Professor Neil Loader

Professor

Geography

+44 (0) 1792 295546

n.j.loader@swansea.ac.uk

Academic Office - 208
Second Floor
Wallace Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-1813

About

I am a physical geographer with expertise in the development and application of stable isotope techniques for studying contemporary and palaeoenvironmental change. I specialise in the interrogation of natural archives (tree rings, peat, pollen etc.) to reconstruct climatic change beyond the period of instrumental observations and in the development of tree-ring isotope series for precision dating.

He leads the UK Oak Project, an inter-disciplinary research consortium dedicated to the scientific investigation of oak trees for precision dating, palaeoclimatology and an improved understanding of forest response to contemporary and future environmental change.

Areas Of Expertise

Stable isotope analysis of tree rings
Dendrochronology and dendroclimatology
Stable isotope dendrochronology
Environmental archaeology
Quaternary research
Technique development

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

My teaching portfolio aims to inspire and engage students as they explore the physical environment, natural archives and proxies of past climate (peat, pollen, lake sediments, trees, historic records etc.) and environmental change through time. I actively promote experiential learning in physical geography, through fieldwork, laboratory practical classes, work experience placements and the dissertation modules. I teach physical geography courses from foundation- to Masters-level.

Recent collaboration with the Royal Meteorological Society (UK) has led to the development of a series of learning resources for schools on tree-rings, past weather and climate.

Research Award Highlights Collaborations

Publications

Research Highlights

Nayling, N., Loader, N., Bale, R., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., & Daux, V. (2024). Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of the Newport Medieval Ship. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 53(1), 245-253.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023.2266473, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65715
Treydte, K., Liu, L., Padrón, R., Martínez-Sancho, E., Babst, F., Frank, D., Gessler, A., Kahmen, A., Poulter, B., Seneviratne, S., Stegehuis, A., Wilson, R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Bale, R., Bednarz, Z., Boettger, T., Berninger, F., Büntgen, U., Daux, V...., & Loader, N. (2024). Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years. Nature Geoscience, 17(1), 58-65.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01335-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65152
Burgdorf, A., Brönnimann, S., Adamson, G., Amano, T., Aono, Y., Barriopedro, D., Bullón, T., Camenisch, C., Camuffo, D., Daux, V., Prieto, M., Dobrovolný, P., Gallego, D., García-Herrera, R., Gergis, J., Grab, S., Hannaford, M., Holopainen, J., Kelso, C...., & Vega, I. (2023). DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions. Scientific Data, 10(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y
Loader, N., Miles, D., McCarroll, D., Davies, D., & James, J. (2021). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 3. Vernacular Architecture, 52(1), 77-79.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2021.1979755, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2021.1979755
Loader, N., Miles, D., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Davies, D., James, J., Bale, R., & Nayling, N. (2020). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 2. Vernacular Architecture, 51(1), 108-113.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2020.1821560, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2020.1821560
Kern, Z., Nagavciuc, V., Hatvani, I., Hegyi, I., Loader, N., & Popa, I. (2023). Evaluation of the non-climatic (age-related) trends of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) tree rings from the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Dendrochronologia, 78, 126061
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126061, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62453
Martin, P., Brown, T., George, T., Gunnarson, B., Loader, N., Ross, P., Wishart, J., & Wilson, R. (2023). Climatic controls on the survival and loss of ancient types of barley on North Atlantic Islands. Climatic Change, 176(2)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03474-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62358
Loader, N., Miles, D., Bridge, M., Bale, R., McCarroll, D., & Davies, D. (2022). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 4. Vernacular Architecture, 1-3.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2022.2143088, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62269
Loader, N., Boswijk, G., Young, G., Hogg, A., & McCarroll, D. (2022). Developing tree ring chronologies from New Zealand matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia (D.Don) Laub.) for archaeological dating: Stable isotope dendrochronology. Dendrochronologia, 76, 126030
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61810
PALMER, L., Robertson, I., Lavergne, A., Hemming, D., Loader, N., Young, G., Davies, D., Rinne‐Garmston, K., Los, S., & Williams, J. (2022). Spatio‐Temporal Variations in Carbon Isotope Discrimination Predicted by the JULES Land Surface Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(12)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007041, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62118

