Pronouns: she, her

Functions: SOS EDI lead, SOS Academic Integrity Officer

Room: 306 Craig Mair             Phone: 01248 383819

E-mail: m.saher@bangor.ac.uk

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

• Earth System Science and Climate Change

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

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)