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Margot Saher

 

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Dr Margot Saher

  • Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: Room 7, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: Room 7, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585989
  • Alternative telephone: +44 (0)7526 000697
  • Email: margot.saher@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Postdoctoral research associate in sea level studies 

Qualifications & background
2009-present: postdoctoral research associate at the University of Plymouth
2007-2009: postdoctoral research associate at the Norwegian Polar Institute
2007: PhD in palaeoclimatology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2001: MSc in geology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

Professional membership
Member of AGU, QRA, and BCRA 


Teaching interests
Sea level change, climate change, palaeoclimatology, micropalaeontology, coastal geomorphology 


Research interests

Working within the framework of NERC project "Using interglacials to assess future sea-level scenarios (iGlass)", which aims at constraining the magnitude and rate of sea level change in previous interglacials. This information will provide information on possible future sea level changes. We use salt marsh foraminifera as a proxy for palaeo-sea level.



General interests: Late Quaternary sea level change, benthic foraminifera, planktonic foraminifera, monsoon, stable isotopes, geochemistry, foraminiferal ecology, climate change, glacial-interglacial changes.  

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES) 

Grants & contracts
2011-2013: NERC project "Using inter-glacials to assess future sea-level scenarios" (iGlass) 
2009-2011: NERC project "North Atlantic sea-level variability during the last half-millennium” (SeaLevel500)  


Publications

Belemnite-based strontium carbon and oxygen isotope stratigraphy of the type area of the Maastrichtian Stage. Vonhof, H.B., Jagt J, Immenhauser, A, Smit J., van den Berg, Y., Saher, M., Keutgen, N., Reijmer, J.J.G. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 90 (2/3), 259-270, 2011.

http://www.njgonline.nl/cgi-bin/pw.cgi/articles/000462/article.pdf

Changes in distribution of benthic foraminifera in the central Barents Sea between the periods 1965-1992 and 2005-2006. Saher, M.H., Kristensen, D.K., Hald, M., Pavlova, O. and Jørgensen, L.L..  Accepted upon revision in Global and Planetary Change.  

Benthic foraminifera assemblages in the Central Barents Sea: an evaluation of combining live and total fauna studies in tracking environmental change. Saher, M.H., Klitgaard Kristensen, D., Hald, M., Korsun, S. and Lindal Jørgensen, L. Norwegian Journal of Geology, Vol. 89, pp. 149-161, Trondheim 2009. ISSN 029-196X.  

Sea Surface Temperature in the western Arabian Sea in the penultimate and last interglacial: a comparison of UK’37 and Mg/Ca paleothermometry. Saher, M.H., Rostek, F., Jung, S.J.A., Kroon, Bard, E., D., Schneider, R.R., Greaves, Ganssen, G.M., M. and Elderfield, H. Paleoceanography, Vol. 24, PA2212, doi:10.1029/2007PA001557, 2009 http://www.agu.org/journals/pa/pa0902/2007PA001557/

Sea surface temperatures during the SW and NE monsoon seasons in the western Arabian Sea over the past 20,000 years. Saher, M.H., Peeters, F.J.C, and Kroon, D. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 249, Issues 1-2, p. 216-228, 2007  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.01.014  

Sea surface temperatures of the western Arabian Sea during the last deglaciation. Saher, M.H., Jung, S.J.A., Elderfield, H., Greaves, M., and Kroon, D. Paleoceanography, Vol. 22, No. 2, PA2208, 10.1029/2006PA001292, 2007
http://www.agu.org/journals/pa/pa0702/2006PA001292/

Origin and significance of isotope shifts in Pennsylvanian carbonates (Asturias, NW Spain). Immenhauser, A., Kenter, J.A.M, Ganssen, G., Bahamonde, J.R., van Vliet, A.J., and Saher, M.H. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72 (1): 82-94, 2002. http://jsedres.sepmonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/72/1/82

 


Other academic activities
Supervision of Robert Barnett, PhD student

Co-organiser of Ireland Field Trip 


Additional information
Major extra-academic interest: caving and cave rescue. Member of PCG, DCRO, CMEC. 

Links
www.mmmmargot.blogspot.com