Lauren Geiser
- Email: eelg@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Exploring the growth of deep-sea bivalves in areas of potential seafloor mining
- Supervisors: Crispin Little, Dr Clare Woulds, Adrian Glover, Natural History Museum London
Profile
I am an interdisciplinary scientist with background in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and sustainability. I completed my undergraduate degree in the United States, my masters degree in Scotland, and am now working towards my PhD in England.
Research interests
I am interested in the burgeoning field of deep-sea mining, and in particular, its environmental impacts on the oceans and earth as a whole. Currently I am focusing on deep-sea bivalves (as well as gastropods and brachiopods) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an abyssal plane in the Pacific Ocean with high concentrations of polymetallic nodules that can be mined for manganese, nickel, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements.
Qualifications
- MSc Sustainability: Environmental Modelling - University of Dundee, 2021
- BS Biology - University of Dayton, 2019
- BS Mathematics - University of Dayton, 2019
- Minor Chemistry - University of Dayton, 2019
Research groups and institutes
- Earth Surface Science Institute
- Palaeo@Leeds
- water@leeds