Personal Statement
My name is Dr Kasey Clark, and since 2022, I've been a lecturer in Environmental Change in the Department of Geography and Planning in the School of Environmental Science at the University of Liverpool. I am a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama.

From October 2025, I am currently the Faculty of Science and Engineering (S&E) Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing (EDI&W) Lead and the Faculty of S&E Race Equality Charter (REC) Liaison. From 2023-2025, I was the deputy Chair for the School of Environmental Science Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity Committee (DEIC) and was part of the successful SoES Athena Swan Gold Self-Assessment Team (SAT) in 2025. I completed the PGCAP in 2023 and was awarded Fellowship of Advance Higher Education (FHEA) in 2024. I was the Lecturer of the Year for the University of Liverpool in 2024 for my work on inclusive fieldclass practices. Lecturer of the Year 2024: Dr Kasey Clark

Before becoming a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, I was a postdoctoral researcher at STRI, the University of Calgary, and the University of Pennsylvania. I received my DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, my Master's from McGill University, and my Bachelors from the University of Windsor in Canada. I've carried out fieldwork from the Canadian Arctic to the Peruvian Amazon.

Research Overview
I am interested in the role that rivers play in carbon cycle, coastal processes and how they are influenced by hydrological processes and anthropogenic change.

The overall goal of my research is: 1) to gain a greater insight into processes driving terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and sediment fluxes; 2) to assess how river fluxes impact lake and marine biogeochemical cycles; and 3) to determine how anthropogenic, climate change and land-use drivers enhance or dampen these natural cycles.

I have a wide variety of research interests including the following mostly in the humid tropics: terrestrial and climate influence at the land-ocean interface; earth surface processes (landslide dynamics); critical zone science; river biogeochemistry (carbon and nitrogen); impacts of extreme events (drought and rainfall); river particulate organic carbon (POC) export; river suspended sediment export; river nutrients and water quality; catchment hydrology; impact of land-use and land cover (LULC) on soil, rivers, and erosion; mangrove dieback; and marine hypoxia.

I use a variety of methods in my research in part because I carry out a lot of research in the tropics where you need to collect most of the data yourself.

In the field: tropical field measurements; river and marine water sampling; water filtration for suspended & dissolved load; coupled river, rainfall and marine sampling and monitoring; and soil and vegetation sampling; ISCO river water samplers to measure flooding events; cross-section river discharge measurements; river height continuous measurements using loggers.

In the lab: carbon and nitrogen analysis of sediment using an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometre (IRMS) and elemental analyser (C, N); water filtration; sediment, soil, and vegetation preparation for analytical analyses.

In the computer lab: LoadEstimator for river constituents loads (LoadEst); stage height or concentration discharge rating curves; mapping of landslides or land cover using satellite imagery (Landsat, Quickbird/Worldview, air photos); end-member mixing models; variety of techniques in ArcGIS (classification of land cover, interpolation of rainfall patterns and catchment distribution, and map making); rain event separation; catchment carbon mapping.