Project Team

Mark Ormerod.
Professor of Clean Technology
email: r.m.ormerod@keele.ac.uk

Mark is Professor of Clean Technology in the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences at Keele University.

Mark's research is focused on Clean Technology, with a particular focus on making better use of resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollutants, through fuel cells, environmental catalysis and the use of renewable biofuels, particularly animal and vegetable waste.

He has been involved in school outreach activity and promoting awareness and understanding of science for 10 years, and regularly gives public lectures on renewable energy, climate change and promoting more sustainable energy

Dr Zoe Robinson.
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science
email: z.p.robinson@keele.ac.uk

Zoe is a lecturer in Physical Geography in the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences at Keele University.

Zoe's teaching includes the causes and consequences of climate change, environmental pollution, and water resource issues.

Her research interests include the effect of climate change on water resources in glacial environments, links between chemical weathering and climate in glacial environments, environmental citizenship, and evaluating changes to behaviour through public engagement of science activities.

Nicola Ruston
Environmental Education Officer
email : n.ruston@esci.keele.ac.uk

Nicola is the environmental education officer within the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences at Keele University.

Nicola has a very strong passion for conservation, the environment and raising awareness to students and the wider public through her work. Its Nicolas responsibility to design and deliver the science for sustainability workshops at schools and events across the county and further afield. Nicolas teaching includes the wide range of workshops we already deliver and specific workshops tailored to schools requirements.

Before working as the environmental education officer at Keele university Nicola spent a year and a half as an education project officer at Chester Zoo. This entailed engaging families and getting them involved and pro active about the environment and ways they could make a difference from saving the rainforest, reducing their pollution and the illegal wildlife trade. Nicola took two months out early in 2009 to research coral bleaching and the economic and social benefits of marine protected areas in Mauritius. Many of the projects Nicola have been involved in over the past four years in Africa have been centred around community and youth involvement.