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Selected Publications (2009)

45 publications listed

• Bailey, R.M. and McKeever, S.W.S. (2009) The physical basis of luminescence dating. In, Krbetschek, M. (ed.) Luminescence Dating: An introduction and handbook. Springer.
• Bitew, M., Gebremichael, M., Hirpa, F., Michael, Y., Seleshi, Y., and Girma, Y. (2009) On the local-scale spatial variability of daily rainfall in the highlands of the Blue Nile: observational evidence. Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: 1-9.
• Bitew, M.M., Gebremichael, M., Hirpa, F.A., Gebrewubet, Y.M., Seleshi, Y. and Girma, Y. (2009) On the local-scale spatial variability of daily summer rainfall in the humid and complex terrain of the Blue Nile: observational evidence. Hydrological Processes, 23(26): 3670-3674.
• Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) (2009) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford.
• Boardman, J., Foster, I.D.L., Rowntree, K., Mighall, T. and Parsons, A.J. (2009) Small farm dams: a ticking time bomb? Water Wheel, 8(4): 30-35.
• Boardman, J., Shepheard, M.L., Walker, E. and Foster, I.D.L. (2009) Soil erosion and risk-assessment for on- and off-farm impacts: a test case using the Midhurst area, West Sussex, UK. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(8): 2578-2588.
• Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J., Telfer, M.W. and Bailey, R.M. (2009) Fire and climate change impacts on lowland forest composition in northern Congo during the last 2580 years from palaeoecological analyses of a seasonally flooded swamp. The Holocene, 19(1): 79-89.
• Burrough, S. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) Hydrological change and early human occupation of the Kalahari, Botswana. In, Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford. 19 pp.
• Burrough, S.L., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (2009) Mega-lake in the Kalahari: a late Pleistocene record of the palaeolake Makgadikgadi system. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(15-16): 1392-1411.
• Burrough, S.L., Thomas, D.S.G. and Singarayer, J.S. (2009) Late Quaternary hydrological dynamics in the middle Kalahari: forcing and feedbacks. Earth Science Reviews, 96(4): 313-326.
• Chase, B.M., Meadows, M.E., Scott, L., Thomas, D.S.G., Marais, E., Sealy, J. and Reimer, P.J. (2009) A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa. Geology, 37(8): 703-706.
• Coombes, M.A., Naylor, L.A., Roast, S.D. and Thompson, R.C. (2009) Coastal defences and biodiversity: the influence of material choice and small-scale surface texture on biological outcomes. In, Allsop, W. (ed.) Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters, Volume II. Thomas Telford, London. pp. 474-485.
• Cuff, D.J. and Goudie, A.S. (eds.) (2009) The Oxford Companion to Global Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 714. ISBN: 978-0-19-532488-4. Contributors include: Goudie, A.S. (37 articles), Thomas, D.S.G. (1 article), Thornbush, M.J. (1 article), Viles, H.A. (2 articles) and Williams, M. (1 article)..
• Engelstaedter, S., Washington, R. and Mahowald, N. (2009) Impact of changes in atmospheric conditions in modulating summer dust concentration at Barbados: a back-trajectory analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 114(D17111).
• Fattahi, M. (2009) Dating past earthquakes and related sediments by thermoluminescence methods: a review. Quaternary International, 199(1-2): 104-146.
• Fattahi, M. (2009) The effect of thermal stimulation on the far-red and orange red IRSL signal of a French-rich feldspar: preliminary results. Geochronometria, 34: 14-24.
• Fattahi, M., Nazari, H., Bateman, M.D., Meyere, B., Sébrier, M., Talebian, M., Le Dortz, K., Foroutan, M., Ahmadi Givi, F. and Ghorashi, M. (2009) Refining the OSL age of the last earthquake on the Dheshir fault, Central Iran. Quaternary Geochronology, 5(2-3): 286-292.
• Gao, H. and Washington, R. (2009) The spatial and temporal characteristics of TOMS AI over the Tarim Basin, China. Atmospheric Environment, 43(5): 1106-1115.
• Goudie, A.S. (2009) Aeolian processes and landforms. In, Woodward, J.C. (ed.) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 415-429. ISBN: 9780199268030.
• Keay-Bright, J. and Boardman, J. (2009) Evidence from field based studies of rates of soil erosion on degraded land in the central Karoo, South Africa. Geomorphology, 103(3): 455-465.
• King, C. (2009) Sustainable management of marginal drylands (SUMMAD): sharing success stories from indigenous, adaptive and innovative approaches. In, Lee, C. and Schaaf, T. (eds.) The Future of Drylands: International Scientific Conference on Desertification and Drylands Research Tunis, Tunisia, 19-21 June 2006. Springer, Netherlands. pp. 747-776. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6969-7.
• Le Dortz, K., Meyer, B., Sébrier, M., Nazari, H., Braucher, R., Fattahi, M., Benedetti, L., Foroutan, M., Siame, L., Bourlés, D., Talebian, M., Bateman, M.D. and Ghoraishi, M. (2009) Holocene right-slip rate determined by cosmogenic and OSL dating on the Anar fault, Central Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 179(2): 700-710.
• Meadows, M.E. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) Tropical savannas. Chapter 9 in, Slaymaker, O., Spencer, T. and Embleton-Hamann, C. (eds.) Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press. pp. 248-275. ISBN: 9780521878128.
• Middleton, N. (2009) Deserts: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 144. ISBN: 9780199564309.
