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Dr Kaja Fenn
Quaternary Geochronologist, Geochemist, and Sedimentologist
Employment
EMPLOYMENT
ST. CATHERINE'S COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
STIPENDIARY LECTURER IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
UNIVERSITY TEACHER IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
February 2021 - September 2022
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
LECTURER IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
October 2022 - now
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
LECTURER IN GEOGRAPHY
June - September 2020
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
TEACHING FELLOW IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
January - June 2020
2019 - 2020
Education
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND
PhD IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
2015-2019
Thesis title: "Provenance of late Quaternary loess along the middle and lower Danube River, Europe"
NERC DTP Studentship
MSc IN QUATERNARY SCIENCE
2013-2014
Distinction
Dissertation title: "Variability of dust provenance during MIS2 and MIS3 at Beiguoyuan, the Chinese Loess Plateau"
BSc (Hons) IN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
2009 - 2013
First Class Honours Degree
Dissertation title: "Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Quaternary sediments at Pointe er Hourel, South Brittany, France"
Grants and Awards
GRANTS AND AWARDS
GRANTS
2021 - British Society for Geomorphology Early-Career Researcher Grant (£7500)
2021 - Manchester Geographical Society Research Fund (£1150)
2018 - Quaternary Research Association INQUA Congress Travel Grant (£400)
2018 - International Union for Quaternary Research Conference Grant (€600)
2018 - Santander Academic Travel Award (£1000)
2017 - Quaternary Research Association Quaternary Conference Fund (£600)
2017 - NIGF Steering Committee Grant (£67,000)
2016 - International Association of Sedimentologists Postgraduate Research Grant (€1000)
2016 - CASE Studentship with British Geological Survey (£7000)
2015 - NERC DTP PhD Studentship
AWARDS
2014 - Philippa Holmes Prize for the best stratigraphy and/or sedimentology MSc dissertation
2013 - Institution of Environmental Sciences Vice President's Prize for the best applied environmental BSc dissertation
Talks and Conferences
TALKS AND CONFERENCES
INVITED TALKS
2020 - 'Zircons as a tool for loess provenance research' Workshop. 8th International Loess Seminar „Methods in Loess Research",
Wroclaw, Poland
2019 - ‘Provenance of loess deposits along the Danube River and its implications for sediment production dynamics’. Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
2022 - ‘Sources of Danubian loess – the Saharan inputs question’. Windy Day, Leicester, UK.
2019 - ‘The provenance of loess-palaeosol sequences along the Middle and Lower Danube’. BSRG, London, UK
2019 - ‘Provenance history of the late Quaternary loess records along the Middle and Lower Danube’. Loessfest, Yerevan, Armenia.
2019 - ‘Provenance history of the late Quaternary loess records along the Middle and Lower Danube’. XX INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
2018 - ‘Local, regional or global climatic signal? Provenance as a tool for understanding and interpreting loess’. LoessFest, Volgograd, Russia.
2018 - ‘Reassessing OSL geochronology for a loess-palaeosol profile at Erdut, Croatia’. UK Luminescence, Sheffield, UK.
2018 - ‘Regional and geomorphological controls on loess deposition during the late Quaternary at Slivata, North Bulgaria’. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
2017 - 'Provenance of Quaternary Loess along the Danube’. Climate and Chronology Seminar, Oxford.
2016 - ‘Reanalysis of the zircon single grain approaches to loess provenance on the Chinese Loess Plateau’. Loess2M- Modelling and Mapping, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2016 - ‘Single grain and statistical approaches to loess provenance – a case study from the Chinese Loess Plateau’. DUST 2016, Castellaneta Marina, Italy.
2014 - ‘Variability of dust provenance during MIS2 and MIS3 at Beiguoyuan, the Chinese Loess Plateau’. Kukla’s Loessfest – 7th Loess Seminar, Wroclaw University, Poland.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
2023 - ‘Sources of Danubian loess’. XXI INQUA Congress, Rome, Italy.
2023 - ‘Investigating and reconstructing complex sedimentary histories from loess – the Slivata story continued’. XXI INQUA Congress, Rome, Italy.
2023 - ‘Impact of analytical approaches on geochemical composition: Implication for palaeoenvironmental studies of loess’. XXI INQUA Congress, Rome, Italy.
2021 - ‘Integrated provenance approach: Combining OSL data with bulk sample geochemistry and zircon U-Pb ages’. LED, virtually.
2018 - ‘Local, regional or global climatic signal? A multiproxy analysis of complex loess sequences from the Bulgarian Middle Danube’. XX
INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
2015 - ‘Variability in Chinese loess single-grain provenance data and the influence of the Quaternary East Asian winter monsoon’. EGU
General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
2015 - ‘‘High-resolution single-grain record of last glacial dust provenance at Beiguoyuan, NW Chinese Loess Plateau’, XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya, Japan.
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