Dr Richard Staff
- Research Fellow in Quaternary Geochronology (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)
email:
Richard.Staff@glasgow.ac.uk
Suerc, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0qf
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-014XResearch interests
My research interests are in Late Quaternary geochronology, with specific interest in radiocarbon dating and tephrochronology, as well as broader aspects of Quaternary palaeoclimatology.
I specialise in radiocarbon dating and, in particular, radiocarbon calibration.
I am also interested in Bayesian statistical modelling of chronological data.
Publications
2024
Staff, R. A. et al. (2024) A luminescence-derived cryptostratigraphy from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary profile, Japan: 45,000–30,200 IntCal20yr BP. Quaternary Geochronology, 83, 101588. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101588)
Spencer, J. Q.G. , Sanderson, D. C.W. , Rader, M., Fitzgerald, S. K., Rex, C. , Sprynskyy, M. and Staff, R. A. (2024) Luminescence and thermometry studies of plant opal phytoliths. Quaternary Geochronology, 82, 101544. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101544)
Rex, C. L. , Tyler, J. J., Nagaya, K., Staff, R. , Leng, M. J., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Kitagawa, J., Kojima, H. and Nakagawa, T. (2024) The contemporary stable isotope hydrology of Lake Suigetsu and surrounding catchment (Japan) and its implications for sediment-derived palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100145. (doi: 10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100145)
2022
Rex, C. L. , Staff, R. A. , Sanderson, D. C.W. , Cresswell, A. J. , Marshall, M. H., Hyodo, M., Horiuchi, D., Tada, R. and Nakagawa, T. (2022) Controls on luminescence signals in lake sediment cores: a study from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 71, 101319. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101319)
Engels, S. et al. (2022) Synchronous vegetation response to the last glacial-interglacial transition in northwest Europe. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 130. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00457-y)
Feldpausch, T. R., Carvalho, L., Macario, K. D., Ascough, P. L. , Flores, C. F., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Kalamandeen, M., Phillips, O. L. and Staff, R. A. (2022) Forest fire history in Amazonia inferred from intensive soil charcoal sampling and radiocarbon dating. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, 815438. (doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.815438)
Hyodo, M. et al. (2022) Intermittent non-axial dipolar-field dominance of twin Laschamp excursions. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 79. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00401-0)
Chen, X.-Y., Blockley, S. P.E., Staff, R. A. , Xu, Y.-G. and Menzies, M. A. (2022) Improved age estimates for Holocene Ko-g and Ma-f~j tephras in northern Japan using Bayesian statistical modelling. Quaternary Geochronology, 67, 101229. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101229)
2021
McCulloch, R. D., Mansilla, C. A., Martin, F., Borrero, L., Staff, R. A. and Tisdall, E. W. (2021) The nature and timing of landscape change at Cerro Benítez, Última Esperanza, southern Patagonia (52°S): New insights into the history of megafaunal extinctions and human occupation. Quaternary International, 601, pp. 116-129. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.07.018)
Nakagawa, T. et al. (2021) The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology. Global and Planetary Change, 202, 103493. (doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103493)
Palmer, A.P. et al. (2021) The Late Quaternary sediment successions of Llangorse Lake, south Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 132(3), pp. 284-296. (doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.01.004)
Staff, R. A. and Liu, R. (2021) Radiocarbon calibration: the next generation. Science China Earth Sciences, 64(3), pp. 507-510. (doi: 10.1007/s11430-020-9722-x)
2020
Lincoln, P. C., Matthews, I. P., Palmer, A. P., Blockley, S. P.E., Staff, R. A. and Candy, I. (2020) Hydroclimatic changes in the British Isles through the Last-Glacial-Interglacial Transition: multiproxy reconstructions from the Vale of Pickering, NE England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 249, 106630. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106630)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Heaton, T. J., Schlolaut, G., Staff, R. A. , Bryant, C. L., Brauer, A., Lamb, H. F., Marshall, M. H. and Nakagawa, T. (2020) Reanalysis of the atmospheric radiocarbon calibration record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp. 989-999. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2020.18)
McLean, D. et al. (2020) Constraints on the timing of explosive volcanism at Aso and Aira calderas (Japan) between 50 and 30 ka: new insights from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary record (SG14 core). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(8), e2019GC008874. (doi: 10.1029/2019GC008874)
Wacker, L. et al. (2020) Findings from an in-depth annual tree-ring radiocarbon intercomparison. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp. 873-882. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2020.49)
McLean, D. et al. (2020) Refining the eruptive history of Ulleungdo and Changbaishan volcanoes (East Asia) over the last 86 kyrs using distal sedimentary records. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 389, 106669. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106669)
Jones, G., Davies, S. M., Staff, R. A. , Loader, N. J., Davies, S. J. and Walker, M. J. C. (2020) Traces of volcanic ash from the Mediterranean, Iceland and North America in a Holocene record from south Wales, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(1-2), pp. 163-174. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.3141)
Liu, R. and Staff, R. (2020) 碳十四测年技术前沿：新一代校正曲线 IntCal20 发布 = Carbon 14 technology frontier: next generation correction curve IntCal20 released. Jianghan Archaeology, 170(5), pp. 121-128.
