Professor Jaime Toney

Professor in Environmental and Climate Science (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
Academic Lead GCF Sustainable Futures (Research Services)

Geographical and Earth Sciences, Room 513 Molema Building

Biography

I am the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and a Professor of Environmental and Climate Science. I lead the BECS research group that is focused on developing an understanding of organic molecules in modern organisms and environments that can be applied to analysing and interpreting past environments and climates. I am Principal Investigator of the NERC Strategic Programme: GALLANT: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. I am a member of the Scottish Government's Clyde Mission Groups on Climate Adaptation and Net Zero, UKRI NERC Review College and Chair of the Geochemical Society's C.C. Patterson Award Committee.

Research interests

BECS - Biomarkers for Environmental and Climate Science:

Molecular fossils, or biomarkers, in terrestrial and marine sedimentary deposits

Developing quantitative proxies for temperature, ecological and hydrological processes in aquatic environments

Subalpine environments as sensitive regions to climate forcing and internal climate feedbacks that are driven by both natural and human impacts

Organic residue analysis to understand past practices and cultures

Lipid analysis applied to algal and other biofuels

Astrobiology and molecular signatures of life on other planets/planetary bodies

Publications

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Number of items: 59.

2025

Dickinson, Heloisa, MacDonald, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-804X and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2025) Enzyme-mediated multiphase precipitation: an innovative strategy for ecotoxic metal immobilizationin aqueous systems. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, (doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.119087) (In Press)

Keith, N. et al. (2025) Reciprocal Systems of Health in the Climate Era: Personal, Public & Planetary Health. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/UHR94) [Exhibitions]

Hjelmskog, Annika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4982-9621, Boyd, Jennifer, Stevenson, Amy, Pollack, Roxana, Elsenbroich, Corinna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1153-4326, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Winterbottom, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4374-4397 and Meier, Petra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 (2025) The effect of climate mitigation and adaptation policies on health and health inequalities: a systematic review. Lancet Planetary Health, 9(7), 101277. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.06.001) (PMID:40645199)

Prasojo, Octria, Williams, Richard D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Naylor, Larissa A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and Hurst, Martin D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-076X (2025) Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries. Environmental Research Letters, 20(7), 074069. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/addf61)

Breton, J. et al. (2025) Universities in the face of the climate and nature crises: Redoubling our commitment to a sustainable future. The Guild Insight Paper No. 6. Discussion Paper. The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and Bern Open Publishing. (doi: 10.48620/86536).

Li, Yize ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-8699, Gupta, Rohit, Li, Wangliang, Fang, Yi, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and You, Siming ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2175-7291 (2025) Machine learning-assisted life cycle assessment of biochar soil application. Journal of Cleaner Production, 498, 145109. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145109)

Falcone, Gioia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8206-673X, Metcalfe, Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9349, Shaw, Deirdre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-6290, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Booker, Duncan, Dick, Gillian and Slater, Gavin (2025) Green Recovery Dialogues: From COVID19 to COP26. Documentation. Centre of Sustainable Solutions (University of Glasgow), Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.346786).

2024

Moreras-Marti, A., Fox-Powell, M., Toney, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, McAdam, A.C., Slaymark, C., Knudson, C.A., Lewis, J.M.T., Salik, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5106-2952 and Cousins, C.R. (2024) Molecular biosignatures in planetary analogue salts: implications for transport of organics in sulfate-rich brines beyond Earth. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 32, pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.2434)

Keith, N. et al. (2024) Emerging Ecologies of Health, Heritage, and Habitat: Looking into Living and Working in 2033. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BTNZ9) [Exhibitions]

Skeldon, K. et al. (2024) HACK the ARC - A Grassroots Improvement Initiative. Project Report. OSF. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WSTZV).

2023

Hjelmskog, Annika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4982-9621, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Scott, Marian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623, Crawford, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7139-0355, Hasan, Cris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7211-0688, Winterbottom, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4374-4397 and Meier, Petra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 (2023) Thriving Glasgow Portrait: A shared vision for a healthy, equitable and sustainable future. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.309671).

