Contact

Name

Christopher Marshall
Position

Peatland Scientist
E-Mail Address

chris.marshall@uhi.ac.uk
Joined the ERI

April 13, 2020
Job Description

My research focuses on examining landscape scale peatland processes in the present and geological past to understand the controls on peatland resilience to future climatic change.

  • I am currently contributing to a Leverhulme leadership award examining how satellite radar can be used to assess future peatland resilience and the NERC funded ‘Fire Blanket’ project assessing the impact of large fires in the Flow Country in 2019.
  • I am involved in a project in conjunction with Forestry and Land Scotland and Peatland Action to assess how bog breathing characteristics as measured by satellite radar can be used to determine peatland condition and assess the effectiveness of peatland restoration at a national scale.
  • I am working with colleagues at the University Centre in Svalbard  to examine what high latitude coals can tell us about peat formation in a warm Arctic.

Career

  • 2013 – 2015 – University of Nottingham – Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Coal Geology – Landscape hydrology of high latitude coals and coal as a high resolution dust deposition record.
  • 2013/2014 – Store Norske AS, Spitsbergen, Assistant Geologist, Sedimentary core logging of coal bearing sediment in Spitsbergen.
  • 2016-2017 – University of Nottingham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Peatland Science – Feasibility study examining use of satellite radar to examine tropical peatland condtion.
  • 2017-2019 – University of Nottingham/UHI, Postdoctoral Research Fellow InSAR ToPS project – Validation of satellite radar over the Flow Country using precision levelling.
  • 2019-2020 – University of Nottingham, Peatland Scientist, Pilot study examining use of ‘bog breathing’ as a national peatland condition monitoring tool with Peatland Action and Forestry and Land Scotland.

Qualifications

  • 2005-2008 BSc(hons) Environmental Geology University of Leeds
  • 2008-2009 MSc Geochemistry University of Leeds
  • 2009-2013 PhD Geology Palaeogeographic development and economic potential of the Palaeocene coal bearing Todalen Formation, Spitsbergen

Publications

  • Alshammari, Lubna, Doreen S. Boyd, Andrew Sowter, Chris Marshall, Roxane Andersen, Peter Gilbert, Stuart Marsh, and David J. Large. “Use of Surface Motion Characteristics Determined by Insar to Assess Peatland Condition.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125, no. 1 (2020/01/01 2020): e2018JG004953. Accessed 2020/05/19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004953.

 

  • Large, David J. and Chris Marshall. “Use of Carbon Accumulation Rates to Estimate the Duration of Coal Seams and the Influence of Atmospheric Dust Deposition on Coal Composition.” Geological Society, London, Special Publications 404, no. 1 (2015): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP404.15.

 

  • Marshall, Chris, David J. Large, Ahmed Athab, Stephanie L. Evers, Andrew Sowter, Stuart Marsh, and Sofie Sjögersten. “Monitoring Tropical Peat Related Settlement Using Isbas Insar, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Klia).” Engineering Geology 244 (2018/10/03/ 2018): 57-65. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2018.07.015.

 

 

  • Marshall, Chris, David J. Large, William Meredith, Colin E. Snape, Clement Uguna, Baruch F. Spiro, Alv Orheim, Malte Jochmann, Ikechukwu Mokogwu, Yukun Wang, and Bjarki Friis. “Geochemistry and Petrology of Palaeocene Coals from Spitsbergen — Part 1: Oil Potential and Depositional Environment.” International Journal of Coal Geology 143 (2015/04/01/ 2015): 22-33. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2015.03.006.

 

  • Marshall, Chris, Jacob Uguna, David J. Large, William Meredith, Malte Jochmann, Bjarki Friis, Chris Vane, Baruch F. Spiro, Colin E. Snape, and Alv Orheim. “Geochemistry and Petrology of Palaeocene Coals from Spitzbergen — Part 2: Maturity Variations and Implications for Local and Regional Burial Models.” International Journal of Coal Geology 143 (2015/04/01/ 2015): 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2015.03.013.

 

  • Sterk, Henk Pieter, Iain Detrey, Chris Marshall, Neil R. Cowie, Richard Payne, Jason McIlvenny, and Roxane Andersen. “Capturing Gas Fluxes on Your Phone: An Ios- and Android-Based Data-Logging Setup for Egm-4 Environmental Gas Monitoring Systems.” Journal of Environmental Quality 48, no. 5 (2019/09/01 2019): 1557-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2019.04.0163

 

  • Large, D. J., Marshall, C., Jochmann, M., Jensen, M., Spiro, B. F., & Olaussen, S. (2021). Time, hydrologic landscape and the long-term storage of peatland carbon in sedimentary basins. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126, e2020JF005762 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005762

 

 

  • Marshall, C., Sterk, H., Gilbert, P., Andersen, R., Bradley, A., Sowter, A., Marsh, S. and Large, D., 2022. Multiscale Variability and the Comparison of Ground and Satellite Radar Based Measures of Peatland Surface Motion for Peatland Monitoring. Remote Sensing, 14(2), p.336 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020336

 

  • Bradley, A., Andersen, R., Marshall, C., Sowter, A. and Large, D., 2022. Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition. Earth Surface Dynamics, 10(2), pp.261-277. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-261-2022

 

  • Islam, M. T., Bradley, A. V., Sowter, A., Andersen, R., Marshall, C., Long, M., Large, D. J. 2022. Potential use of APSIS-InSAR measures of the range of vertical surface motion to improve hazard assessment of peat landslides. Mires and Peat, 28, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2021.OMB.StA.2356

 

  • Sterk, H.P., Marshall, C., Cowie. N., Clutterbuck, B., McIlvenney, J., Andersen, R.  Blanket bog CO 2 flux driven by plant functional type during summer drought, Ecohydrology (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2503

 

  • Bradley, A.V., Mitchell, E., Dryden, I., Fallaize, C., Islam, M.T., Large, D.J., Andersen, R., Marshall, C. 2022 Analysis of an InSAR “bog breathing” based classification of peatland condition relative to field observations in Cairnsmore NNR, NatureScot Research Report. (In Press)

 

  • Uguna, J.O., Carr, A.D., Marshall, C., Large, D.J., Meredith, W., Jochmann, M., Snape, C.E., Vane, C.H., Jensen, M., Olaussen, S.(2017): Improving spatial predictability of petroleum resources within the Central Tertiary Basin, Spitsbergen: a geochemical and petrographic study of coals from the eastern and western coalfields. International Journal of Coal Geology 2017 ;Volume 179. s. 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2017.06.007