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Dr Graham Rush

Lecturer

Grahams research primarily focuses on reconstructing sea-level change in order to understand ice-sheet histories and changes to ocean circulation patterns and how these can inform future predictions of environmental change. He combines different types of analysis including fieldwork, laboratory, numerical modelling and spatial analysis in his research and teaching. He has worked at sites in the UK and the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic and have also worked in the Swiss Alps and Antarctica.

Graham has previously worked in different fields including as a building services technician at Halley Research Station for the British Antarctic Survey before going on to study for a BSc and MSc at the University of Gloucestershire and a PhD at the University of York. Prior to arriving at Leeds Beckett, he worked at the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow. He currently works on the RISeR project aimed at to help reconstructing sea level and contribute to quantifying the rates of sea-level change for the Last Interglacial. This work will tackle the critical question - what is the long-term sea-level rise hazard in Europe due to ice-sheet melt? He has also led research to quantify the rapid sea-level rise that occurred around 8,500 years ago. From this he was able to provide a better understanding about the collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its role in driving past climate change, again providing important knowledge about the potential fate of Ice Sheets and sea levels around the Earth.

Graham maintains a broad interest across the subject area and continues to work and develop projects to study sea-level change and the use of GIS and remote sensing.

Current Teaching

Courses:

BSc Geography
BSc Geography and Environmental Science

Modules:

Introduction to Physical Geography
Academic Skills for Geographers and Planners
Remote sensing and GIS
Coastal Environments

Research Interests

Graham currently works on the RISeR research project aiming to develop new high-resolution reconstructions of Last Interglacial sea-level change for northwest Europe, using previously unstudied offshore sedimentary archives from the North Sea. The work will provide the first chronological constraints on the timing, and therefore rates, of relative sea-level change that occurred in northwest Europe in response to global mean sea-level change during the warmer climate of the Last Interglacial.

The work will enable the relative contribution of the Greenland and/or Antarctica ice sheets to global Last Interglacial sea-level rise to be better understood. Estimates of land areas and populations at risk of sea-level rise over the coming millennium, will be produced based upon the Last Interglacial sea-level scenarios.