Research
Journal articles
Published
McGuire, A.M., Waajen, I., and Barlow, N.L.M. (in press) Advancing chronologies for Last Interglacial sequences (invited review). Journal of Quaternary Science
McGuire, A.M., Lane, C.S., Roucoux, K.H., Lawson, I.T., Koutsodendris, A., Pross, J., Margari, V., Tzedakis, P.C. (2024) Campanian Ignimbrite tephra reveals asynchronous vegetation responses to abrupt climate change in the eastern Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews | doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108714 | pdf
Kearney, R.J., Albert, P.G., Staff, R.A., Magyari, E., Pal, I., Veres, D., Lane, C.S., McGuire, A.M., Bronk Ramsey, C. (2024) At an important tephrostratigraphic crossroads: a detailed Late Glacial to Early Holocene cryptotephra stratigraphy from two lake records in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Quaternary Science Reviews | doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108558 | pdf
McGuire, A.M., Lane, C.S., Roucoux, K.H., Albert, P.G., Kearney, R. (2022) The dating and correlation of an eastern Mediterranean lake sediment sequence: a 46 – 4 ka tephrostratigraphy for Ioannina (NW Greece). Journal of Quaternary Science | doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3452 | pdf
Conference presentations
McGuire, A., Rush, G., Pollard, O., Cartelle, V., Barlow, N., Hodgson, D., Busschers, F., Cohen, K., Gregoire, L., Gomez, N., and Haigh, I. (2022) Initial constraints on the rate and magnitude of Last Interglacial sea-level change in Northwest Europe (Oral presentation [online] at the PAGES Open Science Meeting, Agadir, Morrocco, May 2022).
McGuire, A. Rush, G., Pollard, O., Cartelle, V., Barlow, N., Hodgson, D., Babington, L., Busschers, F., Cohen, K., Gregoire, L., Gomez, N., and Haigh, I. (2022) Constraining the rate and magnitude of Last Interglacial (LIG) sea-level change in North West Europe using newly collected cores from the southern North Sea (Poster presentation [online] at the QRA AGM, University of Sheffield, UK, January 2022). View Online
McGuire, A., Lane, C.S., Roucoux, K., Lawson, I., and Albert, P. (2019) Tephrostratigraphic insights from Lake Ioannina, North West Greece (Oral presentation at the 20th INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 2019).
McGuire, A., Lane, C.S., Roucoux, K., and Lawson, I. (2019) Ecosystem responses to abrupt climate change: insights from the Mediterranean (Poster presentation at the 20th INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 2019).
McGuire, A., Lane, C.S., Roucoux, K., Lawson, I., and Albert, P. (2018) A tephrostratigraphy for Lake Ioannina, North West Greece (Poster presentation at the INTIMATE EGU Galileo conference, Gniew, Poland, August 2018/INTAV International Field Conference on Tephrochronology, Moieciu de Sus, Romania, June 2018).
McGuire, A. and Lane, C.S. (2017) Abrupt Change in the Quaternary Record of North West Greece (Poster presentation at the INTIMATE Climate Network Open Workshop and Conference, Aberystwyth University, June 2017).
Invited talks
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Lunchtime Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (May 2018)
Climate and Chronology Lunchtime Seminar, The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford (June 2018)
Quaternary Discussion Group, Clare College, University of Cambridge (October 2022)
Exploring Palaeoenvironments, the Oceans, Climate, and Humans (EPOCH) Seminar, Royal Holloway University of London (January 2023)
Essex Rock and Mineral Society Virtual Seminar Series (March 2023)
Awards
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EGU Early Career Scientist support grant for attendance at INTIMATE EGU Galileo conference
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INTAV ERC/Student travel Grant for attendance at INTAV International Field Conference on Tephrochronology
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Winner of ‘Best Talk’ at the CCfCS Student Symposium
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QRA-14Chrono Centre Radiocarbon Dating Special Grant
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Winner of ‘Best Geographical Science Student’ for highest attainment in MSc Geographical Science, University of Manchester
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Winner of ‘Best Undergraduate Poster’ at the ACCESS Annual Meeting
Supervision
Megan Edwards, MGeol Geology (2023)
Using a multiproxy approach to interrogate the terrestrial impacts of the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion (ca. 41 ka BP) at Ioannina, NW Greece
Edward Taylor, MSc by Research (ongoing)
Postglacial and Holocene environmental and sea-level change in northern Isle of Skye, western Scotland, and implications for human settlement
Denise Becker, MSc by Research (ongoing)
A first terrestrial tephrochronology for the Eemian: cryptotephra study of the Bispingen palaeolake sequence (Funder: Fulbright)
Laboratory facilities
In the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds we have facilities for a range of analyses of Quaternary sediments. If you are seeking collaborators for, or would like training in, any of the following approaches, please do get in touch!
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Pollen extraction and analysis
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Diatom extraction and analysis
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Cryptotephra extraction, counting, and preparation for geochemical analysis
Tephrochron
Tephrochron is an R package designed to aid in the analysis and presentation of tephrochronological data. The package is currently under development, and can be accessed here.
Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("amy-mcg/tephrochron")
If you have any questions or ideas for useful features, please get in touch at a.mcguire@leeds.ac.uk!