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Research interests

Climate change - Using a wide-range of deposits, especially stalagmites from caves, but also bone, coral and sediments, to obtain high-resolution records of past temperature, sea levels, vegetation change, faunal evolution. 

Geochronology -High-precision dating techniques to obtain chronological control on change in the Earth System (principally uranium-series and radiocarbon methods).

Environmental radioactivity - Developing novel protocols to explore source and pathways of radionuclides, particularly caesium, plutonium and uranium.

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cabot Institute Low Carbon Energy Research
  • Cabot Institute Natural Hazards and Disasters Research
  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research

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  • In memoria: Professor Peter Haggett (1933 – 2025)

    Harris , R. J., Hoare, A. G., Jones, K., Richards, D. A. & Wylie, J., 3 May 2025, In: The Geographical Journal. 191, 2, 4 p., e70006.

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  • The Gulf Stream moved northward at the end of the Little Ice Age

    Forman, E., Baldini, J. U. L., Jamieson, R. A., Lechleitner, F. A., Walczak, I. W., Nita, D. C., Smith, S. R., Richards, D. A., Baldini, L. M., McIntyre, C., Müller, W. & Peters, A. J., 14 Jul 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 6, 1, 552.

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  • Development of the IntCal database

    Bronk Ramsey, C., Adolphi, F., Austin, W. E. N., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Blaauw, M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Friedrich, M., Heaton, T. J., Hogg, A., Hua, Q., Hughen, K. A., Kromer, B., Manning, S. W., Muscheler, R., Palmer, J., Pearson, C., Reimer, P. J. & Reimer, R. W. & 5 others, Richards, D. A., Scott, E. M., Southon, J. R., Turney, C. & Wacker, L., 1 Dec 2024, In: Radiocarbon. 66, 6, p. 1852-1868 17 p.

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