Dr Katrien Van Landeghem

• PhD: High-resolution seafloor evidence for glacial and post-glacial environments in the tidally dominated Irish Sea on the NW European Shelf
  University College Cork, 2008
• MSc: A multidisciplinary study of the recent sedimentary processes in the Gollum Channel system to the West of Ireland
  Ghent University, Belgium, 2004

I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules with content ranging from general earth sciences to applied marine geology.

I supervise MSc and PhD projects during which the students acquire in-depth knowledge and key skills to investigate seabed dynamics, bedform formation, sediment transport and/or glacial geomorphology.

I have supervised 1 PhD student to completion and currently supervise 4 PhD students (3 as lead supervisor).

2019

• PublishedAdvance and retreat of the marine-terminating Irish Sea Ice Stream into the Celtic Sea during the Last Glacial: Timing and maximum extent
  Scourse, J., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Lockhart, E., Purcell, C., Callard, S. L., Roseby, Z., Allison, B., Pieńkowski, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Praeg, D., Ward, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Moreton, S., Fabel, D. & Clark, C., 1 Jun 2019, In : Marine Geology. 412, p. 53-68
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedThe hiding-exposure effect revisited: A method to calculate the mobility of bimodal sediment mixtures
  McCarron, C. J., Van Landeghem, K. J. J., Baas, J. H., Amoudry, L. O. & Malarkey, J., Apr 2019, In : Marine Geology. 410, p. 22-31
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedEarly deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the Atlantic shelf northwest of Ireland driven by glacioisostatic depression and high relative sea level
  Ó Cofaigh, C., Weilbach, K., Lloyd, J., Benetti, S., Callard, S. L., Purcell, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Dunlop, P., Saher, M., Livingstone, S., Van Landeghem, K., Moreton, S., Clark, C. & Fabel, D., 15 Mar 2019, In : Quaternary Science Reviews. 208, p. 76-96
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2018

• PublishedExtent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation
  Callard, S. L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., Gales, J., Small, D., Clark, C., Livingstone, S. J., Fabel, D. & Moreton, S., 1 Dec 2018, In : Quaternary Science Reviews. p. 280-302
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedA stratigraphic investigation of the Celtic Sea megaridges based on seismic and core data from the Irish-UK sectors.
  Lockhart, E., Scourse, J., Praeg, D., Van Landeghem, K., Mellett, C., Saher, M., Callard, S. L., Chiverrell, R. C., Benetti, S., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Clark, C. D., 15 Oct 2018, In : Quaternary Science Reviews. 198, p. 156-170
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedIce margin oscillations during deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea basin. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Quaternary Science
  Chiverrell, R. C., Smedley, R. K., Small, D., Ballantyne, C. K., Burke, M. J., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Duller, G. A. T., Evans, D. J. A., Fabel, D., Van Landeghem, K., Livingstone, S., Cofaigh, C. Ó., Thomas, G. S. P., Roberts, D. H., Saher, M., Scourse, J. D. & Wilson, P., Oct 2018, In : Quaternary Science. 33, 7, p. 739-762
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2016

• Published5th International Conference on Marine & River Dune Dynamics (MARID), April 4th-6th, Caernarfon, UK
  Van Landeghem, K., Garlan, T., Baas, J. H. & Van Landeghem, K. J. (ed.), 4 Apr 2016, Unknown Publisher.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book

2015

• PublishedGeology of the seabed and shallow subsurface: the Irish Sea
  Mellett, C. L., Carter, G., Long, D., Chiverrell, R. C. & Van Landeghem, K., 3 Dec 2015, Edinburgh: British Geological Survey. (Energy and Marine Geoscience Programme; no. CR/15/057)
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• PublishedClassifying seabed sediment type using simulated tidal-induced bed shear stress
  Ward, S. L., Neill, S. P., Van Landeghem, K. J. & Scourse, J. D., 30 May 2015, In : Marine Geology. 367, p. 94-104
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedGeological settings and seafloor morphodynamic evolution linked to methane seepage
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Niemann, H., Steinle, L. I., O'Reilly, S. S., Huws, D. G. & Croker, P. F., 28 Apr 2015, In : Geo-Marine Letters. 35, 4, p. 289-304
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2013

• PublishedBayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream
  Chiverrell, R. C., Thrasher, I. M., Thomas, G. S., Lang, A., Scourse, J. D., Van Landeghem, K. J., Mccarroll, D., Clark, C. D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D. J. & Ballantyne, C. K., 25 Feb 2013, In : Quaternary Science. 28, 2, p. 200-209
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2012

