Geography Professors feature in Making Scotlands Landscape.
Professors Mary Edwards and David Sear appeared alongside Professor Iain Stewart in the BBC documentary Making Scotland’s Landscape.
The episode was about climate change in Scotland, and the film makers were interested in explaining the decline in climate conditions about 4000-5000 years ago that led to the abandonment of several Scottish settlements. Filming Mary and David coring lake sediments provided an opportunity for them to discuss with Iain how information from fossils and changes in the lake sediments themselves are used to reconstruct climate history. The research project that Mary and Dave are working on, together with colleague Dr. Pete Langdon, is a jointly funded research venture between the BBC, the Atlantic Salmon Trust and NERC-BGS to reconstruct the long-term dynamics of the Atlantic Salmon population of the river Spey catchment against a backdrop of climate change and human impact.
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Emerita Professor Mary E Edwards PhD, FRGS
Mary’s interests are centred on global and regional environmental change: understanding climate-driven and human-driven changes in landscape, vegetation, and ecosystem processes over a range of timescales. She is particularly interested in Northern ecosystem processes and permafrost landscapes - how these intersect with climate change, the carbon cycle and human systems. Currently, she serves as UK representative to Terrestrial Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). Recently, she has developed several collaborations on environmental change with Russian researchers in Siberia and the Russian Far East and co-leads the UK-Russia research group, DIMA. The main geographic regions in which she works are the Arctic and Subarctic of Siberia, Alaska, northwest Canada and Europe, plus the UK and Madagascar.
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Professor David Sear BSc, PhD, FRGS, MCIWEM
Professor David Sear is a Professor in Physical Geography within Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton.
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