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Home page > Research teams > Palaeoenvironments and Palaeoclimates (PAL) > Dr. Brian M. CHASE
Dr. Brian M. CHASE
Position: Chargée de recherche 1ère classe, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Address: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554 Université Montpellier 2, Bat.22, CC061, Place Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier cedex5, France
Email:
Brian.Chase@univ-montp2.fr
Brian.Chase@ahkr.uib.no
Telephone: +33 (0)4 67 14 49 03
Qualifications
2012 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences, Université de Montpellier II
2006 - DPhil in Physical Geography/Earth System Science, The University of Oxford
2002 - MSc in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, The University of Sheffield
1999 - MA in Geographic Education, Prescott College
1997 - BA in Geography, Portland State University
by Brian Chase - Mis à jour/Updated : 7 June 2012
Current doctoral students
Supervisor: Loïc Truc, PhD student at Université Montpellier 2, Thesis title: "Quantification de paramètres climatiques et reconstructions paléoclimatiques en Afrique australe à partir de données polliniques" (2013).
Supervisor: Manuel Chevalier, PhD student at Université Montpellier 2, Thesis title: to be announced (2015).
Co-supervisor: Lynne Quick, PhD student at the University of Cape Town, Thesis title: “Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change within South Africa’s (...)
by Brian Chase - Mis à jour/Updated : 23 October 2012
Research themes
My research primarily focuses on the development and evaluation of new palaeoenvironmental proxy data sources in the arid to sub-humid environments of southern Africa. While this region is highly sensitive to cycles of regional and global environmental change, and has the potential to be a valuable indicator of past climatic variability, only a very few palaeoenvironmental archives have been recovered from the area, and its environmental history remains poorly understood. As a result, (...)
by Brian Chase - Mis à jour/Updated : 20 November 2012
Ongoing research projects
HYRAX
The HYRAX project is supported by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme as a five-year Starting Grant from 2010-2015.
Principal Investigator: Brian Chase
In stark contrast to the abundance of high quality palaeoenvironmental records obtained from the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, terrestrial palaeoenvironmental information from southern Africa’s drylands comes from discontinuous deposits with poor absolute age control and ambiguous palaeoclimatic (...)
by Brian Chase - Mis à jour/Updated : 23 October 2012
Publications since 2006 (rang A)
PDFs available upon request
1. Xu, J. X., Zheng, Z., Huang, K. Y., Yue, Y. F., Li, J., Chase, B. M., Ledru, M -P., Carré, M., Cheddadi, R., (in press). Impacts of climate and human activities on ecosystems during the past 1300 years in Pingnan area of Fujian Province, China. Quaternary International.
2. Li, J., Zheng, Z., Huang, K., Yang, S., Chase, B.M., Valsecchi, V., Cheddadi, R. (in press). Vegetation changes during the past 40,000 years in Central China from a long fossil record. (...)
by Brian Chase - Mis à jour/Updated : 20 November 2012
