12th Feb 2022:
Our research on past climate on Jersey has been reported on by BBC Radio Jersey and on the BBC News website:
Swedish scientists studying Ice Age Jersey beach samples - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bnnp1b
28th Jan 2022:
MSc students Anya Hawkins and Susanna Åberg preparing and analysing loess samples from Jersey and Belgium for bulk magnetic susceptibility and anisotropic magnetic susceptibility. Hopefully these results will shed light on past climate recorded in these loess deposits.
25th Jan 2022:
Four new papers on loess, red clay and sediment provenance have just come out by my PhD students Katja Bohm and Yunus Baykal, as well as former PhD student Chiara Költringer and former MSc student Kaja Fenn! Links below:
Fenn, K., Millar, I.L., Durcan, J.A., Thomas, D.S.G., Banak, A., Markovic, S.B., Veres, D., Stevens, T., 2022. The provenance of Danubian loess. Earth-Science Reviews 226, 103920.
Költringer, C., Stevens, T., Lindner, M., Baykal, Y., Ghafarpour, A., Khormali, F., Taratunina, N., Kurbanov, R., 2022. Quaternary sediment sources and loess transport pathways in the Black Sea – Caspian Sea region identified by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. Global and Planetary Change 209, 103736.
Bohm, K., Stevens, T., Kaakinen, A., Lahaye, J., O’Brien, H., Zhang, Z., 2022. The provenance of late Cenozoic East Asian Red Clay: Tectonic-metamorphic history of potential source regions and a novel combined zircon-rutile approach. Earth-Science Reviews 225, 103909.
Baykal, Y., Stevens, T., Engström-Johansson, A., Skurzynski, J., Zhang, H., He, J., Lu, H., Adamiec, G., Költringer, C., Jary, Z., 2021. Detrital zircon U-Pb age analysis of last glacial loess sources and proglacial sediment dynamics in the Northern European Plain. Quaternary Science Reviews 274, 107265.
