Scholar Profile: Michael James Burn


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Dr. Michael James Burn

FST - Geography & Geology Faculty of Science and Technology Lecturer in Physical Geography Active (876) 9272728 Check out my Website!
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My research aims to analyse high-resolution sediment archives of environmental and climatic change in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean and to develop novel approaches to extend the instrumental record of climate variability back in time. My broad aims are to: 1) Investigate Late-Holocene lake and coastal lagoon sediment records for evidence of the long-term occurrence of natural hazards (drought, hurricanes, tsunamis) during the last few millennia. 2) Develop the application of paleo-environmental proxies (specifically sediment geochemistry, ostracods, gastropods, foraminifera and stable isotopes) to reconstruct environmental change in the Caribbean 3) Disentangle human versus natural controls on landscape change in the Caribbean spanning the last few millennia.

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  1. The long-term history of tropical cyclones
  2. Neotropical Palaeoclimatology
  3. Climatic and Environmental Change in the Tropics
  4. Historical Biogeography

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