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Professor Jeremy Barnes
- Telephone:
- (0191) 222 3432 (work)
- e-mail:
- jerry.barnes@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Global climate and atmospheric change
- Atmospheric pollution, especially ozone, and its impact on crops and native vegetation
- Mechanism(s) underlying the detrimental effects of ozone on crops and native species
- Use of ozone for surface decontamination of freshly harvested produce and the role of Vitamin C/Cellular antioxidative systems in combating ozone-induced oxidative stress
Professor Peter Clarke
- Telephone:
- (0191) 222 6351 (work)
- e-mail:
- peter.clarke@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Global Positioning System (GPS); Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); satellite geodesy; radar interferometry
- Climate-driven changes in Earth's shape caused by changes in water/ice storage; ice sheets; sea level
- Earth deformation measurements from plate tectonics; earthquakes; engineering structure movement
- Ocean tide loading; internal structure of the Earth
Mr Gerard Corsane
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 6987 (work)
- e-mail:
- gerard.corsane@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Heritage Tourism
- Integrated heritage management and 'ecomuseology'
- Museums and heritage in potcolonial contexts
- Heritage, museums, representation and identity
Professor Richard Dawson
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)191 222 6618 (work)
- e-mail:
- richard.dawson@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Sustainable cities/urban environments
- Adapting civil engineering infrastructure
- Natural disasters: Flooding, droughts, heatwaves (and climate change)
Professor Hayley Fowler
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)191 222 7113 (work)
- e-mail:
- hayley.fowler@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Climate change and impacts on extreme weather events
- Changing patterns of rainfall in the UK - particularly extremes
- Hydrological extremes - droughts and floods - and impacts of climate change and climate variability on water resource systems in Europe and the Himalaya
- Using climate models to provide scenarios of future climate change
Dr Andy Large
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 6342 (work)
- e-mail:
- andy.large@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Rivers, in particular flood impacts and conservation management
- Wetland ecology and wetland restoration
- Sustainable water resource management
- Causes and effects of glacial outburst flooding (particularly in Iceland)
Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 7211 (work)
- e-mail:
- tanja.pless-mulloli@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Health of people living near industry
- Air pollution and health including asthma, lung cancer
- Environmental epidemiology and public health
- environment and health within sustainability
Professor Nicholas Polunin
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)191 222 6675 (work)
- e-mail:
- nick.polunin@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Fishing effects, especially on fragile ecosystems in the sea such as coral reefs
- Marine reserves and areas protected from fishing in the sea, management of marine ecosystems
- General marine environmental issues including relative impacts of human population growth vs climate change in tropics
- Marine biodiversity and conservation, ecosystem structure and function, coastal management
Professor Andrew (Andy) Russell
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 6951 (work)
- e-mail:
- andy.russell@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Climate change and glacier fluctuation (especially in Iceland and Greenland)
- Glacier outburst floods (following sub-glacial volcanic eruptions and ice-dammed lake drainage)
- Flood impacts UK-Northumberland (eg Coquet/Tyne/Breamish/Derwent-Cumbria)
- Glaciology and Glacial Geology Modern glacial processes as well as evidence of former glaciers eg UK
Mr Tim Townshend
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 191 222 7814 (work)
- e-mail:
- tim.townshend@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
- Urban Design - particularly built environment and health issues, including obesity and alcohol consumption
- Conservation of the historic environment
