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Dr Maarten Blaauw

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Dr Maarten Blaauw

School of Natural and Built Environment

I work on enhancing methods to build chronologies for cores from deposits such as lakes, peat bogs and oceans, both using classical and Bayesian approaches. Part of this research concerns enhancing our understanding of the chronological uncertainties (precision, accuracy, reliability) of our reconstructions of past environments and climates.

Secure chronological contexts are essential for all research in palaeoecology and archaeology. I apply Bayesian chronological techniques through many collaborations throughout the world.

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  • maarten.blaauw@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 3895

Research Interests

  • Chronology-building in palaeoecology and landscape archaeology
  • Developing age-modelling approaches and software
  • Palaeoecology of peatlands and lakes
  • Numerical Palaeoecology

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Quadrat DTP CASE: Soils as an effective carbon sink? Rates of carbon sequestration and long-term storage in soils across Northern Ireland
  • Radiocarbon dating of single tree-rings – annual precision records of environmental change

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Bayesian improvements to radiocarbon calibration and palaeoecological compilations
Name Marco Antonio Aquino Lopez
Years of study 3
Country Mexico
Current Position  Postdoctoral researcher at Maynooth University, Ireland 

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  • Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science 
  • School of Natural and Built Environment
  • http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/blaauw

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