2019
Bronk Ramsey, C., Blaauw, M., Kearney, R. and Staff, R. A. (2019) The importance of open access to chronological information: the IntChron initiative. Radiocarbon, 61(5), pp. 1121-1131. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.21)
Scott, E.M. , Cook, G.T. , Naysmith, P. and Staff, R.A. (2019) Learning from the wood samples in ICS, TIRI, FIRI, VIRI and SIRI. Radiocarbon, 61(5), pp. 1293-1304. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.12)
Lowe, J., Matthews, I., Mayfield, R., Lincoln, P., Palmer, A., Staff, R. and Timms, R. (2019) On the timing of retreat of the Loch Lomond (‘Younger Dryas’) Readvance icefield in the SW Scottish Highlands and its wider significance. Quaternary Science Reviews, 219, pp. 171-186. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.034)
Staff, R. A. , Hardiman, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., Adolphi, F., Hare, V. J., Koutsodendris, A. and Pross, J. (2019) Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.021)
Staff, R.A. , Ditchfield, P., Rhodes, E., Schwenninger, J.-L., Clark-Balzan, L., Lee, S. and Barton, R.N.E. (2019) Chronology. In: Barton, R.N.E., Bouzouggar, A., Collcutt, S.N. and Humphrey, L.T. (eds.) Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Afrtica: Excavations at Grotte des Pgeons, Taforalt, Morocco. Series: Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum (147). Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums: Mainz, pp. 143-154. ISBN 9783884673126
Falótico, T., Proffitt, T., Ottoni, E. B., Staff, R. A. and Haslam, M. (2019) Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 1034-1038. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0904-4) (PMID:31235926)
2018
Schlolaut, G., Staff, R. A. , Brauer, A., Lamb, H. F., Marshall, M. H., Bronk Ramsey, C. and Nakagawa, T. (2018) An extended and revised Lake Suigetsu varve chronology from ∼50 to ∼10 ka BP based on detailed sediment micro-facies analyses. Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, pp. 351-366. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.021)
Albert, P. G. et al. (2018) Constraints on the frequency and dispersal of explosive eruptions at Sambe and Daisen volcanoes (South-West Japan Arc) from the distal Lake Suigetsu record (SG06 core). Earth Science Reviews, 185, pp. 1004-1028. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.07.003)
Kearney, R., Albert, P.G., Staff, R.A. , Pál, I., Veres, D., Magyari, E. and Bronk Ramsey, C. (2018) Ultra-distal fine ash occurrences of the Icelandic Askja-S Plinian eruption deposits in Southern Carpathian lakes: new age constraints on a continental scale tephrostratigraphic marker. Quaternary Science Reviews, 188, pp. 174-182. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.035)
Blockley, S. et al. (2018) The resilience of postglacial hunter-gatherers to abrupt climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 810-818. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0508-4) (PMID:29581589)
Wulf, S. et al. (2018) The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, pp. 236-262. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.011)
McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Suzuki, T., Staff, R. A. , Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Haraguchi, T., Kitagawa, J. and Smith, V. (2018) Integrating the Holocene tephrostratigraphy for East Asia using a high-resolution cryptotephra study from Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core), central Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 183, pp. 36-58. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.013)
Brock, F., Dee, M., Hughes, A., Snoeck, C., Staff, R. and Ramsey, C. B. (2018) Testing the effectiveness of protocols for removal of common conservation treatments for radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon, 60(1), pp. 35-50. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.68)
Guo, Q., Lu, C., Liu, R., Zhao, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Staff, R.A. , Pollard, A.M., Yang, S. and Su, B. (2018) New progress in chronological study of Buddhism caves: combining Bayesian modelling with archaeological information to improve dating resolution. Dunhuang Studies, 6, pp. 168-178.
