Current Teaching

Undergraduate

• 1st Year
  • 1005 Environmental Change - basic course which covers Earth History (Big Bang - Plate Tectonics - Evolution - Glaciation - Human impact- Acid rain - pollution - Global warming)
  • 1003 Data Acquisition including 'Mircoclimatology' study during the week's field class in Slapton in Devon which uses the measurements of local conditions to study climate.
• 2nd Year
  • 2008 Reconstructing Past Environments - methods course on how lake and deep-sea sediments are used to obtain information about past climates.
• 3rd Year
  • 3007 Past Global Environmental Change - specialist course which looks at modern climate change from the persective of past climate changes. Uses evidence from deep-sea sediments, lake sediments and ice cores. Covers topics from the evolution of climate, to diversity and mass-extinctions to global warming.

Graduate Courses

• Master of Quaternary Reseach (MSc)
  • Palaeoceanography - Specialist one week intensive course with lectures and practicals
  • Stable isotopes in Lacustrine and Marine Environment
  • Supervision of the six month research project