Zhang, Tingwei, Yang, Xiaoqiang, Peng, Jie, Zhou, Qixian, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Liu, Huiyang and Xie, Yixuan (2023) Decoupled Indian summer monsoon intensity and effective moisture since the last glaciation in Southwest China. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), e2023GL103297. (doi: 10.1029/2023GL103297)

Perruchini, Elsa, Glatz, Claudia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-1255, Heimvik, Synnøve Gravdal, Bendrey, Robin, Hald, Mette Marie, Del Bravo, Francesco, Sameen, Salh Mohammed and Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2023) Revealing invisible stews: new results of organic residue analyses of beveled rim bowls from the late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan region of Iraq. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 48, 103730. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103730)

2022

O'Brien, Á. C. et al. (2022) Using organic contaminants to constrain the terrestrial journey of the martian meteorite Lafayette. Astrobiology, 22(11), pp. 1351-1362. (doi: 10.1089/ast.2021.0180) (PMID:36264546) (PMCID:PMC9618387)

Rodrigo-Gámiz, Marta, García-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Ramos-Román, María J., Camuera, Jon, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Sachse, Dirk, Anderson, R. Scott and Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe (2022) Paleoclimate reconstruction of the last 36 kyr based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in the Padul palaeolake record (Sierra Nevada, southern Iberian Peninsula). Quaternary Science Reviews, 281, 107434. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107434)

Yang, Xiaoqiang, Zhang, Tingwei, Zhang, Enlou, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Zhou, Qixian and Xie, Yixuan (2022) Paleosecular variations during the last glacial period from Tengchong Qinghai Lake, Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(3), e2021JB023. (doi: 10.1029/2021jb023459)

Inglis, G. N. et al. (2022) Enhanced terrestrial carbon export from East Antarctica during the early Eocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(2), e2021PA004348. (doi: 10.1029/2021PA004348)

McDonald, Neil, Bradwell, Tom, Callard, S. Louise, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Shreeve, Briony and Shreeve, James (2022) Automated characterisation of glaciomarine sediments using X-ray computed laminography. Quaternary Science Advances, 5, p. 100046. (doi: 10.1016/j.qsa.2021.100046)

2021

Garcia-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Camuera, Jon, Ramos-Roman, Maria Jose, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Sachse, Dirk, Schefuß, Enno, Jimenez-Epejo, Francisco J., Lopez-Aviles, Alejandro, Anderson, R. Scott and Yanes, Yurena (2021) Paleohydrological dynamics in the Western Mediterranean during the last glacial cycle. Global and Planetary Change, 202, 103527. (doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103527)

Camuera, Jon, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Ramos-Román, María J., García-Alix, Antonio, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and Anderson, R. Scott (2021) Chronological control and centennial-scale climatic subdivisions of the Last Glacial Termination in the western Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 255, 106814. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106814)

2020

Schroeter, Natalie, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Lauterbach, Stefan, Kalanke, Julia, Schwarz, Anja, Schouten, Stefan and Gleixner, Gerd (2020) How to deal with multi-proxy data for paleoenvironmental reconstructions: applications to a Holocene lake sediment record from the Tian Shan, Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8(353), (doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00353)

Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, García-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Anderson, R. Scott, Moossen, Heiko and Seki, Osamu (2020) New insights into Holocene hydrology and temperature from lipid biomarkers in western Mediterranean alpine wetlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 240, 106395. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106395)

Garcia-Alix Daroca, A. et al. (2020) Algal lipids reveal unprecedented warming rates in alpine areas of SW Europe during the Industrial Period. Climate of the Past, 16, pp. 245-263. (doi: 10.5194/cp-16-245-2020)

Theroux, Susanna, Huang, Yongsong, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Andersen, Robert, Nyren, Paul, Bohn, Rick, Salacup, Jeffrey, Murphy, Leslie and Amaral-Zettler, Linda (2020) Successional blooms of alkenone‐producing haptophytes in Lake George, North Dakota: implications for continental paleoclimate reconstructions. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(2), pp. 413-425. (doi: 10.1002/lno.11311)

2019

Fitzer, Susan C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3556-7624, Plancq, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-8419, Floyd, Cameron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5986-491X, Kemp, Faith M. and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2019) Increased pCO2 changes the lipid production in important aquacultural feedstock algae Isochrysis galbana, but not in Tetraselmis suecica. Aquaculture and Fisheries, 4(4), pp. 142-148. (doi: 10.1016/j.aaf.2019.02.008)

