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Professor Tony Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Southampton – Geography and Environmental Science <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arctic University Norway – Troms\u00f8 Museum <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Brown is a geoarchaeologist with interests in palaeoecology, human impact, subsistence and environmental change. He has worked in a wide variety of environments, periods and geographical areas from East Africa to Svalbard. Although his work was originally focused on floodplains and alluvial sites he has more recently worked on wetland and lake sites including projects on crannogs (artificial islands) and Medieval flooding. He has currently two major interests, sedaDNA and multi-proxies from lakes, as well as working on Jomon nutritional archaeology and environmental change in Japan. Professor Brown is currently also the PI on the ERC funded project TerrACE.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Patrick Gleeson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen’s University Belfast – Built and Natural Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Gleeson is a archaeologist interested in the later prehistoric and medieval archaeology of Europe. His current research focus is the archaeloghy of cult, rulership, kingdoms and governance in the first millennium AD of northern Europe. He is particularly interested in the use of large scale remote sensing, G.I.S. and the application of new and novel methodologies at a landscape scale in these areas.He currently has ongoing field projects examing later prehistoric and early medieval cult landscapes, power centres, and royal landscapes in Ireland and Scotland, including Kedrah Fort, Lagore Crannog, Navan Fort, the Rock of Cashel and Knockainy.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Andrew Henderson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newcastle University – Sociology and Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a Physical Geographer who works at the interface of chemical, ecological and geological sciences, and my research aims to understand the patterns and mechanisms of climate change by using the \u2018natural climate experiments of the past\u2019 archived in lake and ocean sediments. In particular, much of my research has focussed on understanding Holocene Asian monsoon variability, (sub) arctic climate evolution and equatorial Pacific climate variability. To decipher past changes in climate I use the stable isotope and geochemical composition of a range of minerals, including carbonates, diatom silica and\/or specific molecules (biomarkers). More recently, I have been looking towards \u2018deeper time\u2019 to capture the full range of natural climate variability capable in the Earth system, and have started to work on late Cenozoic sequences recovered from the Japan Sea on IODP Expedition 346.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Inger Alsos <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arctic University Norway – Troms\u00f8 Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inger Greve Alsos is the leader of the Ancient DNA lab and the Research Group in Taxonomy and Biodiversity at Troms\u00f8 Museum, UiT \u2013 Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Professor Alsos has especially focused on past and potential future distribution of arctic and subarctic plants. She has combined genetic data (AFLP fingerprinting, cpDNA sequences, and ancient DNA), species distribution modelling, and fossil data to explore dispersal routes, colonization frequencies, and long-term genetic effects of climate change. She is currently working on ancient DNA of lake sediments from N Europe and the Alps, as well as a full-genome reference library for the Norwegian and Polar flora.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Gill Plunkett <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen’s University Belfast – Natural and Built Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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