Guo, Q., Staff, R. A. , Lu, C., Liu, C., Dee, M., Chen, Y., Pollard, A. M., Rawson, J., Su, B. and Liu, R. (2018) A new approach to the chronology of caves 268/272/275 in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: combining radiocarbon dates and archaeological information within a Bayesian statistical framework. Radiocarbon, 60(2), pp. 667-679. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2018.4)
2017
Liu, X. et al. (2017) Journey to the east: diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0187405. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187405) (PMID:29095896) (PMCID:PMC5667820)
Mark, D. F. , Renne, P. R., Dymock, R. C. , Smith, V. C., Simon, J. I., Morgan, L. E., Staff, R. A. and Ellis, B. S. (2017) ‘Radical interpretations’ preclude the use of climatic wiggle matching for resolution of event timings at the highest levels of attainable precision. Quaternary Geochronology, 42, pp. 60-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.08.003)
Turney, C. S.M. et al. (2017) Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial. Nature Communications, 8, 520. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6) (PMID:28900099) (PMCID:PMC5595922)
Bonneau, A., Staff, R.A. , Higham, T., Brock, F., Pearce, D.G. and Mitchell, P.J. (2017) Successfully dating rock art in Southern Africa using improved sampling methods and new characterization and pretreatment protocols. Radiocarbon, 59(3), pp. 659-677. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2016.69)
Bonneau, A., Pearce, D., Mitchell, P., Staff, R. , Arthur, C., Mallen, L., Brock, F. and Higham, T. (2017) The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates. Antiquity, 91(356), pp. 322-333. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2016.271)
Mark, D. F. , Renne, P. R., Dymock, R. , Smith, V. C., Simon, J. I., Morgan, L. E., Staff, R. A. , Ellis, B. S. and Pearce, N. J.G. (2017) High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Pleistocene Tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary. Quaternary Geochronology, 39, pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.01.002)
Schlolaut, G., Brauer, A., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H. F., Tyler, J. J., Staff, R. A. , Marshall, M. H., Ramsey, C. B., Bryant, C. L. and Tarasov, P. E. (2017) Evidence for a bi-partition of the Younger Dryas Stadial in East Asia associated with inversed climate characteristics compared to Europe. Scientific Reports, 7, 44983. (doi: 10.1038/srep44983) (PMID:28361872) (PMCID:PMC5374484)
2016
Liu, X. et al. (2016) The virtues of small grain size: potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats. Quaternary International, 426, 107 - 119. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.059)
Palmer, J. G. et al. (2016) Changes in El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) chronozone revealed by New Zealand tree-rings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 153, pp. 139-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.003)
Hogg, A. et al. (2016) Decadally resolved lateglacial radiocarbon evidence from New Zealand kauri. Radiocarbon, 58(4), pp. 709-733. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2016.86)
Pedersen, M. W. et al. (2016) Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor. Nature, 537(7618), pp. 45-49. (doi: 10.1038/nature19085) (PMID:27509852)
Haslam, M., Luncz, L. V., Staff, R. A. , Bradshaw, F., Ottoni, E. B. and Falótico, T. (2016) Pre-Columbian monkey tools. Current Biology, 26(13), R521-R522. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.046) (PMID:27404235)
Hardiman, M., Scott, A. C., Pinter, N., Anderson, R. S., Ejarque, A., Carter-Champion, A. and Staff, R. A. (2016) Fire history on the California Channel Islands spanning human arrival in the Americas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1696), (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0167)
Hogg, A. et al. (2016) Punctuated shutdown of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Greenland Stadial 1. Scientific Reports, 6, 25902. (doi: 10.1038/srep25902) (PMID:27194601) (PMCID:PMC4872135)
Turney, C. S.M. et al. (2016) High-precision dating and correlation of ice, marine and terrestrial sequences spanning Heinrich Event 3: testing mechanisms of interhemispheric change using New Zealand ancient kauri (Agathis australis). Quaternary Science Reviews, 137, pp. 126-134. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.005)
Snoeck, C., Staff, R. A. and Brock, F. (2016) A reassessment of the routine pretreatment protocol for radiocarbon dating cremated bones. Radiocarbon, 58(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2015.1)
McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Staff, R. A. , Suzuki, T. and Smith, V. C. (2016) Identification of the Changbaishan ‘Millennium’ (B-Tm) eruption deposit in the Lake Suigetsu (SG06) sedimentary archive, Japan: Synchronisation of hemispheric-wide palaeoclimate archives. Quaternary Science Reviews, 150, pp. 301-307. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.022)
2015
Lowe, J. J., Ramsey, C. B., Housley, R. A., Lane, C. S., Tomlinson, E. L. and , (2015) The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, pp. 1-17. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.006)
Matthews, I.P. et al. (2015) Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, pp. 84-104. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.009)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Higham, T. F. G., Brock, F., Baker, D., Ditchfield, P. and Staff, R. A. (2015) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35. Archaeometry, 57(1), pp. 177-216. (doi: 10.1111/arcm.12134)
Egan, J., Staff, R. and Blackford, J. (2015) A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA. Holocene, 25(7), pp. 1054-1067. (doi: 10.1177/0959683615576230)
2014
