{"id":20510,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/barnett-megan\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:40:39","slug":"barnett-megan","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/barnett-megan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Megan Barnett"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Skills &amp; qualifications<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Megan Barnett&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2016 \u2013 ongoing : Postdoctoral Research Assistant at BGS on SoSRARE project<\/li>\n<li>2015 \u2013 ongoing : Geomicrobiologist at the British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li>2012 \u20132013 : University of Hertfordshire, MSc Biotechnology<\/li>\n<li>2010 : Cranfield University Research assistant developing field deployable microbial detection assays<\/li>\n<li>2006 \u20132010 : Cranfield University, PhD in environmental microbiology<\/li>\n<li>2002 \u20132006 : University of Oxford, MESc in Earth Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Role of microorganisms in weathering processes, focussing on the mobilisation and precipitation of rare earth elements<\/li>\n<li>Microbially mediated gases in the subsurface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Key papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barnett, M J, Pawlett, M, Wadham, J L, Jackson, M and Cullen, D C. 2016. Demonstration of a multi-technique approach to assess glacial microbial populations in the field. Journal of Glaciology, in press, [doi: 10.1017\/jog.2016.23]<br \/>\nBarnett, M J, Pearce, D A and Cullen, D C. 2012. Advances in the in-field detection of microorganisms in ice. Advances in Applied Microbiology, volume 81, 133-167. 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