Professor Jonathan Holmes

UCL Websites: Professor Jonathan Holmes and Environmental Change Research Centre

Biography:

My research is concerned with the reconstruction and understanding of late Pleistocene and Holocene environments, abrupt climate change, human–climate interactions and data–model comparisons. I have specific expertise in the geochemical and micropalaeontological analyses of lake-sediments and have worked in northern India, China, West Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.

Research Projects:

• Climate variability over the circum-Caribbean region during the past 1200 years from oxygen-isotope analyses of lake sediments (NERC)

• Detecting Change in Local Ponds (Royal Society Partnership Grant)

• Recent publications relevant to the Anthropocene 

• Roberts, LR, Sayer, CD, Hoare, D, Tomlinson, M, Holmes, JA, Horne, DJ, Kelly, A. (2019) The role of monitoring, documentary and archival records for coastal shallow lake management. Geo: Geography and Environment, 6 (2) , Article e00083. 

• Burn, M. J., Holmes, J. A., Kennedy, L. M., Bain, A., Marshall, J. D.,  Perdikaris, S. (2016) A sediment-based reconstruction of Caribbean effective precipitation during the ‘Little Ice Age’ from Freshwater Pond, Barbuda. The Holocene 26, 1237-1247.

• Jones, M. D., Djamali, M., Holmes, J., Weeks, J. L., Leng, M. J., Lashkari, A., Alamdari, K., Noorollahi, D., Thomas, L.,  Metcalfe, S. E. (2015) Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene.  The Holocene, 25, 1651-1661.

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