Brauer, A. et al. (2014) The importance of independent chronology in integrating records of past climate change for the 60–8 ka INTIMATE time interval. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, pp. 47-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.006)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Albert, P., Blockley, S., Hardiman, M., Lane, C., Macleod, A., Matthews, I. P., Muscheler, R., Palmer, A. and Staff, R. A. (2014) Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions: a practical approach for an INTIMATE database. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, pp. 67-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.028)
Staff, R. A. , Reynard, L., Brock, F. and Ramsey, C. B. (2014) Wood pretreatment protocols and measurement of tree-ring standards at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Radiocarbon, 56(2), pp. 709-715. (doi: 10.2458/56.17449)
Schlolaut, G. et al. (2014) Event layers in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu ‘SG06’ sediment core: description, interpretation and climatic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 83, pp. 157-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.026)
2013
Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., Staff, R. A. , Hunt, H. V., Liu, X. and Jones, M. K. (2013) The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe. Antiquity, 87(338), pp. 1073-1085. (doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00049875)
Smith, V. C., Staff, R. A. , Blockley, S. P.E., Bronk Ramsey, C., Nakagawa, T., Mark, D. F., Takemura, K. and Danhara, T. (2013) Corrigendum to “Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 67 (2013) 121–137]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 80, p. 206. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.013)
Macken, A. C., Staff, R. A. and Reed, E. H. (2013) Bayesian age-depth modelling of Late Quaternary deposits from Wet and Blanche Caves, Naracoorte, South Australia: A framework for comparative faunal analyses. Quaternary Geochronology, 17, pp. 26-43. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.03.001)
Smith, V. C., Staff, R. A. , Blockley, S. P.E., Ramsey, C. B., Nakagawa, T., Mark, D. F. , Takemura, K. and Danhara, T. (2013) Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 67, pp. 121-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.026)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2013) The multiple chronological techniques applied to the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core, central Japan. Boreas, 42(2), pp. 259-266. (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00278.x)
Hogg, A. et al. (2013) The New Zealand Kauri (Agathis Australis) Research Project: A Radiocarbon Dating Intercomparison of Younger Dryas Wood and Implications for IntCal13. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 2035-2048. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i2.16217)
Reimer, P. J. et al. (2013) IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 1869-1887. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16947)
Saito-Kato, M., Yamada, K., Staff, R. A. , Nakagawa, T., Yonenobu, H., Haraguchi, T., Takemura, K. and Bronk Ramsey, C. (2013) An assessment of the magnitude of the AD 1586 Tensho tsunami inferred from Lake Suigetsu sediment cores. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 122(3), pp. 493-501. (doi: 10.5026/jgeography.122.493)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2013) Integration of the old and new Lake Suigetsu (Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration data sets. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 2049-2058. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i2.16339)
2012
Marshall, M. et al. (2012) A novel approach to varve counting using μXRF and X-radiography in combination with thin-section microscopy, applied to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, pp. 70-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.06.002)
Schlolaut, G. et al. (2012) An automated method for varve interpolation and its application to the late glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, pp. 52-69. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.07.005)
Bronk Ramsey, C. et al. (2012) A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P. Science, 338(6105), pp. 370-374. (doi: 10.1126/science.1226660)
Nakagawa, T. et al. (2012) SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 36, pp. 164-176. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.013)
2011
Smith, V. C. et al. (2011) Toward establishing precise 40Ar/39Ar chronologies for Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from Suigetsu SG06, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(21-22), pp. 2845-2850. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.020)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2011) New 14C Determinations from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: 12,000 to O Cal Bp. Radiocarbon, 53(3), pp. 511-528. (doi: 10.1017/S0033822200034627)
Kossler, A. et al. (2011) Onset and termination of the late-glacial climate reversal in the high-resolution diatom and sedimentary records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306(3-4), pp. 103-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.004)
2010
Tyler, J. et al. (2010) Tracking aquatic change using chlorine-specific carbon and nitrogen isotopes: the last glacial-interglacial transition at Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(9), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1029/2010GC003186)
Staff, R.A. , Bronk Ramsey, C. and Nakagawa, T. (2010) A re-analysis of the Lake Suigetsu terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 268(7-8), pp. 960-965. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.074)
Ramsey, C. B., Dee, M., Lee, S., Nakagawa, T. and Staff, R. A. (2010) Developments in the calibration and modeling of radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon, 52(3), pp. 953-961. (doi: 10.1017/S0033822200046063)
Articles
Staff, R. A. et al. (2024) A luminescence-derived cryptostratigraphy from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary profile, Japan: 45,000–30,200 IntCal20yr BP. Quaternary Geochronology, 83, 101588. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101588)
