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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Kevin J. Edwards is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in several subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work addresses a variety of topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • History of Science and Natural History
  • Science and Climate Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Kevin J. Edwards has published extensively, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Grana
  • Earth system science data
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Palynology

Significant recent papers include:

  • James Croll and 1876: an exceptional year for a 'singularly modest man', 2021, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation, 2023, Land
  • The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Community-based monitoring, assessment and management of data-limited inland fish stocks in North Rupununi, Guyana, 2022, Fisheries Management and Ecology

Frequent collaborators of Kevin J. Edwards include:

  • J. Edward Schofield
  • G.I. Alsop
  • Angelica Feurdean
  • Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
  • Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek

Kevin J. Edwards has been recognized by membership in the Academia Europaea since 2012 and has held a fellowship with the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2002.

Best Publications

  • Microscopic charcoal as a fossil indicator of fire

    William A. Patterson;Kevin J. Edwards;David J. Maguire

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Vegetation and erosion. Processes and environments.

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  • The Norse landnám on the North Atlantic islands : an environmental impact assessment.

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Mike J. Church;Paul C. Buckland;Kevin J. Edwards

  • Radiocarbon dating tephra layers in Britain and Iceland.

    Andrew Dugmore;G. T. Cook;J. S. Shore;Anthony Newton

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anna Kari Trondman

  • Multivariate statistical and other approaches for the separation of cereal from wild Poaceae pollen using a large Holocene dataset

    John C. Tweddle;Kevin J. Edwards;Nick R. J. Fieller

  • The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland : overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Claire L. Twiddle;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Lake sediments, erosion and landscape change during the Holocene in Britain and Ireland

    Kevin J. Edwards;Graeme Whittington

  • Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anneli Poska

  • The first 100 years of pollen analysis

    Kevin J. Edwards;Ralph M. Fyfe;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Icelandic volcanic ash and the mid- Holocene Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) pollen decline in northern Scotland:

    Jeffrey J. Blackford;Kevin J. Edwards;Andrew J. Dugmore;Gordon T. Cook

  • The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

    Basil A S Davis;Marco Zanon;Pamella Collins;Achille Mauri

  • Cereal pollen grains in pre-elm decline deposits: Implications for the earliest agriculture in Britain and Ireland

    Kevin J. Edwards;Kenneth R. Hirons

  • Environmental impacts of the Norse settlement: palaeoenvironmental data from Myvatnssveit, northern Iceland

    Ian T. Lawson;Frederick J. Gathorne-Hardy;Mike J. Church;Anthony J. Newton

  • Palynological and Temporal Inference in the Context of Prehistory, With Special Reference To the Evidence from Lake and Peat Deposits

    Kevin J. Edwards

  • The Quaternary history of Ireland

    Kevin J. Edwards;William P. Warren

  • Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: sustaining a chiefly political economy in a marginal environment

    Davide Zori;Jesse Byock;Egill Erlendsson;Steve Martin

  • The Role of Climate in Settlement and Landscape Change in the North Atlantic Islands: An Assessment of Cumulative Deviations in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Douglas M. Borthwick;Mike J. Church;Alastair Dawson

  • They did not Live by Grass Alone: the Politics and Palaeoecology of Animal Fodder in the North Atlantic Region

    Tom Amorosi;Paul C. Buckland;Kevin J. Edwards;Ingrid Mainland

  • Holocene palynology: II human influence and vegetation change

    Kevin J. Edwards;Glen M. MacDonald

  • The effect of man on the landscape: The highland zone: J. G. Evans, Susan Limbrey and Henry Cleere (Eds) (London: The Council for British Archaeology, Research Report No. 11, 1975. Pp. vii + 129. £7·50)

    Kevin J. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Dugmore
Andrew J. Dugmore University of Edinburgh
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
Thomas H. McGovern
Thomas H. McGovern Hunter College
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Chris Caseldine
Chris Caseldine University of Exeter
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast

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