Helen Roe

Academic Non-Clinical, School of Natural and Built Environment
Academic Non-Clinical, Environmental Change (EC)

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 5148
Emailh.roe@qub.ac.uk

Room 02.021 - Geography Building
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome applications from students interested in the following topics: environmental/climate change impacts on lakes and peatlands; development of novel biomonitoring approaches using microfossils and geochemical techniques; impacts of nutrient enrichment on aquatic ecosystems.

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Research Interests

My research interests centre around the reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental change in wetlands and coastal environments. I am interested in how these systems function, and in feedbacks between different biological groups and the physical environment over a range of time scales (sub-decadal to millennial scale and longer). Major research foci include i) applications of benthic protozoans (e.g. testate amoebae and foraminifera) and diatoms in biomonitoring and restoration; ii) the use of palaeoecological, palaeolimnological and geochemical approaches for understanding long-term climate and sea-level change; iii) use of quantitative, multi-proxy techniques to aid palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

I am an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa and a former Director of Research of the Environmental Change Research Cluster, QUB.

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Projects 2010 2019

6 Active

R1084BSC: Queens University Belfast and University of Aberdeen Doctoral Research and Training (QUADRAT)

Emmerson, M., Blaauw, M., Caplat, P., Helyar, S., McKinley, J., Roe, H. & Ruffell, A.

23/07/2019 → …

Project: Research

R1079NBE: Queens University Belfast & University of Aberdeen Doctoral Research and Training (QUADRAT)

McKinley, J., Blaauw, M., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M., Helyar, S., Roe, H. & Ruffell, A.

21/07/2019 → …

Project: Research

R6540GGY: Understanding Links Between Functional Traits and Ecological Processes in Lake Arcellinida

Roe, H.

23/06/2016 → …

Project: Research

R6460GGY: Development of Integrated Protocols for the Rapid Mapping and Assessment of Metal Contamination in Intertidal and Supratidal Environments

Roe, H. & McKinley, J.

16/12/2015 → …

Project: Research

R8353GGY: Stratigraphic and Environmental Analysis of Peatland Cores from the Northwest Territories, Canada

Roe, H.

22/12/2014 → …

Project: Research

Research Output 1992 2020

9th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA9): Recent Advances and Future Research Priorities: Meeting Report

Roe, H., 2019, In : Quaternary Newsletter.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

An evaluation of methodologies for calibrating Itrax X-ray fluorescence counts with ICP-MS concentration data for discrete sediment samples

Gregory, B. R. B., Patterson, R. T., Reinhardt, E. G., Galloway, J. M. & Roe, H. M., 11 May 2019, In : Chemical Geology.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

X-ray fluorescence

Sediments

Fluorescence

X rays

methodology

Assessment of FlowCam technology as a potential tool for rapid semi-automatic analysis of lacustrine Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae)

Steele, R. E., Patterson, R. T., Hamilton, P. B., Nasser, N. A. & Roe, H. M., 19 Dec 2019, In : Environmental Technology & Innovation. 17, 14 p., 100580.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Amoeba

microscopy

lakes

lake

rapid methods

1 Citation (Scopus)

Inter-annual Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) assemblage dynamics within lacustrine environments

Nasser, N. A., Cullen, J., Patterson, C. W., Patterson, R. T., Roe, H. M. & Galloway, J. M., 01 May 2019, In : Limnologica. 76, p. 60-71

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

lacustrine environment

Amoeba

lakes

lake

correspondence analysis

Phylogenetic divergence within the Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) is congruent with test size and metabolism type.

Macumber, A., Blandenier, Q., Todorov, M., Duckert, C., Lara, E., Lahr, D., Mitchell, E. & Roe, H., 23 Oct 2019, In : European Journal of Protistology.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Amoebozoa

Heterotrophic Processes

Amoeba

Economic Inflation

Phylogeny