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Overview

Paul A. Shaw is affiliated with the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular emphasis on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their scholarly contributions include topics related to Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

  • The Greenland Telescope-Construction, Commissioning, and Operations in Pituffik, 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • The Greenland Telescope: Construction, Commissioning, and Operations in Pituffik, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors in their work include Ming-Tang Chen, Keiichi Asada, Satoki Matsushita, Philippe Raffin, and Makoto Inoue.

  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • The Kalahari environment

    David S. G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects

    David S.G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • Paleoclimatic Significance of the Stable Isotopic Composition and Petrology of a Late Pleistocene Stalagmite from Botswana

    Karin Holmgren;Wibjörn Karlén;Paul A. Shaw

  • Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

    David S.G Thomas;George Brook;Paul Shaw;Mark Bateman

  • Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: new evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arid and humid chronologies

    D.S.G. Thomas;P.W. O'Connor;M.D. Bateman;P.A. Shaw

  • Trace element variation in speleothem aragonite: potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

    Adrian A Finch;Paul A Shaw;Graham P Weedon;Karin Holmgren

  • Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana

    Sallie L. Burrough;David S.G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw;Richard M. Bailey

  • Holocene fluctuations of Lake Ngami, Middle Kalahari: chronology and responses to climatic change

    Paul A. Shaw;Mark D. Bateman;David S.G. Thomas;Frances Davies

  • Geomorphic evidence for the late Quaternary palaeoclimates of the middle Kalahari of northern Botswana

    P.A. Shaw;H.J. Cooke

  • New chronological evidence for the nature and timing of linear dune development in the southwest Kalahari Desert

    Stephen Stokes;David S.G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • Late Quaternary highstands at Lake Chilwa, Malawi: Frequency, timing and possible forcing mechanisms in the last 44 ka

    David S.G. Thomas;David S.G. Thomas;Richard Bailey;Paul A. Shaw;Julie A. Durcan

  • Silica and carbonate relationships in silcrete-calcrete intergrade duricrusts from the Kalahari of Botswana and Namibia

    David J. Nash;Paul A. Shaw

  • Holocene aeolian activity in the southwestern Kalahari Desert, southern Africa: significance and relationships to late-Pleistocene dune-building events

    David S.G. Thomas;Stephen Stokes;Paul A. Shaw

  • Duricrust development and valley evolution: Process–landform links in the Kalahari

    David J. Nash;Paul A. Shaw;David S. G. Thomas

  • Late Quaternary Landforms and Environmental Change in Northwest Botswana: The Evidence of Lake Ngami and the Mababe Depression

    Paul Shaw

  • Late Cainozoic drainage evolution in the Zambezi basin: Geomorphological evidence from the Kalahari rim

    David S.G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • The deposition and development of the Kalahari Group sediments, Central Southern Africa

    D.S.G. Thomas;P.A. Shaw

  • Late Quaternary fluvial activity in the dry valleys (mekgacha) of the Middle and Southern Kalahari, southern Africa

    Paul A. Shaw;David S. G. Thomas;David J. Nash

  • Pans, Playas and Salt Lakes

    Paul A. Shaw;Rob G. Bryant

  • Present day lunette sediment cycling at Witpan in the arid southwestern Kalahari Desert

    D.S.G. Thomas;D.J. Nash;P.A. Shaw;C. Van der Post

  • The Kalahari Environment

    H. J. Deacon;D. S. G. Thomas;P. A. Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

David S.G. Thomas
David S.G. Thomas University of Oxford
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton
Karin Holmgren
Karin Holmgren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Stephen Stokes
Stephen Stokes University of Oxford
Adrian A. Finch
Adrian A. Finch University of St Andrews
George A. Brook
George A. Brook University of Georgia
Richard M. Bailey
Richard M. Bailey University of Oxford
Marwan A. Hassan
Marwan A. Hassan University of British Columbia
John Douglas Mcpherson
John Douglas Mcpherson University of California, Davis

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