All Research

Journal Articles

Davies, D., Mills, C., McCarroll, D., & Loader, N. (2024). The precise and accurate dating of medieval bridge remains at Ancrum, Scottish Borders, using stable isotope dendrochronology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 59
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104753, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67708
Nayling, N., Loader, N., Bale, R., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., & Daux, V. (2024). Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of the Newport Medieval Ship. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 53(1), 245-253.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023.2266473, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65715
Treydte, K., Liu, L., Padrón, R., Martínez-Sancho, E., Babst, F., Frank, D., Gessler, A., Kahmen, A., Poulter, B., Seneviratne, S., Stegehuis, A., Wilson, R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Bale, R., Bednarz, Z., Boettger, T., Berninger, F., Büntgen, U., Daux, V...., & Loader, N. (2024). Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years. Nature Geoscience, 17(1), 58-65.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01335-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65152
Burgdorf, A., Brönnimann, S., Adamson, G., Amano, T., Aono, Y., Barriopedro, D., Bullón, T., Camenisch, C., Camuffo, D., Daux, V., Prieto, M., Dobrovolný, P., Gallego, D., García-Herrera, R., Gergis, J., Grab, S., Hannaford, M., Holopainen, J., Kelso, C...., & Vega, I. (2023). DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions. Scientific Data, 10(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y
Kern, Z., Nagavciuc, V., Hatvani, I., Hegyi, I., Loader, N., & Popa, I. (2023). Evaluation of the non-climatic (age-related) trends of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) tree rings from the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Dendrochronologia, 78, 126061
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126061, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62453
Martin, P., Brown, T., George, T., Gunnarson, B., Loader, N., Ross, P., Wishart, J., & Wilson, R. (2023). Climatic controls on the survival and loss of ancient types of barley on North Atlantic Islands. Climatic Change, 176(2)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03474-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62358
Loader, N., Miles, D., Bridge, M., Bale, R., McCarroll, D., & Davies, D. (2022). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 4. Vernacular Architecture, 1-3.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2022.2143088, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62269
PALMER, L., Robertson, I., Lavergne, A., Hemming, D., Loader, N., Young, G., Davies, D., Rinne‐Garmston, K., Los, S., & Williams, J. (2022). Spatio‐Temporal Variations in Carbon Isotope Discrimination Predicted by the JULES Land Surface Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(12)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007041, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62118
Loader, N., Boswijk, G., Young, G., Hogg, A., & McCarroll, D. (2022). Developing tree ring chronologies from New Zealand matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia (D.Don) Laub.) for archaeological dating: Stable isotope dendrochronology. Dendrochronologia, 76, 126030
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61810
Zuidema, P., Babst, F., Groenendijk, P., Trouet, V., Abiyu, A., Acuña-Soto, R., Adenesky-Filho, E., Alfaro-Sánchez, R., Aragão, J., Assis-Pereira, G., Bai, X., Barbosa, A., Battipaglia, G., Beeckman, H., Botosso, P., Bradley, T., Bräuning, A., Brienen, R., Buckley, B...., & Zhou, Z. (2022). Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability. Nature Geoscience, 15(4), 269-276.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00911-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59756
Hiemstra, J., Young, G., Loader, N., & Gordon, P. (2022). Interrogating glacier mass balance response to climatic change since the Little Ice Age: reconstructions for the Jotunheimen region, southern Norway. Boreas, 51(2), 350-363.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12562, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58394
Kang, S., Loader, N., Wang, J., Qin, C., Liu, J., & Song, M. (2022). Tree-Ring Stable Carbon Isotope as a Proxy for Hydroclimate Variations in Semi-Arid Regions of North-Central China. Forests, 13(4), 492
https://doi.org/10.3390/f13040492, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59690
Vitali, V., Martínez-Sancho, E., Treydte, K., Andreu-Hayles, L., Dorado-Liñán, I., Gutierrez, E., Helle, G., Leuenberger, M., Loader, N., Rinne-Garmston, K., Schleser, G., Allen, S., Waterhouse, J., Saurer, M., & Lehmann, M. (2022). The unknown third – Hydrogen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose across Europe. Science of The Total Environment, 813, 152281
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152281, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59055
Loader, N., Sánchez-Salguero, R., & Gärtner, H. (2021). Together but apart: Social and scientific exchange at the TRACE 2020 virtual conference. Dendrochronologia, 70, 125882
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125882, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58397
Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Young, G., Davies, D., Ramsey, C., Williams, M., & Fudge, M. (2021). Dating of non-oak species in the United Kingdom historical buildings archive using stable oxygen isotopes. Dendrochronologia, 69, 125862
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125862, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57516
Boswijk, G., Loader, N., Young, G., & Hogg, A. (2021). Developing tree-ring chronologies from New Zealand matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) and miro (Prumnopitys ferruginea) for archaeological dating: Progress and problems. Dendrochronologia, 69, 125876
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125876, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57914
Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., & Froyd, C. (2021). Detection of signals linked to climate change, land-cover change and climate oscillators in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 260, 112431
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112431, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56728
Fogtmann-Schulz, A., Kudsk, S., Adolphi, F., Karoff, C., Knudsen, M., Loader, N., Muscheler, R., Trant, P., Østbø, S., & Olsen, J. (2021). BATCH PROCESSING OF TREE-RING SAMPLES FOR RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS. Radiocarbon, 63(1), 77-89.
https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2020.119, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56097
Loader, N., Miles, D., McCarroll, D., Davies, D., & James, J. (2021). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 3. Vernacular Architecture, 52(1), 77-79.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2021.1979755, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2021.1979755
Davies, D. & Loader, N. (2020). An evaluation of english oak earlywood vessel area as a climate proxy in the UK. Dendrochronologia, 64, 125777
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125777, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55420
McCarroll, D., Duffy, J., Loader, N., Young, G., Davies, D., Miles, D., & Ramsey, C. (2020). Are there enormous age-trends in stable carbon isotope ratios of oak tree rings?. The Holocene, 30(11)
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620941073, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54506
