-Bottom-current influenced sedimentation in the deep-sea
-Fjordic and shelf sea glaciomarine sediments and records of rapid climate change
-Seabed mapping of modern and ancestral depositional processes
-High-latitude margins
1998-present Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer at SAMS
1994-1998 British Antarctic Survey
1991-1994 PhD, University of Southampton and British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Oceans 2025 Themes 1 (WP 1.5b: Palaeoceanographic records of MOC activity)
Oceans 2025 Theme 3 (WP 3.9: Topographic controls on sediment transport pathways on the shelf)
MAREMAP: Marine Environmental Mapping Programme
INIS Hydro
Deglacial history of the Summer Isles and adjacent shelf (with BGS)
Holocene high-resolution records, Loch Sunart (with St Andrews University)
Deep Sea Mine Tailing Placement (DSTP) Papua New Guinea
Contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation, Fram Strait
Acoustic discrimination of shellfish debris (Scottish Aquaculture Forum)
Stoker, M.S., Bradwell, T., Howe, J.A., Wilkinson, I.P & McIntyre, K.L. Late glacial ice cap dynamics in NW Scotland: evidence from the fjords of the Summer Isles region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 3161-3184 doi:10.1016/j.quatscirev.2009.09.012
Grøsfjeld, K., Knies, J., Harland, R. & Howe, J.A. (2009) Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages inshore and offshore Svalbard reflecting their modern hydrography and climate. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 89: 121-134 ISSN: 0029196X
McIntyre, K.L. & Howe, J.A. Bottom-current variability during the last glacial-deglacial transition, Northern Rockall Trough and Faeroe-Bank Channel, NE Atlantic. Scottish Journal of Geology, 45 (1), 1-16, 2009. ISSN: 0036-9276
Bradwell, T., Fabel, D., Stoker, M., Mathers, H., McHarge, L., & Howe, J. Ice caps existed throughout the Lateglacial Interstadial in northern Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23: 401-407. 2008. ISSN: 0267-8179
Howe, J.A., Shimmield, T., & Harland, R. Late Quaternary contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation in the Fram Strait. Sedimentology, 55, 179-200. 2008. ISSN: 0037-0746
