Margot Saher

Margot Saher

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I have a range of research interests in which PhD projects could be developed. Please contact me by email in the first instance regarding any of the following areas: climate reconstruction, sea level change, the British-Irish Ice Sheet.

20022022

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Pronouns: she, her

Functions: SOS EDI lead, SOS Academic Integrity Officer

Room: 306 Craig Mair             Phone: 01248 383819

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: ResearchGate

I am a teaching and scholarship lecturer, teaching Ocean Science predominantly on the longer timescales (Orbital to Tectonic timescales). My background in science starts with a MSc in geology, followed by a PhD (completed in 2007) in climate reconstruction, both from the Free University in Amsterdam. During my PhD, which dealt with the strength of the Indian Monsoon during glacial terminations, I used foraminifera as a palaeoenvironmental proxy. I kept working with these microfossils for several research projects to come; at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø, I used them for monitoring anthropogenic warming in the Barents Sea. In 2009 I went to the UK to reconstruct sea level changes in the North Atlantic on short (500 years) timescales at Plymouth University, and on Milankovitch timescales at the Universities of Plymouth and York. In 2014 I moved to Bangor University to reconstruct the demise of the last ice sheet on the British Isles. In 2017 I made a move to full-time teaching.

Research Areas

Teaching and Supervision

I am currently module leader on the following modules:

OSX1003 Earth, Climate and Evolution

OSX2011 Ice and Oceans

OSX3000 Dissertation module

OSX3025  Marine Geology & Applications

 

 

I also teach on the following modules:

ONC1001 Dadansoddi Data Amgylcheddol

ONS1001 Environmental data & analysis

OSX1000 Tutorial 1

OSX2000 Science Communication

OSX2004 Estuary & Shelf Sea Processes

OSX3007 Coastal Processes field study

OSX3021 Oceans, Atmosphere and Climate

OSX4008 Research Design & Planning

OSX4009 Research Project

OSX4010 Key Concepts and Techniques

OSX4015 Climate and Climate Change

OSX4016 Literature Review-Project Plan

 

 

Grant Awards and Projects

Research projects participated in:

BRITICE-CHRONO (2014-2017)

Reconstruction of the maximum extent and demise of the British-Irish Ice Sheet

iGlass (2011-2014)

Reconstruction of sea level in previous interglacials

SeaLevel500 (2009-2011)

Reconstruction of sea level in the North Atlantic realm over the past 500 years

Climate and anthropogenic impact studies on food webs connected to the benthos in the Barents Sea (2007-2009)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

Education/Academic qualification

Professional, PGCertHE, Bangor University

Award Date: 1 Jun 2017

Postgraduate, PhD, History of the Indian monsoon- implications of sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea over Terminations I and II, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1 Oct 200122 Dec 2006

Award Date: 25 Jun 2007

Postgraduate, MSc, Analogue modelling of fold-and-thrust belts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Award Date: 20 Apr 2001

External positions

Casual worker, University of Sheffield

1 Dec 201631 Jan 2017

Postdoctoral Research Officer, University of York

1 Jun 201331 Mar 2014

Postdoctoral Research Officer, Plymouth University

1 Sept 201131 May 2013

Postdoctoral Research Officer, Plymouth University

24 Aug 20091 Sept 2011

Postdoctoral Research Officer, Norwegian Polar Institute

15 May 200731 May 2009

Keywords

  • GC Oceanography
  • foraminifera
  • monsoon
  • MIlankovitch cycles
  • glacial-interglacial
  • palaeotemperature
  • stable oxygen isotopes
  • micropalaeontology
  • geochemistry
  • QE Geology

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