Environmental Research Institute

• Renewable Energy and the Environment
• Climate Change

• Nov 2004 - Present
  Research Associate, ERI
• Jan 2002 - Nov 2004
  Database & GIS analyst, Scottish Water, Inverness
• Jan 2000 - Dec 2002
  Survey technician, Ewan Associates

Qualifications:

• Ongoing
  PhD -"Evolution of Dunnet Bay, Caithness"(submission summer 2009)
• 1999
  BSc (Honours) Physical Geography. University of Aberdeen

• Marine tidal energy, site characterisation and optimisation modelling
• Climatic history and future climatic change of Northern Scotland and the impact on the coastal environment

• Collabaration with Univeristy of St Andrews - Uist coastal flooding project. Core sampling project. Involved in commercial work for Dounreay Nuclear Establishment, survey, sampling.
• Oral presentation: UHI post graduate conference 2003 (Inverness), (Isle of Skye) 2004.
• Poster presentation: Near coast sedimentary stratigraphy as a proxy for climatic instability: Presented at the European Geophysics Union General Assembly 2009, Austria Centre, Vienna.