Heidi Rea

Heidi Rea

Postgraduate

Email: hrea01@qub.ac.uk

Address

02 044, Elmwood Building
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44 (0)28 9097 3929

Current Research:

My current PhD title is ‘Peatland archives of recent (last circa 200 years) climate and environmental change in the north of Ireland’.

This study will utilize a number of established proxy indicators, including testate amoebae and plant macrofossil analysis, to quantify the recent hydrological changes of a number of undisturbed peatlands from different geographical settings within the north of Ireland.

The chronology of the peat profiles will be established using tephrochronology and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP) analysis, supplemented with wiggle-matched 14C AMS radiocarbon dates utilizing the 1950s bomb spike. The peatland records derived will then be compared with regional instrumental and historical records of environmental change.

Publications:

Rea, H.A.; Swindles, G.T.; Roe, H.M. and Tomlinson, R. 2008 ‘Recent (circa 200 year) hydrological changes in Irish peatlands: comparisons with instrumental climate records’. Proceedings of the 13th International Peatland Congress, Tullamore, Ireland.

Rea, H.A. (accepted) ‘A comparison of biodiversity in park and garden ponds within Belfast’. National Pond Monitoring Network Newsletter.

Additional Information:

I completed my undergraduate BSc Geography degree in 2006. Then in 2007 I attained an MSc in Ecological Management and Conservation Biology. Both were undertaken at Queens University Belfast.