Sustainable Energy and Environments

Our research on sustainable environments focuses on assessing, adapting and resilience to climate, ecosystems and environmental change, including deep time, geoprocesses and geohazards. The collective aim is to contribute solutions to the world’s most significant environmental challenges and to fulfil our mission to produce research of the highest calibre in the group’s areas of expertise.

The Sustainable Environments Group comprises earth and environmental scientists with complementary research interests in:

Climate and environmental change
Geophysics
Volcanology and geodynamics
Conservation and education in geoscience/sustainability science

Our research strategy is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the group is a key contributor to Keele’s Institute for Sustainable Futures, directing regional, national and international research programmes.

Current research interests

Climate and environmental change in ‘deep time’
Glacial environments and geomorphology
Soil science and environmental chemistry
Applied geophysics (environmental and archaeological studies, forensic geoscience)
Anthropogenic and geologic hazards
Geocomputing
Petrology and geochemistry
Ecology, environmental conservation and geoconversation

Members

Dr Mark Ashby
Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation Programme Director for Ecology and Conservation (BSc & MSci) Programme Director for Environment and Sustainability (BSc)

Expert in Ecology and Conservation