ECR Committee Members

Erick is an archaeologist specializing in geochronology, palaeodemography, lithic technology and subsistence intensification in the western US and Europe. His research focuses on human adaptations to palaeoenvironmental change and the development of socio-economic complexity in hunter-gatherer and early farming societies. He has ongoing field projects in Utah and Wyoming, and is currently conducting comparative research on late Holocene demographic collapses between North and South America.

Dr Keely Mills is a palaeolimnologist based at the British Geological Survey and is a Geographer and Quaternary scientist by training. Her research focuses on environmental and climate change, particularly on understanding the effects of human impacts on freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, using a palaeoecological approach to define baseline conditions. She has a particular interest in understanding how resilient lake ecosystems are to future climate and environmental changes, which is crucial for vulnerable but ecologically important freshwater resources, especially those under increasing pressure from human activity, pollution and modification.

Alistair is a (palaeo)-ecologist, studying ecological responses to environmental change across a range of timescales.

Lyudmila's main scientific interest lies in exploring microscopic biological remains in all kinds of the sediment all over the world for reconstruction of environmental settings, vegetation changes and climate dynamic in the past. Coming to palaeoecology from neoecology, she likes to establish connections between extant and fossil taxa and discover their values as palaeoecological indicators. In Quaternary palaeoecology, Lyudmila especially focuses on the Holocene dynamic of the forest-steppe ecotone working in Ukraine, southern Russia, Urals, Siberia, Mongolia, Caucasus, Iran and Turkey.

Alastair is a coastal geomorphologist who studies the evolution of coastal environments during the late Quaternary in response to fluctuations in sea-level, changing climatic conditions, and the impact of tectonics. Alastair also studies the processes that drive variability in relative sea-level changes around the New Zealand coast during the late Quaternary .

Dr. Chenxi Xu is a dendrochronologist based on Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on tree ring and global changes using stable isotopes in tree ring to reconstruct high-resolution climate history in subtropical and tropical areas. He has a particular interest in monsoon changes on inter-annual to centennial time scales.