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Overview

Jan Zalasiewicz is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with numerous publications contributing to these areas.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Marine and Environmental Studies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

The subfields they frequently engage in are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Oceanography
  • Geophysics

Among recent publications involving or relevant to their area of study are:

  • "Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch" (2020), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines" (2021), published in Earth's Future
  • "The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch" (2021), published in Episodes
  • "Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series" (2023), published in The Anthropocene Review
  • "Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans" (2022), published in Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent coauthors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Mark Williams
  • Colin N. Waters
  • Martin J. Head
  • Colin Summerhayes
  • Alejandro Cearreta

The primary venues for their scholarly publications are:

  • Episodes
  • The Anthropocene Review
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Earth's Future

Jan Zalasiewicz has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • Altered Earth, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022
  • Volcanoes: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2020

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Asa Persson;Asa Persson;Lisa Deutsch;J Zalasiewicz

  • The new world of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Will Steffen;Paul Crutzen

  • The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Mark Williams;Alan Haywood;Michael Ellis

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • Are we now living in the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Alan Smith;Tiffany L. Barry

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The technofossil record of humans

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N Waters;Anthony D Barnosky;Anthony D Barnosky

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

    Jan Zalasiewicz

  • Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

    J Zalasiewicz;M Williams;R Fortey;Alan Smith

  • Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

    Jaia Syvitski;Colin N. Waters;John Day;John D. Milliman

  • A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction

    Emma U. Hammarlund;Emma U. Hammarlund;Emma U. Hammarlund;Tais W. Dahl;David A. T. Harper;David A. T. Harper;David P. G. Bond

  • The Anthropocene biosphere

    Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz;PK Haff;Christian Schwägerl

  • Redistribution of rare earth elements during diagenesis of turbidite/hemipelagite mudrock sequences of Llandovery age from central Wales

    A. E. Milodowski;J. A. Zalasiewicz

  • A stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan A. Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Michael A. Ellis

  • Graptolites in British stratigraphy

    J. A. Zalasiewicz;L. Taylor;A. W. A. Rushton;D. K. Loydell

  • The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere.

    Carys E. Bennett;Richard Thomas;Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz

  • The anthropocene as a geological time unit : a guide to the scientific evidence and current debate

    J. A. Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;C. P. Summerhayes

  • Early and early Middle Pleistocene correlations in the Southern North Sea basin

    P.L. Gibbard;R.G. West;W.H. Zagwijn;P.S. Balson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge
Anthony D. Barnosky
Anthony D. Barnosky University of California, Berkeley
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country
Philip L. Gibbard
Philip L. Gibbard University of Cambridge
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin
Peter F. Rawson
Peter F. Rawson University College London
Michael Wagreich
Michael Wagreich University of Vienna

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