Queen's University, Belfast

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Pronouns He/Him/His
Current Position Professor of Physical Geography
Previous Position Associate Professor of Earth System Dynamics, University of Leeds
Telephone +44 (0)28 9097 3371
Email g.swindles@qub.ac.uk
Departments School of Natural and Built Environment
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Quadrat Core Themes Biodiversity, Earth Systems
Methods I Use Bio / Geo / Chemical Analytical, Modelling, Numerical/Statistical Analysis
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General

Phonetic spelling of name: Grayham Swindles

 

Key Research Interests

  • Climate change, extreme events, short and long-term ecology;
  • Long-term eco-hydrological dynamics and functioning of temperate, tropical and subarctic peatlands;
  • Testate amoebae as environmental indicators;
  • Critical examination of past human response and adaptation to climate change;
  • Human-environment relations in the past-present-future, the Anthropocene, and the impacts of humans on Planet Earth.

Recent Key Papers

Summary Title of Current Studentships

  • Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of global peatland fire
  • QUADRAT DTP student, Ellie Purdy: Arctic peatland response to climate change: carbon bomb or self-repair?