Queen's University, Belfast
| Pronouns | He/Him/His |
| Current Position | Senior Lecturer |
| Previous Position | Lecturer |
| Telephone | +44 (0) 2890973895 |
| maarten.blaauw@qub.ac.uk | |
| Departments | School of Natural and Built Environment |
| ECR | No |
| Quadrat Core Themes | Biodiversity, Earth Systems |
| Methods I Use | Modelling |
| Profiles |
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ORCIDKey Research Interests
- Combining palaeoecology, statistics and other areas such as geography, archaeology and ecology
- Radiocarbon dating of peat and lake records
- Assessing and visualising uncertainties
- Bayesian age-modelling
Recent Key Papers
- Aquino Lopez, M.A., Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Sanderson, N., 2018. Bayesian analysis of 210Pb dating. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 23, 317-333
- Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Bennett, K.D., Reimer, P.J., 2018. Double the dates and go for Bayes – impacts of model choice, dating density and quality on chronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews 188, 58-66
- Perșoiu, A., Onac, B.P., Wynn, J.G., Blaauw, M., Ioniță, Hansson, M., 2017. Holocene winter climate variability in Central and Eastern Europe. Nature Scientific Reports 7, 1196
Summary Title of Current Studentships
- Developing a Bayesian solution to 210Pb age-modelling
- QUADRAT DTP student, Gosse Bootsma: Dynamics of carbon capture in Scottish and Irish peatlands over the past centuries
