Queen's University, Belfast
| Pronouns | He/Him/His |
| Current Position | Professor of Physical Geography |
| Previous Position | Associate Professor of Earth System Dynamics, University of Leeds |
| Telephone | +44 (0)28 9097 3371 |
| g.swindles@qub.ac.uk | |
| Departments | School of Natural and Built Environment |
| ECR | No |
| Quadrat Core Themes | Biodiversity, Earth Systems |
| Methods I Use | Bio / Geo / Chemical Analytical, Modelling, Numerical/Statistical Analysis |
| Profiles |
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Phonetic spelling of name: Grayham Swindles
Key Research Interests
- Climate change, extreme events, short and long-term ecology;
- Long-term eco-hydrological dynamics and functioning of temperate, tropical and subarctic peatlands;
- Testate amoebae as environmental indicators;
- Critical examination of past human response and adaptation to climate change;
- Human-environment relations in the past-present-future, the Anthropocene, and the impacts of humans on Planet Earth.
Recent Key Papers
- Swindles, G.T., Roland, T.P., Amesbury, M.J., Lamentowicz, M., McKeown, M.M., Sim, T.G., Fewster, R.E. and Mitchell, E.A.D. 2020. Quantifying the effect of testate amoeba decomposition on peat-based water-table reconstructions. European Journal of Protistology 74, 125693.
- Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Mullan, D.J., Payne, R.J., Roland, T.P., Amesbury, M.J., Lamentowicz, M., Turner, T.E., Gallego-Sala, A., Sim, T., Barr, I.D., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Charman, D.J., Feurdean, A., Galloway, J.M., Gałka, M., Green, S., Kajukało, K., Karofeld, E., Korhola, A., Lamentowicz, L., Langdon, P., Marcisz, K., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y.A., McKeown, M., Mitchell, E.A.D., Novenko, E., Plunkett, G., Roe, H.M., Schoning, K., Sillasoo, Ü., Tsyganov, A.N., van der Linden, M., Väliranta, M. and Warner, B. 2019. Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries. Nature Geoscience 12, 922-928.
- Sim, T.G., Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Gałka, M., Mullan, D. and Galloway, J.M. 2019. Pathways for ecological change in Canadian High Arctic wetlands under rapid twentieth century warming. Geophysical Research Letters 46, 4726-4737.
Summary Title of Current Studentships
- Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of global peatland fire
- QUADRAT DTP student, Ellie Purdy: Arctic peatland response to climate change: carbon bomb or self-repair?
