Research Interests:

My research is driven by understanding how inorganic carbon and carbon dioxide are cycled on the surface of our planet. I use geochemical techniques and tools to measure directly (and by proxy) how carbon moves between the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere, and the specific chemical reactions which sequester, or release, inorganic carbon between these reservoirs.My research is highly interdisciplinary moving between the fields of environmental chemistry, geology, expedition fieldwork and modern CO2 removal strategies.

• Geochemistry and low temperature weathering
• River sampling from small High Arctic streams to Asian mega rivers
  
• Mass Spectrometry and geochemical method development
  

Career:

2024 to Present:      Researcher  
                                Section 3.3 Earth Surface Geochemistry
                                Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum

2017 to 2024:          Postdoctoral Fellow
                                Department of Earth Sciences
                                University of Cambridge UK

2015 to 2017:          Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow
                                Department of Earth Sciences
                                University of Cambridge UK       

2013 to 2015:          Turner Postdoctoral Fellow   
                                Department of Earth and Envirnmental Sciences
                                University of Michigan USA

Education:

DPhil Earth Science
University of Oxford

MChem Chemsitry with Hons Environmental Chemistry
University of Edinburgh

Awards:

2023                Uppsala–Durham Strategic Development Fund €19,993 (Co-PI)

2021                Awarded the Early Career Researcher Prominent Lecture Program by the Geochemistry

   Group of the Mineralogical Society and of the Geological Society

2020                INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux3: Fieldwork grant €10,000

2019                Mount Everest Foundation: Fieldwork award, £3250

   British Soil Science Society: Field equipment award, £974.89

2018                Royal Geographical Society Gilchrist Fieldwork Award, CarbFlux2: Fieldwork grant £15,000 (Co-PI with Dr Mel Murphy)

   INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux2: Fieldwork grant €14,420 (Co-PI with Dr Mel Murphy)

                        INTERACT TA Ambassador

2017                INTERACT TA Grant: CarbFlux: Fieldwork grant €12,360

   College Research Associate, Magdalene College Cambridge

                        Sêr Cymru II Fellowship £174,000, Cardiff University (not claimed)

2015                Marie Skłodowska-Curie Independent Research Fellowship €184,000

                        DISCCRS: ‘New Generation of Polar Researchers’: National Science Foundation.

2014                ‘Young Polar Scientist’ Awarded by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists and Canada Goose

2012                Turner Postdoctoral Fellowship $120,000, University of Michigan

2008                Undergraduate prizes: Gillie’s Prize (Most distinguished performance in Masters study), Hope Prize Scholarship (Awarded to top student in         Chemistry), EaStChem PhD Scholarship (Awarded to best graduating student) Classmedal (finishing top of Master’s in Chemistry class),     Ames prize (Outstanding academic performance).