John A. Howe

+44 (0) 1631 559257
jaho@sams.ac.uk

Lecturer in Marine Geology



Scientific interests
Bottom-current influenced sedimentation in the deep-sea.
Fjordic and shelf sea glaciomarine sediments and records of rapid climate change.
Seabed mapping of modern and ancestral depositional processes.
High-latitude margins

Current projects
Oceans 2025 Themes 1 and 3
ANDEEP: Antarctic benthic biodiversity and colonisation history
The limits of the Younger Dryas ice sheet, western Scotland (Kate McIntyre PhD, NERC, BGS)
Deglacial history of the Summer Isles and adjacent shelf (with BGS)
Holocene high-resolution records, Loch Sunart (with St Andrews University)
Holocene glacial variability, western Svalbard (Suzanne MacLachlan PhD, UHI Millennium Institute)
Contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation, Fram Strait

Teaching / supervising activities
Module Leader of H1 Principles of Geology, H2 Marine Geology & H3 Petroleum Geology
Contributor to H1 Introducing Marine Science, H1 Field Course, H2 Estuarine and Marine Systems, H2 Field Course, H2 Marine Resources, H3 Sediment Processes, H4 Deep-seas, H4 Palaeoceanography, H4 Polar Seas.
Supervisor of Clara Morri 2000-2003
Suzanne MacLachlan 2003-2007
Kate McIntyre 2007-2010
Member of the SAMS Teaching Management Group

Publications

Knutz, P.C., Jones, E.J.W., Howe, J.A., van Weering, T.J.C. and Stow, D.A.V. (2002) Wave-form sheeted contourite drift on the Barra Fan, NW UK Continental Margin. In: Deep-water Contourite systems: modern drift and ancient series, seismic and sedimentary characteristics. Stow, D.A.V., Pudsey, C.J., Howe, J.A., Faugeres, J-C., Viana, A. (Eds) Geological Society of London Memoir 22.

Howe, J.A. (2003) Recent depositional environments of the north western Weddell Sea and South Sandwich Trench. In: The Expeditions Antarktis-XIX/3-4 of the Research vessel Polarstern in 2002. Futterer, D.K., Brandt, A. and Poore, G.C.B. (Eds), Berichte zur Polarforschung, 470, 124-128.

Howe, J.A., Moreton, S.G., Morri, C. and Morris, P. (2003) Multibeam bathymetry and the depositional environments of Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden, western Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Polar Research, 22 (2) 301-316

Howe, J.A., Diaz, R., and Shimmield, T.M. (2004) Deep-water sedimentary environments of the northwestern Weddell Sea and South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research II 51, 1489-1514

Howe, JA., Stoker, M.S., Masson, D., Bulat, J., Pudsey, C.J., Larter, R.D. and Tate, A. (2006) Seabed morphology and bottom-current pathways around Rosemary Bank Seamount, Northern Rockall Trough, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 123 165-181

Norgaard-Pederson, N., Austin, W.E.N., Howe, J.A. and Shimmield, T. (2006) A Holocene sea loch record in Loch Etive, Western Scotland:hydrographic changes inferred from sediment properties and benthic foraminifera assemblages. Marine Geology. 228 55-71

Howe J.A. (2006) Recent sedimentation and geochemistry across the Weddell Sea and adjacent deep-water regions, Antarctica In: Fahrbach, E. and Lemke, P. (Eds) The expeditions Antarktis ANT XXII/3 of the research vessel Polarstern. Berichte zur Polar-und Meeresforchung. 533, 196-208

Cox, S., Cottier, F., Austin, W.E.N. & Howe, J.A. (2007) The salinity:δ¹⁸O water relationship in Kongsfjorden, western Spitsbergen. Polar Research. 26 160-167

Brandt, A, Brix, S., Brokland, W., Cedhagen, T., Choudury, M., Cornelius, N., Danis, B., de Mesel, I., Diaz, R., Gillan, D.C., Hilbig, B., Howe, J., Janussen, D., Kaiser, S., Linse, K., Malyutina, M., Nunes-Brandao, S., Pawlowski, J., Raupach, M. and Gooday, A., (2007) The Southern Ocean deep-sea:first insights into biodiversity and biogeography. Nature. 447 307-311

Howe, J.A., Shimmield, T. M. and Harland, R. (2008) Glacial sedimentation and contourites in the Fram Strait. Sedimentology 55, 1, 179-201 

Educational and career history
Derby University, BSc (Hons) Geology, (1991)
University of Southampton and British Geological Survey, Edinburgh PhD (1994)
British Antarctic Survey (1998)
Scottish Association for Marine Science

Other
Member of SAMS Teaching Management Group (TMG),
Member of the Geological Society of London, books editorial committee.
Fellow of the Geological Society of London,
Peer-reviewer of papers,
Reviewer for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
External examiner PhD theses
Co-convenor of SAMS Fjordic Workshop (2006)