• PublishedReversed sediment wave migration in the Irish Sea, NW Europe: A reappraisal of the validity of geometry-based predictive modelling and assumptions
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Baas, J. H., Mitchell, N., Wilcockson, D. & Wheeler, A. J., 15 Feb 2012, In : Marine Geology. 295-298, p. 95-112
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2009

• PublishedPost-glacial sediment dynamics in the Irish Sea and sediment wave morphology: Data-model comparisons.
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Uehara, K., Wheeler, A. J., Mitchell, N. C. & Scourse, J. D., 30 Jul 2009, In : Continental Shelf Research. 29, 14, p. 1723-1736
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedVariations in sediment wave dimensions across the tidally dominated Irish Sea, NW Europe.
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Wheeler, A. J., Mitchell, N. C. & Sutton, G., 15 Jul 2009, In : Marine Geology. 263, 1-4, p. 108-119
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedSeafloor evidence for palaeo-ice streaming and calving of the grounded Irish Sea Ice Stream: Implications for the interpretation of its final deglaciation phase.
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Wheeler, A. J. & Mitchell, N. C., 1 Feb 2009, In : Boreas. 38, 1, p. 119-131
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2018

• Pristine Antarctic fjords contain similar levels of microplastics to open oceans near big civilisations.

  16 Jul 2018

  External organisation: University of West Florida

  Links:

  • https://theconversation.com/pristine-antarctic-fjords-contain-similar-levels-of-microplastics-to-open-oceans-near-big-civilisations-91360
  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

• KESS II Phd with HR Wallingford- BUK2146

  01/05/2018 – 31/05/2021 (Active)

• Unstable shipwreck sites in sand & gravel - NRN-LCEE Returning Fellowship Award

  01/04/2016 – 28/02/2019 (Finished)

• Envision Case Award - Edward Lockhart

  01/10/2015 – 30/09/2019 (Finished)

• CASE award Llanelli Sand Dredging (Connor McCarron)

  01/10/2014 – 10/07/2018 (Finished)

• CASE award NOC Liverpool (Connor McCarron)

  01/10/2014 – 30/06/2019 (Finished)

I focus my research on seabed sediment mobility:

A. Seabed sediment transport and bedform dynamics:

1. Understanding the role of methane seepage in the formation of amplified sediment waves:

   -> 2014-2019: project “Bedload transport of sediment mixtures in shelf seas”, funded by NERC (ENVISION PhD studentship, with CASE partner NOC-L and extra funds from Llanelli Sand Dredging Ltd

   -> 2011 onwards: project “AmSedIs”, funded by the European Commission (EUROFLEET) and with experts in biogeochemistry, seabed geomorphologists, sedimentologists, geophysics experts and numerical modellers across Europe.

2. Understanding enhanced sediment mobility around seafloor objects:

   -> 2018-2022: project “Seabed integrity around objects in a complex marine environment”, funded by KESSII (PhD studentship) and via multi-disciplinary collaboration with experts in marine geo-archaeology, Computational Fluid Dynamics and sediment transport modelling.

   -> 2016-2018: project “Unstable shipwreck sites in sand & gravel”, funded via a Returning Fellowship by Welsh Government: Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon, Energy and Environment (NRN-LCEE)

   -> 2015: project “WWI Shipwrecks in the Irish Sea”, with shiptime funded by the Marine Institute, Ireland

3. Seabed dynamics and its link to sustainable management of engineering projects:

via collaboration with renewable energy developers and with links to iCRAG (Ireland’s national geoscience research centre supported by Science Foundation Ireland).

B. Seabed morphodynamics linked to glacial dynamics:

1. Understanding the demise of marine-terminating ice streams from investigations of the seafloor:

   -> 2015-2019: project “Glacial sculpting and post-glacial drowning of the Celtic Sea”, funded by NERC (ENVISION PhD studentship)

   -> 2012-2018: Consortium project “BRITICE-CHRONO”, NERC-funded and with experts in glacial geomorphology, geochronology, palao-oceanography and ice sheet modelling 

   -> Ongoing: object-oriented modelling for glacial landscape recognition, in collaboration with modellers in India. 

2. Understanding seabed habitat suitability on exposed seafloor when glaciers have retreated:

   -> 2017-2020: project “Impacts of deglaciation on benthic marine ecosystems in Antarctica (ICEBERGS)”, NERC funded (CONICYT - NERC Antarctic programme), in collaboration with experts in benthic ecology, palaeo-oceanography, glacial dynamics and sclerochronology.

   -> 2014: project “The collapse of the Irish Ice Sheet in the Celtic Sea sector and its marine habitat legacy”, with shiptime funded by the Marine Institute, Ireland