Matthew Jones

Contact

• workRoom C13 School of Geography
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 68406
• matthew.jones@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/MatthewJones/personal/index.html

Research Summary

Matt's research interests are based around reconstructing climate variability from lake sediments, particularly using physical and chemical proxies of change and understanding the controls on these… read more

Selected Publications

• ROBERTS, N, JONES, M.D, BENKADDOUR, A, EASTWOOD, W.J, FILIPPI, M.L, FROGLEY, M.R, LAMB, H.F, LENG, M.J, REED, J.M, STEIN, M, STEVENS, L and VALERO-GARCÉS, B. AND ZANCHETTA, G., 2008. Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes: the ISOMED synthesis Quaternary Science Reviews. 27, 2426-2441
• JONES, M.D and IMBERS, J., 2010. Modelling Mediterranean lake isotope variability Global and Planetary Change Global and Planetary Change. 71, 193-200
• TURNER, R, ROBERTS, N and JONES, M.D., 2008. pacing of Mediterranean fire histories from lake sedimentary microcharcoal Global and Planetary Change. 63, 317-324
• JONES, M.D. and ROBERTS, C.N., 2008. Interpreting lake isotope records of Holocene environmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean Quaternary International. 181, 32-38

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Current Research

Matt's research interests are based around reconstructing climate variability from lake sediments, particularly using physical and chemical proxies of change and understanding the controls on these proxies. Current and recent projects include: 1. Stable isotope systematics of lakes. By monitoring, modelling and calibrating recent records of stable isotope change in lake systems this project aims to provide mathematical models to provide quantified records of past changes in climate and environment. 2. Climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Matt is currently working on projects in Iran and Jordan. Recent and ongoing projects include synthesising lake isotope records and understanding the controls on early agriculture in the near east. 3. Holocene climate change in Mexico. Using high resolution records of chemical change in lake sediments (from scanning XRF analysis) a picture of Holocene climate variability in central west Mexico is being developed.

• ROBERTS, N., MORENO, A., VALERO-GARCÉS, B., CORELLA, J.P., JONES, M.D., ALLCOCK, S., WOODBRIDGE, J., MORELLÓN, M., LUTERBACHER, J., XOPLAKI, E., AND TÜRKEŞ, M., 2012. Palaeolimnological evidence for a bipolar climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD900 Global and Planetary Change. 84-85, 23-24
• MAHER, L.A., RICHTER, T, MACDONALD, D, JONES, M, MARTIN, L. AND STOCK, J.T., 2012. Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan PLoS-ONE. 7(2), e31447
• JONES, M.D. and RICHTER, T., 2011. Palaeoclimatic and archaeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan. Quaternary Research. 76, 363-372
• METCALFE, S.E, JONES, M.D, DAVIES, S.J, NOREN, A and MACKENZIE, A., 2010. Climate variability over the last two millennia in the North American Monsoon region, recorded in laminated lake sediments from Laguna de Juanacatlán, Mexico The Holocene. 20, 1195-1206
• LENG, M, JONES, M.D, FROGLEY, M.R, EASTWOOD, W.J and KENDRICK, C.P. AND ROBERTS, C.N., 2010. Detrital carbonate influences on bulk oxygen and carbon isotope composition of lacustrine sediments from the Mediterranean Global and Planetary Change. 71, 175-182
• RICHTER, T, ALLCOCK, S, JONES, M, MAHER, L, MARTIN, L and STOCK, J. AND THORNE, B., 2010. New Light on Final Pleistocene Settlement Diversity in the Azraq Basin (Jordan): Recent Excavations at 'Ayn Qasiyya Palèorient. 35, 49-68
• JONES, M.D and IMBERS, J., 2010. Modelling Mediterranean lake isotope variability Global and Planetary Change Global and Planetary Change. 71, 193-200
• ROBERTS, C.N, ZANCHETTA, G and AND JONES, M.D., 2010. Oxygen isotopes as tracers of Mediterranean climate variability: an introduction Global and Planeatry Change. 71, 135-140
• ROBERTS, C.N., ZANCHETTA, G. and JONES, M.D., 2010. Oxygen isotopes as tracers of Mediterranean climate variability: an introduction Global and Planetary Change. 71, 135-140
• JONES, M.D. and ROBERTS, C.N., 2008. Interpreting lake isotope records of Holocene environmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean Quaternary International. 181, 32-38
• TURNER, R, ROBERTS, N and JONES, M.D., 2008. pacing of Mediterranean fire histories from lake sedimentary microcharcoal Global and Planetary Change. 63, 317-324
• ROBERTS, N, JONES, M.D, BENKADDOUR, A, EASTWOOD, W.J, FILIPPI, M.L, FROGLEY, M.R, LAMB, H.F, LENG, M.J, REED, J.M, STEIN, M, STEVENS, L and VALERO-GARCÉS, B. AND ZANCHETTA, G., 2008. Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes: the ISOMED synthesis Quaternary Science Reviews. 27, 2426-2441
• JONES, M.D., ROBERTS, C.N. and LENG, M.J., 2007. Quantifying climatic change through the last glacial-interglacial transition based on lake isotope palaeohydrology from central Turkey Quaternary Research. 67(3), 463-473
• JONES, M.D., LENG, M.J, ARROWSMITH, C, DEUCHAR, C and HODGSON, J. AND DAWSON, T, 2007. Local d18O and d2H variability in UK rainfall. Available at: <http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/4/2403/2007/hessd-4-2403-2007.pdf>
• RICHTER, T, COLLEDGE, S, LUDDY, S, JONES, D, JONES, M and MAHER, L. AND KELLY, R, 2007. Preliminary report on the 2006 season at Epipalaeolithic Ayn Qasiyah, Azraq es-Shishan Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 51, 313-328
• JONES, M. D., ROBERTS, C. N., LENG, M. J. and TURKES, M., 2006. A high-resolution late Holocene lake isotope record from Turkey and links to North Atlantic and monsoon climate Geology. 34(5), 361-364
• LENG, M.J, LAMB, A.L, HEATON, T.H.E, MARSHALL, J.D, WOLFE, B, JONES, M and HOLMES, J. AND ARROWSMITH, C., 2006. Isotopes in lake sediments. In: LENG, M., ed., Isotopes in Environmental Research 10. Springer. 147-184
• JONES, M. D., LENG, M. J., ROBERTS, C. N., TÜRKEŞ, M. and MOYEED, R., 2005. A coupled calibration and modelling approach to the understanding of dry-land lake oxygen isotope records Journal of Paleolimnology. 34(3), 391-411
• JONES, M. D., LENG, M. J., EASTWOOD, W. J., KEEN, D. H. and TURNEY, C. S. M., 2002. Interpreting stable-isotope records from freshwater snail-shell carbonate: a Holocene case study from Lake Golhisar, Turkey The Holocene. 12(5), 629-634
• JONES, M.D., 2002. The Holocene stable isotope limnology of Western Anatolia. A preliminary report. Quaternary Newsletter. 97, 50-52
• ROBERTS, C.N. AND JONES, M.D. FOR THE ISOMED WORKING GROUP, 2002. Towards a regional synthesis of Mediterranean climatic change using lake stable isotope records. PAGES newsletter. 10(2), 13-15
• MAHER, L, RICHTER, T, STOCK, J and JONES, M., Preliminary Results from Recent Excavations at the Epipalaeolithic Site of Kharaneh IV. In: KHRAYSHEH, F. AND ROLLEFSON, G., ed., Jordan's Prehistory: Past and Future Research Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Amman. (In Press.)