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Hilary J. Sloane is affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom and primarily conducts research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The researcher's interests focus on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Environmental Studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Their recent papers reveal a concentration on isotope analysis and paleoenvironments, including:

  • A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology (2021), Archaeological Journal
  • Understanding the transfer of contemporary temperature signals into lake sediments via paired oxygen isotope ratios in carbonates and diatom silica: Problems and potential (2020), Chemical Geology
  • Growth-increment characteristics and isotopic (δ18O) temperature record of sub-thermocline Aequipecten opercularis (Mollusca:Bivalvia): evidence from modern Adriatic forms and an application to early Pliocene examples from eastern England (2020), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Calibration of shell δ18O from the common whelk Buccinum undatum highlights potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2020), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation (2020), Marine Micropaleontology

Hilary J. Sloane frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Melanie J. Leng, Annemarie M. Valentine, Bernd R. Schöne, Carol Arrowsmith, and Andrew L. A. Johnson. These collaborations reflect overlapping interests in geochemistry, paleoclimate reconstruction, and marine ecology.

Their work is published in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Archaeological Journal
  • Chemical Geology
  • Marine Micropaleontology

Best Publications

  • The oxygen isotope relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractions of human bioapatite

    Carolyn A. Chenery;Vanessa Pashley;Angela L. Lamb;Hilary J. Sloane

  • An inter-laboratory comparison of Si isotope reference materials

    Ben C. Reynolds;Jugdeep Aggarwal;Luc André;Douglas Baxter

  • Cleaning of lake sediment samples for diatom oxygen isotope analysis

    David W. Morley;Melanie J. Leng;Anson W. Mackay;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy

    Jonathan R. Dean;Jonathan R. Dean;Matthew D. Jones;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Stephen R. Noble

  • The use of oxygen, strontium and lead isotopes to provenance ancient glasses in the Middle East

    J. Henderson;Jane A. Evans;Hilary J. Sloane;Melanie J. Leng

  • Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro

    Phillip A. Barker;Elizabeth R. Hurrell;Melanie J. Leng;Christian Wolff

  • Combined oxygen and silicon isotope analysis of biogenic silica

    Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Inter-laboratory comparison of oxygen isotope compositions from biogenic silica

    Bernhard Chapligin;Melanie J. Leng;Elizabeth Webb;Anne Alexandre

  • Late Quaternary palaeohydrology of the Konya Basin, Turkey, based on isotope studies of modern hydrology and lacustrine carbonates

    Melanie J. Leng;Neil Roberts;Jane M. Reed;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Diatom silicon isotopes as a proxy for silicic acid utilisation: a southern ocean core top calibration

    Katherine E. Egan;Rosalind E. M. Rickaby;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Katharine Rosemary Hendry;Katharine Rosemary Hendry

  • Late glacial and Holocene environmental change in the Lake Baikal region documented by oxygen isotopes from diatom silica

    David W. Morley;Melanie J. Leng;Anson W. Mackay;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain.

    R. Madgwick;A. L. Lamb;H. Sloane;A. J. Nederbragt

  • Silicon, oxygen and carbon isotope composition of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) phytoliths: implications for palaeoecology and archaeology†

    Martin J. Hodson;Adrian G. Parker;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Hilary J. Sloane

  • A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia

    George E.A. Swann;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Olaf Juschus;Martin Melles

  • The Potential use of Silicon Isotope Composition of Biogenic Silica as a Proxy for Environmental Change

    Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;George E. A. Swann;Martin J. Hodson;Jonathan J. Tyler

  • Holocene climate of the Kola Peninsula; evidence from the oxygen isotope record of diatom silica

    Vivienne J. Jones;Melanie J. Leng;Nadia Solovieva;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Shell growth and oxygen isotopes in the topshell Osilinus turbinatus: resolving past inshore sea surface temperatures

    Marcello A. Mannino;Kenneth D. Thomas;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;Hilary J. Sloane

  • Oxygen and sulfur isotopic composition of volcanic sulfate aerosol at the point of emission

    T. A. Mather;J. R. McCabe;V. K. Rai;M. H. Thiemens

  • Orbital forcing of glacial/interglacial variations in chemical weathering and silicon cycling within the upper White Nile basin, East Africa: stable-isotope and biomarker evidence from Lakes Victoria and Edward

    Helen E. Cockerton;F. Alayne Street-Perrott;Philip A. Barker;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng

  • Calibration of speleothem δ18O with instrumental climate records from Turkey

    Catherine N. Jex;Catherine N. Jex;Andy Baker;Ian J. Fairchild;Warren J. Eastwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Jane Evans
Jane Evans British Geological Survey
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Philip A. Barker
Philip A. Barker University of British Columbia
Anson W. Mackay
Anson W. Mackay University College London
Fred J. Longstaffe
Fred J. Longstaffe University of Western Ontario
Zachary D. Sharp
Zachary D. Sharp University of New Mexico
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Aldo Shemesh
Aldo Shemesh Weizmann Institute of Science

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