Graeme T. Swindles

Geoscientist

Graeme Swindles is a geoscientist from Northern Ireland, currently a Professor of Physical Geography at Queen's University Belfast.^[1]

Career

Swindles was Associate Professor of Earth System Dynamics at the University of Leeds^[2] and lecturer in Physical Geography and Archaeology at the University of Bradford. He is an earth system scientist with broad research interests in past-present-future climate change. His main research foci include peatland ecosystems, climate change and human-environment relations.^[3]^[4]

Research work

Swindles was awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association in 2012.^[5] He has made contributions to the fields of earth system science, peatland science, climate change, and palaeo- and neo-ecology^[6] and that volcanic eruptions may increase as the planet warms.^[7] He also argues that the Anthropocene should remain an informal concept and not be formalised as a geological epoch.

Selected publications

Charman DJ, Beilman DW, Blaauw M, Booth RK et al including Swindles, G.T. Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium. Biogeosciences. 2013 Feb 8;10(2):929-44. [1]
Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Mullan, D.J., Payne, R.J., Roland, T.P., Amesbury, M.J., Lamentowicz, M., Turner, T.E., Gallego-Sala, A., Sim, T., Barr, I.D., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Charman, D.J., Feurdean, A., Galloway, J.M., Gałka, M., Green, S., Kajukało, K., Karofeld, E., Korhola, A., Lamentowicz, L., Langdon, P., Marcisz, K., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y.A., McKeown, M., Mitchell, E.A.D., Novenko, E., Plunkett, G., Roe, H.M., Schoning, K., Sillasoo, Ü., Tsyganov, A.N., van der Linden, M., Väliranta, M. and Warner, B. 2019.Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries. Nature Geoscience 12, 922–928. [2]
Morris, P.J., Swindles, G.T., Valdes, P., Ivanovic, R., Gregoire, L., Smith, M., Tarasov, L., Haywood, A. and Bacon, K. 2018 Global peatland initiation driven by regionally-asynchronous warming]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 4851–4856.[3]
Sim, T.G., Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Baird, A.J., Gallego-Sala, A.V., Wang, Y., Blaauw, M., Camill, P., Garneau, M., Hardiman, M., Loisel, J., Vӓliranta, M., Anderson, L., Apolinarska, K., Augustijns, F., Aunina, L., Beaulne, J., Bobek, P., Borken, W., Broothaerts, N., Cui, Q.Y., Davies, M.A., Ejarque, A., Farrell, M., Feeser, I., Feurdean, A., Fewster, R.E., Finkelstein, S.A., Gaillard, M.J., Gałka, M., Heffernan, L., Hoevers, R., Jones, M., Juselius-Rajamäki, T., Karofeld, E., Knorr, K.H., Korhola, A., Kupriyanov, D., Kylander, M.E., Lacourse, T., Lamentowicz, M., Lavoie, M., Lemdahl, G., Łuców, D., Magnan, G., Maksims, A., Mansilla, C.A., Marcisz, K., Marinova, E., Mathijssen, P.J.H., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y.A., Mazei, N., McCarroll, J., McCulloch, R.D., Milner, A.M., Miras, Y., Mitchell, F.J.G., Novenko, E., Pelletier, N., Peros, M.C., Piilo, S.R., Pilote, L.M., Primeau, G., Rius, D., Robin, V., Robitaille, M., Roland, T.P., Ryberg, E., Sannel, A.B.K., Schittek, K., Servera-Vives, G., Shotyk, W., Słowiński, M., Stivrins, N., Swinnen, W., Thompson, G., Tiunov, A., Tsyganov, A.N., Tuittila, E.S., Verstraeten, G., Wallenius, T., Webb, J., Willard, D., Yu, Z., Zaccone, C. and Zhang, H. 2023, Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 305, 108020. [4]
Swindles, G.T., Watson, E.J., Savov, I.P., Lawson, I.T., Schmidt, A., Hooper, A., Cooper, C.L., Connor, C.B., Gloor, M. and Carrivick, J.L. 2018. Climatic control on Icelandic volcanic activity during the mid-Holocene Geology 46, 47–50. [5]
Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Whitney, B., Galloway, J.M., Gałka, M., Gallego-Sala, A., Macumber, A.L., Mullan, D., Smith, M.W., Amesbury, M.J., Roland, T.P., Sanei, H., Patterson, R.T., Sanderson, N., Parry, L., Charman, D.J., Lopez, O., Valderamma, E., Watson, E.J., Ivanovic, R.F., Valdes, P.J., Turner, T.E. and Lähteenoja, O. 2018. Ecosystem state shifts during long-term development of an Amazonian peatland]. Global Change Biology 24, 738–757. [6]
Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Mullan, D., Watson, E.J., Turner, T.E., Roland, T., Amesbury, M.J., Kokfelt, U., Schoning, K., Pratte, S., Gallego-Sala, A., Charman, D.J., Sanderson, N., Garneau, M., Carrivick, J.L., Woulds, C., Holden, J., Parry, L. and Galloway, J.M. 2015. The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming . Scientific Reports 5, 17951.[7]
Swindles, G.T., Roland, T.P. and Ruffell, A. 2023. The ‘Anthropocene’ is most useful as an informal concept. Journal of Quaternary Science 38, 453–454. [8]

References

^ "Graeme Swindles". Queen's University Belfast.
^ "Dr Graeme Swindles". Leeds.ac.uk.
^ "Dr Graeme Swindles is contributing towards our understanding of climate change in the Arctic". University of Leeds.
^ "Peatlands: The race to protect NI's valuable ecosystems". BBC News. 12 November 2021.
^ "Medal Winners - archaeologists, botanists, civil engineers, geographers, geologists, soil scientists, zoologists". Quaternary Research Association.
^ "Climate change: Widespread drying of European peatlands". BBC News. 22 October 2019.
^ Sneed, Annie. "Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms". Scientific American.