Research highlights
Selection of research highlights
Publications
Gevorgyan, H., Karampaglidis, T., Nomade, S., Fenn, K., Petrosyan, A., Gasparyan, B., Oikonomou, I.A.K., Malinsky-Buller, A. (2025) Lithostratigraphy, Geochronology and Early Humans: The evolution of Quaternary volcanic successions and their impact on archaeological sites in the north-western edge of the Ararat Depression, Armenia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 369, 109623.
Karampaglidis, T., Fenn, K., Gasparyan, B., Braucher, R., Lauer, T., Vainer, S., Gevorgyan, H., Arakelyan, D., Oikonomou, I.A.K., Haydosyan, H., Rogall, D.L., Carrasco, R.M., Pedraza, J., Petrosyan, A., Malinsky-Buller, A. (2025) Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia). Quaternary Science Reviews, 361, 109405.
Smedley, R., Pannozzo, N., Boyle, J., Clarke, D., Lario, J., & Plater, A. (2025). Portable luminescence for rapidly identifying tsunami dynamics and responses in saltmarshes. Sci Total Environ, 1002, 180548. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180548
Fenn, K., Millar, I.L., Bird, A., Veres, D., Wagner, D. (2025) Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources. Scientific Reports, 15, 1624 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83698-5
Duszyński, F., Waroszewski, J., Fenn, K., Kacprzak, A., Jancewicz, K., Egli, M. (2024) Cliff-foot sandy cones: A proxy to study the time frames, patterns and rates of sandstone caprock decay? Catena, 247, 108529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.108529
Kim, S.-Y., Park, T., Marret, F., Yoo, K.-C., Kim, J.-H., Rebolledo, L., Choi, J.-O., La, H. S., Ha, S.-Y. & Moon, H. S. (2026) Controls on spatial heterogeneity in dinoflagellate cyst distribution in recent sediments off West Antarctica. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 222, 118631.
Fatourou, E., Kafetzidou, A., Marret, F., Panagiotopoulos, K., & Kouli, K. (2025). Palaeoceanographic evolution of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) during Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles. Quaternary Science Reviews, 360, 109393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109393
García-Moreiras, I., Amorim, A., Pospelova, V., Zonneveld, K., Anderson, D. M., Beedessee, G., Dale, A., Dale, B., David, O., de Vernal, A., Fatourou, E., Folie-Boivin, E., Helenes, J., García-Portela, M., Gu, F., Gu, H., Iratçabal, V., Janouškovec, J., Limoges, A., Marret, F., Meyvisch, P., Nfongmo, Y. N., Pochic, V., Reguera, B., Sangiorgi, F., Roza, S. E. V., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Williams, R. W., Winifred, V. & Mertens, K. N. (2025) Progress, challenges and future directions in marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst research: New insights from an international workshop. Marine Micropaleontology, 201, 102502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2025.102502
Marret, F. and de Vernal, A. (2024). Dinoflagellate cysts as proxies of environmental, ocean and climate changes in the Atlantic realm during the Quaternary. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1378931
Marret, F. (2023). The impact of artificial intelligence systems in micropalaeontology. Evolving Earth 1: 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2023.100022
Fatourou, E., Kafetzidou, A.,Marret, F., Panagiotopoulos. K. and Kouli, K. (2023). Late Quaternary Ponto-Caspian dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece (eastern Mediterranean Sea). Marine Micropaleontology 179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102211
Kim, S. Y., Park, T., Marret, F., Potvin, E., Cho, K.H., Jung, Lee, Y., La, H.A., Ha, S.Y., Kim, S.K., Kang, S.H., Yang, E.J., Nam S.I. and Hong, J.K. (2023). "Strong regionalism in dinoflagellate cysts in recent sediments from the Chukchi-East Siberian Seas, Arctic Ocean." Progress in Oceanography 211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.102970
Smedley, R.K., Fenn, K., Stanistreet, I.G., Stollhofen, H., Njau, J.K., Schick, K., Toth, N. (2024). Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103465.
Spater, M.R., Montufar, R., Luzuriaga, C.X., Cañellas-Boltá, N., del Carmen Trapote, M., Smedley, R.K., Marchant, R., Montoya, E. (2024). Vegetation response to Holocene hydroclimatic variability in the aseasonal forests of the north-western Amazon. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 649, 112303.
Grants
The Royal Society Research Grants (2025-2026) £28,000. SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES - Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere. (PI K. Fenn)
NERC Highlight Topic 2024-2028 £2.7 million (£277,301.15 to UoL). Gravel barrier resilience in a changing climate (#gravelbeach). NE/Y50323X/1. UoL PI R. Smedley, Co-Is C. Lyddon (Work Package lead), A. Plater.
NERC Standard Grant 2022-2025 £792,646 (£62,556.00 to UoL). When and Why does it Rain in the Desert? Utilising unique stalagmite and dust records on the northern edge of the Sahara. NE/W00075X/1 (UoL PI R. Smedley, Collaborator K. Fenn).