Kate McIntyre

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PhD student in marine geology

Scientific interests

Reconstructing past climate using marine sediment cores
Mapping of ancient and modern sea-floor features using multibeam and sidescan sonar

Education

2007-present	PhD student, University of the Highlands and Islands based at the Scottish Marine Institute
2003-2007	BSc (Hons) Marine Science, SAMS UHI (1st class)

Prizes and awards

SAMS UHI Undergraduate Student of the Year 2006

Project

'Postglacial fjordic landscape evolution: mapping the onshore and offshore limits of the Younger Dryas ice cap, western Scotland

Description

My project entails gathering data from Scotland’s sea lochs (fjords) in the form of sediment cores and sonar images (submarine maps/sub-seabed profiles), with the aim of reconstructing the glacial history of the area since the disappearance of the ice cap some 11,500 years ago. The data will be integrated with existing onshore records of glaciation/glacial limits to obtain a coherent picture of glacial retreat prior to the onset of the current interglacial episode (the Holocene).

Publications

publications

McIntyre, K.L. 2010. Offshore records of late to post-glacial environments, western Scotland. European Geosciences Union conference presentation, Vienna, May 2010.
McIntyre, K.L. and Howe, J.A. 2010. Hunting the last ice sheet: Scotland’s underwater landscape gives up its secrets. Planet Earth Summer 2010, NERC
McIntyre, K.L. and Howe, J.A. 2010. Late to postglacial sedimentation in the fjords of western Scotland: a review. Geological Society of London Special Publication: Fjordic Depositional Systems and Archives (accepted).
McIntyre, K.L. and Howe, J.A. 2009. Bottom-current variability during the last glacial-deglacial transition, Northern Rockall Trough and Faroe Bank Channel, NE Atlantic. Scottish Journal of Geology 45 (1): 1-16.
Stoker, M.S., Bradwell, T., Howe, J.A., Wilkinson, I.P. and McIntyre, K.L. 2009. Lateglacial ice-cap dynamics: evidence from the fjords of NW Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 3161-3184.