Graeme Swindles, Queen’s University Belfast

Graeme has broad research interests in Earth System Science and work on topics concerning both past, present and future environmental and climatic change. He works in a diverse range of environments from Arctic tundra to tropical rainforests and many places in-between.

His specific research foci include:
1. Climate change in the past-present-future;
2. Long-term eco-hydrological dynamics and functioning of temperate, tropical and subarctic peatlands;
3. Limnology and Palaeolimnology;
4. Testate amoebae as environmental indicators in peatlands and lakes;
5. High-resolution dating methods including tephrochronology;
6. Critical examination of past human response and adaptation to climate change;
7. Use of temporal data and probability modelling in geohazards research;
8. Use of quantitative reconstruction and statistical modelling techniques for understanding climatic and environmental change;
9. Extreme events;
10. Human-environment relations in the past-present-future, the Anthropocene, and the impacts of humans on Planet Earth;
11.Numerical methods in ecological and geological research (particularly using R).