Geography, Geology and the Environment

Keele is at the forefront of environment & sustainability research across a wide range of disciplines.  Within the Faculty of Natural Sciences, this includes staff within Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Earth & Environmental Sciences and Geography.

An exciting campus development is the Keele Hub for Sustainability, which when complete will provide an exciting resource and alternative technology demonstrator for universities, researchers, local communities, schools, national and international experts to learn more about sustainability education and research in sustainable living.

• Reconstruction of Quaternary Environmental Change (Dr Katie Szkornik)
• high-resolution shelf-sea palaeoceanography, marine palaeoecology and geochronology during the Holocene and late-Holocene (Dr Alix Cage)
• terrestrial and wetland soils biogeochemistry; greenhouse gas emissions from soils; wetlands restoration; soil fertility. (Dr Sami Ullah)
• Green Chemistry (Prof Mark Ormerod)
• Sustainable energy, windfarms and nuclear test ban monitoring (Prof Peter Styles)
• Carbon dioxide sequestration (Prof Peter Styles, Dr Sami Ullah)
• Sustainability in schools, business and communities (Dr Zoe Robinson, Prof Mark Ormerod)
• Landscape ecology (Dr Peter Thomas, Dr Sarah Taylor)
• Hydrology, hydrochemistry & hydroecology (Dr Stefan Krause, Dr Zoe Robinson, Dr Katie Szkornik, Dr Sami Ullah)
• Chemical ecology (Dr Falko Drijfhout)

Enquiries are welcome at any time, especially on the following projects.  Funding may be available:

 For more information or queries please contact the relevant supervisor