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Overview

Ian Shennan is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Geology.

The research contributions of this scientist cover a range of topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Frequent publication venues for Ian Shennan's work include:

  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Marine Geology
  • Scottish Geographical Journal

Coauthors who have collaborated multiple times with Ian Shennan are:

  • Sarah Woodroffe
  • Sarah Bradley
  • Louise Best
  • Emmanuel Bustamante
  • Alexander R. Simms

Significant recent papers include:

  • A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Reconstruction of the palaeo-sea level of Britain and Ireland arising from empirical constraints of ice extent: implications for regional sea level forecasts and North American ice sheet volume, 2023, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Investigating the roles of relative sea-level change and glacio-isostatic adjustment on the retreat of a marine based ice stream in NW Scotland, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland, 2023, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Sensitivity of tidal marshes as recorders of major megathrust earthquakes: constraints from the 25 December 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé earthquake, Chile, 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science

Best Publications

  • Holocene land- and sea-level changes in Great Britain

    Ian Shennan;Benjamin P Horton

  • Handbook of sea‐level research

    Ian Shennan;Antony J. Long;Benjamin P. Horton

  • Holocene crustal movements and sea‐level changes in Great Britain

    Ian Shennan

  • Identifying coseismic subsidence in tidal‐wetland stratigraphic sequences at the Cascadia subduction zone of western North America

    Alan R. Nelson;Ian Shennan;Antony J. Long

  • Flandrian sea-level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea-level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors

    Ian Shennan

  • An improved glacial isostatic adjustment model for the British Isles

    Sarah L. Bradley;Glenn A. Milne;Ian Shennan;Robin Edwards

  • A review of the trends observed in British Isles mean sea level data measured by tide gauges

    P. L. Woodworth;M. N. Tsimplis;R. A. Flather;I. Shennan

  • Modelling western North Sea palaeogeographies and tidal changes during the Holocene

    Ian Shennan;Kurt Lambeck;Roger Flather;Benjamin P Horton

  • Interpretation of Flandrian sea-level data from the Fenland, England

    I. Shennan

  • Relative sea-level changes, glacial isostatic modelling and ice-sheet reconstructions from the British Isles since the Last Glacial Maximum†

    Ian Shennan;Sarah Bradley;Glenn Milne;Anthony Brooks

  • Tidal marsh stratigraphy, sea-level change and large earthquakes, i: a 5000 year record in washington, U.S.A.☆

    I. Shennan;A.J. Long;M.M. Rutherford;F.M. Green

  • Trends in UK mean sea level revisited

    P. Woodworth;Felix Norman Teferle;R. M. Bingley;I. Shennan

  • On the postglacial isostatic adjustment of the British Isles and the shallow viscoelastic structure of the Earth

    William Richard Peltier;Ian Shennan;Rosemarie Drummond;Benjamin P Horton

  • Late Devensian and Holocene records of relative sea-level changes in northwest Scotland and their implications for glacio-hydro-isostatic modelling

    Ian Shennan;Kurt Lambeck;Benjamin P Horton;James B Innes

  • Inception of a global atlas of sea levels since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Nicole S Khan;Nicole S Khan;Benjamin P Horton;Simon E. Engelhart;Alessio Rovere

  • Holocene Land-Ocean Interaction and Environmental Change Around the North Sea

    Ian Shennan;Julian Andrews

  • Postglacial relative sea‐level observations from Ireland and their role in glacial rebound modelling

    Anthony J Brooks;Sarah L Bradley;Robin J Edwards;Glenn A Milne

  • Global to local scale parameters determining relative sea-level changes and the post-glacial isostatic adjustment of Great Britain

    Ian Shennan;W.Richard Peltier;Rosemarie Drummond;Ben Horton

  • Salt marshes as late Holocene tide gauges.

    Natasha L.M. Barlow;Ian Shennan;Antony J. Long;W. Roland Gehrels

  • Relative sea-level changes and crustal movements in Britain and Ireland since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Ian Shennan;Sarah L. Bradley;Robin Edwards

  • A comparison of late Holocene and twentieth-century sea-level trends from the UK and North Sea region

    I. Shennan;P. L. Woodworth

  • Sea-Level Changes

    Ada W. Pringle;Michael J. Tooley;Ian Shennan

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
James B. Innes
James B. Innes Durham University
Antony J. Long
Antony J. Long Durham University
Glenn A. Milne
Glenn A. Milne University of Ottawa
Jeremy M. Lloyd
Jeremy M. Lloyd Durham University
Yongqiang Zong
Yongqiang Zong University of Hong Kong
Julian E. Andrews
Julian E. Andrews University of East Anglia
Sarah E. Metcalfe
Sarah E. Metcalfe University of Nottingham
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Matthias Moros
Matthias Moros Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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