Spencer, J. Q.G. , Sanderson, D. C.W. , Rader, M., Fitzgerald, S. K., Rex, C. , Sprynskyy, M. and Staff, R. A. (2024) Luminescence and thermometry studies of plant opal phytoliths. Quaternary Geochronology, 82, 101544. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101544)
Rex, C. L. , Tyler, J. J., Nagaya, K., Staff, R. , Leng, M. J., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Kitagawa, J., Kojima, H. and Nakagawa, T. (2024) The contemporary stable isotope hydrology of Lake Suigetsu and surrounding catchment (Japan) and its implications for sediment-derived palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100145. (doi: 10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100145)
Rex, C. L. , Staff, R. A. , Sanderson, D. C.W. , Cresswell, A. J. , Marshall, M. H., Hyodo, M., Horiuchi, D., Tada, R. and Nakagawa, T. (2022) Controls on luminescence signals in lake sediment cores: a study from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 71, 101319. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101319)
Engels, S. et al. (2022) Synchronous vegetation response to the last glacial-interglacial transition in northwest Europe. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 130. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00457-y)
Feldpausch, T. R., Carvalho, L., Macario, K. D., Ascough, P. L. , Flores, C. F., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Kalamandeen, M., Phillips, O. L. and Staff, R. A. (2022) Forest fire history in Amazonia inferred from intensive soil charcoal sampling and radiocarbon dating. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, 815438. (doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.815438)
Hyodo, M. et al. (2022) Intermittent non-axial dipolar-field dominance of twin Laschamp excursions. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 79. (doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00401-0)
Chen, X.-Y., Blockley, S. P.E., Staff, R. A. , Xu, Y.-G. and Menzies, M. A. (2022) Improved age estimates for Holocene Ko-g and Ma-f~j tephras in northern Japan using Bayesian statistical modelling. Quaternary Geochronology, 67, 101229. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101229)
McCulloch, R. D., Mansilla, C. A., Martin, F., Borrero, L., Staff, R. A. and Tisdall, E. W. (2021) The nature and timing of landscape change at Cerro Benítez, Última Esperanza, southern Patagonia (52°S): New insights into the history of megafaunal extinctions and human occupation. Quaternary International, 601, pp. 116-129. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.07.018)
Nakagawa, T. et al. (2021) The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology. Global and Planetary Change, 202, 103493. (doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103493)
Palmer, A.P. et al. (2021) The Late Quaternary sediment successions of Llangorse Lake, south Wales. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 132(3), pp. 284-296. (doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.01.004)
Staff, R. A. and Liu, R. (2021) Radiocarbon calibration: the next generation. Science China Earth Sciences, 64(3), pp. 507-510. (doi: 10.1007/s11430-020-9722-x)
Lincoln, P. C., Matthews, I. P., Palmer, A. P., Blockley, S. P.E., Staff, R. A. and Candy, I. (2020) Hydroclimatic changes in the British Isles through the Last-Glacial-Interglacial Transition: multiproxy reconstructions from the Vale of Pickering, NE England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 249, 106630. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106630)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Heaton, T. J., Schlolaut, G., Staff, R. A. , Bryant, C. L., Brauer, A., Lamb, H. F., Marshall, M. H. and Nakagawa, T. (2020) Reanalysis of the atmospheric radiocarbon calibration record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp. 989-999. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2020.18)
McLean, D. et al. (2020) Constraints on the timing of explosive volcanism at Aso and Aira calderas (Japan) between 50 and 30 ka: new insights from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary record (SG14 core). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(8), e2019GC008874. (doi: 10.1029/2019GC008874)
Wacker, L. et al. (2020) Findings from an in-depth annual tree-ring radiocarbon intercomparison. Radiocarbon, 62(4), pp. 873-882. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2020.49)
McLean, D. et al. (2020) Refining the eruptive history of Ulleungdo and Changbaishan volcanoes (East Asia) over the last 86 kyrs using distal sedimentary records. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 389, 106669. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106669)
Jones, G., Davies, S. M., Staff, R. A. , Loader, N. J., Davies, S. J. and Walker, M. J. C. (2020) Traces of volcanic ash from the Mediterranean, Iceland and North America in a Holocene record from south Wales, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(1-2), pp. 163-174. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.3141)
Liu, R. and Staff, R. (2020) 碳十四测年技术前沿：新一代校正曲线 IntCal20 发布 = Carbon 14 technology frontier: next generation correction curve IntCal20 released. Jianghan Archaeology, 170(5), pp. 121-128.
Bronk Ramsey, C., Blaauw, M., Kearney, R. and Staff, R. A. (2019) The importance of open access to chronological information: the IntChron initiative. Radiocarbon, 61(5), pp. 1121-1131. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.21)
Scott, E.M. , Cook, G.T. , Naysmith, P. and Staff, R.A. (2019) Learning from the wood samples in ICS, TIRI, FIRI, VIRI and SIRI. Radiocarbon, 61(5), pp. 1293-1304. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.12)
Lowe, J., Matthews, I., Mayfield, R., Lincoln, P., Palmer, A., Staff, R. and Timms, R. (2019) On the timing of retreat of the Loch Lomond (‘Younger Dryas’) Readvance icefield in the SW Scottish Highlands and its wider significance. Quaternary Science Reviews, 219, pp. 171-186. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.034)
Staff, R. A. , Hardiman, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., Adolphi, F., Hare, V. J., Koutsodendris, A. and Pross, J. (2019) Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.021)
