Staff Members
CCCR Staff
Name | E-mail |
Position & Department | Research Themes |
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Lecturer, |
Flow dynamics of rivers and turbidity currents, sedimentary bedform dynamics, turbulence-modulated mud-rich flows, Late Pleistocene climate, hydraulic engineering, mathematical modelling and software development |
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Temporary Lecturer, |
Fluvial geochemistry, specifically the impact of metal mining activity and mine tailings dam failures upon fluvial systems. Contaminant metal speciation using Sequential Extraction Procedures (SEPs), the use of Pb isotopes as tracers of metal contaminant dispersal. |
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Geomorphology, fluvial processes, channel pattern change, siltation and sedimentation problems, impacts of tailings dam failures and metal mining activity on fluvial systems. |
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Professor, School of Biological Sciences |
Characterisation of population and species biodiversity using environmental genomics and barcoding. |
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Professor, |
Modelling detailed hydrodynamic processes, and local sediment transport, in the seabed boundary layer beneath waves and currents, modelling seabed morphological change in the coastal zone, including the effects of sand mining. |
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Biological Sciences |
Invertebrate ecology in rivers and lakes; dispersal of adult aquatic insects between streams; effects of catchment land use and climate change on stream ecology. |
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Dr. Luis Gimenez
| Lecturer, |
Larval ecology of marine crustaceans and benthic ecology of marine invertebrates. |
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Professor, |
Environment and health, water quality. |
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Senior Lecturer, CCCR Director |
Properties of sediments, especially suspended sediments, in estuarine and shelf waters, particularly in relation to biogeochemical and biological interactions. |
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Post-Doctoral Research Assistant |
Fluvial Geomorphology, flooding and palaeoflood hydrology, high-resolution XRF analysis of floodplain sediments, use of LiDAR for geomorphological mapping, river channel change dynamics. |
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Professor, |
The ecosystem effects of fishing, sustainable aquaculture, disturbance ecology and socio-economic and biological issues relevant to coastal systems management. |
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The use of remote sensing data (e.g., SAR, hyperspectral and lidar) for mapping and quantifying changes in the species/community composition, biomass and structure of tropical and subtropical forests and woodlands (including mangroves) in relation to anthropogenic land use and climate change. |
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Professor, CCCR Director, |
Fluvial response to climate change, palaeoflood analysis, sediment budgets and provenance studies, alluvial archaeology, flood risk assessment, heavy metal pollution, river basin management. |
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Research Lecturer, |
Shellfish Aquaculture in the Irish Sea - Summer mortality of oysters. Agricultural influence on Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems. Cephalopods (physiology, immunology, fisheries, disease, climate change) |
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Research Lecturer, |
Dynamics of nearshore eddy systems and their role in sediment transport and dispersal. Inter-annual variability of morphological features. |
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Research Lecturer, |
Cycling of carbon and nitrogen in the aquatic environment using stable isotopes to elucidate biotic and abiotic processes in diverse aquatic systems that range from the sediments of the deep ocean to the cryogenic brines in sea ice in the Polar Regions. |