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David Williamson is affiliated with the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya. Their research spans several areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

Williamson's work encompasses multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Water quality monitoring technologies
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

The scientist has contributed to several publications in notable venues, such as:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Toxicology Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Oceanography
  • New Phytologist

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Williamson include:

  • "Modeling the GABLS4 Strongly-Stable Boundary Layer With a GCM Turbulence Parameterization: Parametric Sensitivity or Intrinsic Limits?" (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • "Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) embryos are highly sensitive to short-term 3,4-dichloroaniline exposure" (2021, Toxicology Reports)
  • "De-Tuning Albedo Parameters in a Coupled Climate Ice Sheet Model to Simulate the North American Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum" (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "Monitoring Algal Blooms with Complementary Sensors on Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales" (2023, Oceanography)
  • "First archeomagnetic data from Kenya and Chad: Analysis of iron furnaces from Mount Kenya and Guéra Massif" (2020, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors)

Williamson frequently collaborates with other scientists in their field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Bjørn Henrik Hansen
  • Emlyn J. Davies
  • Martin Ludvigsen
  • Bjarne Kvæstad
  • Trond Nordtug

Best Publications

  • Climate variations in Europe over the past 140 kyr deduced from rock magnetism

    Nicolas Thouveny;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Eugène Bonifay;Ken M. Creer

  • Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Françoise Gasse;Françoise Chalié;Annie Vincens;Martin A.J. Williams

  • Phytolith indices as proxies of grass subfamilies on East African tropical mountains

    Laurent Bremond;Anne Alexandre;Matthew J. Wooller;Christelle Hély

  • Timing of the Younger Dryas event in East Africa from lake-level changes

    Nell Roberts;Maurice Taieb;Philip Barker;Brahlm Damnati

  • Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

    Rob Marchant;Suzi Richer;Oliver Boles;Claudia Capitani

  • The Ziway–Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

    Caroline Le Turdu;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Elisabeth Gibert;Yves Travi

  • Relationship between heavy metals and magnetic properties in a large polluted catchment: The Etang de Berre (south of France)

    V.M. Georgeaud;P. Rochette;J.P. Ambrosi;D. Vandamme

  • Abrupt resumption of the African Monsoon at the Younger Dryas—Holocene climatic transition

    Yannick Garcin;Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Guillaume Buchet

  • Mineral-magnetic proxies of erosion/oxidation cycles in tropical maar-lake sediments (Lake Tritrivakely, Madagascar): paleoenvironmental implications

    D Williamson;A Jelinowska;C Kissel;P Tucholka

  • Pollen-based vegetation changes in southern Tanzania during the last 4200 years: climate change and/or human impact

    Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Florian Thevenon;Maurice Taieb

  • The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change

    Philip Barker;Richard Telford;Ouassila Merdaci;David Williamson

  • Centennial to millennial changes in maar-lake deposition during the last 45,000 years in tropical Southern Africa (Lake Masoko, Tanzania)

    Yannick Garcin;David Williamson;Maurice Taieb;Annie Vincens

  • The Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania: a volcanological review

    Karen Fontijn;David Williamson;Evelyne Mbede;Gerald G.J. Ernst

  • Combining charcoal and elemental black carbon analysis in sedimentary archives: Implications for past fire regimes, the pyrogenic carbon cycle, and the human–climate interactions

    Florian Thevenon;David Williamson;Edouard Bard;Flavio S. Anselmetti

  • Climatic and volcanic forcing revealed in a 50,000-year diatom record from Lake Massoko, Tanzania

    Philip A. Barker;David Williamson;Françoise Gasse;Elisabeth Gibert

  • A biomass burning record from the West Equatorial Pacific over the last 360 ky: methodological, climatic and anthropic implications

    Florian Thevenon;Edouard Bard;David Williamson;Luc Beaufort

  • A 23,000 yr pollen record from Lake Rukwa (8°S, SW Tanzania): New data on vegetation dynamics and climate in Central Eastern Africa

    Annie Vincens;Guillaume Buchet;David Williamson;Maurice Taieb

  • Wet phases in tropical southern Africa during the last glacial period

    Yannick Garcin;Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Joël Guiot

  • Late‐Quaternary Transgressive and Highstand Deposits of a Deltaic Shelf (Rhône Delta, France)

    B. Gensous;D. Williamson;M. Tesson

  • A 250 ka sedimentary record from a small karstic lake in the Northern Levant (Yammoûneh, Lebanon): Paleoclimatic implications

    A. L. Develle;F. Gasse;L. Vidal;David Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Sylvie Derenne
Sylvie Derenne Université Paris Cité
Nicolas Thouveny
Nicolas Thouveny Aix-Marseille University
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Françoise Gasse
Françoise Gasse Aix-Marseille University
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge University of Orléans
Philip A. Barker
Philip A. Barker University of British Columbia
Thomas Wagner
Thomas Wagner Heriot-Watt University
Pierre Giresse
Pierre Giresse University of Perpignan
Raymonde Bonnefille
Raymonde Bonnefille Aix-Marseille University

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