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Steven Grahame Moreton is affiliated with the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost

Steven Grahame Moreton has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Boreas
  • Scottish Journal of Geology

A selection of notable recent papers consists of:

  • "Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "Growth and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, 31,000 to 15,000 years ago: the BRITICE-CHRONO reconstruction," 2022, Boreas
  • "Pattern, style and timing of British-Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45,000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf," 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • "Retreat dynamics of the eastern sector of the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation," 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • "Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Chris D. Clark
  • Derek Fabel
  • Colm Ó Cofaigh
  • Richard C. Chiverrell
  • Margot Saher

Best Publications

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Variations in tropical convection as an amplifier of global climate change at the millennial scale

    Tara S. Ivanochko;Raja S. Ganeshram;Geert-Jan A. Brummer;Gerald Ganssen

  • Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum

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  • Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction

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  • A new Holocene relative sea level curve for the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

    Emma Watcham;Michael Bentley;Michael Bentley;Dominic Hodgson;Stephen J. Roberts

  • Deglacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment

    James A. Smith;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Gerhard Kuhn;Robert D. Larter

  • Grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from inner Pine Island Bay

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Gerhard Kuhn;James A. Smith;Karsten Gohl

  • Ice-stream retreat and ice-shelf history in Marguerite Trough, Antarctic Peninsula: Sedimentological and foraminiferal signatures

    Aoibheann A. Kilfeather;Colm Ó Cofaigh;Jerry M. Lloyd;Julian A. Dowdeswell

  • Chronology building using objective identification of annual signals in trace element profiles of stalagmites

    Claire L. Smith;Ian J. Fairchild;Christoph Spötl;Silvia Frisia

  • Microbioirrigation of marine sediments in dysoxic environments: Implications for early sediment fabric formation and diagenetic processes

    Jennifer Pike;Joan M. Bernhard;Steven Moreton;Ian Brett Butler

  • Reconstructing 800 years of summer temperatures in Scotland from tree rings

    Miloš Rydval;Miloš Rydval;Neil J. Loader;Björn E. Gunnarson;Daniel L. Druckenbrod

  • Holocene glacial and climate history of Prince Gustav Channel, northeastern Antarctic Peninsula

    Mieke Sterken;Stephen J. Roberts;Dominic A. Hodgson;Wim Vyverman

  • Age assignment of a diatomaceous ooze deposited in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment after the Last Glacial Maximum

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;James A Smith;Gerhard Kuhn;Oliver Esper

  • Multibeam bathymetry and the depositional environments of Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden, western Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    John A. Howe;Steven G. Moreton;Clara Morri;Peter Morris

  • Past penguin colony responses to explosive volcanism on the Antarctic Peninsula.

    Stephen J. Roberts;Patrick Monien;Louise C. Foster;Louise C. Foster;Julia Loftfield

  • Ice marginal dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the southern North Sea: Ice limits, timing and the influence of the Dogger Bank

    David H. Roberts;David J.A. Evans;S. Louise Callard;Chris D. Clark

  • Devising quality assurance procedures for assessment of legacy geochronological data relating to deglaciation of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet

    David Small;Chris D. Clark;Richard C. Chiverrell;Rachel K. Smedley

  • New constraints on the timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the eastern Amundsen Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum

    James A. Smith;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Gerhard Kuhn;Johann Phillip Klages

  • Geological constraints on glacio-isostatic adjustment models of relative sea-level change during deglaciation of Prince Gustav Channel, Antarctic Peninsula

    Stephen J. Roberts;Dominic A. Hodgson;Mieke Sterken;Pippa L. Whitehouse

  • Changes in Holocene climate and the intensity of Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds based on a high-resolution palynological record from sub-Antarctic South Georgia

    Stephanie L Strother;Ulrich Salzmann;Stephen J Roberts;Dominic A Hodgson

  • Volcanic time-markers for Marine Isotopic Stages 6 and 5 in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores: implications for tephra correlations between palaeoclimatic records

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;S.G. Moreton;A. Caburlotto;C.J. Pudsey

  • Growth of north-east Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and mounds during the Holocene: a high resolution U-series and 14C chronology

    Mélanie Douarin;Mary Elliot;Stephen R. Noble;Daniel Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Alastair G C Graham
Alastair G C Graham University of South Florida
Werner Ehrmann
Werner Ehrmann Leipzig University
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Barbara A. Maher
Barbara A. Maher Lancaster University
David G. Vaughan
David G. Vaughan British Antarctic Survey
Karsten Gohl
Karsten Gohl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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