Falótico, T., Proffitt, T., Ottoni, E. B., Staff, R. A. and Haslam, M. (2019) Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 1034-1038. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0904-4) (PMID:31235926)
Schlolaut, G., Staff, R. A. , Brauer, A., Lamb, H. F., Marshall, M. H., Bronk Ramsey, C. and Nakagawa, T. (2018) An extended and revised Lake Suigetsu varve chronology from ∼50 to ∼10 ka BP based on detailed sediment micro-facies analyses. Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, pp. 351-366. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.021)
Albert, P. G. et al. (2018) Constraints on the frequency and dispersal of explosive eruptions at Sambe and Daisen volcanoes (South-West Japan Arc) from the distal Lake Suigetsu record (SG06 core). Earth Science Reviews, 185, pp. 1004-1028. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.07.003)
Kearney, R., Albert, P.G., Staff, R.A. , Pál, I., Veres, D., Magyari, E. and Bronk Ramsey, C. (2018) Ultra-distal fine ash occurrences of the Icelandic Askja-S Plinian eruption deposits in Southern Carpathian lakes: new age constraints on a continental scale tephrostratigraphic marker. Quaternary Science Reviews, 188, pp. 174-182. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.035)
Blockley, S. et al. (2018) The resilience of postglacial hunter-gatherers to abrupt climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 810-818. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0508-4) (PMID:29581589)
Wulf, S. et al. (2018) The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 186, pp. 236-262. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.011)
McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Suzuki, T., Staff, R. A. , Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Haraguchi, T., Kitagawa, J. and Smith, V. (2018) Integrating the Holocene tephrostratigraphy for East Asia using a high-resolution cryptotephra study from Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core), central Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 183, pp. 36-58. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.013)
Brock, F., Dee, M., Hughes, A., Snoeck, C., Staff, R. and Ramsey, C. B. (2018) Testing the effectiveness of protocols for removal of common conservation treatments for radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon, 60(1), pp. 35-50. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.68)
Guo, Q., Lu, C., Liu, R., Zhao, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Staff, R.A. , Pollard, A.M., Yang, S. and Su, B. (2018) New progress in chronological study of Buddhism caves: combining Bayesian modelling with archaeological information to improve dating resolution. Dunhuang Studies, 6, pp. 168-178.
Guo, Q., Staff, R. A. , Lu, C., Liu, C., Dee, M., Chen, Y., Pollard, A. M., Rawson, J., Su, B. and Liu, R. (2018) A new approach to the chronology of caves 268/272/275 in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes: combining radiocarbon dates and archaeological information within a Bayesian statistical framework. Radiocarbon, 60(2), pp. 667-679. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2018.4)
Liu, X. et al. (2017) Journey to the east: diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0187405. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187405) (PMID:29095896) (PMCID:PMC5667820)
Mark, D. F. , Renne, P. R., Dymock, R. C. , Smith, V. C., Simon, J. I., Morgan, L. E., Staff, R. A. and Ellis, B. S. (2017) ‘Radical interpretations’ preclude the use of climatic wiggle matching for resolution of event timings at the highest levels of attainable precision. Quaternary Geochronology, 42, pp. 60-62. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.08.003)
Turney, C. S.M. et al. (2017) Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial. Nature Communications, 8, 520. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6) (PMID:28900099) (PMCID:PMC5595922)
Bonneau, A., Staff, R.A. , Higham, T., Brock, F., Pearce, D.G. and Mitchell, P.J. (2017) Successfully dating rock art in Southern Africa using improved sampling methods and new characterization and pretreatment protocols. Radiocarbon, 59(3), pp. 659-677. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2016.69)
Bonneau, A., Pearce, D., Mitchell, P., Staff, R. , Arthur, C., Mallen, L., Brock, F. and Higham, T. (2017) The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates. Antiquity, 91(356), pp. 322-333. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2016.271)
Mark, D. F. , Renne, P. R., Dymock, R. , Smith, V. C., Simon, J. I., Morgan, L. E., Staff, R. A. , Ellis, B. S. and Pearce, N. J.G. (2017) High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Pleistocene Tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary. Quaternary Geochronology, 39, pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.01.002)
Schlolaut, G., Brauer, A., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H. F., Tyler, J. J., Staff, R. A. , Marshall, M. H., Ramsey, C. B., Bryant, C. L. and Tarasov, P. E. (2017) Evidence for a bi-partition of the Younger Dryas Stadial in East Asia associated with inversed climate characteristics compared to Europe. Scientific Reports, 7, 44983. (doi: 10.1038/srep44983) (PMID:28361872) (PMCID:PMC5374484)
Liu, X. et al. (2016) The virtues of small grain size: potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats. Quaternary International, 426, 107 - 119. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.059)
Palmer, J. G. et al. (2016) Changes in El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) chronozone revealed by New Zealand tree-rings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 153, pp. 139-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.003)
Hogg, A. et al. (2016) Decadally resolved lateglacial radiocarbon evidence from New Zealand kauri. Radiocarbon, 58(4), pp. 709-733. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2016.86)
Pedersen, M. W. et al. (2016) Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor. Nature, 537(7618), pp. 45-49. (doi: 10.1038/nature19085) (PMID:27509852)