Loader, N., Miles, D., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Davies, D., James, J., Bale, R., & Nayling, N. (2020). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 2. Vernacular Architecture, 51(1), 108-113.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2020.1821560, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2020.1821560
Loader, N., Young, G., McCarroll, D., Davies, D., Miles, D., & Ramsey, C. (2020). Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201–2000 ce, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(6), 731-736.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3226, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54357
Loader, N., Miles, D., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Davies, D., Ramsey, C., & James, G. (2020). Oxygen isotope dating of oak and elm timbers from the portcullis windlass, Byward Tower, Tower of London. Journal of Archaeological Science, 116, 105103
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105103, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53796
Jones, G., Davies, S., Staff, R., Loader, N., Davies, S., & Walker, M. (2020). Traces of volcanic ash from the Mediterranean, Iceland and North America in a Holocene record from south Wales, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(1-2), 163-174.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3141, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3141
Shestakova, T., Voltas, J., Saurer, M., Berninger, F., Esper, J., Andreu‐Hayles, L., Daux, V., Helle, G., Leuenberger, M., Loader, N., Masson‐Delmotte, V., Saracino, A., Waterhouse, J., Schleser, G., Bednarz, Z., Boettger, T., Dorado‐Liñán, I., Filot, M., Frank, D...., & Gutiérrez, E. (2019). Spatio‐temporal patterns of tree growth as related to carbon isotope fractionation in European forests under changing climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12933, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51038
McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Miles, D., Stanford, C., Suggett, R., Ramsey, C., Cook, R., Davies, D., & Young, G. (2019). Oxygen isotope dendrochronology of Llwyn Celyn; One of the oldest houses in Wales. Dendrochronologia, 58, 125653
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125653, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52632
Björklund, J., Arx, G., Nievergelt, D., Wilson, R., Bulcke, J., Günther, B., Loader, N., Rydval, M., Fonti, P., Scharnweber, T., Andreu‐Hayles, L., Büntgen, U., D'Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Mil, T., Esper, J., Gärtner, H., Geary, J., Gunnarson, B...., & Frank, D. (2019). Scientific Merits and Analytical Challenges of Tree‐Ring Densitometry. Reviews of Geophysics, 57(4), 1224-1264.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019rg000642, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019rg000642
Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Davies, D., James, G., Miles, D., & Ramsey, C. (2019). Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Dates: List 1. Vernacular Architecture, 50(1), 88-93.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2019.1660956, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52900
Miles, D., Loader, N., Young, G., McCarroll, D., Davies, D., Ramsey, C., James, J., & James, G. (2019). Stable Isotope Dating of Historic Buildings. Vernacular Architecture, 50(1), 78-87.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2019.1660955, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52899
Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., Froyd, C., Cuní-Sanchez, A., & Marchant, R. (2019). Sensitivity of a tropical montane cloud forest to climate change, present, past and future: Mt. Marsabit, N. Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 34-48.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50895
Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Young, G., Davies, D., & Ramsey, C. (2019). Tree ring dating using oxygen isotopes: a master chronology for central England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(6), 475-490.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3115, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50379
Duffy, J., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Young, G., Davies, D., Miles, D., & Bronk Ramsey, C. (2019). Absence of Age‐Related Trends in Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios From Oak Tree Rings. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006195, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50914
Boer, H., Robertson, I., Clisby, R., Loader, N., Gagen, M., Young, G., Wagner-Cremer, F., Hipkin, C., & McCarroll, D. (2019). Tree-ring isotopes suggest atmospheric drying limits temperature–growth responses of treeline bristlecone pine. Tree Physiology, 39(6), 983-999.
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz018, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50001
Young, G., Gagen, M., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Grudd, H., Jalkanen, R., Kirchhefer, A., & Robertson, I. (2019). Cloud Cover Feedback Moderates Fennoscandian Summer Temperature Changes Over the Past 1,000 Years. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), 2811-2819.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl081046, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48822
Sladden, B., Loader, N., Young, G., McCarroll, D., & Loader, N. (2018). Examination of stable carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in the cellulose and wholewood of Castanea sativa Mill., Fagus sylvatica L., Pinus sylvestris L. and Quercus robur L.. Acta Silvae et Ligni(117), 47-54.
https://doi.org/10.20315/ASetL.117.4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51113
Büntgen, U., Wacker, L., Galván, J., Arnold, S., Arseneault, D., Baillie, M., Beer, J., Bernabei, M., Bleicher, N., Boswijk, G., Bräuning, A., Carrer, M., Ljungqvist, F., Cherubini, P., Christl, M., Christie, D., Clark, P., Cook, E., D’Arrigo, R...., & Young, G. (2018). Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE. Nature Communications, 9(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa44258
Nagavciuc, V., Ionita, M., Perșoiu, A., Popa, I., Loader, N., & McCarroll, D. (2018). Stable oxygen isotopes in Romanian oak tree rings record summer droughts and associated large-scale circulation patterns over Europe. Climate Dynamics, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4530-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa46055
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4530-7
Street-Perrott, F., Holmes, J., Robertson, I., Ficken, K., Koff, T., Loader, N., Marshall, J., & Martma, T. (2018). The Holocene isotopic record of aquatic cellulose from Lake Äntu Sinijärv, Estonia: Influence of changing climate and organic-matter sources. Quaternary Science Reviews, 193, 68-83.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40893
Woodborne, S., Hall, G., Jones, C., Loader, N., Patrut, A., Patrut, R., Robertson, I., Winkler, S., & Winterbach, C. (2018). A 250-Year Isotopic Proxy Rainfall Record from Southern Botswana. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 63(1), 109-123.
https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2018.1.09, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39623
http://chem.ubbcluj.ro/~studiachemia/chemia2018_1.html
Linderholm, H., Nicolle, M., Francus, P., Gajewski, K., Helama, S., Korhola, A., Solomina, O., Yu, Z., Zhang, P., D'Andrea, W., Debret, M., Divine, D., Gunnarson, B., Loader, N., Massei, N., Seftigen, K., Thomas, E., Werner, J., Andersson, S...., & Väliranta, M. (2018). Arctic hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years: current understanding and research challenges. Climate of the Past, 14(4), 473-514.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-473-2018, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40742