Plancq, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-8419, Couto, Jillian, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-8551, Leavitt, Peter R. and Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2019) Next generation sequencing to identify lacustrine haptophytes in the Canadian Prairies: significance for temperature proxy applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(7), pp. 2144-2158. (doi: 10.1029/2018JG004954)

Jiménez, Laura, Conde-Porcuna, José M., García-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Anderson, R. Scott, Heiri, Oliver and Pérez-Martínez, Carmen (2019) Ecosystem responses to climate-related changes in a Mediterranean alpine environment over the last ~180 years. Ecosystems, 22(3), pp. 563-577. (doi: 10.1007/s10021-018-0286-5)

Manzano, Saul, Carrión, Jose S., López-Merino, Lourdes, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Armstrong, Hollie, Anderson, R. Scott, Garcia-Alix Daroca, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Guerrero Pérez, José Luis and Sánchez-Mata, Daniel (2019) A palaeoecological approach to understanding the past and present of Sierra Nevada, a Southwestern European biodiversity hotspot. Global and Planetary Change, 175, pp. 238-250. (doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.02.006)

Peng, Jie, Yang, Xiaoqiang, Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Ruan, Jiaoyang, Li, Guanhua, Zhou, Qixian, Gao, Huahong, Xie, Yixuan, Chen, Qiong and Zhang, Tingwei (2019) Indian Summer Monsoon variations and competing influences between hemispheres since ~35 ka recorded in Tengchongqinghai Lake, southwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 516, pp. 113-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.040)

2018

Perruchini, E., Glatz, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-1255, Hald, M.M., Casana, J. and Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2018) Revealing invisible brews: a new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer. Journal of Archaeological Science, 100, pp. 176-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.010)

Plancq, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-8419, McColl, Jill L., Bendle, James A., Seki, Osamu, Couto, Jillian M., Henderson, Andrew C.G., Yamashita, Youhei, Kawamura, Kimitaka and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2018) Genomic identification of the long-chain alkenone producer in freshwater Lake Toyoni, Japan: implications for temperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry, 125, pp. 189-195. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.09.011)

Camuera, J. et al. (2018) Orbital-scale environmental and climatic changes recorded in a new ∼200,000-year-long multiproxy sedimentary record from Padul, southern Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 198, pp. 91-114. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.014)

Ramos-Román, M. J. et al. (2018) Millennial-scale cyclical environment and climate variability during the Holocene in the western Mediterranean region deduced from a new multi-proxy analysis from the Padul record (Sierra Nevada, Spain). Global and Planetary Change, 168, pp. 35-53. (doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.06.003)

Araie, H. et al. (2018) Novel alkenone-producing strains of genus Isochrysis (Haptophyta) isolated from Canadian saline lakes show temperature sensitivity of alkenones and alkenoates. Organic Geochemistry, 121, pp. 89-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.04.008)

Longo, W. M. et al. (2018) Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, pp. 239-250. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.04.002)

Plancq, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-8419, Cavazzin, Bianca, Juggins, Steve, Haig, Heather A., Leavitt, Peter R. and Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2018) Assessing environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies. Organic Geochemistry, 117, pp. 43-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.12.005)

Garcia-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco, Jimenez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Ramos-Romain, Maria J., Camuera, Jon, Anderson, R. Scott, Delgado Huertas, Antonio, Martinez-Ruiz, Francisca and Queralt, Ignasi (2018) Holocene geochemical footprint from Semi-arid alpine wetlands in southern Spain. Scientific Data, 5, 180024. (doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.24) (PMID:29485628) (PMCID:PMC5827694)

2017

García-Alix, Antonio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Toney, Jaime L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Ramos-Román, María J., Anderson, R. Scott, Ruano, Patricia, Queralt, Ignasi, Delgado Huertas, Antonio and Kuroda, Junichiro (2017) Alpine bogs of southern Spain show human-induced environmental change superimposed on long-term natural variations. Scientific Reports, 7, 7439. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07854-w) (PMID:28785039) (PMCID:PMC5547100)