Haslam, M., Luncz, L. V., Staff, R. A. , Bradshaw, F., Ottoni, E. B. and Falótico, T. (2016) Pre-Columbian monkey tools. Current Biology, 26(13), R521-R522. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.046) (PMID:27404235)
Hardiman, M., Scott, A. C., Pinter, N., Anderson, R. S., Ejarque, A., Carter-Champion, A. and Staff, R. A. (2016) Fire history on the California Channel Islands spanning human arrival in the Americas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1696), (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0167)
Hogg, A. et al. (2016) Punctuated shutdown of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Greenland Stadial 1. Scientific Reports, 6, 25902. (doi: 10.1038/srep25902) (PMID:27194601) (PMCID:PMC4872135)
Turney, C. S.M. et al. (2016) High-precision dating and correlation of ice, marine and terrestrial sequences spanning Heinrich Event 3: testing mechanisms of interhemispheric change using New Zealand ancient kauri (Agathis australis). Quaternary Science Reviews, 137, pp. 126-134. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.005)
Snoeck, C., Staff, R. A. and Brock, F. (2016) A reassessment of the routine pretreatment protocol for radiocarbon dating cremated bones. Radiocarbon, 58(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2015.1)
McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Staff, R. A. , Suzuki, T. and Smith, V. C. (2016) Identification of the Changbaishan ‘Millennium’ (B-Tm) eruption deposit in the Lake Suigetsu (SG06) sedimentary archive, Japan: Synchronisation of hemispheric-wide palaeoclimate archives. Quaternary Science Reviews, 150, pp. 301-307. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.022)
Lowe, J. J., Ramsey, C. B., Housley, R. A., Lane, C. S., Tomlinson, E. L. and , (2015) The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, pp. 1-17. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.006)
Matthews, I.P. et al. (2015) Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11. Quaternary Science Reviews, 118, pp. 84-104. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.009)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Higham, T. F. G., Brock, F., Baker, D., Ditchfield, P. and Staff, R. A. (2015) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35. Archaeometry, 57(1), pp. 177-216. (doi: 10.1111/arcm.12134)
Egan, J., Staff, R. and Blackford, J. (2015) A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA. Holocene, 25(7), pp. 1054-1067. (doi: 10.1177/0959683615576230)
Brauer, A. et al. (2014) The importance of independent chronology in integrating records of past climate change for the 60–8 ka INTIMATE time interval. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, pp. 47-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.006)
Bronk Ramsey, C., Albert, P., Blockley, S., Hardiman, M., Lane, C., Macleod, A., Matthews, I. P., Muscheler, R., Palmer, A. and Staff, R. A. (2014) Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions: a practical approach for an INTIMATE database. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, pp. 67-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.028)
Staff, R. A. , Reynard, L., Brock, F. and Ramsey, C. B. (2014) Wood pretreatment protocols and measurement of tree-ring standards at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Radiocarbon, 56(2), pp. 709-715. (doi: 10.2458/56.17449)
Schlolaut, G. et al. (2014) Event layers in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu ‘SG06’ sediment core: description, interpretation and climatic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 83, pp. 157-170. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.026)
Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., Staff, R. A. , Hunt, H. V., Liu, X. and Jones, M. K. (2013) The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe. Antiquity, 87(338), pp. 1073-1085. (doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00049875)
Smith, V. C., Staff, R. A. , Blockley, S. P.E., Bronk Ramsey, C., Nakagawa, T., Mark, D. F., Takemura, K. and Danhara, T. (2013) Corrigendum to “Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 67 (2013) 121–137]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 80, p. 206. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.013)
Macken, A. C., Staff, R. A. and Reed, E. H. (2013) Bayesian age-depth modelling of Late Quaternary deposits from Wet and Blanche Caves, Naracoorte, South Australia: A framework for comparative faunal analyses. Quaternary Geochronology, 17, pp. 26-43. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.03.001)
Smith, V. C., Staff, R. A. , Blockley, S. P.E., Ramsey, C. B., Nakagawa, T., Mark, D. F. , Takemura, K. and Danhara, T. (2013) Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 67, pp. 121-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.026)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2013) The multiple chronological techniques applied to the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core, central Japan. Boreas, 42(2), pp. 259-266. (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00278.x)
Hogg, A. et al. (2013) The New Zealand Kauri (Agathis Australis) Research Project: A Radiocarbon Dating Intercomparison of Younger Dryas Wood and Implications for IntCal13. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 2035-2048. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i2.16217)
Reimer, P. J. et al. (2013) IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 1869-1887. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16947)
Saito-Kato, M., Yamada, K., Staff, R. A. , Nakagawa, T., Yonenobu, H., Haraguchi, T., Takemura, K. and Bronk Ramsey, C. (2013) An assessment of the magnitude of the AD 1586 Tensho tsunami inferred from Lake Suigetsu sediment cores. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 122(3), pp. 493-501. (doi: 10.5026/jgeography.122.493)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2013) Integration of the old and new Lake Suigetsu (Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration data sets. Radiocarbon, 55(4), pp. 2049-2058. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v55i2.16339)
