Survey Geologist Quaternary

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 203

E-mail Dr Jeremy Everest

Biography

•  2010 –2012 :  Project Leader of Great Glen Quaternary Data Capture
•  2008 –2011 :  Project Leader of Modern Glacial Landscapes
•  2007 –2012 :  Project Leader of Glacier Monitoring BGS observatory at Virkisjökull
•  2005 –2009 :  Project Leader of BGS Iceland Training Course
•  2003 :  PhD University of Edinburgh, Cairngorm Deglaciation (Scotland)
•  1995 :  MA University of Edinburgh, Geography

Skills

•  Field survey- Quaternary
•  Glacial geomorphology and geology
•  Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) dating

Current projects and collaboration

•  Establishing rates of rock surface erosion using TCN (NERC grant with University of Dundee and University of Svalbard)
•  Little Ice Age in the Cairngorms (NERC grant with University of Dundee)
•  Maximum expansion of the British Irish Ice Sheet at Last Glacial Maximum
•  Reconstructing the collapse of the Moray Firth Ice Stream (BGS-MGL, NERC grant)
•  Reconstruction of decline of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (British Antarctic Survey Ice Sheets programme)
•  Reconstruction of environmental change, Ryder Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (University of Exeter Cosmogenic Nuclides Laboratory)
•  Virkisjökull Earth Observatory BGS observatory at Virkisjökull

Research interests

•  Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet environmental change
•  Glacial geomorphology
•  Ice Sheet reconstruction
•  Monitoring impacts of climate change on Icelandic glaciers
•  Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) dating

Published outputs

• NERC Open Research Archive — Jez Everest

Key papers

Johnson, Joanne S.; Everest, Jeremy; Leat, Philip T.; Golledge, Nicholas; Rood, Dylan H.; Stuart, Finlay M.. 2012 The deglacial history of NW Alexander Island, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating. Quaternary Research, 77 (2). 273-280. 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.11.012

Phillips, Emrys, Everest, Jez, Reeves, Helen. 2012. Micromorphological evidence for subglacial multiphase sedimentation and deformation during overpressurized fluid flow associated with hydrofracturing. Boreas, Article first published online: 24th May 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00261.x

Golledge, Nicholas; Everest, Jeremy; Bradwell, Tom; Johnson, Joanne. 2010 Lichenometry on Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula : size-frequency studies, growth rates and snowpatches. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography, 92 (1). 111-124. 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00381.x

Phillips, Emrys; Everest, Jez; Diaz Doce, Diego. 2010 Bedrock controls on subglacial landform distribution and geomorphological processes : evidence from the Late Devensian Irish Sea Ice Stream. Sedimentary Geology, 232 (3-4). 98-118. 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.004

Bradwell, Tom; Stoker, Martyn; Golledge, Nicholas; Wilson, Christian Kverneland; Merritt, Jon; Long, David; Everest, Jeremy; Hestvik, O.B.; Stevenson, Alan; Hubbard, Alun; Finlayson, Andrew; Mathers, Hannah. 2008 The northern sector of the last British ice sheet : maximum extent and demise. Earth-Science Reviews, 88 (3-4). 207-226. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.01.008

• BGS observatory at Virkisjökull
• University of Dundee
• University of Svalbard
• University of Dundee
• British Antarctic Survey Ice Sheets programme
• University of Exeter Cosmogenic Nuclides Laboratory
• BGS observatory at Virkisjökull

• NERC Open Research Archive — Jez Everest