Prof Mike Walker

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Professor Mike Walker: Honorary Professor. Mike's main research interests are in the Late Quaternary, and especially in the Lateglacial (15-10 k cal yrs BP), a period on which he has been working for more than 40 years. He is particularly interested in short-term climate change, its impact on landscape, and its manifestation in proxy records. His research has also been concerned with aspects of stratigraphy and chronology, especially radiocarbon dating, during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition. He has published more than 160 scientific papers and other contributions, including three Quaternary textbooks: Reconstructing Quaternary Environments (with John Lowe), 1st edition 1984, 2nd edition 1997, 3rd edition 2015; Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human Perspectives (with Martin Bell), 1st edition 1992, 2nd edition 2005; and Quaternary Dating Methods, 2005.He is Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science in the University of Wales, Lampeter, and in 2014 was awarded the James Croll Medal by the Quaternary Research Association of Great Britain.

In 2019, his co-authored textbook Reconstructing Quaternary Environments received a Special Recognition Award at the 4-yearly Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research in Dublin.

Publications

Head, MJ, Aubry, MP, Piller, WE & Walker, M 2023, 'Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype (SABS) approved to support the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)', Episodes, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 99-100. 10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022044
Head, MJ, Aubry, MP, Piller, WE & Walker, M 2023, 'The Standard Auxiliary Boundary Stratotype: A proposed replacement for the Auxiliary Stratotype Point in supporting a Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)', Episodes, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 35-45. 10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022012
Edgeworth, M, Gibbard, P, Walker, M, Merritts, D, Finney, S & Maslin, M 2023, 'The stratigraphic basis of the Anthropocene Event', Quaternary Science Advances , vol. 11, 100088. 10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100088
Jones, G, Davies, SM, Staff, RA, Loader, NJ, Davies, S & Walker, M 2020, 'Traces of volcanic ash from the Mediterranean, Iceland and North America in a Holocene record from South Wales, UK', Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 163-174. 10.1002/jqs.3141
Walker, M & Lowe, J 2019, 'Lateglacial environmental change in Scotland', Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 110, no. 1-2, pp. 173-198. 10.1017/S1755691017000184
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