2016

Ramos-Román, M.J., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Anderson, R.S., Garcia-Alix Daroca, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-488X, Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Jiménez-Espejo, F.J. and Carrión, J.S. (2016) Centennial-scale vegetation and North Atlantic Oscillation changes during the Late Holocene in the southern Iberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 143, pp. 84-95. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.007)

MacDonald, H., Watson, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4002-4977, Toney, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Shiraiwa, Y., Suzuki, I. and Iwamoto, K. (2016) Design of an Internally Illuminated Large Scale Photobioreactor for the Cultivation of Vacuoliviride crystalliferum gen. et sp. nov. All-Energy 2016, Glasgow, UK, 04-05 May 2016.

2015

Ali, M., Watson, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4002-4977 and Toney, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2015) Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Algal Biomass to Produce Advanced Biofuels. In: British Organic Geochemical Society Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 02-03 Jul 2015,

Ali, M., Watson, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4002-4977, Toney, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and Saleem, M. (2015) Biocrude Oil from Microalgae Biomass to Produce Environmentally Friendly Higher Value Fuels and Chemical Compounds. In: 7th International Civil Engineering Congress, Karachi, Pakistan, 12-13 Jun 2015,

2014

Cisneros-Dozal, L. M. et al. (2014) Assessing the strength of the monsoon during the late Pleistocene in southwestern United States. Quaternary Science Reviews, 103, pp. 81-90. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.022)

2013

Theroux, Susanna, Toney, Jaime ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Amaral-Zettler, Linda and Huang, Yongsong (2013) Production and temperature sensitivity of long chain alkenones in the cultured haptophyte Pseudoisochrysis paradoxa. Organic Geochemistry, 62, pp. 68-73. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.07.006)

2012

Denis, E.H., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Tarozo, R. and Scott Anderson, R. (2012) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in lake sediments record historic fire events: validation using HPLC-fluorescence detection. Organic Geochemistry, 45, pp. 7-17. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.01.005)

Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Theroux, S., Andersen, R.A., Coleman, A., Amaral-Zettler, L. and Huang, Y. (2012) Culturing of the first 37:4 predominant lacustrine haptophyte: geochemical, biochemical, and genetic implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 78, pp. 51-64. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.024)

2011

Fawcett, P. J. et al. (2011) Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature, 470(7335), pp. 518-521. (doi: 10.1038/nature09839) (PMID:21350483)

Gao, L., Hou, J., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, MacDonald, D. and Huang, Y. (2011) Mathematical modeling of the aquatic macrophyte inputs of mid-chain n-alkyl lipids to lake sediments: implications for interpreting compound specific hydrogen isotopic records. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(13), pp. 3781-3791. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.008)

Jimenez-Moreno, G., Anderson, R.S., Atudorei, V. and Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 (2011) A high-resolution record of climate, vegetation, and fire in the mixed conifer forest of northern Colorado, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123(1-2), pp. 240-254. (doi: 10.1130/B30240.1)

Toney, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Hollen, S.H., Bissacio, D., Haberstroh, K.M. and Herbert, T.D. (2011) Incorporating science standards into problem based learning modules for elementary learners. Science and Children, 48(9),

Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Leavitt, P.R. and Huang, Y. (2011) Alkenones are common in prairie lakes of interior Canada. Organic Geochemistry, 42(7), pp. 707-712. (doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.06.014)

2010

Theroux, S., D'Andrea, W.J., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Amaral-Zettler, L. and Huang, Y. (2010) Phylogenetic diversity and evolutionary relatedness of alkenone-producing haptophyte algae in lakes: implications for continental paleotemperature reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300(3-4), pp. 311-320. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.009)

Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Huang, Y., Fritz, S.C., Baker, P.A., Grimm, E. and Nyren, P. (2010) Climatic and environmental controls on the occurrence and distributions of long chain alkenones in lakes of the interior United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(5), pp. 1563-1578. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.021)

2008

Allen, C.D., Anderson, RS., Jass, R.B., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and Baisan, C.H. (2008) Paired charcoal and tree-ring records of high-frequency Holocene fire from two New Mexico bog sites. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17(1), pp. 115-130. (doi: 10.1071/WF07165)

