Title Name: Miss Kate McIntyre

Telephone: 01631 559331
E-mail: Kate.McIntyre@sams.ac.uk

Project title:

The project, co-supervised by SAMS and the British Geological Survey, is titled "Postglacial fjordic landscape evolution: mapping the onshore and offshore limits of the Younger Dryas ice cap, western Scotland

Scientific interests

Reconstructing past climate using marine sediment cores

Mapping of ancient and modern sea-floor features using multibeam and sidescan sonar

Publications

McIntyre, K.L. and Howe, J.A. 2009. Bottom-current variability during the last glacial-deglacial transition, Northern Rockall Trough and Faroe Bank Channel, NE Atlantic. Scottish Journal of Geology (in press).

Stoker, M.S., Bradwell, T., Howe, J.A., Wilkinson, I.P. and McIntyre, K.L. 2009. Lateglacial ice-cap dynamics: evidence from the fjords of NW Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews (in review).

McIntyre, K.L. and Howe, J.A. 2009. Late to postglacial sedimentation in the fjords of western Scotland: a review. Geological Society of London Special Publication: Fjordic Depositional Systems and Archives (in review).

Educational history

SAMS/UHI Millennium Institute, BSc (Hons) Marine Science (graduated 2007).