Dr Sarah Davies

Senior Lecturer
Photograph of Dr Sarah Davies.

Contact

Email: sjd@aber.ac.uk
Office: E21d
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 585
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities


  • Teaching and Learning Committee

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

Module coordinator for:

  • Environmental Science Tutorial Level 1 (ES10110)
  • Level 1 Geography Tutorial (GG11910)
  • Global Environment Issues (GG12710)
  • Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 1 (DA11910)
  • Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 2 (DA22110)
  • Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 3 (DA38110)
  • Environmental Science Tutorial Level 2 (ES20110)
  • Level 2 Geography Tutorial (GG22110)
  • People, Climate And Environment: A Palaeoenvironmental Perspective (GG33720)

Contributes to:

  • Global Climate Change In The Quaternary (EA33020)
  • Environmental Science Fieldwork (ES20320)

Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

Lake sediment records of Quaternary environmental change, human impact on lake ecosystems, diatom analysis and stable isotope analysis.

IGES Projects (Affiliated With)

Other Projects

Current PhD Students

Postdoctoral Supervision

Biography

Dr Sarah Davies joined IGES in September 2002 as a lecturer in Physical Geography and Environmental Science. Before arriving in Aber, Sarah was based in the Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh, where she undertook doctoral and post-doctoral research on Holocene Environmental Change in Central Mexico.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2011

  1. Marshall MH, Lamb HF, Huws D, Davies SJ, Bates R, Bloemendal J, Boyle J, Leng MJ, Umer M., Bryant C. 2011. Late Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile. Global and Planetary Change 78: 147-161. DOI

2010

  1. Macdonald N, Jones CA, Davies SJ, Charnell-White C. 2010. Historical weather accounts from Wales: an assessment of their potential for reconstructing climate. Weather 65: 72-81. DOI
  2. Metcalfe SE, Jones MD, Davies SJ, Noren A, MacKenzie A. 2010. Climate variability over the last two millennia in the North American Monsoon region, recorded in laminated lake sediments from Laguna de Juanacatlan, Mexico. The Holocene 20, 1195-1206. DOI

2009

  1. Marshall MH, Lamb HF, Davies SJ, Leng MJ, Kubsa Z, Umer M, Bryant C. 2009. Climatic change in northern Ethiopia during the past 17,000 years: a diatom and stable isotope record from Lake Ashenge. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 279: 114-127. DOI

2007

  1. Metcalfe S, Davies SJ, Briasby J, Leng M, Newton A, Terrett N. 2007. Long and short term change in the Patzcuaro Basin, Michoacan, Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 247: 272-295. DOI
  2. Davies SJ, Metcalfe S. 2007. Deciphering recent climatic change in central Mexican lake records. Climatic Change, 83: 169-186. DOI
  3. Lamb HF, Bates CR, Coombes PV, Marshall MH, Umer M, Davies SJ, Dejen E. 2007. Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26: 287-299. DOI
    Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile (PDF)

2005

  1. Leng MJ, Metcalfe SE, Davies SJ. 2005. Investigating late holocene climate variability in central mexico using carbon isotope ratios in organic materials and oxygen isotope ratios from diatom silica within lacustrine sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, 34: 413-431. DOI
  2. Davies SJ, Metcalfe SE, Bernal-Brooks F, Chacon-Torres A, Farmer JG, MacKenzie AB, Newton AJ. 2005. Lake sediments record sensitivity of two hydrologically closed upland lakes in Mexico to human impact. Ambio, 34: 470-475. DOI
  3. Newton AJ, Metcalfe SE, Davies SJ, Cook G, Barker P, Telford RJ. 2005. Late Quaternary volcanic record from lakes of Michoacan, central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 91-104. DOI