Dr Margot Saher
Lecturer in Ocean Sciences
Affiliations
Contact info
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
- 2022
- Published
Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction.
Clark, C., Ely, J. C., Hindmarsh, R., Bradley, S. L., Ignéczi, A., Fabel, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R., Scourse, J., Benetti, S., Bradwell, T., Evans, D., Roberts, D., Burke, M., Callard, S. L., Medialdea, A., Saher, M., Small, D., Smedley, R., Gasson, E., Gregoire, L., Gandy, N., Hughes, A., Ballantyne, C., Bateman, M., Bigg, G., Doole, J., Dove, D., Duller, G., Jenkins, G., Livingstone, S., McCarron, S., Moreton, S., Pollard, D., Praeg, D., Sejrup, H. P., Van Landeghem, K. & Wilson, P., Oct 2022, In: Boreas. 51, 4, p. 699-758Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2021
- Published
Retreat dynamics of the eastern sector of the British–Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation
Evans, D. J. A., Roberts, D. H., Bateman, M. D., Medialdea, A., Callard, L., Grimoldi, E., Chiverrell, R. C., Ely, J., Dove, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Saher, M., Bradwell, T., Moreton, S. G., Fabel, D. & Bradley, S. L., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 5, p. 723-751Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring controls of the early and stepped deglaciation on the western margin of the British Irish Ice Sheet.
Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Ó Cofaigh, C., Burke, M., Medialdea, A., Small, D., Ballantyne, C., Bateman, M., Callard, S. L., Wilson, P., Fabel, D., Clark, C., Arosio, R., Bradley, S. L., Dunlop, P., Ely, J. C., Gales, J., Livingstone, S. J., Moreton, S., Purcell, C., Saher, M., Schiele, K., Van Landeghem, K. & Weilbach, K., Jul 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 5, p. 833-870Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum.
Scourse, J. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Smedley, R., Small, D., Burke, M. J., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Duller, G. A. T., O'Cofaigh, C., Bateman, M., Benetti, S., Bradley, S. L., Callard, S. L., Evans, D., Fabel, D., Jenkins, G. T-H., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S., Ou, X., Praeg, D., Roberts, D. H., Roberts, H. M. & Clark, C., Jul 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 5, p. 780-804 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pattern, style and timing of British-Irish Ice Sheet retreat: Shetland and northern North Sea sector
Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Smedley, R., Clark, C., Chiverrell, R., Saher, M., Callard, S. L., Burke, M., Moreton, S., Medialdea, A., Bateman, M., Golledge, N. R., Finlayson, A., Morgan, S. & O'Cofaigh, C., Jul 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 5, p. 681-722Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Timing and pace of ice-sheet withdrawal across the marine-terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation
O'Cofaigh, C., Callard, S. L., Roberts, D., Chiverrell, R., Evans, D., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Smedley, R., Benetti, S., Burke, M., Clark, C., Duller, G., Livingstone, S., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S. & Sachetti, F., Jul 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 5, p. 805-832Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2020
- Published
Final deglaciation of the Malin Sea through meltwater release and calving events
Tarlati, S., Benetti, S., Callard, S. L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Georgiopoulou, A., Edwards, R., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., Chiverrell, R., Fabel, D., Moreton, S., Morgan, S. & Clark, C., Nov 2020, In: Scottish Journal of Geology. 56, 2, p. 117-133Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Oscillating retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf offshore Galway Bay, western Ireland.
Callard, S. L., O'Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., Livingstone, S. J., Clark, C., Small, D., Fabel, D. & Moreton, S., Feb 2020, In: Marine Geology. 420, 106087.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2019
- Published
Advance and retreat of the marine-terminating Irish Sea Ice Stream into the Celtic Sea during the Last Glacial: Timing and maximum extent
Scourse, J., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Lockhart, E., Purcell, C., Callard, S. L., Roseby, Z., Allison, B., Pieńkowski, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Praeg, D., Ward, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Moreton, S., Fabel, D. & Clark, C., 1 Jun 2019, In: Marine Geology. 412, p. 53-68Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The mixed‐bed glacial landform imprint of the North Sea Lobe in the western North Sea
Roberts, D. H., Grimoldi, E., Callard, L., Evans, D. J. A., Clark, C. D., Stewart, H. A., Dove, D., Saher, M., O'Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Bateman, M. D., Moreton, S. G., Bradwell, T., Fabel, D. & Medialdea, A., May 2019, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 44, 6, p. 1233-1258Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review