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Mark Williams is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and has a robust research portfolio primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work encompasses several interconnected subfields, including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Mark Williams's recent publications illustrate their ongoing engagement with contemporary issues concerning the Anthropocene epoch and human impacts on geological and environmental systems. Notable recent papers include:

  • Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines, 2021, Earth's Future
  • Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid-20th century stratigraphic event signals, 2022, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event, 2022, Episodes

Throughout their career, Williams has collaborated frequently with a network of scientists that includes Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Colin Summerhayes, Martin J. Head, and Alejandro Cearreta, reflecting interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research partnerships.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, with significant numbers of papers appearing in:

  • Palaeontologia Electronica
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • International Journal of Food Science & Technology
  • The Anthropocene Review
  • Paleontological Research

In addition to journal articles, Mark Williams has also published a scholarly book titled Altered Earth (2022) through Cambridge University Press, contributing to academic discourse on environmental and geological changes.

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

  • Deep-time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies

    M Williams;AM Haywood;FJ Gregory;Daniela N Schmidt

  • Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica

    Adam R. Lewis;David R. Marchant;Allan C. Ashworth;Lars Hedenäs

  • Satellite-Observed Characteristics of Winter Monsoon Cloud Clusters

    Mark Williams;Robert A. Houze

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

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

  • The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    Harry Dowsett;Marci Robinson;Alan Haywood;Ulrich Salzmann

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Anthropocene biosphere

    Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz;PK Haff;Christian Schwägerl

  • WATER AND MINING CONFLICTS IN PERU

    Anthony Bebbington;Mark Williams

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
David J. Siveter
David J. Siveter University of Leicester
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Derek J. Siveter
Derek J. Siveter University of Oxford
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Richard J. Aldridge
Richard J. Aldridge University of Leicester
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge

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