Lisa Orme

Email: lco203@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: 07826 725434

School: College of Life and Environmental Sciences

I graduated from Aberystwyth University in 2009 with a First Class Honours Degree in Geography (BSc). I did modules on a range of physical geography topics during my undergraduate degree and particularly focused on glaciology. I spent a term during my third year on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard where I studied geology, and this sparked my interest in palaeo-studies.

I then did a masters in Quaternary Environmental Change (MRes) also at Aberystwyth University. Half the year was spent learning research techniques and the other half was spent conducting a research project. My project title was 'Late Holocene Storminess: a Proxy Record from Cors Fochno, Mid-Wales', which was a record taken from a peatbog and spanning 4,400 years.

I am currently in the first year of my PhD at Exeter University. The PhD is about the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and storminess, and how these have varied during the Late Holocene. The intention of this project is to create a high resolution record of the NAO and relate this to changes in storminess. Fieldwork will be done in the Outer Hebrides and the Azores, sites which should capture variations in the opposite NAO dipoles, and cores will be taken from peatbogs and lagoons. The project is part funded by the British Geological Survey and part by the Geography Department at Exeter.