Waters, C., Zalasiewicz, J., Summerhayes, C., Fairchild, I., Rose, N., Loader, N., Shotyk, W., Cearreta, A., Head, M., Syvitski, J., Williams, M., Wagreich, M., Barnosky, A., Zhisheng, A., Leinfelder, R., Jeandel, C., Gałuszka, A., Ivar do Sul, J., Gradstein, F...., & Edgeworth, M. (2017). Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates. Earth-Science Reviews
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa37951
Rydval, M., Loader, N., Gunnarson, B., Druckenbrod, D., Linderholm, H., Moreton, S., Wood, C., & Wilson, R. (2017). Reconstructing 800 years of summer temperatures in Scotland from tree rings. Climate Dynamics
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3478-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31715
Rydval, M., Gunnarson, B., Loader, N., Cook, E., Druckenbrod, D., & Wilson, R. (2017). Spatial reconstruction of Scottish summer temperatures from tree rings. International Journal of Climatology, 37(3), 1540-1556.
https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4796, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29545
Duffy, J., McCarroll, D., Barnes, A., Ramsey, C., Davies, D., Loader, N., Miles, D., & Young, G. (2017). Short-lived juvenile effects observed in stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of UK oak trees and historic building timbers. Chemical Geology, 472, 1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.09.007, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa35206
Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Barker, S., Jalkanen, R., Grudd, H., McCarroll, D., & Loader, N. (2017). Inter-annual carbon isotope analysis of tree-rings by laser ablation. Chemical Geology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.06.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34403
Watling, J., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F., Schaan, D., Pessenda, L., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Dickau, R., Damasceno, A., & Ranzi, A. (2017). Reply to Piperno et al.: It is too soon to argue for localized, short-term human impacts in interfluvial Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(21), E4120-E4121.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705697114, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33673
Vallack, H., Loader, N., Young, G., McCarroll, D., & Brown, D. (2017). Stable oxygen isotopes in Irish oaks: potential for reconstructing local and regional climate. Irish Geography, 49(2), 55-70.
https://doi.org/10.2014/igj.v49i2.1234, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34528
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:irg:ie:0000-igj.v49i2.1234.g10911
Watling, J., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F., Schaan, D., Pessenda, L., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Dickau, R., Damasceno, A., & Ranzi, A. (2017). Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1868-1873.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31880
Bellen, S., Mauquoy, D., Payne, R., Roland, T., Hughes, P., Daley, T., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Rice, E., Pancotto, V., & Street-Perrott, A. (2017). An alternative approach to transfer functions? Testing the performance of a functional trait-based model for testate amoebae. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31487
Santín, C., Doerr, S., Merino, A., Bryant, R., Loader, N., & Santin Nuno, C. (2016). Forest floor chemical transformations in a boreal forest fire and their correlations with temperature and heating duration. Geoderma, 264, 71-80.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.09.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24002
Soudant, A., Loader, N., Bäck, J., Levula, J., & Kljun, N. (2016). Intra-annual variability of wood formation and δ13C in tree-rings at Hyytiälä, Finland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 224, 17-29.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.04.015, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27405
van Bellen, S., Mauquoy, D., Hughes, P., Roland, T., Daley, T., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Rice, E., Pancotto, V., Payne, R., & Loader, N. (2016). Late-Holocene climate dynamics recorded in the peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego, South America. The Holocene, 26(3), 489-501.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615609756, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27026
Daley, T., Barber, K., Hughes, P., Loader, N., Leuenberger, M., Street-Perrott, F., & Loader, N. (2016). The 8.2-ka BP event in north-eastern North America: first combined oxygen and hydrogen isotopic data from peat in Newfoundland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), 416-425.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2870, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29434
Loader, N., Street-Perrott, A., Mauquoy, D., Roland, T., Bellen, S., Daley, T., Davies, D., Hughes, P., Pancotto, V., Young, G., Amesbury, M., Charman, D., Mallon, G., & Yu, Z. (2016). Measurements of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon isotope variability inSphagnummoss along a micro-topographical gradient in a southern Patagonian peatland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), 426-435.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2871, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28976
Kilroy, E., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Loader, N., Bale, R., & Loader, N. (2016). Absence of juvenile effects confirmed in stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of European larch trees. Acta Silvae et Ligni(111), 27-33.
https://doi.org/10.20315/ASetL.111.3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32455
Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Daley, T., Hughes, P., Kimak, A., Levanič, T., Mallon, G., Mauquoy, D., Robertson, I., Roland, T., van Bellen, S., Ziehmer, M., Leuenberger, M., Robertson, I., & Loader, N. (2015). Simultaneous Determination of Stable Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen Isotopes in Cellulose. Analytical Chemistry, 87(1), 376-380.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ac502557x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20291
Woodborne, S., Hall, G., Robertson, I., Patrut, A., Rouault, M., Loader, N., & Hofmeyr, M. (2015). A 1000-Year Carbon Isotope Rainfall Proxy Record from South African Baobab Trees (Adansonia digitata L.). PLOS ONE, 10(5), e0124202
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124202, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21471
Young, G., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Bale, R., Demmler, J., Miles, D., Nayling, N., Rinne, K., Robertson, I., Watts, C., & Whitney, M. (2015). Oxygen stable isotope ratios from British oak tree-rings provide a strong and consistent record of past changes in summer rainfall. Climate Dynamics, 45(11-12), 3609-3622.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2559-4, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27903
Amesbury, M., Charman, D., Newnham, R., Loader, N., Goodrich, J., Royles, J., Campbell, D., Keller, E., Baisden, W., Roland, T., & Gallego-Sala, A. (2015). Can oxygen stable isotopes be used to track precipitation moisture source in vascular plant-dominated peatlands?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 430, 149-159.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.015, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24232
