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James U. L. Baldini

James U. L. Baldini

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
4198
World Ranking
8002
National Ranking
816

Overview

James U. L. Baldini is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and contributes primarily to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focused expertise in Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. Their diverse research portfolio also covers subfields such as Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Anthropology.

The main topics of Baldini's work include geology and paleoclimatology research, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and geological and geochemical analysis. Additional areas of interest extend to tree-ring climate responses, geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and climate variability and models.

Frequent publication venues for Baldini's research include Communications Earth & Environment, Science Advances, Quaternary Science Reviews, Chemical Geology, and Climate of the Past. These outlets reflect a consistent engagement with high-impact journals in geosciences and environmental research.

Baldini's recent papers cover a variety of interdisciplinary topics. These include:

  • Intertropical convergence zone variability in the Neotropics during the Common Era (2020, Science Advances)
  • Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies (2023, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Volcanism and global plague pandemics: Towards an interdisciplinary synthesis (2020, Journal of Historical Geography)

Baldini has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Lisa M. Baldini, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Alice R. Paine, and Fabian B. Wadsworth. The repeated collaborations suggest an ongoing partnership in interdisciplinary research projects.

Best Publications

  • Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

    Douglas J. Kennett;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Valorie V. Aquino;Yemane Asmerom

  • COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA)

    Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Kira Rehfeld;Kira Rehfeld;Bedartha Goswami;Bedartha Goswami;James U.L. Baldini

  • Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record.

    James U. L. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Very high-frequency and seasonal cave atmosphere PCO2 variability: Implications for stalagmite growth and oxygen isotope-based paleoclimate records

    James U.L. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Dirk L. Hoffmann;David A. Richards

  • Spatial variability in cave drip water hydrochemistry : implications for stalagmite paleoclimate records.

    J.U.L. Baldini;F. McDermott;I.J. Fairchild

  • Carbon dioxide sources, sinks, and spatial variability in shallow temperate zone caves : evidence from Ballynamintra Cave, Ireland.

    James U. L. Baldini;Lisa M. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Nicholas Clipson

  • Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since ad 1550

    Harriet E. Ridley;Yemane Asmerom;James U. L. Baldini;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach

  • Biomass effects on stalagmite growth and isotope ratios: A 20th century analogue from Wiltshire, England

    James U.L. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Andy Baker;Lisa M. Baldini

  • Seasonality of westerly moisture transport in the East Asian summer monsoon and its implications for interpreting precipitation δ18O

    Alexander J. Baker;Harald Sodemann;James U. L. Baldini;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach

  • Spatial variability in the European winter precipitation δ18O‐NAO relationship: Implications for reconstructing NAO‐mode climate variability in the Holocene

    Lisa M. Baldini;Lisa M. Baldini;Frank McDermott;Aideen M. Foley;Aideen M. Foley;James U. L. Baldini

  • Regional temperature, atmospheric circulation, and sea-ice variability within the Younger Dryas Event constrained using a speleothem from northern Iberia

    Lisa M. Baldini;Frank McDermott;James U.L. Baldini;Pablo Arias

  • Cave air and hydrological controls on prior calcite precipitation and stalagmite growth rates: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions using speleothems

    Catherine M. Sherwin;James U.L. Baldini

  • ISOTOPIC ECOLOGY OF THE MODERN LAND SNAIL CERION, SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS: PRELIMINARY ADVANCES TOWARD ESTABLISHING A LOW-LATITUDE ISLAND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL PROXY

    Lisa M. Baldini;Sally E. Walker;L. Bruce Railsback;James U.L. Baldini

  • Determination of aragonite trace element distribution coefficients from speleothem calcite–aragonite transitions

    Jasper Wassenburg;Denis Scholz;Klaus Peter Jochum;Hai Cheng

  • Intertropical Convergence Zone Variability in the Neotropics During the Common Era

    Yemane Asmerom;James U. L. Baldini;Keith M. Prufer;Victor J. Polyak

  • Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw

    Franziska A. Lechleitner;Franziska A. Lechleitner;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Kira Rehfeld;Harriet E. Ridley

  • Isotopic archives of sulphate in speleothems

    Peter M. Wynn;Ian J. Fairchild;Andy Baker;James U.L. Baldini

  • Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

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  • Response of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Upper Ordovician glaciation

    Howard A. Armstrong;James Baldini;Tom J. Challands;Darren R. Gröcke

  • Persistent northward North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries.

    Lisa M. Baldini;James U.L. Baldini;Jim N. McElwaine;Amy Benoit Frappier

  • An investigation of the controls on Irish precipitation δ18O values on monthly and event timescales

    Lisa M. Baldini;Frank McDermott;James U. L. Baldini;Matthew J. Fischer

  • Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism

    James U.L. Baldini;Richard J. Brown;Jim N. McElwaine

  • Reconstructing high-resolution climate using CT scanning of unsectioned stalagmites: A case study identifying the mid-Holocene onset of the Mediterranean climate in southern Iberia

    Izabela W. Walczak;James U.L. Baldini;Lisa M. Baldini;Frank McDermott

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach Northumbria University
Frank McDermott
Frank McDermott University College Dublin
Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Victor J. Polyak
Victor J. Polyak University of New Mexico
Ian J. Fairchild
Ian J. Fairchild University of Birmingham
Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University
David Richards
David Richards University of Bristol
Dirk L. Hoffmann
Dirk L. Hoffmann Max Planck Society
David P. Mattey
David P. Mattey Royal Holloway University of London

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