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In Search of Vibrant Matter: A Polar Exploration (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, V. (2015, December). In Search of Vibrant Matter: A Polar Exploration. Paper presented at Third Annual Land2/ PLaCE , International Postgraduate Event, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design, Dundee

Beach ridges as paleoseismic indicators of abrupt coastal subsidence during subduction zone earthquakes, and implications for Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone paleoseismology, southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (2015)
Journal Article
Kelsey, H. M., Witter, R. C., Engelhart, S. E., Briggs, R., Nelson, A., Haeussler, P., & Corbett, D. (2015). Beach ridges as paleoseismic indicators of abrupt coastal subsidence during subduction zone earthquakes, and implications for Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone paleoseismology, southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.006

A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory (2015)
Journal Article
Scott-Samuel, A., & Bambra, C. (2016). A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory. International Journal of Health Services, 46(1), 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731415625252

For more than 30 years, socialism within the UK Labour Party – which was in government from 1997 to 2010 and is currently the main UK parliamentary opposition – has been in decline. Despite its origins as a party of and for the working class, Labour... Read More about A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory.

Glacial landscape evolution in the Uummannaq region, West Greenland (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, T., Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Rea, B., & Vieli, A. (2016). Glacial landscape evolution in the Uummannaq region, West Greenland. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 45(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12150

The Uummannaq region is a mosaic of glacial landsystems, consistent with hypothesized landscape distribution resulting from variations in subglacial thermal regime. The region is dominated by selective linear erosion that has spatially and altitudina... Read More about Glacial landscape evolution in the Uummannaq region, West Greenland.

An extensive subglacial lake and canyon system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica (2015)
Journal Article
Jamieson, S., Ross, N., Greenbaum, J., Young, D., Aitken, A., Roberts, J., …Siegert, M. (2016). An extensive subglacial lake and canyon system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. Geology, 44(2), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.1130/g37220.1

The subglacial landscape of Princess Elizabeth Land (PEL) in East Antarctica is poorly known due to a paucity of ice thickness measurements. This is problematic given its importance for understanding ice sheet dynamics and landscape and climate evolu... Read More about An extensive subglacial lake and canyon system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica.

Sea-level constraints on the amplitude and source distribution of Meltwater Pulse 1A (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Milne, G., Kopp, R., Clark, P., & Shennan, I. (2016). Sea-level constraints on the amplitude and source distribution of Meltwater Pulse 1A. Nature Geoscience, 9(2), 130-134. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2616

During the last deglaciation, sea levels rose as ice sheets retreated. This climate transition was punctuated by periods of more intense melting; the largest and most rapid of these—Meltwater Pulse 1A—occurred about 14,500 years ago, with rates of se... Read More about Sea-level constraints on the amplitude and source distribution of Meltwater Pulse 1A.

Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality (2015)
Journal Article
Lake, A., Warren, J., Copeland, A., Rushmer, R., & Bambra, C. (2016). Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality. Journal of Public Health, 38(4), e446-e454. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv172

Background This paper presents the results of an exercise to scope the potential of a virtual network to support dissemination, collaboration and innovation among the UK research community on the topic of ‘work and health and well-being’. Methods Thr... Read More about Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality.

The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland (2015)
Journal Article
Lane, T., Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Vieli, A., & Moreton, S. (2015). The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland. Arktos (Cham. Internet), 1(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41063-015-0017-5

This paper presents a new, detailed geomorphological and sedimentological appraisal of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, a remote area of West Greenland that has only been subjected to limited geomorphological and sedimentological research. Despite this... Read More about The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland.

Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings (2015)
Journal Article
Hodgson, D., Bentley, M., Smith, J., Klepacki, J., Makinson, K., Smith, A., …Siegert, M. (2016). Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2059), Article 20150056. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0056

Accumulations of sediment beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet contain a range of physical and chemical proxies with the potential to document changes in ice sheet history and to identify and characterize life in subglacial settings. Retrieving subglacial... Read More about Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings.

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling (2015)
Journal Article
Makinson, K., Pearce, D., Hodgson, D., Bentley, M., Smith, A., Tranter, M., …Siegert, M. (2016). Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2059), Article 20140304. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0304

Accessing and sampling subglacial environments deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet presents several challenges to existing drilling technologies. With over half of the ice sheet believed to be resting on a wet bed, drilling down to this environment... Read More about Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling.

Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites (2015)
Journal Article
Becker, H., & Dale, C. (2016). Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 81(1), 369-440. https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2016.81.7

Tectonically emplaced mantle rocks, such as ophiolites, abyssal peridotites, and orogenic peridotite massifs, provide a principle constraint on the composition of and processes in the Earth’s upper mantle (Bodinier and Godard 2003). In the past, thes... Read More about Re-Pt-Os Isotopic and Highly Siderophile Element Behavior in Oceanic and Continental Mantle Tectonites.

Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
Stevenson, M. A., McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Foy, R. H., Leavitt, P. R., McElarney, Y. R., …Pla-Rabés, S. (2016). Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland. Global Change Biology, 22(4), 1490-1504. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13194

Planted forests are increasing in many upland regions worldwide, but knowledge about their potential effects on algal communities of catchment lakes is relatively unknown. Here, the effects of afforestation were investigated using palaeolimnology at... Read More about Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland.

Recent (Late Amazonian) enhanced backweathering rates on Mars: Paracratering evidence from gully alcoves (2015)
Journal Article
De Haas, T., Conway, S., & Krautblatter, M. (2015). Recent (Late Amazonian) enhanced backweathering rates on Mars: Paracratering evidence from gully alcoves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 120(12), 2169-2189. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015je004915

Mars is believed to have been exposed to low planet-wide weathering and denudation since the Noachian. However, the widespread occurrence of alcoves at the rim of pristine impact craters suggests locally enhanced recent backweathering rates. Here we... Read More about Recent (Late Amazonian) enhanced backweathering rates on Mars: Paracratering evidence from gully alcoves.

Surface and sub-surface multi-proxy reconstruction of middle to late Holocene palaeoceanographic changes in Disko Bugt, West Greenland (2015)
Journal Article
Moros, M., Lloyd, J., Perner, K., Krawczyk, D., Blanz, T., Kuijpers, A., …Jansen, E. (2016). Surface and sub-surface multi-proxy reconstruction of middle to late Holocene palaeoceanographic changes in Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 132, 146-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.017

We present new surface water proxy records of meltwater production (alkenone derived), relative sea surface temperature (diatom, alkenones) and sea ice (diatoms) changes from the Disko Bugt area off central West Greenland. We combine these new surfac... Read More about Surface and sub-surface multi-proxy reconstruction of middle to late Holocene palaeoceanographic changes in Disko Bugt, West Greenland.

A mid to late Holocene cryptotephra framework from eastern North America (2015)
Journal Article
Mackay, H., Hughes, P. D., Jensen, B. J., Langdon, P. G., Pyne-O'Donnell, S. D., Plunkett, G., …Gardner, J. E. (2016). A mid to late Holocene cryptotephra framework from eastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 132, 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.011

Holocene cryptotephras of Alaskan and Pacific Northwestern origin have recently been detected ca. 7000 km away on the east coast of North America. This study extends the emerging North American tephrochronological framework by geochemically character... Read More about A mid to late Holocene cryptotephra framework from eastern North America.