Dr Sue Dawson

Sue is a graduate of Coventry University. Her research expertise lies in the areas of Holocene sea-level change, coastal and climate change, tsunami sedimentation and diatom biostratigraphy. Sue has published over 20 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Her present research activities include projects on Holocene relative sea level changes in the Maldive archipelago, Sweden, Scotland and Greenland. In Scotland, ongoing projects include the reconstruction of former sea level changes and extreme flooding events on the Isle of Skye and the Orkney Isles. In addition to research interests on a Holocene timescale, Sue has been working on recent environmental changes with a study on the sedimentology and geomorphology of recent storm deposits (2005) in the Outer Hebrides as well as the modern tsunami sedimentation in the Maldives as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Publications since 2002

Chague-Goff, C., Dawson, S., Goff, J.R., Zachariesen, J., Berryman, K., Garnett, D.L., and Waldron, H.M. 2002. Late Holocene variability of the Northern Hawke’s Bay shoreline, New Zealand.  Sedimentary Geology, 150, 89-102.

Bondevik, S., Mangerud, J., Dawson, S., Dawson, A. and Lohne, O. 2003. Record-breaking Height for 8000-Year-Old Tsunami in the North Atlantic. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 84 (31), 289-293.

Smith, D.E., Haggart, B.A., Cullingford, R.A., Tipping, R.M., Wells, J.M., Mighall, T.M. and Dawson, S. 2003. Holocene relative sea level change in the lower Nith valley and estuary. Scottish Journal of Geology, 39 (2), 97-120.

 Dawson, S., Jordan, J., Smith, D.E. and Dawson, A.G. 2004. Late Holocene coastal sand movements in the Outer Hebrides, N.W. Scotland, Marine Geology, 210, 281-306.

Smith, D.E., Shi, S., Cullingford, R.A., Dawson, A.G., Dawson, S., Firth, C.R., Foster, I.D.L., Fretwell, P., Haggart, B.A., Holloway, L.K. and Long, D. 2004. The Holocene Storegga Slide Tsunami in the United Kingdom. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23/24, 2291-2321.

Smith, D.E., Cullingford, R.A., Wells, J.M., Mighall, T.M., Holloway, L. and Dawson, S. 2004. Holocene relative sea level change in the Cree estuary, Solway Firth. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 93 (4), 301-331.

Bondevik, S., Dawson, S., Dawson, A.G., Mangerud, J. and Øystein Lohne.  2005. A record of three tsunami events in the Shetland Islands during the last 8000 cal. Years. Quaternary Science Reviews, (Quaternary Land Ocean Correlation) 24, 1757-1775.

Conferences

2005 IGCP 495 Annual Meeting in Dunkerque, France, July.  “Sedimentological and geomorphological coastal change: evidence from the Jan 11th 2005 storm in the Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland”.

2005 IGCP 495 International meeting  Sunda Staits, Indonesia Sept 2005 “ The Indian Ocean Tsunami 26 December 2004:Sedimentological and Geomorphological change in the Maldives”

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