Anderson, R.S., Allen, C.D., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Jass, R.B. and Bair, A.N. (2008) Holocene vegetation and fire regimes in subalpine and mixed conifer forests, southern Rocky Mountains, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 17(1), p. 96. (doi: 10.1071/WF07028)

Power, M.J. et al. (2008) Changes in fire regimes since the last glacial maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics, 30(7-8), pp. 887-907. (doi: 10.1007/s00382-007-0334-x)

2006

Anderson, R.S., Hallett, D.J., Berg, E., Jass, R.B., Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, de Fontaine, C.S. and DeVolder, A. (2006) Holocene development of Boreal forests and fire regimes on the Kenai Lowlands of Alaska. Holocene, 16(6), pp. 791-803. (doi: 10.1191/0959683606hol966rp)

Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887 and Anderson, R.S. (2006) A postglacial palaeoecological record from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado USA: fire, climate and vegetation history. Holocene, 16(4), pp. 505-517. (doi: 10.1191/0959683606hl946rp)

2003

Toney, J.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-6887, Rodbell, D.T. and Miller, N.G. (2003) Sedimentologic and palynologic records of the last deglaciation and Holocene from Ballston Lake, New York. Quaternary Research, 60(2), pp. 189-199. (doi: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00093-0)

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Inglis, G. N. et al. (2022) Enhanced terrestrial carbon export from East Antarctica during the early Eocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(2), e2021PA004348. (doi: 10.1029/2021PA004348)

Fawcett, P. J. et al. (2011) Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature, 470(7335), pp. 518-521. (doi: 10.1038/nature09839) (PMID:21350483)

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Skeldon, K. et al. (2024) HACK the ARC - A Grassroots Improvement Initiative. Project Report. OSF. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WSTZV).

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Conference Proceedings

Exhibitions

Keith, N. et al. (2025) Reciprocal Systems of Health in the Climate Era: Personal, Public & Planetary Health. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/UHR94) [Exhibitions]

Keith, N. et al. (2024) Emerging Ecologies of Health, Heritage, and Habitat: Looking into Living and Working in 2033. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BTNZ9) [Exhibitions]

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Grants

Selected Funding:

PI (2022-2027) GALLANT: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation - Delivering a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership), NERC Strategic Programme Grant - NE/W005042/1

Co-I (2021) The Hidden Environmental Histories of the River Clyde, NERC-AHRC joint call.

Project Advisor (2021-2023) Deforestation in Pakistan: Combating through Wireless Sensor Networks, British Council Pakistan KTP.

PI (2015-2020) ALKENoNE - Algal Lipids: the Key to Earth Now and aNcient Earth, ERC Starting Grant.

Scientist-in-Charge (2014-2016) lead: Garcia-Alix, A. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, "Natural responses to past North Atlantic Oscillations: Southern Iberian Peninsula vs. United Kingdom, Analogues for future environmental changes (NAOSIPUK)"

Supervision

Superviser of Post-doctoral Research Associates:

Julien Plancq - ERC Starting Grant, Project: ALKENoNE (2015-2018)

Antonio Garcia-Alix - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Project: NAOSIPUK (2014-2016)

Lead Superviser Ph.D. Candidates:

Jill McColl - Geographical and Earth Sciences."Climate variability of the last 1000 years in the NW Pacific: high resolution, multi-biomarker records from lake and ocean sediments." Successfully completed - July 2016.

Nick Thomas - Geographical and Earth Sciences, ‘Preservation and detection of molecular signatures of life under cold, high-solar-flux, liquid-water-unstable conditions' Successfully completed - March 2018.

