Outreach
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Communication of scientific results to academics and general audiences through peer reviewed publications, scientific conferences, seminars, workshops, and social media.
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Invited guest speaker to primary and secondary schools, research groups, and universities across the UK and USA (virtually), with talk topics covering topics such as paleoclimatology, volcanology, and the geography of natural hazards.
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Active member of COMET (Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics): a national-scale community with considerable size and impact that brings together world-leading scientists to help understand the hazards that volcanoes and earthquakes pose in the modern world.​
I was recently interviewed for the COMET Podcast, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/0ez9KZSQiJU -
Listed scientist for #AskaGeo and Skype-a-Scientist
Media
2025 - Our Soci.eaty podcast
"Episode 70: Digging up the past to predict the future with Dr Alice Paine"
Listen here
2025 - Oxford Earth Sciences Alumni magazine
"Spring 2025 Issue - Department Research Reports: Exploring the Quaternary mercury cycle"
Read the full article here
2024 - Science on the Radio podcast
"Episode 68: Palaeo-Environments"
Listen here
2024 - Pal(a)eoPERCS (Pal(a)eo EaRly Career Seminar
"Exploring the Quaternary mercury cycle"
Teaching
ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
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Miss Ruth Kiely – MSc (Research) – University of Amsterdam
Thesis Title: “Reconstructing Fire Severity and Intensity in Tropical West Africa during the Quaternary”
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Miss Amy Morgan – BSc – University of Durham
Thesis Title: “How certain are we about the timing of major climate change events in the late Pleistocene?”
(2022 - 2023)
LECTURES:
School of Geography, University of Leeds
BSc Climate Science/BSc Environmental Geoscience/BSc Geophysics (2023)
Module(s): Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamics (Level 3)
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School of Geography, University of Leeds
BA Geology/MEarthSc (2022)
Module(s): GEOG1055: Environmental Change: Past, Present, and Future (Level 1)
TUTORIALS:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
BSc Earth Sciences (2020 - present)
Module(s): Volcanology & Igneous Petrogenesis (Level 3)
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham
MSci Earth Sciences/BSc Geology/BSc Geoscience (2019 - 2020)
Module(s): Earth Materials (Level 1), Earth System & Climate (Level 3)