Prof William (Bill) Austin
Professor
Research areas
Palaeoceanography, Marine Geology, Foraminifera, Stable Isotopes, Climate Change.
See Environmental Change Research Group for more information.
My research focus is directed primarily at reconstructing past climate change from marine records, with a particular focus on the late Quaternary. I work extensively with foraminifera and have a growing research interest in the use of biogeochemical proxies and their application to foraminiferal-based palaeoceanography. Over the last decade, I have established a research interest in the application of tephrochronology to constrain North Atlantic stratigraphies, an interest which overlaps with recent work on marine radiocarbon reservoir ages. The primary geographical focus of my research is the North Atlantic continental margins and shelf seas.
PhD supervision
- Aysegul Dogan
- Alex Houston
- Cathilyn McIntosh
- Lauren South
Selected publications
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Open access
Additionality in blue carbon ecosystems: recommendations for a universally applicable accounting methodology
Houston, A., Kennedy, H. & Austin, W., 4 Nov 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 11, 9 p., e17559.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Blue carbon additionality: New insights from the radiocarbon content of saltmarsh soils and their respired CO2
Houston, A., Garnett, M. H. & Austin, W., 22 Feb 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Blue carbon additionality: new insights from the radiocarbon content of saltmarsh soils and their respired CO2
Houston, A., Garnett, M. & Austin, W., 22 Feb 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. Early View, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fjords as globally significant hotspots for carbon burial and storage
Austin, W. & Smeaton, C., 7 Jul 2024, Online: Marine Scotland. 19 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Organic carbon accumulation in British saltmarshes
Smeaton, C., Garrett, E., Koot, M., Ladd, C., Miller, L., McMahon, L., Foster, B., Barlow, N., Blake, W., Gehrels, R., Skov, M. & Austin, W., 3 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science of the Total Environment. 926, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Potential effects of bottom trawling on organic carbon stocks in Denmark's marine sediments
Smeaton, C. & Austin, W., 6 Feb 2024, Danmarks Naturfredningsforening. 29 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Saltmarsh blue carbon accumulation rates and their relationship with sea-level rise on a multi-decadal timescale in northern England
Gore, C., Gehrels , R., Smeaton, C., Andrews, L., McMahon, L., Hibbert, F., Austin, W., Nolte, S. & Garrett, E., Apr 2024, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 299, 11 p., 108665.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Save our seabed – the bottom of the ocean needs to become a top priority, and the UN agrees
Austin, W., 12 Apr 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Blue carbon: could a solution to the climate challenge be buried in the depths of fiords?
McLeod, R. J. & Austin, W., 8 Jun 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Soil carbon in the world's tidal marshes
Maxwell, T., Spalding, M., Friess, D., Murray, N., Rogers, K., Rovai, A., Smart, L., Weilguny, L., Adame, M., Adams, J., Austin, W., Copertino, M., Cott, G., Costa, M., Holmquist, J., Ladd, C., Lovelock, C., Ludwig, M., Moritsch, M. & Navarro, A. & 8 others, , 26 Nov 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 16 p., 10265.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review