Philippe Nauny - Geographical and Earth Sciences, ‘Signs of life in Mars analogue environments’. Current

Rory Porteous - Geographical and Earth Sciences, 'Signs of life in Mars analogue environments, Silica Sinters. Current

Bianca Cavazzin - Geographical and Earth Sciences, 'Palaeotemperature change in the drought-prone Canadian prairies. Current

Charlotte Slaymark - Geographical and Earth Sciences, 'Development and application of biomarkers for climate change in the United Kingdom for the last glacial-interglacial transition and early Holocene'. Current

Mike Zwick - Geographical and Earth Sciences, 'Recording high-resolution changes in temperature and hydrology from the Canadian Priarie'.. Current

Co-Superviser Ph.D. Candidates:

Allen Ude Akwu-Ude - University of Glasgow, Engineering, 'Reduced water usage in microalgae growth for biofuels'. Current

Elsa Peruchinni - University of Glasgow, Archaeology, 'Consuming identities in the 'Cradle of Civilisations' Food consumption and the emergence of social complexity in greater Mesopotamia'. Current

Jon Camuera Bidaurreta - visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Granada, Spain, 'Organic biomarker application to El Padul, Spain'. Current

Roman Witt, visiting Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute, School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 'Influence of the Westerlies in arid Central Asia during the Holocene recorded in sediments from lakes Son Kol and Chatyr Kol, Kyrgyzstan'. Completed.

MSc Student Projects:

Johnny Coyle (2015) SEPA Project: Tracing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) sources in Luce Bay by intertidal sediment analysis.

Bing Feng (2014) Diols and n-alkanes as biomarkers from a inland freshwater lake indicate the paleoclimate: Bardowie Lock of Scotland.

Charlotte Slaymark (2014) Plant leaf wax biomarkers and lake circulation interactions: implications for palaeoclimate records in Scotland.

Paraskevi Tsintza (2014) Identifying hydrocarbons from oil shales in stream sediments along the South Queensferry shore.

Nuffield Research Placements:

Alistair McDermid (Summer 2014) – from Kirkintilloch High School, 'Sediments, Biomarkers and Column Chromatography: Did Western Scotland Experience the Dramatic Cooling at 8.2ka?'

Undergraduate Projects, Bursary Students, and Prize GES Interns:

Stuart Allardice (2014) Visualizing the Destruction of Algal Cells for Potential Biofuels Lipids

Sanni Pulkki (2014) Detecting Potential Biofuel Lipids from Microalgal Cultures with State-of-the-Art Techniques

Rosie Bradshaw (2014) Characterizing the Hydrocarbon Content of the petroliferous Mulgrave Shale Member, Cleveland Basin using new techniques, GCxGC

Ruairidh Salmon (2014) Hydrocarbon Characterization of North Sea oil field drilling samples

Katrina Kerr (2014) The Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Jonathan McGourlay (2014) Paleoenvironmental reconstruction during the last 1,500 year in Southern Iberia, Spain

Allan Cochrane (Summer 2014) Palaeohumidity reconstruction during the late Holocene in Southern Iberia

Amanda Dolan (2013-2014) Characterising lipids from algae that produce biomarkers used to reconstruct palaeotemperature

Clare Noble (2013-2014) Applying a marine palaeotemperature proxy to lake sediments

Joe Armstrong (2013-2014) Detecting methane in peatlands using microbial biomarkers

Pauline Rovira (2013-2014) Charateristics of the hydrocarbons within the petroliferous Mulgrave Shale Member, Cleveland Basin

Clare Brady (Summer 2013) Assaying for environmental biomarkers from Late Pleistocene age Scottish Loch

Amanda Dolan (Summer 2013) Detecting marine dinoflagellates in geologic deposits in the absence of traditional fossils

Craig Barr - (2012-2013) 'Discovery of organic molecular fossils in the Southern Ocean during the Eocene (55 Ma) greenhouse'

Julia Rodden - (2012-2013)Final year project: 'The role of a Japanese peatland in the carbon cycle'

Charlotte McLean -(Summer 2012) GSL Bursary project: 'The role of peatland expansion and methane cycling on the East Antarctic continent in the early Eocene'

William Vorley - (2011-2012)Final year project: 'Lions Mane (Cyanea capilla) and Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) Biomarker Assay'

Daniella Peel - (2011-2012)Final year project: 'Transport and deposition of bacterial hopane biomarkers in Siberian fluvial and lacustrine settings'

Casey Bryce (2011-2012) Bursary work on sediment cores, haptophyte cultures, and water column sampling at Loch Sunart, Scotland, UK

Elizabeth Denis - Honors Thesis, Brown University, US 'Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in lake sediments record historic fire events: Validation using HPLC-fluorescence detection'