van Bellen, S., Mauquoy, D., Hughes, P., Roland, T., Daley, T., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Rice, E., Pancotto, V., Payne, R., & Loader, N. (2015). Late-Holocene climate dynamics recorded in the peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego, South America. The Holocene
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615609756, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23656
Rinne, K., Saurer, M., Kirdyanov, A., Loader, N., Bryukhanova, M., Werner, R., Siegwolf, R., Cernusak, L., & Loader, N. (2015). The relationship between needle sugar carbon isotope ratios and tree rings of larch in Siberia. Tree Physiology, tpv096
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv096, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23546
Izquierdo-Gomez, D., Sanchez-Jerez, P., Bayle-Sempere, J., Loader, N., Leaniz, C., Loader, N., & Garcia De Leaniz, C. (2015). Effects of coastal fish farms on body size and isotope composition of wild penaeid prawn. Fisheries Research, 172, 50-56.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2015.06.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22738
Frank, D., Poulter, B., Saurer, M., Esper, J., Huntingford, C., Helle, G., Treydte, K., Zimmermann, N., Schleser, G., Ahlström, A., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Levis, S., Lomas, M., Sitch, S., Viovy, N., Andreu-Hayles, L., Bednarz, Z., Berninger, F...., & Weigl, M. (2015). Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene. Nature Climate Change, 5(6), 579-583.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2614, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21484
Amesbury, M., Charman, D., Newnham, R., Loader, N., Goodrich, J., Royles, J., Campbell, D., Roland, T., Gallego-Sala, A., & Loader, N. (2015). Carbon stable isotopes as a palaeoclimate proxy in vascular plant dominated peatlands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 164, 161-174.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21482
McCarroll, D., Young, G., & Loader, N. (2015). Measuring the skill of variance-scaled climate reconstructions and a test for the capture of extremes. The Holocene, 25(4), 618-626.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614565956, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21824
Hafner, P., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., Loader, N., Gagen, M., Young, G., Bale, R., Sonninen, E., & Levanič, T. (2014). A 520 year record of summer sunshine for the eastern European Alps based on stable carbon isotopes in larch tree rings. Climate Dynamics, 43(3-4), 971-980.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1864-z, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23984
METCALFE, S., WHITNEY, B., FITZPATRICK, K., MAYLE, F., Loader, N., STREET-PERROTT, F., & MANN, D. (2014). Hydrology and climatology at Laguna La Gaiba, lowland Bolivia: complex responses to climatic forcings over the last 25 000 years. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29(3), 289-300.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2702, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18414
VAN BELLEN, S., MAUQUOY, D., PAYNE, R., ROLAND, T., DALEY, T., HUGHES, P., Loader, N., STREET-PERROTT, F., RICE, E., & PANCOTTO, V. (2014). Testate amoebae as a proxy for reconstructing Holocene water table dynamics in southern Patagonian peat bogs. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29(5), 463-474.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2719, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18411
Loader, N., Waterhouse, J., & Loader, N. (2014). An Extractor Device for Stuck or Broken Increment Borers. Tree-Ring Research, 70(2), 157-160.
https://doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-70.2.157, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18410
Wynn, P., Loader, N., Fairchild, I., & Loader, N. (2014). Interrogating trees for isotopic archives of atmospheric sulphur deposition and comparison to speleothem records. Environmental Pollution, 187, 98-105.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.12.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17956
Saurer, M., Spahni, R., Frank, D., Joos, F., Leuenberger, M., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Poulter, B., Siegwolf, R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Boettger, T., Liñán, I., Fairchild, I., Friedrich, M., Gutierrez, E., Haupt, M., Hilasvuori, E., Heinrich, I...., & Young, G. (2014). Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests. Global Change Biology, 20(12), 3700-3712.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12717, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18412
Loader, N., Young, G., Grudd, H., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2013). Stable carbon isotopes from Torneträsk, northern Sweden provide a millennial length reconstruction of summer sunshine and its relationship to Arctic circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 62, 97-113.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.014, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13824
McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Jalkanen, R., Gagen, M., Grudd, H., Gunnarson, B., Kirchhefer, A., Friedrich, M., Linderholm, H., Lindholm, M., Boettger, T., Los, S., Remmele, S., Kononov, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Young, G., Zorita, E., McCarroll, D., Loader, N...., & Young, G. (2013). A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe. The Holocene
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612467483, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13823
Bodin, P., Gagen, M., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Jalkanen, R., Robertson, I., Switsur, V., Waterhouse, J., Woodley, E., Young, G., & Alton, P. (2013). Comparing the performance of different stomatal conductance models using modelled and measured plant carbon isotope ratios (δ13C): implications for assessing physiological forcing. Global Change Biology, 19(6), 1709-1719.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12192, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14655
Sidorova, O., Siegwolf, R., Myglan, V., Ovchinnikov, D., Shishov, V., Helle, G., Loader, N., Saurer, M., & Loader, N. (2013). The application of tree-rings and stable isotopes for reconstructions of climate conditions in the Russian Altai. Climatic Change, 120(1-2)-167.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-013-0805-5, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15937
Loader, N., Young, G., McCarroll, D., Wilson, R., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2013). Quantifying uncertainty in isotope dendroclimatology. The Holocene
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613486945, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15230
Rinne, K., Loader, N., Switsur, V., Waterhouse, J., & Loader, N. (2013). 400-year May–August precipitation reconstruction for Southern England using oxygen isotopes in tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 60, 13-25.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.048, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13818
Waterhouse, J., Cheng, S., Juchelka, D., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Switsur, V., & Gautam, L. (2013). Position-specific measurement of oxygen isotope ratios in cellulose: Isotopic exchange during heterotrophic cellulose synthesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 112, 178-191.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.02.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14663
