Sustainable Energy and Environments
Our research on sustainable environments focuses on assessing, adapting and resilience to climate, ecosystems and environmental change, including deep time, geoprocesses and geohazards. The collective aim is to contribute solutions to the world’s most significant environmental challenges and to fulfil our mission to produce research of the highest calibre in the group’s areas of expertise.
The Sustainable Environments Group comprises earth and environmental scientists with complementary research interests in:
- Climate and environmental change
- Geophysics
- Volcanology and geodynamics
- Conservation and education in geoscience/sustainability science
Our research strategy is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the group is a key contributor to Keele’s Institute for Sustainable Futures, directing regional, national and international research programmes.
Current research interests
- Climate and environmental change in ‘deep time’
- Glacial environments and geomorphology
- Soil science and environmental chemistry
- Applied geophysics (environmental and archaeological studies, forensic geoscience)
- Anthropogenic and geologic hazards
- Geocomputing
- Petrology and geochemistry
- Ecology, environmental conservation and geoconversation
Members
Dr Mark Ashby
Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation
Programme Director for Ecology and Conservation (BSc & MSci)
Programme Director for Environment and Sustainability (BSc)
Expert in Ecology and Conservation
- William Smith, WS1.39a
- m.ashby@keele.ac.uk
Dr Alix Cage
Senior Lecturer
- William Smith: WS1.14
- +44 (0) 1782 733177
- a.g.cage@keele.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Egan
Senior Lecturer in Geology
Programme Director for Geology
- William Smith: WS1.07
- +44 (0) 1782 733174
- s.s.egan@keele.ac.uk
Dr Ralf Gertisser
Reader in Mineralogy and Petrology
- William Smith: WS1.42
- +44 (0) 1782 733181
- r.gertisser@keele.ac.uk
Dr Ralf Halama
Lecturer in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
- William Smith: WS1.41A
- +44 (0) 1782 734960
- r.halama@keele.ac.uk
Dr Glenda Jones
Research & Teaching Fellow
- William Smith Building: WS1.17
- +44 (0) 1782 734309
- g.m.jones@keele.ac.uk
Dr Peter Knight
Reader in Geography
- William Smith: WS1.40
- +44 (0) 1782 734304
- p.g.knight@keele.ac.uk
Dr Antonia Law
Senior Lecturer in Geography
Deputy Director (Education) of the Institute for Sustainable Futures
Expert in Climate change, plastic pollution, lakes/freshwater ecosystems, pollution.
- William Smith: WS1.33B
- +44 (0) 1782 734306
- a.c.law@keele.ac.uk
Dr Michael Montenari
Lecturer in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
- William Smith: WS1.12
- +44 (0) 1782 733162
- m.montenari@keele.ac.uk
Dr Ian Oliver
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science
School Internationalisation Director
- William Smith: WS1.11A
- +44 (0) 1782 734956
- i.oliver@keele.ac.uk
Professor Zoe Robinson
Professor of Sustainability Science
Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures
Expert in Sustainability, education, green technology, climate change.
- William Smith: WS1.32
- +44 (0) 1782 734303
- z.p.robinson@keele.ac.uk
Dr Steven Rogers
Senior Lecturer in Geology
- William Smith: WS1.33A
- +44 (0) 1782 733752
- s.l.rogers@keele.ac.uk
Dr Ian Stimpson
Senior Lecturer in Geophysics
- William Smith: WS1.02
- +44 (0) 1782 733182
- i.g.stimpson@keele.ac.uk
Angie Turner
Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology
- William Smith 1.20
- +44 (0) 1782 733620
- a.c.turner@keele.ac.uk
Dr Richard Waller
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Geography Admissions Tutor
- William Smith: WS 1.31
- +44 (0) 1782 733179
- r.i.waller@keele.ac.uk