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William E. N. Austin is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, their work extends into subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research interests cover a variety of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Drilling and Well Engineering, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

William E. N. Austin has contributed to a number of scientific papers published in notable venues. Recent publications include:

  • "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP)" (2020) in Radiocarbon
  • "Marine20-The Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55,000 cal BP)" (2020) in Radiocarbon
  • "Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs)" (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Marine Sedimentary Carbon Stocks of the United Kingdom's Exclusive Economic Zone" (2021) in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Quality Not Quantity: Prioritizing the Management of Sedimentary Organic Matter Across Continental Shelf Seas" (2022) in Geophysical Research Letters

The contributions by William E. N. Austin have appeared frequently in several publication venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Radiocarbon
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their academic career, working frequently with:

  • Craig Smeaton
  • Peter Blum
  • James E T Channell
  • David A Hodell
  • Minoru Ikehara

Best Publications

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP)

    Paula J Reimer;William E N Austin;Edouard Bard;Alex Bayliss

  • Marine20—The Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55,000 cal BP)

    Timothy J Heaton;Peter Köhler;Martin Butzin;Edouard Bard

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • 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

  • Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs)

    Thomas S. Bianchi;Sandra Arndt;William E.N. Austin;William E.N. Austin;Douglas I. Benn

  • Growth, dynamics and deglaciation of the last British–Irish ice sheet: the deep-sea ice-rafted detritus record

    James D. Scourse;Anna I. Haapaniemi;Anna I. Haapaniemi;Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo;Victoria Louise Peck

  • The 14C age of the icelandic vedde ash: implications for Younger Dryas marine reservoir age corrections

    W. E. N. Austin;Edouard Bard;J. B. Hunt;Dick Kroon

  • Punctuated eustatic sea-level rise in the early mid-Holocene

    Michael I. Bird;William E.N. Austin;Christopher M. Wurster;L. Keith Fifield

  • Millennial‐scale depositional cycles related to British Ice Sheet variability and North Atlantic paleocirculation since 45 kyr B.P., Barra Fan, U.K. margin

    Paul C. Knutz;William E. N. Austin;E. John W. Jones

  • Fjord systems and archives: a review

    John A. Howe;William E. N. Austin;Matthias Forwick;Matthias Paetzel

  • Variability of the North Atlantic Current during the last 2000 years based on shelf bottom water and sea surface temperatures along an open ocean/shallow marine transect in western Europe

    Jón Eiríksson;Helga Bára Bartels-Jónsdóttir;Alix G. Cage;Esther Ruth Gudmundsdóttir

  • The genetic diversity, phylogeography and morphology of Elphidiidae (Foraminifera) in the Northeast Atlantic

    Kate F. Darling;Magali Schweizer;Karen Luise Knudsen;Katharine M. Evans

  • The age and chronostratigraphical significance of North Atlantic Ash zone II

    William E. N. Austin;Lindsay J. Wilson;John B. Hunt

  • British Ice Sheet dynamics inferred from North Atlantic ice-rafted debris records spanning the last 175 000 years

    Fiona D. Hibbert;William E. N. Austin;Melanie J. Leng;Robert W. Gatliff

  • Extracellular cracking and content removal of the benthic diatom Pleurosigma angulatum (Quekett) by the benthic foraminifera Haynesina germanica (Ehrenberg)

    Heather Anne Austin;William E.N. Austin;David M. Paterson

  • A North Atlantic tephrostratigraphical framework for 130–60 ka b2k:: new tephra discoveries, marine-based correlations, and future challenges

    Siwan M. Davies;Peter M. Abbott;Rhian H. Meara.;Nicholas J.G. Pearce

  • Sedimentology and micropalaeontology of glacimarine sediments from the Central and Southwestern Celtic Sea

    J. D. Scourse;W. E. N. Austin;R. M. Bateman;J. A. Catt

  • THE DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA IN THE CELTIC SEA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEASONAL STRATIFICATION

    Gillian A. Scott;James D. Scourse;William E. N. Austin

  • Deglacial surface circulation changes in the northeastern Atlantic: Temperature and salinity records off NW Scotland on a century scale

    Dirk Kroon;W. E. N. Austin;M. R. Chapman;G. M. Ganssen

  • Late Devensian and Flandrian palaeoenvironmental changes on the Scottish continental shelf west of the Outer Hebrides

    J. D. Peacock;W. E. N. Austin;I. Selby;D. K. Graham

  • Tracing time in the ocean: a brief review of chronological constraints (60–8 kyr) on North Atlantic marine event-based stratigraphies

    William E.N. Austin;Fiona D. Hibbert

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

Frequent Co-Authors

Konrad A Hughen
Konrad A Hughen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge
Trond Dokken
Trond Dokken NORCE Research
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University

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