Dickau, R., Whitney, B., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F., Soto, J., Metcalfe, P., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Ficken, K., & Killeen, T. (2013). Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 193, 15-37.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14664
Woodley, E., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Robertson, I., Heaton, T., Gagen, M., & Warham, J. (2012). High-temperature pyrolysis/gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry: simultaneous measurement of the stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon in cellulose. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26(2), 109
https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.5302, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7216
Young, G., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Gagen, M., Kirchhefer, A., & Demmler, J. (2012). Changes in atmospheric circulation and the Arctic Oscillation preserved within a millennial length reconstruction of summer cloud cover from northern Fennoscandia. Climate Dynamics, 39(1-2), 495
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1246-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7229
Gagen, M., McCarroll, D., Jalkanen, R., Loader, N., Robertson, I., Young, G., McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2012). A rapid method for the production of robust millennial length stable isotope tree ring series for climate reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change, 82-83, 96
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.11.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7342
Williams, A., Funk, C., Michaelsen, J., Rauscher, S., Robertson, I., Wils, T., Koprowski, M., Eshetu, Z., & Loader, N. (2012). Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature. Climate Dynamics, 39(9-10), 2307
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1222-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7482
Woodley, E., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Robertson, I., Heaton, T., Gagen, M., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2012). Estimating uncertainty in pooled stable isotope time-series from tree-rings. Chemical Geology, 294-295, 243
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.12.008, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7485
Wilson, R., Loader, N., Rydval, M., Patton, H., Frith, A., Mills, C., Crone, A., Edwards, C., Larsson, L., Gunnarson, B., & Loader, N. (2012). Reconstructing Holocene climate from tree rings: The potential for a long chronology from the Scottish Highlands. The Holocene, 22(1), 3
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683611405237, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7501
Young, G., Bale, R., Loader, N., Mccarroll, D., Nayling, N., Vousden, N., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2012). Central England temperature since AD 1850: the potential of stable carbon isotopes in British oak trees to reconstruct past summer temperatures. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27(6), 606-614.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2554, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13820
Wilson, R., Miles, D., Loader, N., Melvin, T., Cunningham, L., Cooper, R., & Briffa, K. (2012). A millennial long March–July precipitation reconstruction for southern-central England. Climate Dynamics
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1318-z, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13821
Pyne-O'Donnell, S., Hughes, P., Froese, D., Jensen, B., Kuehn, S., Mallon, G., Amesbury, M., Charman, D., Daley, T., Loader, N., Mauquoy, D., Street-Perrott, F., & Woodman-Ralph, J. (2012). High-precision ultra-distal Holocene tephrochronology in North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 52, 6-11.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.024, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13822
Daley, T., Mauquoy, D., Chambers, F., Street-Perrott, F., Hughes, P., Loader, N., Roland, T., Bellen, S., Garcia-Meneses, P., Lewin, S., & Loader, N. (2012). Investigating late Holocene variations in hydroclimate and the stable isotope composition of precipitation using southern South American peatlands: an hypothesis. Climate of the Past, 8(5), 1457-1471.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1457-2012, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13826
Loader, N., Walsh, R., Robertson, I., Bidin, K., Ong, R., Reynolds, G., McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Young, G., Walsh, R., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2011). Recent trends in the intrinsic water-use efficiency of ringless rainforest trees in Borneo. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1582), 3330-3339.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0037, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7143
Young, G., Demmler, J., Gunnarson, B., Kirchhefer, A., Loader, N., & McCarroll, D. (2011). Age trends in tree ring growth and isotopic archives: A case study ofPinus sylvestrisL. from northwestern Norway. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25(2), n/a
https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GB003913, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7223
Loader, N., Jalkanen, R., McCarroll, D., & Moberg, A. (2011). Spring temperature variability in northern Fennoscandia AD 1693-2011. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(6), 566
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1528, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7227
Daley, T., Thomas, E., Holmes, J., Street-Perrott, F., Chapman, M., Tindall, J., Valdes, P., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Wolff, E., Hopley, P., Atkinson, T., Barber, K., Fisher, E., Robertson, I., Hughes, P., Roberts, C., & Street-Perrott, A. (2011). The 8200yr BP cold event in stable isotope records from the North Atlantic region. Global and Planetary Change, 79(3-4), 288
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.03.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7290
Gagen, M., Zorita, E., McCarroll, D., Young, G., Grudd, H., Jalkanen, R., Loader, N., Robertson, I., & Kirchhefer, A. (2011). Cloud response to summer temperatures in Fennoscandia over the last thousand years. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(5), n/a
https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL046216, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7345
Gagen, M., FINSINGER, W., WAGNER-CREMER, F., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Robertson, I., JALKANEN, R., Young, G., & KIRCHHEFER, A. (2011). Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios. Global Change Biology, 17(2), 1064-1072.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02273.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa974
Seftigen, K., Linderholm, H., Loader, N., Liu, Y., & Young, G. (2011). The influence of climate on 13C/12C and 18O/16O ratios in tree ring cellulose of Pinus sylvestris L. growing in the central Scandinavian Mountains. Chemical Geology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7488
Bale, R., Robertson, I., Leavitt, S., Loader, N., Harlan, T., Gagen, M., Young, G., Csank, A., Froyd, C., McCarroll, D., McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Froyd, C. (2010). Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring stable oxygen isotope chronologies over the last two centuries. The Holocene, 20(1), 3
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609348867, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7233
