Staff and Postgraduate Students
Dr James Baldini
Contact (email at james.baldini@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Fellowships
2002: Marie Curie Fellowship
Invited Speaker
1. 2008 - Invited speaker - Natural History Society of Northumbria
2. 2007 - Invited speaker - Arthur Holmes Geological Society, Durham University.
3. 2004 - Invited speaker - Joly Society, Trinity College Dublin
Prizes & Awards
1996 - Cosminski Award, James Madison University
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Armstrong, H.A., Baldini, J., Challands, T.J., Gröcke, D.R. & Owen, A.W. 2009. Response of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Upper Ordovician glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284: 227-236.
- Wynn, P.M., Fairchild, I.J., Baker, A., Baldini, J.U.L. & McDermott, F. 2008. Isotopic archives of sulphate in speleothems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72(10): 2465-2477.
- Baldini, L.M., McDermott, F., Foley, A.M. & Baldini, J.U.L. 2008. Spatial variability in the European winter precipitation d18O-NAO relationship: Implications for reconstructing NAO mode climate variability in the Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters 35(L04709).
- Baldini, J.U.L. , McDermott, F. Hoffmann, D.L. Richards, D.A. & Clipson, N. 2008. Very high-frequency and seasonal cave atmosphere PCO2 variability: Implications for stalagmite growth and oxygen isotope-based paleoclimate records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 272: 118-129.
- Baldini, L. M., Walker, S.E., Railsback, L. B., Baldini, J.U.L. & Crowe, D.E. 2007. Isotopic ecology of the modern land snail Cerion, San Salvador, Bahamas: Preliminary advances toward establishing a low-latitude island paleoenvironmental proxy. Palaios 22(2): 174-187.
- Baldini, JUL, Baldini, LM, McDermott, F & Clipson, N 2006. Carbon dioxide sources, sinks, and spatial variability in shallow temperate zone caves: Evidence from Ballynamintra Cave, Ireland. Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies 68(1): 4-11. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Baldini, J.U.L., McDermott, F. & Fairchild, I.J. 2006. Spatial variability in cave drip water hydrochemistry: Implications for stalagmite paleoclimate records. Chemical Geology 235(3-4): 390-404. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Baldini, JUL, McDermott, F, Baker, A, Baldini, LM, Mattey, DP & Railsback, LB 2005. Biomass effects on stalagmite growth and isotope ratios: A 20th century analogue from Wiltshire, England. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240(2): 486-494. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Baldini, JUL, McDermott, F & Fairchild, IJ 2002. Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record. Science 296(5576): 2203-2206. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- Earth Sciences: speleology (the study of caves and their development)
- Geography: speleology (the study of caves and their development)
- Environmental change: speleology (the study of caves and their development)
- Landscape systems: speleology (the study of caves and their development)
- Earth Sciences: Holocene palaeoclimate (changes in the Earth's climate system in the last 10,000 years)
- Geography: Holocene palaeoclimate (changes in the Earth's climate system in the last 10,000 years)
- Environmental change: Holocene palaeoclimate (changes in the Earth's climate system in the last 10,000 years)
- Landscape systems: Holocene palaeoclimate (changes in the Earth's climate system in the last 10,000 years)
- Earth Sciences: using stalagmites (cave calcite deposits) as palaeoclimate proxies to decode past climate changes
- Geography: using stalagmites (cave calcite deposits) as palaeoclimate proxies to decode past climate changes