Recent Projects

Eurasia

2007-2010 Reconstructing Late Holocene climate variability in North East China from varved maar lake sediments. Funding body: NERC NIGL. Co-investigators Virginia Panizzo & Melanie Leng. Amount awarded: £13,300. Reference: IP/981/0507.

2006-2010 Baikal Aracheology Project. Funding body: Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Principal Investigator: - Prof. Andrzej Weber, Anthropology, University of Alberta, Canada.

2006-2007 A diatom reconstruction of the Les Echets Eemian sequence, France. Funding body: Postdoctorat Quadriennal, CNRS program, IMEP (UMR 6116 CDNRS, FST-U3). Principal Investigators: - Dr V. Andrieu-Ponel, CNRS; Dr Anson W Mackay, UCL; Dr P. Rioual, Department of Geology of the University of Beijing (China). Post-doctoral scientist: Dr DW Morley.

2006-2007 Reconstructing climate variability in Inner Mongolia over the last 1000 years. Funding body: Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCL Simon Li Research Fund. Principal Investigators: Dr Luo Wang & Dr Anson W. Mackay.

2003-2005 Reconstructing palaeoclimates during MIS 11 in central Asia using oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica. Funding body: NERC NIGL. Co-investigators Eugene Karabanov & Melanie Leng. Amount awarded: £33,000. Reference: IP/740/0302.

2003-2005 CLIMAN: Holocene climatic variability and evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea Basin. With Hedi Oberhaensli + others. Funding body: INTAS. Total award: €120,000. Reference: INTAS Aral 30.

2001-2004 CONTINENT: High-resolution continental paleoclimate record from Lake Baikal: a key site for Eurasian teleconnections to the North Atlantic Ocean and monsoonal system. With Oberhaensli (co-ordinator) + other co-investigators. Funding body: EU Framework 5. Amount awarded: c. €2,000,000. Reference: EVK2-CT-2000-0057.

2001-2003 Biological, chemical and physical monitoring of Lake Baikal water column. Funding body: The Royal Society. Amount awarded c. £15,000.

2001-2002 Climatic change in Central Asia during marine isotope stage 3: biogenic silica analysis . Funding body: NERC ICP-AES Centre. Co-investigator: George Swann. Award No.: OSS/221/050. Amount £1,000.

2000-2001 Reconstructing Late Glacial - Holocene climate change in Lake Baikal using oxygen isotope analysis of endemic lacustrine diatoms. Funding body: NERC NIGL. Amount awarded: £32,000. Reference: IP/635/0300.

1996-1999 The deposition and accumulation of endemic planktonic diatoms in the sediments of Lake Baikal and an evaluation of their potential role in climate reconstruction during the Holocene . Funding source NERC. Reference GR3/10529. Amount awarded £121,404. PIs: Prof. R.W. Battarbee & Dr. R.J. Flower.

Africa

2006-2009 Monitoring and simulating threats to aquatic biodiversity in the Okavango Delta. Funding body: DEFRA DARWIN Programme. co-PI: Martin Todd. Amount awarded c. £188,000.

2004-2005 Climatic change in tropical Africa during the last interglacial. Funding body: NERC NIGL. Co-investigator: Jo Thorpe, Martin Trauth, Melanie Leng. Ref: IP/816/05-04. Amount awarded: £20,000.

2004-2005 Climatic change in southern Africa during the last interglacial : chronology development. Funding body: NERC NIGL. Co-investigator: Jo Thorpe & Open University Uranium-Series Facility. Amount awarded: £15,000. Ref: IP/793/1103.

2004 Late Holocene changes in alpine vegetation of the Rwenzori Mountains: Short Term Visit grant to the UK for Visiting Scientist: Dr Immaculate Ssemmanda, Uganda. Funding body: The Royal Society. Amount £3,360. With Richard Taylor.

2003-2004 Climate change threatens aquatic ecosystems of the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa. Funding bodies: various, including Royal Geographical Society £7,500; QRA £360; Grad school & Dean's Fund: c. £2,500 . PI & Expedition leader: Richard Taylor. With Neil Rose, Ginnie Pannizo, Lucinda Mileham and Adinah Shackleton.

Others: Principal or Co - Investigator

2000 - 2005 Biological, chemical and physical monitoring of Lake Baikal water column. Funding bodies: Royal Society and Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. Amount awarded: c. £10k per year. With Nick Granin (Limnological Institute) and David Jewson.

1998 Holocene Climate Reconstruction. With Rick Battarbee. Funding Source: EU Framework 4 for an 11 day Advanced Study Course. Amount awarded: €79,000. Reference: ENV4-CT97-4013. Course Dates: 15th June - 25th June, 1998. See Advanced textbook Global Change in the Holocene (2003).

1992 Dating recent vegetation changes at the Forest of Bowland since the last 2000 yrs. Amount: £3,400. Funding body: NERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory

Others: Recognised Researcher

1996 -1999 The deposition and accumulation of endemic planktonic diatoms in the sediments of Lake Baikal and an evaluation of their potential role in climate reconstruction during the Holocene. Funding body: NERC (GR3/10529). Amount: £120k. PIs: Rick Battarbee, Roger Flower, Mike Sturm, David Jewson.