Dickinson, Heloisa
Understanding and modelling the potential impacts of alternate land-use practices: CO2 sequestration and pollutant immobilisation in derelict and contaminated land sites 
Gakpe, Edward Amego
Methane and Carbon dioxide measurement and quantification from River Clyde Estuary
Stevenson, Amy
Public health benefits and challenges of Glasgow’s transition to climate resilience: Systems science and data analytics
Tait, Nicola
Developing community-scale whole-energy system models integrating sustainability KPIs towards net-zero futures
Zhao, Jinyu
Net-Zero Cities: A Comparative Study of Strategies, Barriers, Opportunities and Challenges

Teaching

Current Courses:

Student-led Evening Course: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Climate Change and Sustainability

Undergraduate Honours Course: Climates: Past and Future

Upskilling Course: Climate and Carbon Literacy

Archaeology: Feasting Like the Ancients

Various Lectures in our Master-level programmes: Earth Futures and Sustainable Water

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

2015 - 2020: ERC Starting Grant

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2013 - 2013: National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry Panel
2011 - 2015: Earth Science Women's Network, European Board Member

Professional & learned societies

2018: Fellow, Geological Society of London
2006: Member, American Geophysical Union
1998: Member, Geological Society of America
1998: Member, Sigma Xi
2016: Member, Geochemical Society

Selected international presentations

2019: Keynote Speaker, British Organic Geochemical Society (Manchester, UK)
2018: Invited Scientific Talk - US-Japan Research Institute (Washington DC, US)
2012: Invited Talk - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA, US)

Supplementary

Key Member of PAGES Working Group, ACME 'Arctic cryosphere change and coastal marine ecosystems' UK-India Frontiers of Science Meeting - Royal Society, Invited Session Organiser (2018) External Examiner for Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling (2017-2021) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015-now) Scottish Crucible Alumni (2013) Climate Change Expert for BBC Radio Scotland's Newdrive (2012) Climate Change Expert for Cosmos Online (2012)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023

Number of items: 7.

2025

Prasojo, O. A., Williams, R. D. , Naylor, L. , Toney, J. L. and Hurst, M. D. (2025) Right size, right place: scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries. [Data Collection]

2024

Prasojo, O. A., Williams, R. D. , Naylor, L. , Toney, J. L. and Hurst, M. D. (2024) Making space for water is not enough to alleviate flooding in a large urban estuary. [Data Collection]

Prasojo, O. A., Williams, R. D. , Naylor, L. , Toney, J. L. and Hurst, M. D. (2024) 2D model result for Slowing down the tidal flood wave is key to estuarine flood risk reduction. [Data Collection]

Prasojo, O. A., Williams, R. D. , Naylor, L. , Toney, J. L. and Hurst, M. D. (2024) Code for Slowing down the tidal flood wave is key to estuarine flood risk reduction. [Data Collection]

2023

Boyd, J., Hjelmskog, A. , Elsenbroich, C. , Heppenstall, A. , Toney, J. and Meier, P. (2023) Climate mitigation and adaptation action in the UK and devolved nations - A typology. [Data Collection]

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]

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Additional information

Session Chair:

EGU Annual Meeting (2012), session: ‘Cenozoic greenhouse climates and carbon cycle dynamics’
AGU Fall Meeting (2010), session: ‘Breakthroughs in continental paleothermometry: Applications of terrestrial proxies’

Committees:

Team member for application to Athena Swan Silver status at the University of Glasgow.
Graduate Representative for Earth Systems History to Dept. of Geological Sciences faculty meetings (2010-2011), Brown University
Graduate Representative for Quaternary Sciences at the University Graduate Committee, (2001-2002) Northern Arizona University

Other:

Scottish Crucible Participant (2013)
Reviewer for a number of international journals.
Proposal peer review NASA.
Earth Science Women’s Network – European Board Member
EGU Women in Geosciences Mentor
STEM Ambassador for Science Outreach, U.K. (2012)

Workshops and Short Courses:

2012 Dinocyst Course, Utrecht, Netherlands.
2010 Urbino Summer School on Paleoclimatology

Links to Outreach Activities:

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