I am a DPhil student at St Edmund Hall on the NERC DTP on Environmental Research. My research interests focus on a sedimentological and geochemical approach to understanding weathering changes and intensity during the Devonian, in particular the Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) mass extinction. I am currently focussing on the use of lithium isotopes as a proxy for weathering intensity, along with clay mineral assemblage. This work requires an important fieldwork element in order to contextualise the samples in a paleogeographical framework.
I previously studied at the University of St Andrews (MGeol, 2014) and worked in the renewable energy industry and science communication sector before beginning my DPhil in October 2016. I am the MCR President for St Edmund Hall.
Supervisors: Dr Stuart Robinson, Professor Hugh Jenkyns (University of Oxford), Dr Melissa Murphy (UCL)