About

Research links

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Atlantic Climate Variability

Investigating variability in Atlantic Ocean circulation and ocean-atmosphere interactions across seasonal to centennial timescales using high-resolution climate reconstructions.

Coupled Climate System Dynamics

Understanding interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and carbon cycle to investigate the mechanisms driving climate variability and abrupt climate change.

Climate Field Reconstructions

Developing quantitative and spatial reconstruction approaches to generate annually resolved reconstructions of sea surface temperature, sea ice variability, and ocean circulation beyond the instrumental era.

High-Resolution Palaeoclimate Archives

Building annually resolved climate reconstructions from marine sclerochronologies alongside tree rings, ice cores, and other proxy archives to extend observations of climate variability through the late Holocene.

Climate Model Evaluation and Future Climate Risk

Using long-term climate reconstructions to evaluate climate model performance, constrain future projections, and improve understanding of climate variability and associated environmental risk.

Open-Source Scientific Software

Developing open-source computational tools and analytical workflows to support the generation, analysis, and interpretation of high-resolution climate proxy records.

Teaching and Supervision

University of Exeter

  • 2025–present — Introduction to Data Science (GEO1419, Level 4; ~100 students)
  • 2024–present — Climate Change: The Physical Basis of the IPCC (GEO2467, Level 5; ~25 students)
  • 2020–present — Research Dissertations (GEO3479, Level 6; ~6 students annually)
  • 2020–present — Global Issues (GEO1408B, Level 4; ~100 students)
  • 2020–present — Marine Climate and Environmental Change (GEO3455, Level 6; ~35 students)
  • 2020–present — Environmental Science Tutorials (GEO1416, Level 4)

Cardiff University

  • 2013–2015 — Global Climate Change (EA3126, Level 6; ~80 students)
  • 2013–2016 — Earth and Planetary System Science (EA1101, Level 4; ~160 students)
  • 2013–2015 — Pastoral Tutoring (Levels 4–6)

Student Supervision

  • Supervision of undergraduate and MSc research dissertations in climate science and palaeoclimate reconstruction
  • Supervision of PhD research projects in marine climate variability and climate reconstruction (two current students; one completed)

Leadership and Administrative Roles

  • 2024–present — Widening Participation and Outreach Lead, Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, University of Exeter

Career Timeline

2020–present

Lecturer in Physical Geography
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Exeter, UK

2018–2020

Research Fellow
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, USA

2015–2018

Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Lead researcher on the NERC-funded Climate of the Last Millennium (CLAM) Project

2013–2015

Lecturer in Climate System Science
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

2011–2013

Postdoctoral Research Officer
School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, UK

2007–2011

PhD in Ocean Science
Bangor University, UK

2004–2007

BSc (Hons) Marine Biology
Bangor University, UK