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Overview

James D. Scourse is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine animal studies overview, Polar Research and Ecology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James D. Scourse include:

  • David J. Reynolds
  • Paul Butler
  • Chris D. Clark
  • Sarah Bradley
  • Anna L.C. Hughes

Publications by James D. Scourse have appeared repeatedly in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Boreas
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science Advances
  • Global Change Biology

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by James D. Scourse are:

  • Growth and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE-CHRONO reconstruction (2022, Boreas)
  • Atlantic circulation change still uncertain (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • Blue carbon gains from glacial retreat along Antarctic fjords: What should we expect? (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Quantification of blue carbon pathways contributing to negative feedback on climate change following glacier retreat in West Antarctic fjords (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE-CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British-Irish Ice Sheet (2021, Journal of Quaternary Science)

Best Publications

  • Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Valérie Trouet;Jan Esper;Nicholas E. Graham;Andy Baker

  • Variability of marine climate on the North Icelandic Shelf in a 1357-year proxy archive based on growth increments in the bivalve Arctica islandica

    Paul G. Butler;Alan D. Jnr Wanamaker;James D. Scourse;Christopher A. Richardson

  • North Atlantic storminess and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last Millennium: Reconciling contradictory proxy records of NAO variability

    V. Trouet;J.D. Scourse;C.C. Raible;C.C. Raible

  • Tidal evolution of the northwest European shelf seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present

    Katsuto Uehara;Katsuto Uehara;James D. Scourse;Kevin J. Horsburgh;Kurt Lambeck

  • Growth, dynamics and deglaciation of the last British–Irish ice sheet: the deep-sea ice-rafted detritus record

    James D. Scourse;Anna I. Haapaniemi;Anna I. Haapaniemi;Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo;Victoria Louise Peck

  • surface changes in the north Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last millennium

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Paul G. Butler;James D. Scourse;Jan Heinemeier

  • Very Long-Lived Mollusks Confirm 17th Century AD Tephra-Based Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages for North Icelandic Shelf Waters

    Alan D Wanamaker;Jan Heinemeier;James D Scourse;Christopher A Richardson

  • The relationship of Heinrich events and their European precursors over the past 60 ka BP: a multi-proxy ice-rafted debris provenance study in the North East Atlantic

    Victoria Louise Peck;Ian Robert Hall;Rainer Zahn;Rainer Zahn;F. Grousset

  • High resolution evidence for linkages between NW European ice sheet instability and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Victoria Louise Peck;Ian Robert Hall;R. Zahn;H. Elderfield

  • The origin of Heinrich layers: evidence from H2 for European precursor events

    James D. Scourse;Ian R. Hall;I.Nicholas McCave;Jeremy R. Young

  • Marine climate in the Irish Sea: analysis of a 489-year marine master chronology derived from growth increments in the shell of the clam Arctica islandica

    Paul G. Butler;Christopher A. Richardson;James D. Scourse;Alan D. Wanamaker

  • Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction

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  • Glacimarine Environments: Processes and Sediments

    John T. Andrews;J. A. Dowdeswell;J. D. Scourse

  • First cross-matched floating chronology from the marine fossil record: data from growth lines of the long-lived bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica

    James Scourse;Chris Richardson;Graham Forsythe;Ian Harris

  • Continuous marine radiocarbon reservoir calibration and the 13C Suess effect in the Irish Sea: Results from the first multi-centennial shell-based marine master chronology

    Paul G. Butler;James D. Scourse;Christopher A. Richardson;Alan D. Wanamaker

  • Bayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream

    Richard C. Chiverrell;Ian M. Thrasher;Geoffrey S. P. Thomas;Andreas Lang

  • The Pleistocene Sea-Level and Neotectonic History of the Eastern Solent, Southern England

    R. C. Preece;J. D. Scourse;S. D. Houghton;K. L. Knudsen

  • Annually resolved North Atlantic marine climate over the last millennium.

    David J. Reynolds;J.D. Scourse;P.R. Halloran;A. Nederbragt

  • A critical review of the glaciomarine model for Irish sea deglaciation: evidence from southern Britain, the Celtic shelf and adjacent continental slope

    J. D Scourse;Mark F.A Furze

  • Late Pleistocene stratigraphy and palaeobotany of the Isles of Scilly

    J. D. Scourse

  • Integrated marine and terrestrial evidence for abrupt Congo River palaeodischarge fluctuations during the last deglaciation

    Fabienne Marret;James D. Scourse;Gerard Versteegh;J. H. Fred Jansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Richardson
Christopher A. Richardson Bangor University
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Ian Hall
Ian Hall Griffith University
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Richard C. Chiverrell
Richard C. Chiverrell University of Liverpool
Chris D. Clark
Chris D. Clark University of Sheffield
Jan Heinemeier
Jan Heinemeier Aarhus University
Derek Fabel
Derek Fabel Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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