Matthew Jones

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• workRoom B26 School of Geography
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 68406
• matthew.jones@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

Matt's research interests are based around reconstructing past climate and environmental variability, using physical and chemical sedimentary proxies of change, and understanding the controls on… read more

Selected Publications

• JONES, M.D. and DEE, S.G., 2018. Global-scale proxy system modelling of oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates: New insights from isotope-enabled-model proxy-data comparison Quaternary Science Reviews. 202, 19-29
• MILLS, K., SCHILLEREFF, D., SAULNIER-TALBOT, É., GELL, P., ANDERSON, N. J., ARNAUD, F., DONG, X., JONES, M., MCGOWAN, S., MASSAFERRO, J., MOORHOUSE, H., PEREZ, L. and RYVES, DAVID B., 2017. Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle WIREs Water. 4(2), e1195
• JONES, MATTHEW D, CUTHBERT, MARK O, LENG, MELANIE J, MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, MARIETHOZ, GREGOIRE, ARROWSMITH, CAROL, SLOANE, HILARY J, HUMPHREY, KERENZA K and CROSS, IAIN, 2016. Comparisons of observed and modelled lake $delta$ 18 O variability Quaternary Science Reviews. 131, 329-340

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Current Research

Matt's research interests are based around reconstructing past climate and environmental variability, using physical and chemical sedimentary proxies of change, and understanding the controls on these proxies.

Current and recent projects include:

1. Palaeobenchmarking Resilient Agricultural Systems. Matt is leading this new project (January 2019) for the University's Future Food Beacon of Excellence https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/future-food/innovation-challenge-programme.aspx

2. Stable isotope systematics of lakes. By monitoring, modeling and calibrating recent records of stable isotope change in lake systems these projects aims to provide mathematical models to provide quantified records of past changes in climate and environment e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118302385

3. Environmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Matt is currently working on projects in Jordan, Turkey and Iran with a focus on the reconstruction of water availability associated with societal changes including the beginnings of agriculture e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-015-0545-8

