Research Students

Postgraduate: PhD

LUCA MARAZZI:Phytoplankton biodiversity in the Okavango Delta. 09.08 - 09.11 (co-supervision with Dr S. des Clers & Prof L. Ramberg).

SAMANTA SKULMOWSKA: Late – Glacial Holocene environmental change in Sweden. 09.08 - 09.12 (co-supervision with Dr V Jones).

CHARLOTTE HALL: Trace metal contamination in lakes and ponds in London. Funding body: Big Lottery Fund (via OPAL). 09.08 - 09.11 (co-supervision with Prof N.L. Rose).

KATY WILSON: Pliocene climate variability recorded in a series of diatomite beds in the Tugen Hills region of the East African Rift Valley. Funding body: NERC. 09.07 - 09.10. (co-supervision with Prof M. Maslin).

VIRGINIA PANIZZO: Reconstructing Late Holocene climate variability in North East China from varved, maar lake sediments. Funding body: NERC CASE Studentshp with NERC NIGL . Studentship Award No.: NER/S/A/200/14046. 25.09.06– 24.09.09. (co-supervision with Dr P Rioual and Prof MJ Leng)

PATRICK AUSTIN: Palaeoconductivity, lake level fluctuations and trace element history of the Aral Sea since 400 AD: assessing the impact of natural climatic variation and anthropogenic activity . Funding body: NERC. Studentship Award No.: NER/S/A/2002/10422. 01.10.02 – 30.09.05. (Examiners: Jane Reed & Scott Elias; Viva passed 2006).

JOANNA THORPE: Records of late Quaternary climatic change from Tswaing crater lake, South Africa, and the Central Kenyan Rift. Funding body: NERC. Studentship. Award No.: NER/S/A/2002/10423. 23.09.02 – 22.09.05. (Examiners: Phil Barker & Alayne Street-Perrott; Viva passed 2006).

DAVID MORLEY: Reconstructing Past Climate Variability in Continental Eurasia. Funding body: NERC CASE Studentship with NERC NIGL. Studentship Award No.: NER/S/A/2001/06430. 01.10.01 – 30.09.04. (Examiners: Phil Barker & Jane Reed; Viva passed 2004).

MUSONDA MUMBA: Vegetation and hydrological changes in the Kafue Flats, Zambia before and after the Itezhi-tezhi Dam. Funding body: UCL Hollis Scholarship 24.09.01 – 30.09.04 (co-supervision with Dr J. Thompson) (Examiners: Dr Douglas Taylor & Prof. Edward Maltby; Viva passed 2006).

GIRI KATTEL: Cladoceran zooplankton in European Mountain lakes: their role in reconstructing climate change. Funding body: ORS / Grad School / ECRC Trust Fund 01.10.00 – 30.09.03 (co-supervision with Prof R.W. Battarbee). (Examiners: Glen George & Sarah Metcalfe; Viva passed 2004).

Postgraduate: MPhil

RICHARD MAZEBEDI (University of Botswana; 2007-2008) Environmental controls on the spatial distribution of macro-invertebrates in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Funding body: UK DEFRA Darwin Initiative. Ref: 14-029. (co-supervision with Dr Hillary Masundire, University of Botswana)

Postgraduate: MSc

2007-2008

DANIELE LAINEZ (MSc Conservation; Dissertation distinction) Fifty years of crocodile surveys in Africa: a review of the surveys and population trends

ANDREW HARBY (MSc Conservation) An assessment of the Ballaugh Curragh wallaby population

HEATHER TWIZZLE (MSc Conservation; Distinction) A study of chalk grassland regeneration following scrub removal on the Devil’s Dyke Estate, Sussex

JULIA COULSON (MSc Conservation) The impacts of deer grazing on ancient oak woodland regeneration at Roudsea Woods and Mosses National Nature Reserve, Cumbria

2006-2007

GAYLE MCGLYNN (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) Assessing the evidence for recent environmental change in the Rwenzori mountains of Uganda using palaeolimnological technques

