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Hannah Kemp

17 March 2021
Lucy Moore Fuller
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University of Nottingham, School of Geography

Envision PhD – Bloomin’ Blanket Weed: managing nuisance algae in UK freshwater bodies

Links

Email hannah.kemp@nottingham.ac.uk

Twitter https://twitter.com/Hannah_Kemp24

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-kemp-1111151a2/

Bio

Hi! I am a second year PhD student in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. My interest in freshwater bodies has developed over the years from exploring the physical characteristics of lakes and rivers, how they change overtime and the advantages and disadvantages of implementing different restoration and management techniques. I am really excited to be taking on the Wetlands challenge as part of enviroSPRINT as well as meeting and collaborating with lots of new people. In my spare time I enjoy going on long walks, pottering in the garden and knitting in front of the TV!

Current research

Across the UK, many standing freshwater ecosystems are experiencing increasingly frequent and widespread blooms of blanket weed. The formation of thick mats at the lake surface cause major ecological damage by harbouring pathogens and decreasing aquatic plant diversity. Blooms also reduce the amenity value of freshwater bodies by looking unsightly, preventing water-based activities and negatively impacting conservation work. Currently the extent, cause and consequences of these prolific blooms are largely unknown.

This PhD project employs (1) Questionnaire surveys gathered from freshwater sites across the UK to formulate a better understanding of the extent of the problem; and (2) Limnological monitoring and experiments with macroalgae cultures to assess spatial and temporal patterns and identify the main environmental drivers of the blooms. Results from the entirety of this project will inform effective and sustainable management techniques, using the National Trust’s lake at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire as a model for application elsewhere.

See the below infographic for more information about Hannah’s exciting research. This was created by Hannah following an infographics training course delivered by infohackit.

Call for research participation

Do you work/volunteer with an organisation that manages a freshwater body such as a lake or pond in the UK? If yes, I need your help!

I have created a questionnaire to investigate the changes in quantity, distribution and frequency of blanket weed blooms in the UK including, but not limited to, National Trust water bodies. It is also investigating the impact blanket weed blooms have on the waterbody uses and what forms of management are being put into practice to reduce algae blooms.

By participating in this questionnaire, you will be helping put together a UK wide dataset about blanket weed algae blooms to better understand the scale of the problem. Your answers will also help inform research into how best to manage blanket weed blooms whilst maintaining good ecological status and lake amenity value. Answers about waterbodies that do NOT experience blanket weed blooms are just as important!

If you would be interested in taking part in this research or could help facilitate the distribution of the questionnaire in your organisation please email me  hannah.kemp@nottingham.ac.uk

Thank you!

Caption: Cladophora bloom at Highfields Lake, University of Nottingham

Freya Muir

17 March 2021
Lucy Moore Fuller
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I am an IAPETUS2 PhD student based at the University of Glasgow, having completed my bachelor’s in Geology and Physical Geography and my master’s in GIS at the University of Edinburgh. My ultimate research goal is to create a framework for predicting shoreline change in a range of coastal environments in response to short- and medium-term weather events. I use information about the coast and storm impacts automatically derived and analysed from satellite and ground-based imagery and weather and wave forecasts, to feed into a numerical model of erosion response and shoreline change. I hope to establish a user-friendly, opensource software solution to predict a coastline’s response to upcoming storms that can be run regularly at a range of spatial and temporal scales by coastal managers and stakeholders. Prior to my PhD, I was the sole research assistant on the Dynamic Coast project, a Scottish government commissioned project to fill our evidence base of past, present and future coastal change around Scotland. My other research interests lie in topographic analyses of hillslope evolution (Figure 1A, 1B) and flood modelling (Figure 2), and I enjoy automating my analyses as much as possible with the use of programming and remotely sensed Earth Observation data. I love to find creative solutions and proxies for the processes and natural hazards we experience and are affected by on Earth’s surface, so that we may simulate and abstract, and therefore understand and predict them better.

Figure 1A: Drainage network of the Indrawati River basin in Nepal represented by normalised channel steepness compared with landslide crown locations. 1B: River long profile showing landslide crown elevations on hillslopes and channel steepness in chi space.

Figure 2: Flooded river water extent in Southern Mexico automatically extracted from Sentinel-2 imagery.

Farid Jedari-Eyvazi

17 March 2021
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I am a postgraduate research student based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton. My PhD research is part of NERC-funded CHIMNEY project investigating the risks of leaks from geological carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites.

I have also 6 years of professional research experience in development and verification of cutting-edge technologies applied to geological characterisation and monitoring of underground CO2 storage sites, geothermal, and hydrocarbon reservoirs.