Daley, T., Barber, K., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Crowley, S., Fisher, E., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2010). Holocene climate variability revealed by oxygen isotope analysis of Sphagnum cellulose from Walton Moss, northern England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(13-14), 1590
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7293
Tillman, P., Holzkämper, S., Kuhry, P., Sannel, A., Loader, N., & Robertson, I. (2010). Long-term climate variability in continental subarctic Canada: A 6200-year record derived from stable isotopes in peat. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 298(3-4), 235
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.029, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7368
Tillman, P., Holzkämper, S., Kuhry, P., Sannel, A., Loader, N., & Robertson, I. (2010). Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in Sphagnum fuscum peat from subarctic Canada: Implications for palaeoclimate studies. Chemical Geology, 270(1-4), 216
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.12.001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7373
Young, G., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Kirchhefer, A., McCarroll, D., Loader, N., & Young, G. (2010). A 500-year record of summer near-ground solar radiation from tree-ring stable carbon isotopes. The Holocene, 20(3), 315-324.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609351902, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1010
Wils, T., Robertson, I., Eshetu, Z., Koprowski, M., Sass-Klaassen, U., Touchan, R., Loader, N., Robertson, I., & Loader, N. (2010). Towards a reconstruction of Blue Nile baseflow from Ethiopian tree rings. The Holocene, 20(6), 837-848.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610365940, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1024
Loader, N., Helle, G., Los, S., Lehmkuhl, F., Schleser, G., Loader, N., & Los, S. (2010). Twentieth-century summer temperature variability in the southern Altai Mountains: A carbon and oxygen isotope study of tree-rings. The Holocene, 20(7), 1149-1156.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683610369507, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa998
Fish, T., Wilson, R., Edwards, C., Mills, C., Crone, A., Kirchhefer, A., Linderholm, H., Loader, N., Woodley, E., & Loader, N. (2010). Exploring for senescence signals in native scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the Scottish Highlands. Forest Ecology and Management, 260(3), 321
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7486
Rinne, K., Loader, N., Switsur, V., Treydte, K., Waterhouse, J., & Loader, N. (2010). Investigating the influence of sulphur dioxide (SO2) on the stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ18O) of tree rings. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(8), 2327
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.01.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7492
Kress, A., Young, G., Saurer, M., Loader, N., Siegwolf, R., & McCarroll, D. (2009). Stable isotope coherence in the earlywood and latewood of tree-line conifers. Chemical Geology, 268(1-2), 52
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.07.008, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7225
McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Loader, N., Robertson, I., Anchukaitis, K., Los, S., Young, G., Jalkanen, R., Kirchhefer, A., & Waterhouse, J. (2009). Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(6), 1539
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.041, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7344
Daley, T., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Barber, K., Hughes, P., Fisher, E., Marshall, J., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2009). Terrestrial climate signal of the "8200 yr B.P. cold event" in the Labrador Sea region. Geology, 37(9), 831
https://doi.org/10.1130/G30043A.1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1039
Levanič, T., Gričar, J., Gagen, M., Jalkanen, R., Loader, N., McCarroll, D., Oven, P., & Robertson, I. (2009). The climate sensitivity of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] in the southeastern European Alps. Trees, 23(1), 169-180.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-008-0265-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33203
Fairchild, I., Loader, N., Wynn, P., Frisia, S., Thomas, P., Lageard, J., Momi, A., Hartland, A., Borsato, A., Porta, N., & Susini, J. (2009). Sulfur Fixation in Wood Mapped by Synchrotron X-ray Studies: Implications for Environmental Archives. Environmental Science & Technology, 43(5), 1310
https://doi.org/10.1021/es8029297, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7478
Loader, N., Santillo, P., Woodman-Ralph, J., Rolfe, J., Hall, M., Gagen, M., Robertson, I., Wilson, R., Froyd, C., McCarroll, D., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Froyd, C. (2008). Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions. Chemical Geology, 252(1-2), 62
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7215
Robertson, I., Leavitt, S., Loader, N., & Buhay, W. (2008). Progress in isotope dendroclimatology. Chemical Geology, 252(1-2), EX1-EX4.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2541(08)00177-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1025
Gagen, M., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., Loader, N., & Jalkanen, R. (2008). Do tree ring δ13C series from Pinus sylvestris in northern Fennoscandia contain long-term non-climatic trends?. Chemical Geology, 252(1-2), 42-51.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.013, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa976
Loader, N. & RUNDGREN, M. (2008). The role of inter-specific, micro-habitat and climatic factors on the carbon isotope (δ13C) variability of a modern leaf assemblage from northern Scandinavia: implications for climate reconstruction. Boreas, 35(2), 188-201.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2006.tb01149.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2096
Barnekow, L., Loader, N., Hicks, S., Froyd, C., & Goslar, T. (2007). Strong correlation between summer temperature and pollen accumulation rates for Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies and Betula spp. in a high-resolution record from northern Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22(7)-658.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1096, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15822
Treydte, K., Frank, D., Esper, J., Andreu, L., Bednarz, Z., Berninger, F., Boettger, T., D'Alessandro, C., Etien, N., Filot, M., Grabner, M., Guillemin, M., Gutierrez, E., Haupt, M., Helle, G., Hilasvuori, E., Jungner, H., Kalela-Brundin, M., Krapiec, M...., & Loader, N. (2007). Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope network. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(24)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031106, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7487
McCarroll, D. & Loader, N. (2004). Stable isotopes in tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23(7-8), 771-801.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06.017, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2095
Loader, N., Robertson, I., McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., & Loader, N. (2003). Comparison of stable carbon isotope ratios in the whole wood, cellulose and lignin of oak tree-rings. , 395-407.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00466-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2094
Loader, N., Hemming, D., & Loader, N. (2001). Spatial variation in pollen d13C correlates with temperature and seasonal development timing. , 587-592.
https://doi.org/10.1191/095968301680223530, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2093

