Dr Graeme Awcock (Fieldtrip Leader)

The picture above shows the first time Graeme (right) and Boris (left) met, although Graeme had been making use of his excellent posts on Etna Activity well before then. So it was the equivalent to the explorer Stanley’s famous understatement “Dr Livingstone, I presume..” when he finally found him in the depths of Africa after being lost for 6 years! Make that “Dr Behncke, I presume…” in this case. Graeme’s interests and research have always been related to imaging technologies, but originally in an engineering context. He is delighted to have had the opportunity to move over to the Geography and Geology based disciplines, bringing his expertise to remote sensing of the environment, specifically, but not limited to, multispectral satellite data. (He is also my supervisor, so one has to be careful with the description!)

Dr John Caplin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching

• Environmental Microbiology and related subjects in the School of Environment & Technology and the School of Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences
• Environmental Hazards
• Water & Health
• Medical Geography
• Case Studies in Environmental Pollution
• Global Environmental Issues and Management
• Microbial fieldwork

Research

• Survival and persistence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment
• Genotypic methods for the detection and differentiation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment and for source-tracking of faecal pollution in waters
• Survival of faecal indicator bacteria in sediments
• Transport and survival of bacteria in aquifers
• Microbial induced corrosion of steel

Dr Christopher Joyce

Teaching

• Biogeography and ecology
• Wetlands
• Environmental conservation and management

Research

• Ecology, management and restoration of wetlands
• Wet grasslands
• Saline lagoons
• Rivers and floodplains

Dr Sarah Purnell

Teaching

• Water and Health
• Water Quality Analysis
• Case Studies in Environmental Assessment and Management
• Discovering Geospatial Data

Research

• Microbial source tracking techniques
• Bacteriophage applications
• The Genus Enterococcus
• Microbial inactivation
• Viral removal efficiency of water reuse systems
• Water quality mapping and prediction

Dr Ryan Woodard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching

• West Sussex County Council Waste Prevention Advisor programme
• Interreg Iva funded Waste in Action
• PhD Supervisor

Research

• Recycling schemes
• Waste awareness and education
• Waste prevention
• Commercial and Industrial waste
• Behaviour change

Dr Ray Ward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is a lecturer and researcher in the areas of coastal and fluvial geomorphology. He has a particular interest in assessing the physical and ecological impacts of climate change on estuarine and riverine environments, particularly at the plant soil interface in areas as diverse as the Russian and Norwegian Arctic, Argentine and Brazilian coastlines, Baltic rivers and coasts and Shoreham!

Dr James Cole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James’ primary research interests concern hominin cognition and the use of material culture within hominin social signalling during the Pleistocene. I am also engaged in wide range of fieldwork projects across Europe where I am interested in bringing a range of Archaeological surveying techniques (topographic and geophysical) to contextualise hominin behaviour within the landscape.

Research Student:

Mr Robert Strick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is a postgraduate research student studying for his PhD in fluvial geomorphology. His specific research area is quantifying the floodplain topography of the world’s largest rivers, specifically meandering rivers such as the Mississippi and the Amazon. The majority of his work utilises remote sensing technology including satellites and LiDAR but he has had a field trip to Mississippi River, which is where he tried to justify buying a crossbow (for science). He is in his third year of his PhD studies and 7th year at Brighton. He previously studied BSc Environmental Science and MSc Environmental Assessment and Management at Brighton University. He was born and raised on the small  island of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, which is located in the English Channel (hence the name).

Technical Staff:

Dr Magdalena Grove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magda is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Brighton, whose research includes advancing particulate monitoring technologies to support sustainable water resource management. She is now a full time technical instructor for the University.