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Overview

Colin N. Waters is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, contributing extensively to topics that span geological and environmental studies.

Their main areas of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

Colin N. Waters has published 37 works in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 24 works related to Environmental Science. Their subfields of study cover Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Geophysics, Oceanography, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jan Zalasiewicz
  • Martin J. Head
  • Mark Williams
  • Simon Turner
  • Alejandro Cearreta

The primary venues where they have published their research include:

  • The Anthropocene Review
  • Episodes
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Among the published papers are the following notable works:

  • "Defining the onset of the Anthropocene", 2022, Science
  • "Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series", 2023, The Anthropocene Review
  • "Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch", 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines", 2021, Earth's Future
  • "The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch", 2021, Episodes

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • Are we now living in the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Alan Smith;Tiffany L. Barry

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The technofossil record of humans

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N Waters;Anthony D Barnosky;Anthony D Barnosky

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

    J Zalasiewicz;M Williams;R Fortey;Alan Smith

  • Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

    Jaia Syvitski;Colin N. Waters;John Day;John D. Milliman

  • A stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan A. Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Michael A. Ellis

  • The anthropocene as a geological time unit : a guide to the scientific evidence and current debate

    J. A. Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;C. P. Summerhayes

  • Diachronous beginnings of the Anthropocene: The lower bounding surface of anthropogenic deposits

    Matt Edgeworth;Dan deB Richter;Colin Waters;Peter Haff

  • Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch

    Colin N. Waters;James P. M. Syvitski;Agnieszka Gałuszka;Gary J. Hancock

  • The Anthropocene: comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Erle C. Ellis;Martin J. Head

  • Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques

    Jan A. Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Alexander P. Wolfe;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Humans are the most significant global geomorphological driving force of the 21st century

    Anthony H Cooper;Teresa J Brown;Simon J Price;Jonathan R Ford

  • A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of northern Great Britain (onshore)

    C.N. Waters;R.A. Waters;W.J. Barclay;J.R. Davies

  • Nature and timing of Late Mississippian to Mid-Pennsylvanian glacio-eustatic sea-level changes of the Pennine Basin, UK

    Colin N. Waters;Daniel J. Condon

  • A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles

    C. N. Waters;I. D. Somerville;N. S. Jones;C. J. Cleal

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country
Anthony D. Barnosky
Anthony D. Barnosky University of California, Berkeley
Michael Wagreich
Michael Wagreich University of Vienna
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Peter F. Rawson
Peter F. Rawson University College London

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