LEAH FORSYTHE
Leah is a PhD student in the Structural Geology and Tectonics group. She received her BSc in Geography-geoscience from the University of Aberdeen (November 2021) and her MSc in Geology from ETH Zürich (August 2025). In between her BSc and MSc, Leah worked as a geoscience tutor and activities instructor at the Lochranza field centre, Isle of Arran.
Leah started her PhD in October 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Whitney Behr. She studies Cryogenian diamictites, with the aim of utilising these ancient archives to understand subglacial rheology and deformation behaviour of tills. Her main field sites are in Scotland and Norway.
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