Katie Szkornik

School of Geography (ALD)
Address: School of Geography, Rm 7, 8-11 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 233053
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233054
Email: katie.szkornik@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

PhD Research Student / Part-Time Demonstrator

Qualifications & background

2003 - present: PhD, School of Geography, University of Plymouth.

Project title: "Middle to late Holocene sea-level change in Denmark." Awarded NERC studentship.

1999 - 2002: B.Sc (hons) Geography (first class), Durham University.

Academic Awards

2002 Marjorie Sweeting Dissertation Prize (British Geomorphological Research Group)

For best geomorphology dissertation submitted as part of an undergraduate degree in a UK HE institution.

an undergraduate degree in a UK HE institution.

Professional membership

Professional Membership

Quaternary Research Association

American Geophysical Union

Research interests

My current PhD research is examining middle to late Holocene sea-level change in western Denmark using diatoms as sea-level indicators.

Other research

As part of my PhD I also have research interests in:

- Diatoms and diatom taxonomy

- Foraminifera, pollen

- Multivariate statistics, transfer functions and environmental reconstructions

- Dating techniques in sea-level studies

- Middle and late Holocene sea-level changes

Grants & contracts

Natural Environmental Research Council "The glacio-eustatic contribution to global sea-level rise in the late Holocene." AMS 14C dating allocation number 1117.1005 (£11,700). (Principal investigator W.R. Gehrels).

Publications

Papers

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R. and Kirby, J. (2006). Salt-marsh diatom distributions in Ho Bugt (western Denmark) and the development of a transfer function for reconstructing Holocene sea-level changes. Marine Geology, 235 (1-4): 137-150.

Gehrels, W.R., Szkornik, K., Bartholdy, J., Kirby, J.R., Bradley, S.L., Heinemeier, J., Pedersen, J.B.T. and Marshall, W.A (2006). Late Holocene sea-level changes and isostasy in western Denmark. Quaternary Research, 66(2): 288 - 302.

Non-peer reviewed contributions

Szkornik, K. 2004. Holocene deposits in the northern part of Ho Bugt. Locality 4.1, day 4, the mainland coast of the Danish Wadden Sea. In: Fieldtrip guide B1, sediments and morphodynamics along the Danish West Coast from Skagen to the Wadden Sea, 6th International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, Copenhagen, Denmark, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen. 78pp.

Conference Presentations

Szkornik, K., Kirby, J. and Gehrels, W.R., 2004. Middle to late Holocene sea-level changes in Denmark: A diatom based study. Tidalites 2004, 6th International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2 – 5th 2004.

Szkornik, K., Kirby, J. and Gehrels, W.R., 2004. Middle to late Holocene sea-level changes in Denmark: A diatom based study. The Quaternary Research Association Third International Postgraduate Symposium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium Geological Survey, Brussels, Belgium. September 14 – 17th 2004.

Szkornik, K., Kirby, J. and Gehrels, W.R., 2005. The use of salt-marsh diatoms and sea-level indicators in Ho Bugt, Western Denmark. Late Quaternary Coastal Changes: Sea Level, Sediment Forcing and Anthropogenic Impacts. INQUA & IGCP-495 joint meeting. Dunkerque, France, 28th June - 2nd July 2005.

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R., Kirby, J., Bartholdy, J., Pedersen, J.B.T. and Marshall, W., 2005. Salt-marsh stratigraphy of Ho Bugt, Western Denmark and the implications for Holocene sea-level reconstructions. Quaternary Research Association 4th International Postgraduate Symposium, School of Geography, University of Plymouth, UK. August 31st - September 2nd 2005.

Gehrels, W. R., Szkornik, K., Kirby, J., Bradley, S., Milne, G., Bartholdy, J., Pedersen, J.B.T., Heinemeier, J. and Marshall, W., 2005. Salt-marsh stratigraphy and late Holocene sea-level changes in Ho Bugt, Western Denmark: Implications for the 'regional eustatic' history of the North Sea. Late Quaternary Coastal Changes: Sea Level, Sediment Forcing and Anthropogenic Impacts. INQUA & IGCP-495 joint meeting. Dunkerque, France, 28th June - 2nd July 2005.

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R. and Murray, A., 2006. Little Ice Age sand invasion of the Ho Bugt salt marshes, western Denmark during low relative sea level. HOLIVAR Open Science Meeting, University College London, UK. June 12^th – 15^th 2006.

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R., Murray, A., 2006. Little Ice Age sand invasion of the Ho Bugt salt marshes in Western Denmark during low relative sea level. Quaternary Land-Ocean Interaction: Natural and Human Forcings on Coastal Evolution. IGCP 495 Meeting, Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, Brazil. September 17^th – 22^nd 2006.

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R., Kirby, J., Kent, M and Charman, D.J., 2006. Using diatom-based transfer functions to reconstruct Holocene sea-level changes: Highlightening the need for caution in model selection and in interpreting results. Quaternary Land-Ocean Interaction: Natural and Human Forcings on Coastal Evolution. IGCP 495 Meeting, Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, Brazil. September 17^th – 22^nd 2006.

Szkornik, K., Gehrels, W.R. and Charman, D.J., 2006. The use of diatoms as sea-level indicators in Ho Bugt, western Denmark. British Diatomists' Meeting 2006, Malham Tarn Field Studies Centre, North Yorkshire, UK. October 27th-29th 2006.

Conferences organised
The Quaternary Research Association 4th International Postgraduate Symposium, 31st August - 2nd September 2005, School of Geography, University of Plymouth. Co-organised with postgraduate members of the Quaternary Research Group.

Links

Quaternary Research Association http://qra.org.uk/

QRA 4th International Postgraduate Symposium http://www.geog.plym.ac.uk/qra2005/

Quaternary Environments Research Group http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=48