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66
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1708
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211

Overview

Stephen J. Brooks is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science and Engineering, with notable contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ecological Modeling, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work addresses a range of topics primarily focusing on species distribution and climate change, geology and paleoclimatology research, and particle accelerators and free-electron lasers. Additional research interests include superconducting materials and applications, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, particle accelerators and beam dynamics, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Benjamin Price
  • Peter G. Langdon
  • D. Trbojevic
  • Phillip B. Fenberg
  • Georg Hoffstaetter

Stephen J. Brooks has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Brooks include:

  • "CBETA: First Multipass Superconducting Linear Accelerator with Energy Recovery", 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records", 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata", 2020, Ecological Entomology
  • "Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records", 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Insect body size changes under future warming projections: a case study of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera)", 2021, Hydrobiologia

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • The identification and use of palaearctic chironomidae larvae in palaeoecology

    Stephen J. Brooks;Peter G. Langdon;Oliver Heiri

  • Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region

    Fa-Hu Chen;Jian-Hui Chen;Jonathan Holmes;Ian Boomer

  • Chironomid-inferred air temperatures from Lateglacial and Holocene sites in north-west Europe: progress and problems

    Stephen J Brooks;H.J.B Birks;H.J.B Birks

  • The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).

    Stephen J. Brooks;P. C. Barnard

  • An identification guide to subfossil Tanypodinae larvae (Insecta: Diptera: Chrironomidae) based on cephalic setation

    Maria Rieradevall;Stephen J. Brooks

  • Quantification of biotic responses to rapid climatic changes around the Younger Dryas — a synthesis

    Brigitta Ammann;H.J.B Birks;H.J.B Birks;Stephen J Brooks;Ulrich Eicher

  • Fossil midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) as palaeoclimatic indicators for the Eurasian region

    Stephen J. Brooks

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Chironomid-inferred Late-glacial air temperatures at Whitrig Bog, Southeast Scotland

    Stephen J. Brooks;H. J. B. Birks

  • Chironomids as a tool for inferring Holocene climate: an assessment based on six sites in southern Scandinavia

    Gaute Velle;Gaute Velle;Stephen J. Brooks;H.J.B. Birks;H.J.B. Birks;H.J.B. Birks;Endre Willassen

  • Tracing lake trophic history with a chironomid–total phosphorus inference model

    Stephen J. Brooks;Helen Bennion;H. John B. Birks

  • A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe

    Oliver Heiri;Oliver Heiri;Stephen J. Brooks;H. John B. Birks;André F. Lotter

  • Validation of climate model-inferred regional temperature change for late-glacial Europe

    Oliver Heiri;Stephen J. Brooks;Hans Renssen;Alan Bedford

  • A taxonomic review of the common green lacewing genus Chrysoperla (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

    Stephen J. Brooks

  • Arctic Holocene proxy climate database – new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

    H. S. Sundqvist;D. S. Kaufman;N. P. McKay;N. L. Balascio

  • A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60–8 ka BP: towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients

    Ana Moreno;Anders Svensson;Stephen J. Brooks;Simon Connor

  • Discovering the True Chrysoperla carnea (Insecta: Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) Using Song Analysis, Morphology, and Ecology

    Charles S. Henry;Stephen J. Brooks;Stephen J. Brooks;Peter Duelli;Peter Duelli;James B. Johnson

  • Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault

    Kenneth G. Johnson;Stephen J. Brooks;Phillip B. Fenberg;Adrian G. Glover

  • An intercontinental comparison of chironomid palaeotemperature inference models: Europe vs North America.

    André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter;Ian R. Walker;Ian R. Walker;Ian R. Walker;Stephen J. Brooks;Wolfgang Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

H. J. B. Birks
H. J. B. Birks University of Bergen
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Vivienne J. Jones
Vivienne J. Jones University College London
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Hilary H. Birks
Hilary H. Birks University of Bergen
William D. Gosling
William D. Gosling University of Amsterdam
Richard W. Battarbee
Richard W. Battarbee University College London
André F. Lotter
André F. Lotter University of Bern
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Carl D. Sayer
Carl D. Sayer University College London

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