post-glacial conditions. The impact on landscape morphology (such as valley shape) and landscape processes (within channels and on hillslopes), remains unknown (Dadson and Church, 2005; Shugar et al., 2017) but could be important for understanding emerging geohazards such as landsliding (Schonfeldt et al., 2020) or glacial lake outburst floods (Cook et al., 2018) due to heightened rates of erosion focused in particular areas. The aim of this project is therefore to explore the typical morphological signature of emerging post-glacial landscapes in order to better understand the timescales and processes involved in the transition from glacial to post-glacial conditions.