Marshall, M. et al. (2012) A novel approach to varve counting using μXRF and X-radiography in combination with thin-section microscopy, applied to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, pp. 70-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.06.002)
Schlolaut, G. et al. (2012) An automated method for varve interpolation and its application to the late glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, pp. 52-69. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.07.005)
Bronk Ramsey, C. et al. (2012) A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P. Science, 338(6105), pp. 370-374. (doi: 10.1126/science.1226660)
Nakagawa, T. et al. (2012) SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 36, pp. 164-176. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.013)
Smith, V. C. et al. (2011) Toward establishing precise 40Ar/39Ar chronologies for Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from Suigetsu SG06, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(21-22), pp. 2845-2850. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.020)
Staff, R. A. et al. (2011) New 14C Determinations from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: 12,000 to O Cal Bp. Radiocarbon, 53(3), pp. 511-528. (doi: 10.1017/S0033822200034627)
Kossler, A. et al. (2011) Onset and termination of the late-glacial climate reversal in the high-resolution diatom and sedimentary records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306(3-4), pp. 103-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.004)
Tyler, J. et al. (2010) Tracking aquatic change using chlorine-specific carbon and nitrogen isotopes: the last glacial-interglacial transition at Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(9), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1029/2010GC003186)
Staff, R.A. , Bronk Ramsey, C. and Nakagawa, T. (2010) A re-analysis of the Lake Suigetsu terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 268(7-8), pp. 960-965. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.074)
Ramsey, C. B., Dee, M., Lee, S., Nakagawa, T. and Staff, R. A. (2010) Developments in the calibration and modeling of radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon, 52(3), pp. 953-961. (doi: 10.1017/S0033822200046063)
Book Sections
Staff, R.A. , Ditchfield, P., Rhodes, E., Schwenninger, J.-L., Clark-Balzan, L., Lee, S. and Barton, R.N.E. (2019) Chronology. In: Barton, R.N.E., Bouzouggar, A., Collcutt, S.N. and Humphrey, L.T. (eds.) Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Afrtica: Excavations at Grotte des Pgeons, Taforalt, Morocco. Series: Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum (147). Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums: Mainz, pp. 143-154. ISBN 9783884673126
Grants
High Resolution Structure Associated with the 'Mono Lake' Event: New 14C Data from Tenaghi Philippon, Greece. Staff, R.A., Hardiman, M. & Pross, J. (NERC Radiocarbon Facility). £41,666. 2016.
A Synthesis of the Radiocarbon and Greenland Ice-core Timescales. Staff, R.A. (The Leverhulme Trust: Early Career Fellowship). 2015-2018.
Comparison Study of the Lake Suigetsu and Lake Ichi-no-Megata Radiocarbon Datasets: a Proof of Concept. Bronk Ramsey, C. & Staff, R.A. (John Fell OUP Fund, University of Oxford). £35,272. 2011.
Supervision
Rebecca Kearney (DPhil candidate, current, RLAHA, University of Oxford). NERC DTP funding. Understanding past rapid climatic change through reducing chronological uncertainty.
Research datasets
2023
Rex, C. L. , Staff, R. A. , Toney, J. L. , Pearson, E. J., Francke, A., Saito-Kato, M. and Nakagawa, T. (2023) Novel observations of East Asian Summer Monsoon evolution during Glacial Termination II from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. [Data Collection]
Rex, C. , Staff, R. , Leng, M. J., Toney, J. , Pearson, E. J., Tyler, J. J., Swann, G. E. A., Lacey, J. H., Saito-Kato, M. and Nakagawa, T. (2023) Insights into deglacial East Asian Monsoon seasonality and inter-regional teleconnections from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. [Data Collection]
2022
Rex, C., Staff, R. , Sanderson, D. , Cresswell, A. , Marshall, M. H., Hyodo, M., Horiuchi, D., Tada, R. and Nakagawa, T. (2022) Controls on Luminescence Signals in Lake Sediment Cores: A Study from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. [Data Collection]
Additional information
Education
DPhil (2007-2011) Archaeological Science – Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA), University of Oxford - Research on radiocarbon calibration records, focussing on new measurements from Lake Suigetsu, Japan.
MSc (2006-2007) Quaternary Science – Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
MA (2003-2006) Geography – Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Employment History
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RLAHA, University of Oxford (Sept 2015-Feb 2017)
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) Acting Laboratory Manager, RLAHA, University of Oxford (Feb 2013-Jan 2014 & Oct 2014-Jan 2015)
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, RLAHA, University of Oxford (Feb 2011-Aug 2015)
ORAU Laboratory Technician (part-time), RLAHA, University of Oxford (2009-2010)
Member of Academic Societies
The UK Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
The INTIMATE (‘INTegrating Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial records, 60-8 ka’) Initiative
The European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Prizes
Daiwa Adrian prize (as part of the 'Suigetsu Varves 2006' project team), presented at the Royal Society, London (Nov 2013) – awarded every three years "in recognition of significant scientific collaboration between Japanese and British research teams in the field of pure or applied science"
Janet Chamberlain prize (Girton College, University of Cambridge) for undergraduate examination results (2006)
Sir Francis Goldsmid Scholarship (Girton College, University of Cambridge) (£400) (2005-2006)
Jane Catherine Gamble prize (Girton College, University of Cambridge) for undergraduate exam results (2005)
