Miss Amy Beswick

I started at the University of Plymouth in March 2024 as part of a NERC research project investigating landscape preconditioning by earthquakes, and the associated triggered landslide distributions. Working with Dr Sarah Boulton and Dr Suryodoy Ghoshal, my role as a research assistant is centred around developing high-resolution landslide inventories for environments with various climates and geologies. By combining these inventories with modelling techniques, landslide forecasting can be improved through a better understanding of the influence large earthquakes have upon global landslide distributions. 

I started this position following completion of my Masters with Lancaster University where my research project explored sedimentation relationships between microplastic (MP) and volcanic ash particles, with the aim of developing a removal method of MPs from the oceans.

March, 2024 - Present: Research Assistant at the University of Plymouth, working on EXCESS project 

2022 - 2023: MSc Volcanology and the Environment at Lancaster University, project titled: 'Investigating ash sedimentation and the effect of buoyant microplastic rafts upon settling dynamics'

2018 - 2021: BSc Physical Geography at Aberystwyth University, project titled: 'Assessing upstream and downstream river responses to slope failures'

Member of the Geological Society of London

Associate fellow of the Royal Geographical Society