Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society

Directorate

Professor Brice Rea - Director

Professor Brice Rea has been appointed as Director of SAGES with effect from 1st July 2025.
Brice is based at the School of Geosciences in the University of Aberdeen.

Professor Brice Rea is a glaciologist with a wide range of research interests related to the broad area of cryosphere and climate, past present and future. He uses a range of techniques for his research including analogue modelling, geochronology, GIS and remote sensing, numerical modelling and empirical data collection. He has undertaken many field campaigns in the Arctic, including a visit to the North Pole, mid-latitudes and high mountains. He is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, both BSc. (1990) and PhD (1994) and completed his first postdoc there, moving subsequently to Cardiff University, University of Leicester and then to his present institution, the University of Aberdeen, in 2004. He has previously been Head of Geography and Environment, served as an elected Senator for eight years and is the current School Director of Research. He is one of the NERC Pool of Chairs, currently with responsibility for the Large Grants Panel.
Brice has been a member of SAGES since its inception, has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2014, serving as the Chair between 2016-2023, and was a co-lead of the FIORD Forum (predecessor of CryoExchange). He has been an active member of the SAGES community throughout its history and has attended most of the Annual Science Meetings. He brings a wealth of experience to SAGES, and values enormously what it offers to the Scottish research community.


Professor John Howe - Graduate School Convenor

Professor John Howe joined the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in 1998 moving to Oban from a post-doctoral research post with the British Antarctic Survey. He has a PhD from the University of Southampton in marine geology and a degree in Geology from Derby University. In his current role of Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology he has been head of the Biogeochemistry and Earth Sciences department, is currently Degree Program Leader and is supervisor for a number of research students. Currently he sits on the steering group of the Marie Curie International Training Network (ITN) Glaciated North Atlantic Margins (GLANAM) project and the NERC National Capability Marine Environmental Mapping Program (MAREMAP). His research focus is on marine geomorphology and habitat mapping, Quaternary ice sheet history, glaciomarine environments and the use of autonomous underwater vehicles in marine mapping. He has worked in the Arctic and Antarctic examining marine sediments as archives of long-term environmental change. He has 91 published outputs from peer-reviewed science papers to magazine articles and book chapters. Current projects include the use of AUV’s in the Arctic and in the Patagonian fjord region of Chile. He is a keen sub-aqua diver, and is a scientific diver with the National Facility for Scientific Diving at SAMS as well as helping to run the student diving club.

Carol Thomson - Administrator

Carol is based at the University of Glasgow and provides administrative and finance support for the SAGES Directorate, Committees, Theme and Fora leaders and members.

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