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John A. Matthews is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Their recent research papers span diverse subjects related to climate, ecology, and archaeology. Notable publications include:

  • "Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse" (2021) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE" (2024) in The Holocene
  • "Multi-proxy analysis of starchy plant consumption: a case study of pottery food crusts from a Late Iron Age settlement at Pada, northeast Estonia" (2023) in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • "Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart" (2020) in Geo Geography and Environment
  • "Identifying human values from goal models: An industrial case study" (2023) in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their work include Francis Ludlow, Richard Breen, Patrick Hayes, Poul Holm, and Chaochao Gao. These coauthors appear in multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing research relationships.

Their findings have appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Holocene
  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Geo Geography and Environment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

John A. Matthews's research intersects multiple disciplines, contributing to knowledge on climate impacts, ecological indicators, and ancient environmental practices through interdisciplinary approaches. Their academic output reflects investigations into historic environmental change and its implications across both natural and human systems.

Best Publications

  • The ‘Little Ice Age’: Re-evaluation of an evolving concept

    John A. Matthews;Keith R. Briffa

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations of Flatebreen and winter-precipitation changes in the Jostedalsbreen region, western Norvay, based on glaciolacustrine sediment records:

    Atle Nesje;John A. Matthews;Svein Olaf Dahl;Mark S. Berrisford

  • Norwegian mountain glaciers in the past, present and future

    Atle Nesje;Atle Nesje;Jostein Bakke;Jostein Bakke;Svein Olaf Dahl;Svein Olaf Dahl;Øyvind Lie

  • The status of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in southern Norway: relative-age dating of Neoglacial moraines with Schmidt hammer and lichenometry

    John A. Matthews;Richard A. Shakesby

  • ‘Little Ice Age’ glacier variations in Jotunheimen, southern Norwvay: a study in regionally controlled lichenometric dating of recessional moraines with implications for climate and lichen growth rates

    John A. Matthews

  • Holocene glacier variations in central Jotunheimen, southern Norway based on distal glaciolacustrine sediment cores

    John A. Matthews;Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje;Mark S. Berrisford

  • ‘Little ice age’ variations of outlet glaciers from the jostedalsbreen ice‐cap, Southern Norway: A regional lichenometric‐dating study of ice‐marginal moraine sequences and their climatic significance

    Richard W. Bickerton;John A. Matthews

  • The Schmidt hammer as a relative-age dating tool and its potential for calibrated-age dating in Holocene glaciated environments

    Richard A. Shakesby;John A. Matthews;Geraint Owen

  • Families of lichenometric dating curves from the Storbreen gletschervorfeld, Jotunheimen, Norway

    J. A. Matthews

  • The lacustrine sedimentary sequence in Sygneskardvatnet, western Norway: a continuous, high-resolution record of the Jostedalsbreen ice cap during the Holocene

    Atle Nesje;Svein Olaf Dahl;Carin Andersson;John A Matthews

  • Timing, equilibrium-line altitudes and climatic implications of two early-Holocene glacier readvances during the Erdalen Event at Jostedalsbreen, western Norway

    Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje;Øyvind Lie;Kristine Fjordheim

  • Vegetation Succession on the Storbreen Glacier Foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway: A Review

    John A. Matthews;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Geography: A Very Short Introduction

    John A. Matthews;David T. Herbert

  • Holocene glacier variation chronology of the Smørstabbtindan massif, Jotunheimen, southern Norway, and the recognition of century- to millennial-scale European Neoglacial Events

    John A. Matthews;P. Quentin Dresser

  • Reconstructing Holocene Glacier Variations from Glacial Lake Sediments: Studies from Nordvestlandet and Jostedalsbreen-Jotunheimen, Southern Norway

    Wibjörn Karlén;John A. Matthews

  • The late Neoglacial ('Little Ice Age') glacier maximum in southern Norway : new 14C-dating evidence and climatic implications

    John A. Matthews

  • Radiocarbon dating of surface and buried soils: principles, problems and prospects

    J.A. Matthews

  • Some problems and implications of 14C dates from a podzol buried beneath an end moraine at Haugabreen, southern Norway.

    John A. Matthews

  • Asynchronous neoglaciation and Holocene climatic change reconstructed from Norwegian glaciolacustrine sedimentary sequences

    John A. Matthews;Wibjörn Karlén

  • Periglacial patterned ground on the Styggedalsbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: micro-topographic, paraglacial and geoecological controls

    John A. Matthews;Richard A. Shakesby;Mark S. Berrisford;Lindsey J. McEwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Shakesby
Richard A. Shakesby Swansea University
Atle Nesje
Atle Nesje University of Bergen
Svein Olaf Dahl
Svein Olaf Dahl University of Bergen
Danny McCarroll
Danny McCarroll Swansea University
Jostein Bakke
Jostein Bakke University of Bergen
Chris Caseldine
Chris Caseldine University of Exeter
Keith R. Briffa
Keith R. Briffa University of East Anglia
Derek Fabel
Derek Fabel Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Wibjörn Karlén
Wibjörn Karlén Uppsala University
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen

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