Dr. Simon Hutchinson
School of Science, Engineering and Environment
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science
Biography
Following PhD research and a NERC Research Fellowship I have developed my research and teaching at the University of Salford employing mineral magnetic and geochemical techniques as proxies of human impact and measures of pollution in depositional environments.
As an active field scientist I am also interested in the use of digital visualisation tools in environmental education with a particular focus of EDI and Access in environmental science.
Areas of research
Environmental change, Human impacts, Sediments archives, Peat records, Pollution, Anthropocene
Areas of supervision
Deposition-based reconstruction of environmental change and human impacts via sediment, Salt marsh, Peat, Flood plain and other archives
I teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate level with modules ranging from Earth Processes to Monitoring Environmental Change and Environmental Pollution and Remediation. I co-ordinate undergraduate final year research projects and also supervise MSc dissertations.
My research spans the fields of geomorphology and palaeolimnology with a focus on the use of depositional records to reconstruction human impacts on the environment at timescales ranging from whole Holocene to the so-called Anthropocene. Much of this research is undertaken through international collaboration.
QualificationsÂ
- PhD, University of Liverpool (1990)
- BA (Hons) Geography, University of Liverpool (1986)
Memberships
- Geography and Education Research Group
- Quaternary Research Association
- Romanian Limnogeographical Association