My research activity over the last two decades has covered three separate but inter-related fields. Focus during the late 1980s through to the mid-1990s was on future climate change and its potential impacts on hydrology and water resources. From the late-1990s emphasis shifted to palaeoclimatology, associated with several major FRST-funded research projects. These two fields are currently merging into new research endeavours that use our understanding of past climate to test climate models used to project future climate change and to improve scenarios of future climate (particularly in the context of hydrology and water resources).
Palaeoclimatology (specifically climate reconstruction from tree rings)
Future climate change and climate change impact assessment
Hydrology and water resource planning
