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Head of the Biogeochemistry and Earth Science Department

Scientific interests

  • Bottom-current influenced sedimentation in the deep-sea
  • Fjordic and shelf sea glaciomarine sediments and records of rapid climate change
  • Seabed mapping of modern and ancestral depositional processes
  • High-latitude margins

 

At the Scottish Marine Institute I am a member of the ...

I am also a regular user of our research vessels and analytical capabilities.

 

Career / education

Research

Research activities

Current projects

  • Deglacial history of the Summer Isles and adjacent shelf (with BGS)

  • Holocene high-resolution records, Loch Sunart (with St Andrews University)
  • Deep Sea Mine Tailing Placement (DSTP) Papua New Guinea
  • Contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation, Fram Strait
  • Acoustic discrimination of shellfish debris (Scottish Aquaculture Forum)

Publications

Selected recent publications
  • Stoker, M.S., Bradwell, T., Howe, J.A., Wilkinson, I.P & McIntyre, K.L. Late glacial ice cap dynamics in NW Scotland: evidence from the fjords of the Summer Isles region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 3161-3184 doi:10.1016/j.quatscirev.2009.09.012
  • Grøsfjeld, K., Knies, J., Harland, R. & Howe, J.A. (2009) Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages inshore and offshore Svalbard reflecting their modern hydrography and climate. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 89: 121-134 ISSN: 0029196X
  • McIntyre, K.L. & Howe, J.A. Bottom-current variability during the last glacial-deglacial transition, Northern Rockall Trough and Faeroe-Bank Channel, NE Atlantic. Scottish Journal of Geology, 45 (1), 1-16, 2009.  ISSN: 0036-9276
  • Bradwell, T., Fabel, D., Stoker, M., Mathers, H., McHarge, L., & Howe, J. Ice caps existed throughout the Lateglacial Interstadial in northern Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23: 401-407. 2008. ISSN: 0267-8179
  • Howe, J.A., Shimmield, T., & Harland, R. Late Quaternary contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation in the Fram Strait. Sedimentology, 55, 179-200. 2008. ISSN: 0037-0746
  • Howe, J.A., Wilson, C.R., Shimmield, T.M., Diaz, R. & Carpenter, L. Recent deep-water sedimentation, trace metal and radioisotope geochemistry across the Southern Ocean and Northern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research II, 54, 1652-1681. 2007 ISSN: 0967-0645
  • MacLachlan, S.E., Cottier, F., Austin, W.E.N. & Howe, J.A. The salinity:δ18O water relationship in Kongsfjorden, western Spitsbergen. Polar Research, 26, 160-167. 2007 ISSN: 0800-0395
  • Brandt, A., Gooday, A.J., Brandão, S.N., Brix, S., Brökeland, W., Cedhagen, T., Choudhury, M., Cornelius, N., Danis, B., De Mesel, I., Diaz, R.J., Gillan, D.C., Ebbe, E., Howe, J.A., Janussen, D., Kaiser, S., Linse, K., Malyutina, M., Pawlowski, J., Raupach, M &  Vanreusel A. First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea. Nature 447: 307-311. 2007. ISSN: 0028-0836
  • Howe, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Masson, D., Bulat, J., Pudsey, C.J., Larter, R.D. & Tate, A.  Seabed morphology and bottom-current pathways around Rosemary Bank Seamount, Northern Rockall Trough, North Atlantic. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 165-181. 2006 ISSN: 0264-8172

 

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External

External activities / measures of esteem
  • Member of the Geological Society of London, Books Editorial Committee.
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of London
  • Peer-reviewer of papers & proposals
  • Reviewer for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
  • External examiner PhD theses

 

Teaching

Students and teaching activities

BSc (Hons) Marine Science

  • Module Leader: Principles of Geology (year 1)
  • Module Leader: Marine Geology (year 2)
  • Lecturer: Introducing Marine Science (year 1)
  • Lecturer: Estuarine and Marine Systems (year 2)
  • Lecturer: Field Course (year 2)
  • Lecturer: Sediment Processes (year 3)
  • Lecturer: Palaeoceanography (year 4)

 

Current PhD students

 

Past PhD students (alumni)

  • Clara Morri (2000-2003)
  • Suzanne MacLachlan (2003-2007)
 
My contact details

Dr John Howe SAMS

Dr John A Howe

E: john.howe@sams.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1631 559 257

F: +44 (0)1631 559 001

Scottish Marine Institute

Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, UK

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