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Graeme T. Swindles, University of Bradford.
Biography
Graeme's primary interests are associated with the development of quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstruction techniques for investigating Late Quaternary climate and environmental change and the application of high-resolution dating methods to palaeoenvironmental and archaeological contexts. His current primary research uses a multiproxy methodology based on testate amoebae, plant macrofossils and geochemistry to generate proxy climate records from peatlands in Ireland and Northern Britain. Associated with this, high-resolution chronological methods including tephra, spheroidal carbonaceous particles and 14C dating are used to tightly constrain the palaeoclimate records. These data are being used in the testing of climate forcing mechanisms and for the critical examination of the response and adaptation of past societies to climatic change.
Contact
g.t.swindles@bradford.ac.uk
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Research Interests
Palaeoecology - palaeoclimate - human response to climate change - geoarchaeology.
Themes
Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
Selected Publications
Swindles, G. T., Charman, D. J., Roe, H. M. and Sansum, P. A. (2009) Environmental
controls on peatland testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) in the North of
Ireland: Implications for Holocene palaeoclimate studies, Journal of
Paleolimnology, 42, 123-140.
Plunkett, G. and Swindles, G. T. (2008) Determining the Sun's influence on Late
Glacial and Holocene climates: a focus on climate response to
centennial-scale solar forcing at 2800 cal. BP, Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 175-184.
Roe, H. M. and Swindles, G. T. (2008) Post-glacial evolution of the Lower Dun
Valley, Co. Antrim: a re-examination of the Movius (1940) sections at
Cushendun, In: Whitehouse, N. J., Roe, H. M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.), North of Ireland: Field Guide. London: Quaternary Research
Association, 117-128.
Roe, H. M. and Swindles, G. T. (2008) Holocene sea-level history and coastal
evolution of Glenariff, County Antrim, In: Whitehouse, N. J., Roe, H. M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.), North of Ireland: Field Guide. London:
Quaternary Research Association, 106-116.
Swindles, G. T. (2008) Dead Island (Moyagoney) bog, County Londonderry, In: Whitehouse, N. J., Roe, H. M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.), North of Ireland:
Field Guide. London: Quaternary Research Association, 100-105.
Swindles, G. T., Plunkett, G. and Hall, V. A. (2008) Late Quaternary
tephrochronology of the North of Ireland, In: Whitehouse, N. J., Roe, H. M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.), North of Ireland: Field Guide. London:
Quaternary Research Association, 41-45.
Swindles, G. T., G. Plunkett & H. M. Roe (2007) A delayed climatic response
to solar forcing at 2800 cal. BP: multi-proxy evidence from three Irish
peatlands, The Holocene, 17, 177-182.
Swindles, G. T., Plunkett, G. and Roe, H. M. (2007) A multi-proxy climate record
from a raised bog in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland: a critical
examination of the link between bog surface wetness and solar variability,
Journal of Quaternary Science, 22, 667-679.