Prof. James Scourse

About

After completing a PhD and a Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (Sub-department of Quaternary Research), James was appointed to a tenured position in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University in 1985, moving his research group to the University of Exeter in February 2017.

James held a Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2008-2009, served as Editor of the Journal of Quaternary Science between 2000 and 2004, President of the UK Quaternary Research Association between 2008 and 2011, Director of the Climate Change Consortium of Wales between 2011 and 2015 and is now Director of the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2014.

SPECIALISMS

Quaternary palaeoenvironments, especially the marine geology and
palaeoceanography of passive ocean margins

Marine climate (mechanisms, impacts)

Sclerochronology and scleroclimatology

Sea-level change

Ice-ocean interaction

QUALIFICATIONS

MA (Oxon)

PGCE (Bristol)

PhD (Cantab)

FGS

FLSW