School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

My research interests focus on the Quaternary history of ecosystems, in particular human-vegetation interactions. My fieldwork takes me to quite different environments and I am currently working on several projects (not all of which are listed here).

CURRENT PROJECTS

Impacts of settlement on the environment of Iceland and the Faroes.
Currently working on a number of sites from Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland, and publication of data from the Faroes is in progress. Part of the Leverhulme-funded "Landscapes circum-Landnám" project and NABO (the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation).

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Ecology and Global Change
• Earth and Biosphere Institute

PUBLICATIONS

• Lawson, I.T.; Church, M.J.; Edwards, K.J.; Cook, G.; Dugmore, A.J. (in press) Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands: climate change, pedogenesis, or human impact? Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences.
• Wilson, GP; Reed, JM; Lawson, IT, et al. (2008) Diatom response to the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in the Ioannina basin, northwest Greece: implications for Mediterranean palaeoclimate reconstruction QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 27 (3-4) 428-440

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