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Overview

G. Russell Coope was affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focused primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions also in Environmental Science. The subfields they explored include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's main topics of work encompassed Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Geological formations and processes. Their publications reflect these themes through detailed investigations of past climate variation and environmental conditions.

One notable paper authored by G. Russell Coope is titled A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK, published in 2022 in the journal Quaternary Research. This paper contributed to understanding climate fluctuations during the Marine Isotope Stage 11 period using multiple proxies.

Throughout their career, G. Russell Coope collaborated frequently with several researchers. Coauthors included:

  • David J. Horne
  • Nick Ashton
  • Ginny Benardout
  • Stephen J. Brooks
  • Jonathan A. Holmes

Their work was predominantly published in the journal Quaternary Research, which features studies related to geological and paleoclimatic processes.

Best Publications

  • Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains

    T. C. Atkinson;K. R. Briffa;G. R. Coope

  • Palaeoecology and stratigraphy of the lateglacial type section at Usselo (the Netherlands)

    B. Van Geel;G.R. Coope;T. Van Der Hammen

  • The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe

    Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;René W. Barendregt;Marzia Breda;Ian Candy;Ian Candy

  • Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe

    Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;Nick M. Ashton;Simon G. Lewis;Richard L. Abel

  • Fossil coleopteran assemblages as sensitive indicators of climatic changes during the Devensian (Last) cold stage

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  • Temperature gradients in northern Europe during the last glacial Holocene transition (14-914C kyr BP) interpreted from coleopteran assemblages

    G.R. Coope;Geoffrey Lemdahl;Geoffrey Lemdahl;J.J. Lowe;A. Walkling

  • The response of insect faunas to glacial-interglacial climatic fluctuations

    G. Russell Coope

  • Late Glacial environmental changes indicated by a coleopteran succession from North Wales

    G. Russell Coope;John A. Brophy

  • Climatic changes in areas adjacent to the North Atlantic during the last glacial-interglacial transition (14-9 ka BP): a contribution to IGCP-253

    J. John Lowe;B. Ammann;H. H. Birks;S. Björck

  • A late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire

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  • New evidence for complex climate change in MIS 11 from Hoxne, Suffolk,UK

    Nick Ashton;Simon G. Lewis;Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;Kirsty E.H. Penkman

  • Age and Insect Fauna of the Dimlington Silts, East Yorkshire

    L. F. Penny;G. R. Coope;J. A. Catt

  • The Devensian (Weichselian) Lateglacial palaeoenvironmental record from Gransmoor, East Yorkshire, England: A contribution to the ‘North Atlantic seaboard programme’ of IGCP-253, ‘Termination of the Pleistocene’

    M.J.C. Walker;G.R. Coope;J.J. Lowe

  • The Devensian/Weichselian Late‐glacial in northwest Europe (Ireland, Britain, north Belgium, The Netherlands, northwest Germany)

    M. J. C. Walker;S. J. P. Bohncke;G. R. Coope;M. O'Connell

  • Devensian Lateglacial environmental changes in Britain: a multi-proxy environmental record from Llanilid, South Wales, UK

    M.J.C Walker;G.R Coope;C Sheldrick;C.S.M Turney

  • Implications for the Dating of Wisconsinan (Weichselian) Late-Glacial Events of Systematic Radiocarbon Age Differences between Terrestrial Plant Macrofossils from a Site in SW Ireland

    Chris S.M. Turney;G. Russell Coope;Doug D. Harkness;J. John Lowe

  • Regional differences in the Lateglacial climate of northern Europe based on coleopteran analysis

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  • Pronounced warmth during early Middle Pleistocene interglacials: Investigating the Mid-Brunhes Event in the British terrestrial sequence

    I. Candy;G.R. Coope;J.R. Lee;S.A. Parfitt;S.A. Parfitt

  • The chronology of palaeoenvironmental changes during the Last Glacial-Holocene transition: towards an event stratigraphy for the British Isles

    J. J. Lowe;H. H. Birks;S. J. Brooks;G. R. Coope

  • A Late Pleistocene insect fauna from Chelford, Cheshire

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  • Biostratigraphic and aminostratigraphic constraints on the age of the Middle Pleistocene glacial succession in north Norfolk, UK

    Richard C. Preece;Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;G. Russell Coope;Kirsty E. H. Penkman

  • Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon chronologies: examples from the European Late-glacial

    S. P. E. Blockley;J. J. Lowe;M. J. C. Walker;A. Asioli

  • Weichselian Late Pleniglacial and Late-glacial depositional environments, Coleoptera and periglacial climatic records from central Poland (Bełchatów)

    C. Kasse;A. S. Huijzer;D. Krzyszkowski;S. J. P. Bohncke

  • Climatic and environmental reconstructions based on fossil assemblages from middle devensian (Weichselian) deposits of the river Thames at south kensington, central London, UK

    G.R. Coope;P.L. Gibbard;A.R. Hall;R.C. Preece

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon A. Parfitt
Simon A. Parfitt University College London
Richard C. Preece
Richard C. Preece University of Cambridge
Philip L. Gibbard
Philip L. Gibbard University of Cambridge
Kirsty Penkman
Kirsty Penkman University of York
Danielle C. Schreve
Danielle C. Schreve Royal Holloway University of London
James Rose
James Rose Royal Holloway University of London
Ian Candy
Ian Candy Royal Holloway University of London
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Adrian M. Lister
Adrian M. Lister Natural History Museum

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