Staff Profile

Dr Jamie Casford

Contact Dr Jamie Casford (email at j.s.l.casford@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

B.Sc (Open) in Earth and Biological Sciences. The Open University

Master of Research in Earth and Atmospheric Science. Reading University. Awarded 1997

Ph.D. at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton, University of Southampton. “Centennial-resolution palaeoceanography of the Aegean Sea; 15,000 BP – Present.” Awarded 2001.

My current research interests focus on climate variability and the palaeoceanography of marginal basins, particularly the Eastern Mediterranean. Marginal basin settings generally exhibit elevated sedimentation rates. These basins also have smaller volumes than the open oceans and so respond more rapidly to climate change. These factors combine to provide both a high resolution and an amplified signal in the proxy records that is idea for investigating regional expression and global implications of abrupt changes in climate.

Cruise Participitation

Invited scientist on the R.V. Meteor Scientific cruise M51/3. Coring and providing micropalaeontological support. Chief Scientist Herr Professor Dr. C. Hemleben, November - December 2001.

R.V. Aegeo Commercial cruise in the Aegean Sea included gravity coring and CHIRP survey for telecommunications cable laying. May 1998.

Research Groups

• Quaternary Environmental Change (QEC)

Research Interests

• Abrupt climate change
• Environmental Paleomagnetism
• Foraminiferal micropaleontology
• Palaeoceanography of Marginal Basins
• Stable isotope proxies and Ocean circulation

Selected Publications

Journal papers: academic

• Brodie, C.B., Leng, M.J., Casford, J.S.L., Kendrick, C.P., Lloyd, J.M., Zong, Y. & Bird, M.I. Evidence for bias in C and N concentrations and δ13C composition of terrestrial and aquatic organic materials due to pre-analysis acid preparation methods. Chemical Geology. 2011;282:67-83.
• Brodie, C.B., Casford, J.S.L., Lloyd, J.M., Leng, M.J., Heaton, T.H.E., Kendrick, C.P. & Zong, Y. Evidence for bias in C/N, δ13C, δ15N values of bulk organic matter, and on environmental interpretation, from a lake sedimentary sequence by pre-analysis acid treatment methods. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2011;30:3076-3087.
• Brodie, C.R., Heaton, T.H.E., Leng, M.J., Kendrick, C.P., Casford, J.S.L. & Lloyd, J.M. Evidence for bias in measured δ15N values of terrestrial and aquatic organic materials due to pre-analysis acid treatment methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2011;25:1089-1099.
• Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Sangiorgi, F., Hayes, A., Casford, J.L., Lotter, A.F., Kucera, M. & Brinkhuis, H. Early and middle Holocene in the Aegean Sea: interplay between high and low latitude climate variability. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2009;28:3246-3262.
• Rohling, E. J., Sprovieri, M., Cane, T., Casford, J. S. L., Cooke, S., Bouloubassi, I., Emies, K. C., Schiebel, R., Hayes, A., Jorissen, F. J. & Kroon, D. Ecological controls on planktonic foraminiferal shell chemistry: stable isotape records of eleven major species through a Mediterranean Anoxic event. Marine Micropaleontology. 2004;50:89-123.
• Casford, J.S.L., Rohling, E.J., Abu-Zied, R.H., Fontanier, C., Jorissen, F.J., Leng, M.J., Schmiedl, G. & Thomson, J. A dynamic concept for eastern Mediterranean circulation and oxygenation during sapropel formation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2003;190:103-119.
• Rohling, E. J., Sprovieri, M., Cane, T., Casford, J. S. L., Cooke, S., Bouloubassi, I., Emeis, K. C., Schiebel, R., Rogerson, M., Hayes, A., Joriessen, F. J. & Kroon, D. Reconstructing past planktic foraminiferal habitats using stable isotape data: a case history for Mediterranean sapropel S5. Marine Micropaleontology. 2003;946:1-35.
• Casford, J.S.L., Rohling, E.J., Abu-Zied, R., Cooke, S., Fontanier, C., Leng, M. & Lykousis, V. Circulation changes and nutrient concentrations in the late Quaternary Aegean Sea: A nonsteady state concept for sapropel formation. Paleoceanography. 2002;17:11.
• Rohling, E.J., Mayewski, P.A., Abu-Zied, R.H., Casford, J.S.L. & Hayes, A. Holocene atmosphere-ocean interactions: records from Greenland and the Aegean Sea. Climate Dynamics. 2002;18:587-593.
• Casford, J.S.L., Abu-Zied, R., Rohling, E.J., Cooke, S., Boessenkool, K.P., Brinkhuis, H., De Vries, C., Wefer, G., Geraga, M., Papatheodorou, G., Croudace, I., Thomson, J. & Lykousis, V. Mediterranean climate variability during the Holocene. Mediterranean Marine Science. 2001;2:45-55.

Books: sections

• Rohling, E. J., Abu-Zeid, R., Casford, J. S. L., Hayes, A. & Hoogakker, B. A. A. Mediterranean: Present and Past. In: Woodward, J. The Physical Geography of the Mediterrean Basin. 2007.
• Rohling, E. J., Casford, J. S. L., Abu-Zied, R., Cooke, S., Mercone, D., Thomson, J., Croudace, I., Jorissen, F. J., Brinkhuis, H., Kallmeyer, J. & Wefer, G. Rapid holocene climate changes in the Eastern Mediterranean. In: Hassasn, F. Droughts, Food and Culture: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory. Plenum Press; 2002:35-47.

Journal papers: online

• Casford, J.S.L., Abu-Zied, R., Rohling, E.J., Cooke, S., Fontanier, C., Leng, M., Millard, A. & Thomson, J. A stratigraphically controlled multi-proxy chronostratigraphy for the Eastern Mediterranean. Paleoceanography. 2007;22.

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