I am a PhD student joint between BAS and the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) of Cambridge University. My supervisors are Dr Gareth Marshall (BAS) and Dr Gareth Rees (SPRI). I am investigating how snow cover in Fennoscandia will be affected by climate change over the next century. For this, it is important to understand how snow cover has been changing over the past few decades and so in the first part of my project I undertook a case study of snow cover in the Kola Peninsula in Russia. This work was done in collaboration with Moscow State University and the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute. I am now focussing on modelling end-century snow cover over Northern Fennoscandia using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model forced with CMIP5 data.

For my undergraduate degree, I studied for an integrated masters in natural sciences, specialising in geological sciences, at Cambridge University.

Grants and prizes

• Fully-funded PhD studentship, NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), 2015 – 2019.
• UK Science & Innovation Network Nordics Travel Award, 2018 (£400).
• Newnham College Research and Travel Award, 2018 (£750).
• Santander Mobility Grant, 2017 (£1000).
• Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, 2017 (£500).
• Newnham College Research and Travel Award, 2017 (£750).
• Newnham College Continuing Studentship, 2016 (£500).
• Mary-Euphrasia Mosley, Sir Bartle Frere & Worts Travel fund, 2016 (£1000).
• Santander Mobility Grant, 2016 (£1000).
• Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, 2016 (£750).
• Newnham College Research and Travel Award, 2015 (£750).
• Entrance Research Studentship, Graduate Awards and Research Support Committee, 2015 (£500).
• Anne Jemima Clough Prize, Newnham College Education Committee, 2015 (£100).
• Research Expenses Fund, Newnham College, 2014 and 2015 (£220).
• Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund, Cambridge University, 2013 (£600).
• Travel Grant, Newnham College, 2013 (£420).
• Travel for Geographers and Geologists Fund, Newnham College, 2013 (£250).
• Women in Science Regional First Prize (Prix de la vocation scientifique féminine), Midi Pyrénées France, 2011 (€1000).

Collaborations

Faculty of Geography – Lomonosov Moscow State University

Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute, Apatity

Vignols, R.M., Valentine, A.M., Finlayson, A.G., Harper, E.M., Schöne, B.R., Leng, M.J., Sloane, H.J. and Johnson, A.L., 2018. Marine climate and hydrography of the Coralline Crag (early Pliocene, UK): Isotopic evidence from 16 benthic invertebrate taxa. Chemical Geology.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive