Ellen MacDonald
email: e.macdonald.5@research.gla.ac.uk
ORCID : 0000-0002-0463-7848
414a Postgraduate Office
Gregory Building
G12 8QQ
Office phone :(0141330)-5469
Research Title
Oceans on Acid: using historic ocean acidification to understand marine ecosystem function under global change
Research Summary
Oceans on Acid: using historic ocean acidification to understand marine ecosystem function under global change
My interests are in the impact of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems over the past hundred years. Using coralline algae I am reconstructing high resolution records of ocean acidification. A mix of geochemical techniques and ecological profiling is being used to investigate these changes.
- δ11B pH reconstructions
- Mg-O bond strength (Raman spectroscopy)
- Elemental composition ratios
Publications
Mears, E.M., Rossi, V., MacDonald, E., Coleman, G., Davies, T.G., Arias-Riesgo, C., Hildebrandt, C., Thiel, H., Duffin, C.J., Whiteside, D.I. and Benton, M.J., 2016. The Rhaetian (Late Triassic) vertebrates of Hampstead Farm Quarry, Gloucestershire, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 127(4), pp.478-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.05.003
Supervisors
Grants
SAGES small grant
MASTS Biogeochemistry Forum Small Grant
EMAS conference bursary
Graduate School Mobility Grant (2018) Univeristy of Glasgow
NERC Studentship (2017-2021) IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership
Conference
Conferences
- IAPETUS student conference 2019 - Glasgow, UK
- EMAS 2018 - Microbeam Analysis in the Earth Sciences - Bristol, UK
Workshops and training courses
- IOCCP-BONUS INTEGRAL Biogeochemcial sensors training course - Kristineberg, Sweden
- VI International Rhodolith Workshop - Roscoff, France
