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Rebecca McCerery

Research Fellow

I am a Physical Geography Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences.

My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to address ice flow problems such as glacier surging and fast ice stream flow mechanisms by applying the principles of interface physics, geochemistry, and microbiology to the subglacial environment. I use physical modelling of sediments and biogeochemical analysis to explore sediment-water interactions in subglacial environments.

Rebecca McCerery

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Geochemical evidence for Alberta Oil Sands contamination in sediments remote to known oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, McCerery, B., Esegbue, O., Jones, M., Winter, K., McHale, G., Woodward, J. 3 May 2024, In: Environmental Forensics
  • Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard, McCerery, R., Davies, B., Lovell, H., Pearce, D., Calvo Ryan, R., Małecki, J., Woodward, J. 26 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Maps
  • Oil sands in glacial till as a driver of fast flow and instability in the former Laurentide Ice Sheet: Alberta, Canada, McCerery, R., McHale, G., Woodward, J., Winter, K., Jones, M., Esegbue, O. 1 Dec 2023, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial Glaciation Style at Wolf Crags, Eastern Lake District, McCerery, R., Woodward, J. Mar 2022
  • Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces: The effect of oil on the water repellence of hydrophobic and superhydrophobic soils, McCerery, R., Woodward, J., McHale, G., Winter, K., Armstrong, S., Orme, B. 1 Mar 2021, In: European Journal of Soil Science

  • Geography PhD December 13 2021
  • Geography BSc (Hons) August 01 2018

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