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2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

David J. Nash is affiliated with the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences, with notable contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Archeology, Global and Planetary Change, and Paleontology.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
  • Tree-ring climate responses

David J. Nash has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art (2021), published in Climate of the past
  • Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge (2020), published in Science Advances

Other prominent publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Climate of the past
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • South African Geographical Journal
  • Science Advances

David J. Nash often collaborates with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators are:

  • T. Jake R. Ciborowski
  • Sheila Coulson
  • Sigrid Staurset
  • Sarah Mothulatshipi
  • Sallie L. Burrough

Their research includes interdisciplinary approaches that blend geological, archaeological, and climatic perspectives. The integration of geological and geochemical analyses alongside archaeology and paleoclimatic data supports a multi-faceted understanding of past environments and human activity.

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Geochemical sediments and landscapes

    David J. Nash;Sue J. McLaren

  • Kalahari valley calcretes: their nature, origins, and environmental significance

    David J. Nash;Sue J. McLaren

  • Documentary data and the study of past droughts: a global state of the art

    Rudolf Brázdil;Rudolf Brázdil;Andrea Kiss;Andrea Kiss;Jürg Luterbacher;David J. Nash;David J. Nash

  • Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

    David S.G Thomas;George Brook;Paul Shaw;Mark Bateman

  • Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

    Sharon E. Nicholson;David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Stefan W. Grab

  • Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: new evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arid and humid chronologies

    D.S.G. Thomas;P.W. O'Connor;M.D. Bateman;P.A. Shaw

  • A 19TH CENTURY CLIMATE CHRONOLOGY FOR THE KALAHARI REGION OF CENTRAL SOUTHERN AFRICA DERIVED FROM MISSIONARY CORRESPONDENCE

    David J. Nash;Georgina H. Endfield

  • African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

    David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Gijs De Cort;Gijs De Cort;Brian M. Chase;Dirk Verschuren

  • “A sky of brass and burning winds”: documentary evidence of rainfall variability in the Kingdom of Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1824–1900

    David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Stefan W. Grab

  • Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age.

    David J. Nash;Sheila Coulson;Sigrid Staurset;J. Stewart Ullyott

  • Silica and carbonate relationships in silcrete-calcrete intergrade duricrusts from the Kalahari of Botswana and Namibia

    David J. Nash;Paul A. Shaw

  • ‘Splendid rains have fallen’: links between El Niño and rainfall variability in the Kalahari, 1840–1900

    David J. Nash;Georgina H. Endfield

  • Multi-proxy summer and winter precipitation reconstruction for southern Africa over the last 200 years

    Raphael Neukom;Raphael Neukom;David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Georgina H. Endfield;Stefan W. Grab

  • Drought, desiccation and discourse: missionary correspondence and nineteenth-century climate change in central southern Africa

    Georgina H. Endfield;David J. Nash

  • Documentary evidence of climate variability during cold seasons in Lesotho, southern Africa, 1833–1900

    Stefan W. Grab;David J. Nash

  • Duricrust development and valley evolution: Process–landform links in the Kalahari

    David J. Nash;Paul A. Shaw;David S. G. Thomas

  • Holocene environmental change in the Okavango Panhandle, northwest Botswana

    David J. Nash;Michael E. Meadows;Vana L. Gulliver

  • Multiple calcrete profiles in the Tabernas Basin, southeast Spain: their origins and geomorphic implications

    David J. Nash;Roger F. Smith

  • Late Quaternary fluvial activity in the dry valleys (mekgacha) of the Middle and Southern Kalahari, southern Africa

    Paul A. Shaw;David S. G. Thomas;David J. Nash

  • Book Review: Alluvial sedimentation. M. Marzo and C. Puigdefábregas (Editors). Special publication number 17, International Association of Sedimentologists, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1993 xi + 586 pp., £70.00, ISBN 0-632-03545-5

    David J. Nash

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike J. McLaughlin
Mike J. McLaughlin University of Adelaide
Michael St. J. Warne
Michael St. J. Warne University of Queensland
Paul A. Shaw
Paul A. Shaw University of the West Indies
David S.G. Thomas
David S.G. Thomas University of Oxford
Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
Raphael Neukom
Raphael Neukom University of Bern
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania

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