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Alison Macleod

 

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Dr Alison Macleod - (Alison MacLeod)

  • Job title: Lecturer in Physical Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: Room 109, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon,
  • Telephone: +441752585925
  • Email: alison.macleod@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Module leader for Stage 2 Glacial Environments (GGP2114)

Contribution of Glacial Geomorpology component of Stage 1 module Introducing Physical Geography: Geomorphology, Biogeography and Environmental Change  (GGP1108)

 Stage 2/4 Dissertation project advisor (GGX3101)

 

Qualifications & background

B.Sc. (Hons) University of St. Andrews (1999-2003) - Geoscience

M.Sc. Royal Holloway University of London (2003-2004) - Quaternary Science

Ph.D Royal Holloway University of London (2006-2010) - High-resolution chronologies of abrupt envronmental change during the last glacial to interglacial transition - NERC funded RAPID Climate Change Project

Postdoctoral researcher on a NERC funded consortium project: Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions (RESET) (2010-2011) - 'The Re-population of Northern Europe after the last glacial stage' - WP 3

 

Professional membership

2005 to Present – Ordinary member of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA)

2009 to Present – Associate member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

2007 to Present – Ordinary member of Royal Holloway and Oxford TephrOchronological Research network (RHOXTOR)

2008 to Present – Ordinary member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2009 to Present – Ordinary member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

 


Teaching interests
Glacial Environments (Module leader GGP 2114; Co-leader GGP1108)
Rapid environmental change
Quaternary geochronology
Tephrostratigraphy and chronology 


Research interests
Rapid environmental change during the last glacial-intergalcial transition (16-8 ka BP)

Development of annually resolved chronologies of enviromental change

Tephrochronology

Construction of robust and precise chronologies of environmental change

 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES)