Dr Margot Saher

Lecturer in Ocean Sciences

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

  1. Published

    A stratigraphic investigation of the Celtic Sea megaridges based on seismic and core data from the Irish-UK sectors.

    Lockhart, E., Scourse, J., Praeg, D., Van Landeghem, K., Mellett, C., Saher, M., Callard, S. L., Chiverrell, R. C., Benetti, S., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Clark, C. D., 15 Oct 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 198, p. 156-170

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. 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. 53-68

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Belemnite-based strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope stratigraphy of the type area of the Maastrichtian Stage

    Vonhof, H. B., Jagt, J. W. M., Immenhauser, A., Smit, J., van den Berg, Y. W., Saher, M., Keutgen, N. & Reijmer, J. J. G., Nov 2011, In: Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 90, 2-3, p. 259-270

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Benthic foraminifera assemblages in the Central Barents Sea: an evaluation of the effect of combining live and total fauna studies in tracking environmental change

    Saher, M., Kristensen, D. K., Hald, M., Korsun, S. & Jorgensen, L. L., 2009, In: NORWEGIAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 89, 1-2, p. 149-161

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Changes in distribution of calcareous benthic foraminifera in the central Barents Sea between the periods 1965-1992 and 2005-2006

    Saher, M., Kristensen, D. K., Hald, M., Pavlova, O. & Jorgensen, L. L., Dec 2012, In: Global and Planetary Change. 98-99, p. 81-96

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Contrasting records of sea-level change in the eastern and western North Atlantic during the last 300 years

    Long, A. J., Barlow, N. L. M., Gehrels, W. R., Saher, M., Woodworth, P. L., Scaife, R. G., Brain, M. J. & Cahill, N., Feb 2014, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 388, p. 110-122

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Early deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the Atlantic shelf northwest of Ireland driven by glacioisostatic depression and high relative sea level

    Ó Cofaigh, C., Weilbach, K., Lloyd, J., Benetti, S., Callard, S. L., Purcell, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Dunlop, P., Saher, M., Livingstone, S., Van Landeghem, K., Moreton, S., Clark, C. & Fabel, D., 15 Mar 2019, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 208, p. 76-96

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    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. 833-870

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation

    Callard, S. L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., Gales, J., Small, D., Clark, C., Livingstone, S. J., Fabel, D. & Moreton, S., 1 Dec 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. p. 280-302

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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. 117-133

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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