Lancaster Environment Centre

My major research interests are in Environmental Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism, for purposes of retrieving palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental and dating information from the magnetic records of Quaternary terrestrial sediments (soils, loess, tills, lake sediments), deep-sea sediments, and pre-Quaternary rocks.

I am also involved in the application of magnetic methods to current environmental processes and problems, including magnetic monitoring and sourcing of particulate pollutants (especially those particles less than 5 micrometres in size, which are demonstrably hazardous to health), tracing of modern fluvial sediment sources, and magnetic 'clean-up' of contaminated waters.

I am a member of the women in science, engineering and technology (SET) group.