ANA NUNES (MSc Quaternary Science) A Holocene environmental reconstruction from an upland lake in the Baikal region, Siberia, using chironomid and organic geochemical analyses

GWILYM NEAL (MSc Conservation) Factors influencing the distribution and diversity of aquatic macrophytes in selected regions of the Okavango Delta, Botswana

SELINA WOODWARD (MSc Conservation) The distribution, composition and diversity of diatom assemblages in relation to environmental factors in the Okavango Delta: special reference to diatom use in conservation and monitoring

2005-2006

PHILIP HOLDEN (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) Bayes’ equation applied to palaeoenvironmental reconstructions: a case study in acidification

GRAEME DUCKWORTH (MSc Conservation) Mapping plant populations using geostatistics

STUART HAYWARD (MSc Conservation) Amphibian decline in the UK

2004-2005

KEELY MILLS (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) A sub-centennial diatom record of Late Holocene lake ontogeny at Indrepollen, Lofoten, NW Norway: a response to isostacy and neoglacial cooling

LUISA TAVIO (MSc Freshwater & Coastal Sciences) Pollutant deposition analysis as an indicator of industrial impact in central south Sweden

WENDY HAYES (MSc Freshwater & Coastal Sciences) Changes in macrophyte assemblages and environmental factors in a Mediterranean wetland: s’Albufera de Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

DIANE PATTERSON (MSc Conservation) Peatland restoration in Northern Ireland: a hydrological and botanical study of dammed and undammed areas in Ballynahone Bog, Maghera and Peatlands Park, Dungannon

MALA RAM (MSc Geographical Information Science) Integrating plant dispersal mechanisms in population fragmentation models

2003-2004

SARAH COBAIN (MSc Quaternary Science; Dissertation distinction) A reconstruction of Holocene environmental changes at Lake Luanhaizi, Qilian Mountains, China

KATIE THOMSON (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) Earthquakes and associated land / sea-level changes in eastern Hokkaido, Northern Japan

GABRIEL GRIMSDITCH (MSc Conservation) An analysis Coral Cay data for a coral reef in Fiji

2002-2003

GEORGE SWANN (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) Climatic change in central Asia during marine isotope stage (MIS) 3

MEILIN YANG (MSc Quaternary Science) Late Holocene diatom-based reconstructions of environmental change in Bosten Lake, Southern Xinjiang, China

SIMON BRACEY (MSc Conservation) The geographical distribution, population abundance and global extinction risk in Neotropical primates

SUSIE MOLONY (MSc Conservation; Dissertation distinction) Primate persistence and extinction in tropical forest fragments

NICOLA MONSEY (MSc Conservation) Assessment of ground flora at Ham Street Wood and Longrope Wood (Orlestone Forest) in Kent

KAREN WHEELER (MSc Conservation) A study of temporal and spatial variation in ground flora within various plantation stands of different species at Orlestone Forest, Kent

2001- 2002

PATRICK AUSTIN (MSc Quaternary Science; Distinction) Reconstructing early to mid Holocene environmental change from NW Iceland (Efstadalsvatn) using diatom analysis

KATE BLAZEBY (MSc Conservation) The potential influence of avian predators on breeding Lapwing and Redshank in lowland wet grassland at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire

LUIS CAYUELA (MSc Conservation) Habitat assessment for the Iberian wolf Canis lupus subsp. signatus in Picos de Europea, Spain

MABEL CHEUNG (MSc Conservation) Habitat associations of the Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella on the Culm Grasslands in north Devon

JOHANNA WILLI (MSc Conservation; Distinction) Ancient woodland in an agricultural landscape

2000 - 2001

EMILY WOODFIELD (MSc Conservation; Distinction) Jersey’s woodland bird communities: recommendations for management and monitoring

COLIN GODFREY (MSc Conservation) The green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) in Jersey

1997 - 1998

MARK BANGS (MRes Environmental Science 1998; Distinction) Climate change in Lake Baikal: palaeo-indicator evidence in turbidite free zones