Dr Angela Lamb appointed as honorary professor by the University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham has appointed BGS’s senior isotope research geochemist, Angela Lamb, as an honorary professor. As part of her role, Angela will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching alongside facilitating collaborative research programmes between BGS and the University of Nottingham.

Angela’s research focuses on the application of light stable isotopes to science-based archaeology, palaeoecology and environmental tracing, specialising in sulfur isotopes. She has developed a long-standing collaborative relationship with the University of Nottingham’s Department of Classics and Archaeology through the jointly operated Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. The centre focuses on the collaborative use of geochemistry in research, training and teaching, investigating:

• environmental and climate change
• biogeochemical cycling, including pollution typing and provenance
• science-based archaeology
• the use of geochemical tools for research into the subsurface

I’m thrilled to have been appointed as an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and look forward to continuing to build on the legacy of shared research we have developed through the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. This has already resulted in significant advances in the fields of bioarchaeology, palaeoecology and environmental archaeology.

Prof Angela Lamb, senior isotope research geochemist, BGS.

We’re delighted to welcome Angela Lamb as an honorary professor in the department. We have had a long and productive relationship with Prof Lamb and very much look forward to this continuing in the future. We are particularly excited to develop our work in dietary stable isotope analyses, which help us to understand what people and other animals ate and how societies functioned in the past.

Prof Hannah O’Regan, professor of archaeology and palaeoecology, University of Nottingham.