Lauren Geiser

Lauren Geiser
University of Leedsย ยทย School of Earth and Environment

PhD Candidate
Studying the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining & the recovery of affected deep ecosystems & bivalve populations

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Introduction
PhD candidate: The growth of deep-sea bivalves in areas of potential sea-floor mining (supervisors Prof. Crispin T. S. Little, Dr. Adrian Glover, Prof. Clare Woulds); MSc (1st) Sustainability: Environmental Modeling; BS (Hons) Biology, BS (Hons) Mathematics, minor Chemistry; The world's leading expert (maybe) on ๐˜•๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ, a deep-sea bivalve of the Pacific Ocean :)
Additional affiliations
December 2019 - September 2020
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Position
  • Biorepository Medical Laboratory Assistant
May 2019 - November 2019
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage
Position
  • Farm & Homestead Inern
May 2017 - August 2017
UConn Health Center
Position
  • Summer intern
Description
  • Network Analysis & Time Series Modeling of Healthcare Data With Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD; Jason Cory Brunson, PhD; Beverly Setzer
Education
September 2020 - September 2021
University of Dundee
Field of study
  • Sustainability: Environmental Modelling
December 2019 - January 2020
SDG Academy
Field of study
  • Water: Addressing the Global Crisis
August 2015 - May 2019
University of Dayton
Field of study
  • Mathematics

Publications

Publications (8)
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The deep-sea is the largest continuous ecosystem on Earth, yet it remains one of the least understood by scientists. Exploitation of the deep-sea takes several forms including commercial fishing and, in the near future, mining. Bottom trawling is a destructive, nonselective fishing method that is well established all over the world. Consequently, i...
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The oceans play a critical role when it comes to climate change resilience. Its ecosystem services help to sequester carbon, regulate climate, generate oxygen, boost biodiversity, and provide resources for the entire planet. However, the oceans are being disproportionately affected by climate change, as they have absorbed the majority of anthropoge...
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Seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) at hydrothermal vents present huge opportunity for deep-sea mining (DSM) due to their abundance and high mineral grade. Little is known about the deep-sea; however, hydrothermal vents are some of the most biologically active deep-sea ecosystems, providing significant biodiversity and other ecosystem services that mai...
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Despite EIA being established over 50 years ago, environmental degradation is still occurring on the large-scale, often a result of substantial development projects that do in fact undergo EIA processes. This brings into question the effectiveness of the EIAโ€”why does EIA not prevent adverse environmental impacts, and how can it be improved? Apparen...
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โ€ข Background and rationale โ€ข Aim and objectives โ€ข Methodology โ€ข Impact/dissemination โ€ข Gantt chart
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Manganese (Mn) is classified as a critical mineral due to its uses in steel production. This role will become increasingly important during the transition to a low-carbon economy (LCE) as a response to climate change. Currently, Mn is mined terrestrially, but the prospects of deep-sea mining (DSM) are becoming more feasible. DSM has previously been...
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Tidal energy is an attractive form of renewable energy (RE) as it is clean, predictable, and can theoretically be installed wherever there is coastline. Both the United Kingdom (UK) and France hold great potential in tidal energy capacity. However, to date tidal energy has not made a significant penetration in the global RE market, due to high cost...
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AND-OR networks are Boolean networks where each coordinate function is either the AND or OR logical operator. We study the number of fixed points of these Boolean networks in the case that they have a wiring diagram with chain topology. We find closed formulas for subclasses of these networks and recursive formulas in the general case. Our results...

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