Dr Maarten Blaauw
Dr Maarten Blaauw
Qualifications
MSc Biology, Groningen University 1998
PhD Palaeoecology, Amsterdam University 2003
Lecturer in Chronology
Email: maarten.blaauw@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK
Telephone
+44 (0)28 9097 3895
Current Teaching:
GAP1002 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future
GAP2030 Sustaining the Biosphere
GAP300X Dating the Past
GAP3002 Quaternary Palaeoecology
GAP7047 Chronology Modelling
Current Research: Environmental Change
I am interested in using statistics to answer palaeo-ecological questions. I am working on:
- Software for radiocarbon age-depth modelling
- Statistical/ecological interpretation of proxy archives
Publications:
47 - Booth, R.K., Brewer, S., Blaauw, M., Minckley, T.A., Jackson, S.T., in press. Decomposing the Mid-Holocene Tsuga Decline in Eastern North America. Ecology [link]
46 - de Vleeschouwer, F,. Pazdur, A., Luthers, C., Streel, M., Mauquoy, D., Wastiaux, C., Le Roux, G., Moschen, R., Blaauw, M., Pawlyta, J., Sikorski, J., Piotrowska, N., in press. A millennial record of environmental change in peat deposits from the Misten Bog (east Belgium). Quaternary International [link]
45 - Swindles, G., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Turner, E., in press. Examining the uncertainties in a 'tuned and stacked' peatland water table reconstruction. Quaternary International [link]
44 - Blaauw, M., Heegaard, E., 2012. Estimation of age-depth relationships. In: Birks, H.J.B., Juggins, S., Lotter, A., Smol, J.P. (editors), Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments Vol. 5: Data Handling and Statistical Techniques, pp 379-413 [link]
43 - Aarnes, I., Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.H., Balascio, N.L., Bakke, J., Blaauw, M., 2012. Vegetation responses to rapid climatic changes during the last deglaciation 13500-8000 years ago on southwest Andøya, arctic Norway. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21: 17-35 [link]
42 - Blaauw, M., 2012. Out of tune: the dangers of aligning proxy archives. Quaternary Science Reviews 36: 38-49 [link]
41 - Gehrels, W.R., Callard, S.L., Moss, P.T., Marshall, W.A., Blaauw, M., Hunter, J., Milton, J.A., Garnett, M.H., 2012. Nineteenth and twentieth century sea-level changes in Tasmania and New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 315-316: 94-102 [link]
40 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2011. Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process. Bayesian Analysis 6: 457-474 [link]
39 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Kristen, I., Plessen, B., Lyaruu, A., Engstrom, D.R., van der Plicht, J., Verschuren, D., 2011. High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 3043-3059 [link]
38 - Piotrowska, N., Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Chambers, F.M., 2011. Constructing deposition chronologies in peat deposits using radiocarbon dating. Mires and Peat 7: 1-14 [link]
37 - Andersson, S., Rosqvist, G., Leng, M., Wastegård, S., Blaauw, M., 2010. Late Holocene climate change in central Sweden inferred from lacustrine stable isotope data. Journal of Quaternary Science 25: 1305-1316 [link]
36 - Blaauw, M., 2010. Methods and code for 'classical' age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences. Quaternary Geochronology 5: 512-518 [link]
35 - Blaauw, M., Bennett, K.D., Christen, J.A., 2010. Random walk simulations of fossil proxy data. The Holocene 20: 645-649 [link]
34 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., Christen, J.A., Ampel, L., Veres, D., Hughen, K.A., Preusser, F., Svensson, A., 2010. Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and France? A quantitative comparison using non-tuned chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science 25: 387-394 [link]
33 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., 2010. Reply: Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and France? A quantitative comparison using non-tuned chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science 25: 1047 [link]
32 - de Jong, R., Blaauw, M., Chambers, F.M., Christensen, T.R., De Vleeschouwer, F., Finsinger, W., Fronzek, S., Johansson, M., Kokfelt, U., Lamentowicz, M., LeRoux, G., Mitchell, E.A.D., Mauquoy, D., Nichols, J.E., Samaritani, E., van Geel, B., 2010. Peatlands and Climate. In: Dodson, J. (Ed.), Changing Climates, Earth Systems, and Society. Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 85-121 [link]
31 - Binney, H.A., Willis, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Bhagwat, S.A., Anderson, P.M., Andreev, A.A., Blaauw, M., Damblon, F., Haesaerts, P., Kienast, F.C., Kremenetski, K.V., Krivonogov, S.K., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Novenko, E.Y., Oksanen, P., Sapelko, T.V., Valiranta, M., Vazhenina, L., 2009. The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 2445-2464 [link]
30 - Charman, D.J., Barber, K., Blaauw, M., Langdon, P., Mauquoy, D., Daley, T., Hughes, P., Karofeld, E., 2009. Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1811-1819 [link]
29 - Hormes, A., Blaauw, M., Dahl, S.O., Nesje, A., Possnert, G., 2009. Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating of proglacial lake sediments - implications for the 8.2 ka event. Quaternary Geochronology 4: 267-277 [link]
28 - Plunkett, G., Whitehouse, N.J., Hall, V.A., Charman, D.J., Blaauw, M., Kelly, E., Mulhall, I., 2009. A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation of the findspot of an Iron Age bog body from Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 265-277 [link]
27 - Sillasoo, Ü., Poska, A., Seppä, H., Blaauw, M., Chambers, F., 2009. Linking past cultural developments to palaeoenvironmental changes in Estonia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18: 315-327 [link]
26 - Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Moernout, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G.H., CHALLACEA project members, 2009. Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African equator. Nature 462: 637-641 [link]
