- Room 004, Fitzroy, Drake Circus
- jesse.zondervan@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Mr Jesse Zondervan
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
PhD Research Student
First Supervisor: Dr. Martin Stokes,
Qualifications
Overview:
I'm a Geoscience research-trained PhD student at Plymouth University. I've got a background in field geology and environmental sciences and have a particular interest in neotectonics, field geomorphology and remote sensing as well as palaeoclimatology, geoarchaeology and science communication.
Employment/Education:
2017 MSci (Hons) Geology, Imperial College London (First Class)
2016-2017 Undergraduate Mentor, Imperial College London
2016-2017 Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London
2016 Exchange student, The Australian National University (High Distinction)
2016 Research intern, University of Amsterdam
I'm a Geoscience research-trained PhD student at Plymouth University. I've got a background in field geology and environmental sciences and have a particular interest in neotectonics, field geomorphology and remote sensing as well as palaeoclimatology, geoarchaeology and science communication.
Employment/Education:
2017 MSci (Hons) Geology, Imperial College London (First Class)
2016-2017 Undergraduate Mentor, Imperial College London
2016-2017 Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London
2016 Exchange student, The Australian National University (High Distinction)
2016 Research intern, University of Amsterdam
Awards:
2018 International Association of Sedimentologists Postgraduate Grant (€ 1000) to extend my PhD lab work to do more experimental geochronology - report
2018 British Society for Geomorphology Postgraduate Research Grant (£1000) to extend my PhD field sampling campaigns - “Experimental luminescence dating of Quaternary river terraces, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco”
2018 Quaternary Research Association New Research Workers Award (£1000) to extend my PhD lab work to do more experimental geochronology
2018 Geological Remote Sensing Group Student Award (£1000) to extend my PhD remote sensing activities by carrying out field surveys
2018 International Association of Sedimentologists Student Travel Grant (€ 450) to attend the 4th Meeting of the Working Group on Sediment Generation
2017 PhD studentship by the graduate school of the University of Plymouth (£ 50,000) for the project titled "Tectonic and climatic controls on Quaternary fluvial landscape development in NW Africa "
2017 British Sedimentological Research Group Award for Undergraduate Sedimentology for my Imperial College thesis titled "Landscape response to active faulting, southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece"
Professional membership
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS)
- Postgraduate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
- Geology for Global Development (GfGD)
- Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)
- British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)
- British Sedimentological Research Group (BSRG)
- Geologists' Association (GA)
- Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
- International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
- Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG)
- American Association of Petroleum Geoscientists (AAPG)
- Koninklijk Nederlands Geologisch Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap (KNGMG)
- Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging (NGV)
Teaching interests
Teaching Assistant (2017 - present):
GEOL2001 Sedimentology & Palaeontology
GEOL2003 Geospatial techniques
GEOL2004 Stratigraphy and Earth History
GEOL1001 The Dynamic Earth
GEOL1002 Earth Materials
GEOL1003 Geosystems
GEOL1005 Geological Maps and Structural Geology
2016-2017 Undergraduate Mentor, Imperial College London
2016-2017 Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London
ESE 3.13 Remote sensing and GIS
ESE 3.14 Sedimentary Geology
ESE 3.33 Cross sections independent field mapping workshop
Research interests
PhD Project Title: Tectonic and climatic controls on Quaternary fluvial landscape development in NW Africa
Work on river catchments in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, with a focus on geomorphology and neotectonics. In September I explored the Ouarzazate region with Dr Martin Stokes and Professor Anne Mather. In particular, I will be using river terraces and OSL dating techniques to understand river response in tectonically active regions.
The project, Quantifying landscape response to tectonics and climate using river terraces in the Atlas Mountains, central Morocco includes updates on ResearchGate.
