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Chris Rolfe BSc

Senior Research Technician

Geologist providing laboratory and field support to the department with interests in Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology and Coastal studies.

• On behalf of the Laboratory Manager, responsible for the day-to-day organisation and maintenance of the Physical Geography Laboratories.
• Assisting the Laboratory Manager with the implementation of research programmes.
• Giving guidance, advice and training to undergraduate and graduate students on the laboratory and field techniques and use of apparatus.
• Providing assistance with all aspects of fieldwork for both teaching and research.
• Setting up, operating and maintaining analytical instruments.
• Running procedures for extractions and analyses of samples.
• Providing laboratory and field support in particular to the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group (QPG), which is part of Cambridge Quaternary.
• Responsible for the loan of departmental field equipment as part of the Fieldwork Equipment Service, operated primarily through the Physical Geography Laboratories.

Biography

Career:

• 2001 - present: Senior Research Technician, Physical Geography Laboratories
• 1999 - 2001: Environmental Technician, carrying out field monitoring with follow up laboratory analysis.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Applied Environmental Geology 2:1

External activities

• Member, Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
• Member, British Society for Geomorphology (BSG)
• Member, Ussher Society (Geoscience in South West of England)
• Member, The Devonshire Association
• Member, Exmoor Society
• Member, Lundy Field Society