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Dr Neil J. Loader FRGS

Specialist Subjects: Quaternary environmental change. Stable (C,H,O) isotope analysis of natural archives (tree-rings, Sphagnum, pollen) for palæoclimate research. Technique development in isotope tree-ring research

NERC Advanced Research Fellow

Selected publications

Loader, N.J., McCarroll, D., Van der Knaap, W. O., Robertson, I., Gagen, M. 2007. Characterizing carbon isotopic variability in Sphagnum. The Holocene 17, 403-410.

McCarroll, D., Loader, N.J. 2005. Isotopes in tree rings.  In Isotopes in palaeoenvironmental research. (ed. M.J.Leng). Springer, The Netherlands. 67-116.

McCarroll, D. Loader, N.J. 2004. Stable isotopes in tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews.23, 771-801.

Loader, N.J., Hemming, D.L. 2004. The stable isotope analysis of pollen as an indicator of terrestrial palaeoenvironmental change: a review of progress and recent developments. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 893-900.

Loader, N.J., Robertson, I. and McCarroll, D. 2003. Comparison of stable carbon isotope ratios in the whole wood, cellulose and lignin of oak tree-rings. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 196 395-407.

Loader, N.J., Robertson, I., Barker, A.C., Switsur, V. R. and Waterhouse, J.S., 1997. A modified method for the batch processing of small whole wood samples to a-cellulose. Chemical Geology 136, 313-317.

 

General Information


Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 295546
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 295955
E-MAIL: N.J.Loader@swansea.ac.uk

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