Overview

Physical Geography research at Keele focusses on past and contemporary processes to help understand environmental change. The Group has research strengths in the following key areas:

• Biogeochemistry
• Climate and environmental change, coastal dynamics, and land cover/land use change
• Freshwater conservation and management.
• Glacial and periglacial environments
• Glacial geomorphology and ice sheet reconstruction
• Hydrology and fluvial geomorphology.
• Quaternary Environmental Change

Research in Physical Geography is supported by funding from sources including the UK Research Councils, the Environment Agency, the Royal Society, Natural England, The Nuffield Foundation, the Royal Society of Chemistry, local councils and water companies.

Research interests

Blue and green carbon stores: Dr Peter Lawrence

Ecography / Landscape Ecology and Geospatial Equity: Dr Peter Lawrence

Fluvial geomorphology: Dr Tory Milner

Freshwater ecology, conservation and management: Dr Tory Milner

Geomorphology: Dr Richard Waller, Dr Katie Szkornik

Glacier-Permafrost Interactions: Dr Richard Waller

High-resolution shelf-sea palaeoceanography, marine palaeoecology and geochronology during the Holocene and late-Holocene: Dr Alix Cage

Hydrology, hydrochemistry & hydroecology: Dr Zoe Robinson, Dr Katie Szkornik, Dr Peter Lawrence, Dr Tory Milner

Ice core analysis for palaeoclimate and glaciology: Dr Alix Cage

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Dr Tory Milner

Past & present glacial & periglacial processes: Prof Zoe Robinson, Dr Richard Waller

Reconstruction of Quaternary environmental change: Dr Alix Cage, Dr Katie Szkornik 

Research Staff and Students

Physical Geography staff at Keele are supervising students in many of the areas listed under Research Interests.