Neil Roberts

Academic profile

Professor Neil Roberts

Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Neil's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 03: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingGoal 07: SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

About Neil

1980-81      Post-doctoral Research Associate, Oxford University, School of Geography.

1981-98      Loughborough University, Lecturer then Reader in Physical Geography

1998-2018    University of Plymouth, Professor of Physical Geography; Head of School of Geography, 2003-2006.

2018-        University of Plymouth, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography

2018-        Visiting senior research fellow, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford

Supervised Research Degrees

Matthew Jones, Ph.D. 2004, "High-resolution records of climate change from lacustrine stable isotopes through the last two millennia in western Turkey’.
Amy Burgess. Ph.D. 2004, "The development of diatom-nutrient palaeolimnological inference models for UK lowland reservoirs".
Rebecca Turner, Ph.D. 2007 ‘Late Quaternary fire histories in the East Mediterranean region’.
Jessie Woodbridge, Ph.D. 2009 'Late-Holocene lake diatom-inferred palaeoclimate from central Turkey'
Zuzanna Stroynowski, Ph.D. 2009 A high-resolution climatic study of the Norwegian and Iberian shelves during the Late Holocene: a diatom perspective' 
Samantha Allcock, Ph.D. 2013 ‘Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories, central Turkey’

Emma Rice, PhD 2017, “Tracking Holocene changes in the southern hemisphere westerly wind belt from lakes and bogs in Tierra del Fuego”, NERC funded, co-supervised with T Daley.

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