• Millner, A. (2009) What is the true value of forecasts? Weather, Climate and Society, 1(1): 22-37.
• Morgan, R.M., Cohen, J., McGookin, I., Murly-Gotto, J., O'Connor, R., Muress, S., Freudiger-Bonzon, J. and Bull, P.A. (2009) The relevance of the evolution of experimental studies for the interpretation and evaluation of some trace physical evidence. Science and Justice, 49(4): 277-285.
• Morgan, R.M., Freudiger-Bonzon, J., Nichols, K.H., Jellis, T., Dunkerley, S., Zelazowski, P. and Bull, P.A. (2009) The forensic analysis of sediments recovered from footwear. In, Ritz, K., Dawson, L. and Miller, D. (eds.) Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics. Springer, London. pp. 253-269.
• Nazari, H., Fattahi, M., Meyer, B., Sébrier, M., Talebian, M., Foroutan, M., Le Dortz, K., Bateman, M.D. and Ghorashi, M. (2009) First evidence for large earthquakes on the Deshir Fault, Central Iran Plateau. Terra Nova, 21(6): 417-426.
• Newsham, A.J. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) Agricultural adaptation, local knowledge and livelihoods diversification in north-central Namibia. Tyndall Centre Working Paper, 140.
• Nissen, E., Walker, R., Molor, E., Fattahi, M. and Bayasgala, A. (2009) Late Quaternary rates of uplift and shortening at Baatar Hyarhan (Mongolian Altai) with optically stimulated luminescence. Geophysical Journal International, 177(1): 259-278.
• Nissen, E., Walker, R.T., Bayasgalan, A., Carter, A., Fattahi, M., Molor, E., Schnabel, C., West, A.J. and Xu, S. (2009) The Late Quaternary slip-rate of the Har-Us-Nuur fault (Mongolian Altai) from cosmogenic 10Be and luminescence dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286(3-4): 467-478.
• Reid, P.C., Fischer, A., Lewis-Brown, E., Meredith, M.P., Sparrow, M., Andersson, A.J., Antia, A., Bathmann, U., Beaugrand, G., Brix, H., Dye, S., Edwards, M., Furevik, T., Gangstø, R., Hátún, H., Hopcroft, R.R., Kendall, M., Kasten, S., Keeling, R., Le Quéré, C., Mackenzie, F.T., Malin, G., Mauritzen, C., Ólafsson, J., Paull, C., Rignot, E., Shimada, K., Vogt, M., Wallace, C., Wang, Z. and Washington, R. (2009) Impacts of the oceans on climate change. Advances in Marine Biology, 56: 1-150.
• Roberts, H.M., Durcan, J.A. and Duller, G.A.T. (2009) Exploring procedures for the rapid assessment of optically stimulated luminescence range-finder ages. Radiation Measurements, 44(5-6): 582-587.
• Rueff, H. and Viaro, A. (2009) Palestinian refugee camps: from shelter to habitat. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 28(2-3): 339-359.
• Sallu, S.M., Twyman, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) The multidimensional nature of biodiversity and social dynamics and implications for contemporary rural livelihoods in remote Kalahari settlements, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 47(1): 110-118.
• Slaymaker, O., Spencer, T. and Dadson, S. (2009) Landscape and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction. Chapter 1 in, Slaymaker, O., Spencer, T. and Embleton-Hamann, C. (eds.) Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 1-36. ISBN: 9780521878128.
• Sternberg, T., Middleton, N. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) Pressurised pastoralism in South Gobi, Mongolia: what is the role of drought? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(3): 364-377.
• Stone, A.E.C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2009) Former water courses in the northern Namib Desert: new chronologies using OSL. In, Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford.
• Telfer, M.W. (2009) Understanding linear dune development: a detailed dating study of a linear dune encroaching on a pan surface. Quaternary Newsletter, 119: 47-49.
• Telfer, M.W., Bailey, R.M., Thomas, D.S.G., Burrough, S. and Stone, A.E.C. (2009) Dated aeolian dune sands: an archive of palaeoenvironments or a victim of stochastics? In, Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford. 64 pp.
• Telfer, M.W., Thomas, D.S.G., Parker, A.G., Walkington, H. and Finch, A.A. (2009) Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and palaeoenvironmental studies of pan (playa) sediment from Witpan, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 273(1-2): 50-60.
• Telfer, M.W., Wilson, P., Lord, T.C. and Vincent, P.J. (2009) New constraints on the age of the last ice sheet glaciation in NW England using optically stimulated luminescence dating. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24(8): 906-915.
• Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (2009) Reconstructing Quaternary environmental changes and human interactions in drylands: what are some of the big uncertainties? In, Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford. 66 pp.
• Thomas, D.S.G., Bailey, R.M., et al. (2009) Late Quaternary Indian Ocean monsoon intensity variations reconstructed from fluctuations in the level of Lake Chilwa, Southern Malawi. In, Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P., Bogaard, A., Langdon, P.G., Schreve, D.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Bailey, R.M. (eds.) Quaternary Abstracts: The human dimension in rapid environmental change. Quaternary Research Association, Annual Discussion Meeting January 2009, Oxford. 65 pp.
• Washington, R., Bouet, C., Cautenet, G., Mackenzie, E., Ashpole, I., Engelstaedter, S., Lizcano, G., Henderson, G.M., Schepanski, K. and Tegen, I. (2009) Dust as a tipping element: the Bodélé Depression, Chad. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(49): 20564-20571.