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Henry F. Lamb is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Henry F. Lamb include:

  • "Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Reanalysis of the Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration Record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan," 2020, Radiocarbon
  • "Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology," 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution," 2022, Nature Geoscience

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Asfawossen Asrat
  • Verena Foerster
  • Martin H. Trauth
  • Andrew S. Cohen
  • Frank Schaebitz

Publication venues where Henry F. Lamb has contributed multiple works consist of:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Radiocarbon
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years

    Dominique Jolly;I. Colin Prentice;Raymonde Bonnefille;Aziz Ballouche

  • Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes : the ISOMED synthesis

    Neil Roberts;M.D. Jones;A. Benkaddour;W. J. Eastwood

  • Micro-XRF Core Scanning in Palaeolimnology: Recent Developments

    Sarah J. Davies;Henry F. Lamb;Stephen J. Roberts

  • Relation between century-scale Holocene arid intervals in tropical and temperate zones

    H. F. Lamb;F. Gasse;A. Benkaddour;A. Benkaddour;N. El Hamouti

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile

    Michael H. Marshall;Michael H. Marshall;Henry F. Lamb;Dei Huws;Sarah J. Davies

  • Holocene climatic change in Morocco: a quantitative reconstruction from pollen data

    R. Cheddadi;H. F. Lamb;J. Guiot;S. van der Kaars

  • Forest clearance and regrowth in northern Ethiopia during the last 3000 years

    Iain Darbyshire;Henry Lamb;Mohammed Umer

  • Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey: a palaeoecological record of lake and catchment-related changes

    W.J. Eastwood;N. Roberts;H.F. Lamb;J.C. Tibby

  • Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia

    Kassandra Maria Costa;Kassandra Maria Costa;James Russell;Bronwen Konecky;Bronwen Konecky;Henry Lamb

  • Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile

    Henry F. Lamb;C. Richard Bates;Paul Melor Vernon Coombes;Michael H. Marshall

  • An 18,000-year record of vegetation, lake-level and climatic change from Tigalmamine, Middle Atlas, Morocco.

    H F Lamb;U Eicher;V R Switsur

  • Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years

    Verena Foerster;Annett Junginger;Oliver Langkamp;Tsige Gebru

  • Chronology and stratigraphy of Late Quaternary sediments in the Konya basin, Turkey: Results from the KOPAL project

    N. Roberts;S. Black;P. Boyer;W.J. Eastwood

  • SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Katsuya Gotanda;Tsuyoshi Haraguchi;Toru Danhara

  • Palaeoecological and archaeological evidence for human occupance in southwest Turkey : The Beyşehir occupation phase

    W. J. Eastwood;N. Roberts;H. F. Lamb

  • A new approach to automated pollen analysis

    A.W.G Duller;G.A.T Duller;H.F Lamb

  • Holocene climate and vegetation change in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley, inferred from the composition (C/N and δ13C) of lacustrine organic matter

    Angela L. Lamb;Melanie J. Leng;Mohammed Umer Mohammed;Henry F. Lamb

  • The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project : High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution

    Christopher J. Campisano;Andrew S. Cohen;J. Ramon Arrowsmith;Asfawossen Asrat

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    M. Umer;H.-F. Lamb;Raymonde Bonnefille;A.-M. Lézine

Frequent Co-Authors

Asfawossen Asrat
Asfawossen Asrat Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Christopher Bronk Ramsey University of Oxford
Richard A. Staff
Richard A. Staff Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Takeshi Nakagawa
Takeshi Nakagawa Ritsumeikan University
Charlotte Bryant
Charlotte Bryant Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Helen M. Roberts
Helen M. Roberts Aberystwyth University
Frank Schäbitz
Frank Schäbitz University of Cologne

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