Profile
Biography
I am an ecologist and palaeoecologist, interested in carbon cycling by terrestrial ecosystems in the context of climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure. I was awarded a PhD from the University of York Department of Environment and Geography in 2023. I currently work as a field technician in the E&G department, where I provide technical support for project students and undergraduate fieldwork as well as undergraduate fieldtrips and in the lab. I am also associated with a study investigating the long-term effects of wildfires upon peatlands in the Northern Hemisphere, lead by researchers at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Career
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2017 - present
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PhD Environmental Geography (ongoing)
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University of York
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2017
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Environmental Manager
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University of Reading
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2016 - 2017
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Environmental Archaeologist |
Border Archaeology
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2015 - 2016
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MSc Environmental Archaeology (Distinction)
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University of Reading
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2010-2013
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BSc (Hons) Physical Geography (2:1)
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Aberystwyth University
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Research
Overview
My PhD project ‘Peatlands and climate change: linking the past with the future’ seeks to identify the reason for disparity between contemporary experimental and palaeoecological studies of the effects of climate change upon the peatland carbon cycle. I will do this by linking both approaches to establish a common understanding between both disciplines. This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and is supervised by Dr Richard Payne, with co-supervisiors from The Center For Ecology and Hydrology, Edge Hill University and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Publications
Selected publications
Andrews, L.O., Payne, R.J. and Swindles, G.T., 2021. Testate amoebae as non-pollen palynomorphs in pollen slides: usefulness and application in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 511(1), pp.151-158. http://mr.crossref.org/iPage?doi=10.1144%2FSP511-2020-34
Andrews, L.O., Rowson, J.G., Caporn, S.J., Dise, N.B., Barton, E., Garrett, E., Gehrels, W.R., Gehrels, M., Kay, M. and Payne, R.J., 2022. Plant community responses to experimental climate manipulation in a Welsh ombrotrophic peatland and their palaeoenvironmental context. Global Change Biology, 28(4), pp.1596-1617. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16003
