Maarten works on estimating the ages of sediment cores, using radiocarbon dating, tephra and dedicated modelling.
He applies these methods through many international collaborations, for example recently on Lake Challa on Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya, Lago Chalco in Mexico City, tephra deposits in Kamchatka (Russian Far East) and several bogs in northern Iceland. He is particularly interested in the possibilities and uncertainties involved in palaeoecology and climatology.
Expertise
Radiocarbon calibration • Age-depth modelling • Statistical/ecological interpretation of proxy archives
Current Research
Age-depth analysis for lake sediment cores from Kenya, Mexico and Russia
Career Network
Quantifying uncertainties • Holocene climate change • Solar forcing of climate change • Radiocarbon dating • Statistics • Programming • Scientific software
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Email: maarten.blaauw@qub.ac.uk
ARCHAEOLOGY & PALAEOECOLOGY • School of Natural & Built Environment 