25 - Vorren, K.D., Elverland, E., Blaauw, M., Ravna, E., Jensen, C., 2009. Vegetation and climate c. 12300-9000 cal. yr BP at Andøya, NW Norway. Boreas 38: 401-420 [link]
24 - Wohlfarth, B., Veres, D., Ampel, L., Lacourse, T., Blaauw, M., Preusser, F., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Kéravis, D., Lallier-Vergès, E., Björck, S., Davies, S.M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Risberg, J., Hormes, A., Kasper, H.U., Possnert, G., Reille, M., Thouveny, N., Zander, A., 2008. Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in Western Europe, 40–16 kyr BP. Geology 36: 407-410 [link]
23 - Vandergoes, M.J., Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C., Newnham, R.M., Denton, G.H., Blaauw, M., 2008. Cooling and changing seasonality in the Southern Alps, New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 589-601 [link]
22 - Blaauw, M., Bakker, R., Christen, J.A., Hall, V.A., van der Plicht, J., 2007. A Bayesian framework for age-modelling of radiocarbon-dated peat deposits: case studies from the Netherlands. Radiocarbon 49: 357-367 [link]
21 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2007. Testing the timing of radiocarbon-dated events between proxy archives. The Holocene 17: 283-288 [link]
20 - Blockley, S.P.E., Blaauw, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., van der Plicht, J., 2007. Assessing uncertainties in age modelling sedimentary records in the Lateglacial and Early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 1915-1926 [link]
19 - Chambers, F.M., Mauquoy, D., Brain, S.A., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., 2007. Globally synchronous climate change 2800 years ago: proxy data from peat in South America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253: 439-444 [link]
18 - Charman, D.J, Blundell, A., ACCROTELM members, 2007. A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 209-221 [link]
17 - Sillasoo, Ü., Mauquoy, D., Blundell, A., Charman, D., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., Toms, P., Newberry, J., Chambers, F.M., Karofeld, E., 2007. Peat multi-proxy from Männikjärve bog as indicators of Late Holocene climate changes in Estonia. Boreas 36: 20-37 [link]
16 - Vorren K-D, Blaauw, M., Wastegård, S., van der Plicht, J., Jensen, C.A.H., 2007. High-resolution stratigraphy of the northernmost concentric raised bog in Europe - Sellevollmyra, Andøya, northern Norway. Boreas 36: 253-277 [link]
15 - Cohen, A.S., Lezzar, K.R., Cole, J., Dettman, D., Ellis, G.S., Eagle, M., Plisnier, P.-D., Langenberg, V., Blaauw, M., Zilifi, D., 2006. Late Holocene linkages between decade-century scale climate variability and productivity at Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Journal of Palaeolimnology 36: 189-209 [link]
14 - Wohlfarth, B., Blaauw, M., Davies, S.M., Andersson, M., Wastegård, S., Hormes, A., Possnert, G., 2006. Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods. Journal of Quaternary Science 21: 321-334 [link]
13 - Yeloff, D., Bennett, K.D., Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Sillasoo, Ü., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2006. High precision C-14 dating of Holocene peat deposits: a comparison of Bayesian calibration and wiggle-matching approaches. Quaternary Geochronology 1: 222-235 [link]
12 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2005a. Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change. Applied Statistics 54: 805-816 [link]
11 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2005b. The problems of radiocarbon dating [Letter to the Editor]. Science 308: 1551-1553 [link]
10 - Bindler, R., Martíñez-Cortizas, A., Blaauw, M., 2005. Comment on "Atmospheric mercury accumulation rates between 5900 and 800 calibrated years BP in the High Arctic of Canada recorded by peat hummocks". Environmental Science and Technology 39: 908-909 [link]
9 - Blaauw, M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2004a. Radiocarbon dating of bulk peat samples from raised bogs: non-existence of a previously reported reservoir effect? Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 1537-1542 [link]
8 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., 2004b. Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating of peat deposits: advantages and limitations. Journal of Quaternary Science 19: 177-181 [link]
7 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., 2004c. Solar forcing of climate change during the mid-Holocene: indications from raised bogs in the Netherlands. The Holocene 14: 35-44 [link]
6 - Mauquoy, D., Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Borromei, A., Quattrocchio, M., Chambers, F.M., Possnert, G., 2004a. Late-Holocene climatic changes in Tierra del Fuego based on multi-proxy analyses of peat deposits. Quaternary Research 61: 148-158 [link]
5 - Mauquoy, D., van Geel, B., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., 2004b. Changes in solar activity and Holocene climate shifts derived from C-14 wiggle-match dated peat deposits. The Holocene 14: 45-52 [link]
4 - van der Plicht J, van Geel, B., Bohncke, S.J.P., Bos, J.A.A., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., Muscheler, R., Björck, S., 2004. The Preboreal climate reversal and a subsequent solar forced climate shift. Journal of Quaternary Science 19: 263-269 [link]
3 - Blaauw, M., Heuvelink, G.B.M., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2003. A numerical approach to C-14 wiggle-match dating of organic deposits: best fits and confidence intervals. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 1485-1500 [link]
2 - Mauquoy, D., van Geel, B., Blaauw, M., van der Plicht, J., 2002. Evidence from northwest European bogs shows Little Ice Age climatic changes driven by variations in solar activity. The Holocene 12: 1-6 [link]
1 - Ostrowski, M., Cavicchioli, R., Blaauw, M., Gottschal, J.C., 2001. Specific growth rate plays a critical role in hydrogen peroxide resistance of the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain RB2256. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 1292-1299 [link]
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