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. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. 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. 699-758

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Ice margin oscillations during deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea basin. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Quaternary Science

    Chiverrell, R. C., Smedley, R. K., Small, D., Ballantyne, C. K., Burke, M. J., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Duller, G. A. T., Evans, D. J. A., Fabel, D., Van Landeghem, K., Livingstone, S., Cofaigh, C. Ó., Thomas, G. S. P., Roberts, D. H., Saher, M., Scourse, J. D. & Wilson, P., Oct 2018, In: Quaternary Science. 33, 7, p. 739-762

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Ice marginal dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the southern North Sea: Ice limits, timing and the influence of the Dogger Bank

    Roberts, D. H., Evans, D. J. A., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Bateman, M. D., Medialdea, A., Dove, D., Cotterill, C. J., Saher, M., O'Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Moreton, S. G., Fabel, D. & Bradwell, T., 15 Oct 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 198, p. 181-207

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength

    Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Smedley, R., Clark, C., Saher, M., Callard, L., Chiverrell, R., Dove, D., Moreton, S., Roberts, D., Duller, G. & O'Cofaigh, C., 24 Apr 2019, In: Science Advances. 5, 4, p. eaau1380 eaau1380.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Late Holocene sea-level change in Arctic Norway

    Barnett, R. L., Gehrels, W. R., Charman, D. J., Saher, M. H. & Marshall, W. A., 1 Jan 2015, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 107, p. 214-230

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Origin and significance of isotope shifts in Pennsylvanian carbonates (Asturias, NW Spain)

    Immenhauser, A., Kenter, JAM., Ganssen, G., Bahamonde, JR., Van Vliet, A. & Saher, MH., Jan 2002, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 72, 1, p. 82-94

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    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. 681-722

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Relative sea-level variability during the late Middle Pleistocene: New evidence from eastern England

    Barlow, N. L. M., Long, A. J., Gehrels, W. R., Saher, M., Scaife, R. G., Davies, H., Penkman, K., Bridgland, D. R., Sparkes, A., Smart, C. & Taylor, S., 1 Oct 2017, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 173, p. 20-39 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review