My PhD is part of an ongoing effort to understand landscape evolution in the High Atlas Mountains by Dr Martin Stokes, Prof Anne Mather and Dr Sarah Boulton:
Long term landscape evolution of the Moroccan High Atlas
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Investigating landscape response to active faulting:
I worked with Dr. Alex Whittaker, Dr. Rebecca Bell, Stephen Watkins and Sam Brooke at Imperial. I'm trained as a geologist and my background is in erosion and sedimentation, fluvial geomorphology, structural geology, climate and tectonics. My MSci project Investigating landscape response to active faulting, Southern Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece is what got me interested in the PhD project.
This dissertation was awarded the BSRG Award for Undergraduate Sedimentology.
Other research
Population dynamics and environment in South America
Another active project I contribute to is one with Dr Crystal McMichael and Dr Suzette Flantua at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Collecting a complete radiocarbon database and using statistical analysis and modelling to determine the interaction between environment and population dynamics.
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Palynology of Lake George
I've also done a project with Dr. Janelle Stevenson and Professor Brad Pillans at the Australian National University (ANU) on the palynology of Lake George, which hosts the longest paleoenvironmental record in Australia. Feel free to check my report Palynology of Lake George -A review of palynology, Lake George and regional & global Quaternary comparisons and the start of palynological analysis of a new Lake George core.
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Preserved fossil coral heads as indicators of Holocene high sea level
I'm still waiting for some paleoreef samples to be dated at the Australian National University, as I collected these on an undergraduate project with Dr Bradley Opdyke. This research, Preserved fossil coral heads as indicators of Holocene high sea level on One Tree Island goes into sea level records and isostatic adjustment models.
Grants & contracts
2018 Geological Remote Sensing Group Student Award
Conference Papers
2018
'Chronology for mountainous river terraces: OSL/IRSL and rock dating techniques applied to carbonate-rich terraces in the Atlas Mountains'
UK Luminescence and ESR Dating Meeting
Sheffield, UK
11/09/2018
12/09/2018
Publisher Site
2018
'Catchment changes in response to tectonics and climate: using river terraces and DEM data in the southern High Atlas Mountains (Morocco)'
WGSG 2018
4th Meeting of the Working Group on Sediment Generation, Dublin
PEARL
2018
'Geoscience in a rapidly changing world: what could go wrong?'
Geologists' Association Student Symposium, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
PEARL
2017
'Active normal faults and coupled landscape response: bedrock variability in the southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece'
56th BSRG Annual General Meeting
Newcastle
80-80
Publisher Site
2017
'Evaluating the competing effects of lithology and sediment supply on the erosional dynamics of rivers crossing active faults'
19th EGU General Assembly
Vienna
11779-11779
Publisher Site
PEARL
Reports
2016
Palynology of Lake George-A review of palynology, Lake George and regional & global Quaternary comparisons and the start of pal-ynological analysis of a new Lake George core.
2016
Preserved fossil coral heads as indicators of Holocene high sea level on One Tree Island.
2015
Companion to The Geological Map of The Southern Barrême Basin.
Compositions
Posters
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'Fluvial archives of NW African climate and tectonic evolution, Atlas Mountains, central Morocco'
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PEARL
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'Palaeo river long profile reconstruction in a fold-and-thrust belt: river terraces as archives of Quaternary incision and aggradation in the Atlas Mountains'
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PEARL
Other Publications
2018
Millenial Scientists in a Segregating World - The Role of Science in Shaping Society.
Impakter
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Publisher Site
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Landscape response to active faulting, southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece.
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Pollen - Collecting Tiny Pieces of Story.
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Additional information
Geoscience Communication & Outreach:
Geoscience Editor, Scienceseeker
Contributing author, Geology for Global Development
Pollen - Collecting Tiny Pieces of Story
What are pollen and what is the story they have to tell us? In this short 8 minute documentary and podcast, I will take you on a journey through the world of palynology.
Featuring Dr. Janelle Stevenson, Research Fellow at the ANU Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Professor Bradley Pillans, Researcher at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences and Dr. Nicholas Matzke, Postdoctoral Scientist at the ANU Moritz Lab for Evolutionary Biogeography & Conservation.