Other Research Outputs

Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Howard, R., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2022). Merchant Adventurers Hall, Fossgate, York, North Yorkshire. Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60792
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/9-2021?searchType=research+report&search=*&searchResultsPerPage=100&sort=publicationDate+desc
Bridge, M., Tyers, C., Bayliss, A., Bollhalder, S., Wacker, L., Loader, N., & McCarroll, D. (2022). Research Report 12/2022 Bourn Mill, Caxton End, Bourn, Cambridgeshire: Ring-Width Dendrochronology, Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching, and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Elm and Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59678
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/12-2022?searchType=research+report&search=*&searchResultsPerPage=100&sort=publicationDate+desc
Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2021). Research Report 228/2020 Dacre Hall, Lanercost Priory, Burtholme, Cumbria: Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58178
Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2021). Research Report 5/2021 Cockle Park Tower, Hebron, Morpeth, Northumberland: Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58179
Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, ., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2021). Lodge Farmhouse, Middle Road, Denton, Norfolk, Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60793
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/6-2021
Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2021). Research Report 8/2021 Church of Saint Mabena, Saint Mabyn, Cornwall: Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59670
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/8-2021
Loader, N., Davies, D., McCarroll, D., Miles, D., Tyers, C., & Young, G. (2021). Research Report 7/2021 The Manor House, King Street, Fordwich, Kent: Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Oak Timbers
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59669
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/7-2021

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PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Iain Robertson
A Dendrochronological Approach to the Study of chronic Oak Decline in the forest of dean (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Mary Gagen

Taught Modules

GECM06 Traethawd Hir Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change

This module offers the opportunity to undertake a major individual research project in the field of Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change/Geographic Information and Climate Change/Environmental Drone Remote Sensing. Support is provided by a staff supervisor and through GEGM06P (Dissertation Preparation Module). The Dissertation will be presented in the form of a scientific paper with supporting data.
GEGM06 Dissertation Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change

This module offers the opportunity to undertake a major individual research project in the field of Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change/Geographic Information and Climate Change/Environmental Drone Remote Sensing. Support is provided by a staff supervisor and through GEGM06P (Dissertation Preparation Module). The Dissertation will be presented in the form of a scientific paper with supporting data.
GEGM06P Dissertation Preparation Module

This module introduces students to the MSc dissertation in Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change/Geographic Information and Climate Change/Environmental Drone Remote Sensing programmes. The module provides students with support in developing a research topic. Students are introduced to concepts of experimental design, research ethics, risk assessment, scientific writing, hypothesis testing and how to structure their dissertation. A laboratory induction and basic field skills will also be introduced. Students will be required to develop a topic for their dissertation and a plan for its realisation. Key milestones must be achieved throughout the module before students are permitted to start work on their dissertation research. Students who do not complete these milestones within the required timeframe and to a satisfactory standard will not be able to proceed directly to the dissertation module
GEGM07 Environmental Dynamics

This module aims to explain and understand past, present and potential future changes in the Earth's climate and environment. It provides a broad approach to environmental processes and dynamics operating on land, in the oceans and in the atmosphere on a global and regional scale. Emphasis is placed on the evidence available for reconstructing past environmental dynamics, the implications for present-day processes, future predictions and likely impacts.

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To widen access to my research and to enhance its impact, I regularly engage in public outreach and science-communication activities through a variety of local- and large-scale events. Examples include: the Welsh National Eisteddfod (Gwyddon Lle), Urdd Eisteddfod, National Science Week, Oriel Science, The Green Man Festival, BBC Gardeners’ Question Time Garden Party (National Botanic Garden of Wales), Landmark Trust, International Oak Association, O.W. Crawford Lecture, Chartered Institute for Archaeologists 2021 Innovation Festival, print and broadcast media.

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A Dendrochronological Approach to the Study of chronic Oak Decline in the forest of dean (current)

Taught Modules

GECM06 Traethawd Hir Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change

GEGM06 Dissertation Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change

GEGM06P Dissertation Preparation Module

GEGM07 Environmental Dynamics

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