• MOORHOUSE, HEATHER L., MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, TARANU, ZOFIA E., GREGORY-EAVES, IRENE, LEAVITT, PETER R., JONES, MATTHEW D., BARKER, PHILIP and BRAYSHAW, SUSAN A., 2018. Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years Global Change Biology. 24(9), 4009-4022
• JONES, M.D. and DEE, S.G., 2018. Global-scale proxy system modelling of oxygen isotopes in lacustrine carbonates: New insights from isotope-enabled-model proxy-data comparison Quaternary Science Reviews. 202, 19-29
• MILLS, K., SCHILLEREFF, D., SAULNIER-TALBOT, É., GELL, P., ANDERSON, N. J., ARNAUD, F., DONG, X., JONES, M., MCGOWAN, S., MASSAFERRO, J., MOORHOUSE, H., PEREZ, L. and RYVES, DAVID B., 2017. Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle WIREs Water. 4(2), e1195
• DEAN, JONATHAN R., JONES, MATTHEW D., LENG, MELANIE J., METCALFE, SARAH E., SLOANE, HILARY J. and EASTWOOD, WARREN J., 2017. Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Meditaerranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey The Holocene.
• JONES, MD, DEE, S, ANDERSON, L, BAKER, A, BOWEN, G and NOONE, DC, 2016. Water isotope systematics: Improving our palaeoclimate interpretations Quaternary Science Reviews. 131, 243-249
• JONES, MATTHEW D, CUTHBERT, MARK O, LENG, MELANIE J, MCGOWAN, SUZANNE, MARIETHOZ, GREGOIRE, ARROWSMITH, CAROL, SLOANE, HILARY J, HUMPHREY, KERENZA K and CROSS, IAIN, 2016. Comparisons of observed and modelled lake $delta$ 18 O variability Quaternary Science Reviews. 131, 329-340
• JONES, MATTHEW D, MAHER, LISA A, MACDONALD, DANIELLE A, RYAN, CONOR, RAMBEAU, CLAIRE, BLACK, STUART and RICHTER, TOBIAS, 2016. The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV Quaternary International. 396, 95-104
• MAHER, LISA A, MACDONALD, DANIELLE A, ALLENTUCK, ADAM, MARTIN, LOUISE, SPYROU, ANNA and JONES, MATTHEW D, 2016. Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant Quaternary International. 396, 79-94
• ROBERTS, NEIL, ALLCOCK, SAMANTHA L, ARNAUD, FABIEN, DEAN, JONATHAN R, EASTWOOD, WARREN J, JONES, MATTHEW D, LENG, MELANIE J, METCALFE, SARAH E, MALET, EMMANUEL, WOODBRIDGE, JESSIE and OTHERS, 2016. A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey Journal of Quaternary Science. 31(4), 348-362
• DJAMALI, MORTEZA, JONES, MATTHEW D, MIGLIORE, JÉRÉMY, BALATTI, SILVIA, FADER, MARIANELA, CONTRERAS, DANIEL, GONDET, SÉBASTIEN, HOSSEINI, ZAHRA, LAHIJANI, HAMID, NADERI, ABDOLMAJID and OTHERS, 2016. Olive cultivation in the heart of the Persian Achaemenid Empire: new insights into agricultural practices and environmental changes reflected in a late Holocene pollen record from Lake Parishan, SW Iran Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 25(3), 255-269
• TYLER, JONATHAN J.AND JONES, MATTHEWAND ARROWSMITH, CAROLAND ALLOTT, TIMAND LENG, MELANIE J., JONES, MATTHEW, AND ARROWSMITH, CAROLAND ALLOTT, TIMAND LENG, MELANIE J. and ALLOTT, TIM, 2016. Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles Climate Dynamics. 47(5), 1971-1987
• DEAN, JONATHAN R., JONES, MATTHEW D., LENG, MELANIE J., NOBLE, STEPHEN R., METCALFE, SARAH E., SLOANE, HILARY J., SAHY, DIANA, EASTWOOD, WARREN J. and ROBERTS, C. NEIL, 2015. Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy: Quaternary Science Reviews Quaternary Science Reviews. 124, 162-174
• JONES, MATTHEW D., METCALFE, SARAH E., DAVIES, SARAH J. and NOREN, ANDERS, 2015. Late Holocene climate reorganisation and the North American Monsoon: Quaternary Science Reviews Quaternary Science Reviews. 124, 290-295
• RAMSEY, MONICA N, JONES, MATTHEW, RICHTER, TOBIAS and ROSEN, ARLENE, 2015. Modifying the marsh: Evaluating Early Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer impacts in the Azraq wetland, Jordan: The Holocene The Holocene. 25, 1553-1564
• JONES, MATTHEW D, DJAMALI, MORTEZA, HOLMES, JONATHAN, WEEKS, LLOYD, LENG, MELANIE J, LASHKARI, ARASH, ALAMDARI, KOUROSH, NOOROLLAHI, DARIUSH, THOMAS, LOUISE and METCALFE, SARAH E, 2015. Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene: The Holocene The Holocene. 25, 1651-1661
• DEAN, JONATHAN R., EASTWOOD, WARREN J., ROBERTS, NEIL, JONES, MATTHEW D., YIĞITBAŞIOĞLU, HAKAN, ALLCOCK, SAMANTHA L., WOODBRIDGE, JESSIE, METCALFE, SARAH E. and LENG, MELANIE J., 2015. Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: A field study from central Turkey: Journal of Hydrology Journal of Hydrology. 529, 608-621
• MOORHOUSE, H.L., MCGOWAN, S., JONES, M.D., BRAYSHAW, S.A., BARKER, P., HAWORTH, E.Y. and LEAVITT, P.R., 2014. Contrasting effects of nutrients and climate on algal communities in two lakes in the Windermere catchment since the late 19th century Freshwater Biology. 59(12), 2605-2620
• DEAN, J.R., JONES, M.D., LENG, M.J., SLOANE, H.J., ROBERTS, C.N., WOODBRIDGE, J., SWANN, G.E.A., METCALFE, S.E., EASTWOOD, W.J. and YIĞITBAŞIOĞLU, H., 2013. Palaeo-seasonality of the last two millennia reconstructed from the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatom silica from Nar Gölü, central Turkey Quaternary Science Reviews. 66(April), 35-44
• MATTHEW D. JONES, 2013. What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability Quaternary International. 308-309, 76-79
• JONES, M.D., 2013. Key questions regarding the palaeoenvironment of Iran. In: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran Oxford University Press.
• RICHTER, T., MAHER, L.A., GARRARD, A.N., EDINBOROUGH, K., JONES, M.D. and STOCK, J.T., 2013. Richter, T., Maher, L., Edinborough, K., Jones, M.D., Garrard, A.N. and Stock, J.T. in press Epipalaeolithic Settlement Dynamics in southwest Asia: New Evidence from Radiocarbon ages in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. Journal of Quaternary Science. 28(5), 467-479
• JONES, M.D., DJAMALI, M., STEVENS, L., HEYVAERT, V., ASKARI, H., NOOROLLAHI, D. and WEEKS, L., 2013. Mid-Holocene environmental and climatic change in Iran. In: PETRIE, C.A., ed., ANCIENT IRAN AND ITS NEIGHBOURS: Local developments and long-range interactions in the fourth millennium BC Oxbow Books. 25-34
• 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.D., 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
• ANDERSON, N.J., LIVERSIDGE, A.C., MCGOWAN, S. and JONES, M.D., 2012. Lake and catchment response to neoglacial cooling in SW Greenland: spatial variability along a regional climate gradient Journal of Paleolimnology. 48, 209–222
• JONES, M.D. and RICHTER, T., 2011. Palaeoclimatic and archaeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan Quaternary Research. 76(3), 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 Holocene. 20(8), 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. Climatic pacing of Mediterranean fire histories from lake sedimentary microcharcoal Global and Planetary Change. 63(4), 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., 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(25-26), 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.)