The Team
University of Leeds
Professor Natasha Barlow
Principle Investigator
Dr Victor Cartelle Álvarez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in offshore seismics
Stephen Eaton
Research Assistant in borehole stratigraphy
Megan Edwards
Research Assistant in Past Environmental Change
Dr Lauren Gregoire
Ice sheet modeller (Co-investigator)
Dr Amy McGuire
Research Fellow in Quaternary Palynology
Oliver Pollard
PhD student in glacial isostatic adjustment modelling
Dr Graham Rush
Research Fellow in Quaternary Foraminifera
Lydia Woods
Research Assistant in tephra chronostratigraphy
University of Southampton
Dr Ivan Haigh
Coastal oceanographer (Co-investigator)
McGill University
Dr Natalya Gomez
Solid Earth modeller
External research
The RISeR project includes a number of external researchers and collaborators
Denise Becker
MSc student in tephrochronology, Fulbright Scholar; University of Leeds
Dr Freek Busschers
North Sea lithostratigraphy; TNO-Geological Survey of the Netherlands
Dr Kim Cohen
North Sea sea-level and coastal change; University of Utrecht
Dr Carol Cotterill
Offshore data acquisition; Formerly of the British Geological Survey, now Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Dr Martina Conti
Biomarkers and geochemistry; University of York
Prof Dave Hodgson
Stratigraphy; University of Leeds
Dr Timme Donders
Biostratigraphy; University of Utrecht
Dr Claire Mellett
Offshore data acquisition and North Sea stratigraphy; Formerly Wessex Archaeology, now Royal HaskoningDHV
Prof Kirsty Penkman
Amino-acid geochronology; University of York
Dr Rachel Smedley
OSL geochronology; University of Liverpool
Irene Waajen
PhD student in North Sea biostratigraphy; University of Utrecht
Dr Fumiko Watanabe Nara
Geochemistry; JSPS-ERC Exchange Research Fellow from Nagoya University
Dr Frank Wesselingh
Molluscan paleontologist; Naturalis
RISeR benefits from collaboration with PALSEA (PALeo constraints on SEA level rise), the international PAGES and INQUA working group