Research interests:

  • Wave-equation-based seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Time-lapse seismic monitoring technology
  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence methods in geoscience

Education:

  • 2010, MSc degree, Petroleum Engineering, TU-Delft, Delft, Netherlands
  • 2003, BSc degree, Mining Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Career history:

  • 2017 – 2019, Geoscientist Consultant & Director, GESciTech LTD, London, UK
  • 2011 – 2017, Research Geoscientist, TNO, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2008, Geophysicist, OEID, Tehran, Iran
  • 2006 – 2007, Field Manager and Geophysicist, DANA Energy, Abadan, Iran

Selected publications:

  • Robinson A. H. et al.; Multiscale characterisation of chimneys/pipes: Fluid escape structures within sedimentary basins; International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control; Volume 106, March 2021, 103245
  • van der Molen J., Peters E., Jedari-Eyvazi F., and van Gessel S. F., “Dual hydrocarbon–geothermal energy exploitation: potential synergy between the production of natural gas and warm water from the subsurface,” Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, vol. 98, 2019.
  • Haffinger P., Jedari-Eyvazi F., Doulgeris P., Steeghs Ph., Gisolf D. and Verschuur E.; Quantitative prediction of injected CO2 at Sleipner using wave-equation based AVO; First Break; Vol 35, No 7, July 2017 pp. 65 – 70
  • Jedari-Eyvazi, F.; Structural Parameters Effect on the Sleipner CO2 Underground Storage Simulation History Match, 2016; Extended Abstract; 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition
  • Jedari-Eyvazi, F., Steeghs, F., Verschuur, E.; Lessons learnt from local FWI applied to the Sleipner seismic data; a feasibility study; 2015; Delphi Dynamic Characterisation and Reservoir Management, Volume XIII, chapter 11
  • Arts, R.; Jedari-Eyvazi, F.; Modelling and Monitoring CO2 Injection at Sleipner; 2011; 73rd EAGE Conference & Exhibition – Workshop

Eva van der Heijden

17 March 2021
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I am a PhD student at the department of zoology in Cambridge. I am interested in evolutionary biology, in particular speciation and developmental biology. During my PhD I will study the genetics behind diverse colour patterns in tropical butterflies from Latin-America (Heliconius, Ithomiine butterflies). I am looking into the genes and genetic mechanisms that are involved in creating certain colour patterns, and how those differ between species. A better understanding of the genetic architecture causing phenotypic differences between organisms can aid our understanding of the evolutionary processes that give rise to the huge diversity of organisms found in nature.

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Emily Wallis

17 March 2021
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I am a PhD student based in the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, studying climate variability and change in the early industrial era. My research is part of the NERC-funded GloSAT (Global Surface Air Temperature) project and is supervised by Tim Osborn, Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), Manoj Joshi and Michael Taylor. I am a member of the ARIES E3i Club Committee which organises training and engagement events for ARIES students and I volunteer for Pint of Science, Norwich. 

Prior to joining UEA, I completed a BSc in Geography at the University of Leicester (with a Year Abroad studying at the University of Calgary) before spending four years working in Environmental Sustainability roles at Leicester City Council and De Montfort University, Leicester.

Ellen White

17 March 2021
Lucy Moore Fuller
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University of Southampton INSPIRE Cohort 1

PhD title: Automated Detection of Marine Sound Sources from Autonomous Vehicles.

Supervised by: Professor Jonathon Bull and Professor Paul White (UoS)

Advised by: Russel Wyn (NOC) and Dr Denise Risch (SAMS)

Project Aims:

To develop algorithms which automate the detection and classification of anthropogenic and biological sound sources in the North Atlantic.

Use the output of detection algorithms to explore the soundscape ecology of the West of Scotland, to understand the effect of anthropogenic noise on species occurrence and diversity, for application to MPA designation (EU INTERREG COMPASS project).

To quantify successful applications of passive acoustic monitoring on autonomous ocean vehicle technology for monitoring soundscapes.

Previous Education

Bsc Honours Marine Biology with Oceanography

Msci Marine Biology

Both completed at the University of Southampton

Research Interests:

  • Marine Soundscapes
  • Soundscape Ecology
  • Autonomous vehicles and platforms
  • Big Data analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Marine Protected Areas and Environmental Protection
  • Marine mammals
  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM): Collection, Study Design and Data Analysis

Other side projects:

Applying Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Archaeological Site Scoping and preservation (Industrial Partnership)

PAM of Marine Soundscapes in UK waters (Industrial Partnership)

Contact:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OceansE11en

Email: elw1g13@soton.ac.uk

University Bio: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/postgraduate/research_students/elw1g13.page

Elizabeth Siddle

17 March 2021
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Hi there! I’m Beth, a second year in the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of East Anglia in partnership with AutoNaut Ltd. under the ARIES DTP.

My PhD project: Observing Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions from the Poles to the Tropics with an AutoNaut Uncrewed Surface Vessel

This involves using a 5m AutoNaut surface vessel alongside a Seaglider, to measure physical variables at the air-sea interface and using these to compute air-sea heat and momentum fluxes. Hopefully this work will feed into providing accessible near surface observations to improve climate models!

I spent 2 months out on fieldwork from January to March 2021, as part of the Eurec4a campaign to investigate the couplings between clouds, climate and circulation. Find out more here: Releasing Robots

I’m really passionate about science communication and outreach. I worked with Jack Mustafa on an Oceanography video for Norwich Science festival 2020, for which we were nominated for an UEA engagement award. I also love to work on digital art and infographics for science communication – I’ve included a drawing of our AutoNaut surface vessel on this page.

I am also on the editorial team for the EGU Ocean Sciences blog. We are always keen to find guest bloggers. If you work in any area of Ocean sciences and are interested, please get in touch!

Where to find me:

Email: E.Siddle@uea.ac.uk

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2431-8107

Twitter: @ElizabethSiddle