Combining Earth surface system science and creative writing, Kate’s research seeks to better understand biodiversity crises, rising extinction rates and rapid climate in the context of deep, geological time, whilst complicating what is meant by ‘ecopoetics’ and environmental literature.

Kate has conducted fieldwork across the globe, studying Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Points, from World Heritage Sites that document mass extinction events to UNESCO-protected reserves that story evolutionary radiations. She has collaborated with scientists from Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Iceland, and the Museum of Nature, South Tyrol.

She has published research articles with Cambridge University Press, has presented at Kew Gardens, The Geological Society, the Rachel Carson Center, the Universities of Cologne, Cork, Galway, Iceland and Munich, and has received grants from The Leverhulme Trust, the Natural Environment Research Council and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (funded by the European Union).