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Overview

Siwan M. Davies is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research addresses several key topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Freezing and Crystallization Processes

Siwan M. Davies has contributed to multiple publications, including papers that have appeared in notable venues such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Climate of the Past, Scientific Data, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Nature Geoscience. Recent published works include:

  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A first chronology for the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP) over the Holocene and last glacial termination, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies-from collection through analysis, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal, 2020, Nature Geoscience

Their frequent co-authors include Peter M Abbott, Anders Svensson, Gill Plunkett, Andrei V. Kurbatov, and Britta J.L. Jensen, reflecting collaborative research across various domains related to paleoclimatology and environmental sciences.

Siwan M. Davies has frequently published in venues that support open data and geoscientific environmental research. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Best Publications

  • A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology

    A. Svensson;K. K. Andersen;M. Bigler;H. B. Clausen

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005, 15-42 ka. Part 2: comparison to other records

    Anders Svensson;Katrine Krogh Andersen;Matthias Bigler;Henrik B. Clausen

  • Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

    Inger K. Seierstad;Peter M. Abbott;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Thomas Blunier

  • A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

    S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

  • Cryptotephras: the revolution in correlation and precision dating.

    Siwan M. Davies

  • Volcanism and the Greenland ice-cores: the tephra record

    Peter M. Abbott;Siwan M. Davies

  • Integrating the INTIMATE records using tephrochronology rising to the challenge

    Siwan M. Davies;Peter M. Abbott;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;Stefan Wastegård

  • Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in western Europe, 40–16 ka

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Daniel Veres;Linda Ampel;Terri Lacourse

  • Tephrochronology of last termination sequences in Europe: a protocol for improved analytical precision and robust correlation procedures (a joint SCOTAV-INTIMATE proposal)

    Chris S.M. Turney;J. John Lowe;Siwan M. Davies;Valerie Hall

  • Towards a European tephrochronological framework for Termination 1 and the Early Holocene

    Siwan M. Davies;Nicholas P. Branch;J. John Lowe;Chris S. M. Turney

  • Widespread dispersal of Icelandic tephra: how does the Eyjafjöll eruption of 2010 compare to past Icelandic events?

    Siwan M. Davies;Gudrun Larsen;Stefan Wastegard;Chris S. M. Turney

  • Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Maarten Blaauw;Siwan Davies;Mamite Andersson

  • Extending the limits of the Borrobol Tephra to Scandinavia and detection of new early Holocene tephras

    Siwan M. Davies;Stefan Wastegård;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Identification and significance of a visible, basalt‐rich Vedde Ash layer in a Late‐glacial sequence on the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

    Siwan M. Davies;Chris S. M. Turney;J. John Lowe

  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

    Chris S.M. Turney;Christopher J. Fogwill;Christopher J. Fogwill;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas P. McKay

  • Tephrochronology and the extended intimate (integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) event stratigraphy 8-128 ka b2k

    Simon P.E. Blockley;Anna J. Bourne;Achim Brauer;Siwan M. Davies

  • Detection of Lateglacial distal tephra layers in the Netherlands

    Siwan M. Davies;Wim Z. Hoek;Sjoerd J. P. Bohncke;J. John Lowe

  • Cryptotephra sedimentation processes within two lacustrine sequences from west central Sweden

    Siwan M. Davies;Marie Elmquist;Jonas Bergman;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • North European last glacial–interglacial transition (LGIT; 15–9 ka) tephrochronology: extended limits and new events

    C. S. M. Turney;K. Van Den Burg;S. Wastegård;S. M. Davies

  • Tracing volcanic events in the NGRIP ice-core and synchronising North Atlantic marine records during the last glacial period

    Siwan M. Davies;Stefan Wastegård;P.M. Abbott;C. Barbante

  • A tephra lattice for Greenland and a reconstruction of volcanic events spanning 25–45 ka b2k

    A. J. Bourne;E. Cook;Peter M. Abbott;I. K. Seierstad

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Svensson
Anders Svensson University of Copenhagen
Stefan Wastegård
Stefan Wastegård Stockholm University
Sune Olander Rasmussen
Sune Olander Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Nicholas J. G. Pearce
Nicholas J. G. Pearce Aberystwyth University
Chris S. M. Turney
Chris S. M. Turney Heriot-Watt University
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Bo M Vinther
Bo M Vinther University of Copenhagen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen University of Copenhagen
Frank Wilhelms
Frank Wilhelms Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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