Environmental Research Institute

• Post-doctoral Research Associate

• Climate Change
• Ecology and Ecosystems

• Nov 2006 - Present
  Post-doctoral Research Associate, Environmental Research Institute

Qualifications:

• 2007
  PhD Physical Geography, The University of Manchester
• 2002
  MSc Geomorphology and Environmental Change, The University of Durham
• 2001
  BSc (Hons) Landscape Ecology, The University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Professional membership:

• British Ecological Society (BES) and secretary of associated Mires Research Group (MRG)
• International Society of Ecology (INTECOL)
• International Mires Conservation Group (IMCG)
• British Geomorphological Society (BGS)

• Crowe, S. K., Evans, M. G. and Allott, T. M. (2008) Geomorphological controls on the re-vegetation of erosion gullies in blanket peat: implications for bog restoration. Mires and Peat Journal 3: accessed online at http://www.mires-and-peat.net/map03/map_03_01.pdf
• Crowe, S. K and Warburton, J. (2007). The role of large peat blocks on channel sedimentation and the stream organic budget. Mires and Peat Journal, 2: 1-15 accessed online at http://www.mires-and-peat.net/map02/map_02_04.pdf

• The Cross-Lochs Project: Carbon fluxes in restored afforested blanket bog (with Mike Billett and Pete levy, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh)
• Micro-scale Carbon fluxes in a paired felled-intact site: Contribution to the catchment Carbon budget, Forsnaird Reserve, Northern Scotland. £400 awarded from British Geomorphological Society
• Establishing the Controls on the Development of Stable Communities on Re-vegetating Peatlands: An inter-regional comparison of three eroded blanket bog areas. £1386.96 awarded by British Ecological Society

Current:

• Marcella Branagan - Microbial response to erosion and recent re-vegetation of Blanket Peat in the UK

• Peatland restoration
• Peatland sustainability and functioning
• Geoecology of disturbed and degraded peatlands

• Invited speaker at the European parliament seminar 'cutting peat by cutting carbon: examining the potential impacts of windfarms on peatlands' 15th April 2008, Brussels. Link to Press and Journal article about seminar http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/601531
• Secretary of the British Ecological Society-Mires Research Group
• Invited member of NERC funded knowledge exchange group CLAD (Carbon Landscape and Drainage) since July 2009