Jessie Woodbridge

Research interests
Jessie Woodbridge is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the Deforesting Europe project at the University of Plymouth (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences). In this project we aim to reconstruct changes in European land cover over long (i.e. multi-centennial) timescales using pollen data. Jessie's research background is focussed on reconstruction of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change using palaeoecological techniques based on peat and lake-sediment archives. Her PhD research on diatom-inferred Eastern Mediterranean palaeoclimate was completed in 2009, and since this time her Post-Doctoral work has focussed on pollen/diatom analysis and environmental reconstruction in British peatland and reservoir environments.  

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES) 

Grants & contracts

Dec. 2010: Named Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on Leverhulme Trust funded 'Deforesting Europe' project (£147,000).

Apr. 2010: Successful application as Principal Investigator to the Seale Hayne Education Trust funding competition (£9,400) to conduct research into recent environmental change and human-environment interactions on Dartmoor (UK) using palaeolimnological methods (diatoms and pollen).

Jul. 2009: Successful application for a funded place at the RCUK Joint UK-China Advanced Summer School ‘Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments’. Lanzhou University, China. (26 Jul. – 1 Aug. 2009).

Mar. 2007: QRA travel grant (£600) for attendance of the International Quaternary (INQUA) Conference (Cairns, Australia), Jul.-Aug. 2007 (Cairns, Australia).

Mar. 2006: British Institute in Ankara travel grant (£500) to conduct field work in Turkey.

Oct. 2005: School of Geography PhD scholarship (University of Plymouth).

Oct. 2004: School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science MRes studentship (University of Plymouth).

 

Publications

Woodbridge, J., Davies, H., Blake, W. and Fyfe, R.M. (in prep.) Exploring recent environmental change in an upland catchment using high-resolution diatom and pollen analysis of reservoir sediments and radioisotopic dating.

Fyfe, R.M. and Woodbridge, J. (in prep.) Differences in time and space in upland vegetation patterning: analysis of pollen data from Dartmoor, UK.

Roberts, N., Moreno, A., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Corella, J.P., Jones, M., Allcock, S., Woodbridge, J., Morellón, M., Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E. and Türkeş, M. (in review) Palaeolimnological evidence for a bipolar climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD 900. Global & Planetary Change, Special Issue, the Medieval Climate Anomaly.

Woodbridge, J. and Roberts, N. (in press) A high-resolution diatom record of climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews.  

Woodbridge, J., Fyfe, R.M., Law, B. and Hayworth-Johns, A. (in press) A spatial approach to upland vegetation change and human impact: the Aber Valley, Snowdonia. Environmental Archaeology. 

Fyfe, R.M., Roberts, N., and Woodbridge, J. (2010) A pseudo-biomisation approach to anthropogenic land cover change. The Holocene. 20, 1165–1171

Woodbridge, J. and Roberts, N. (2010) Linking neo and palaeolimnology: a case study using crater lake diatoms from central Turkey. The Journal of Palaeolimnology. 44: (3) 855-871

Woodbridge, J., Roberts, N. and Cox, E.J. (2010) Morphology and ecology of a new centric diatom from Cappadocia (central Turkey). Diatom Research. 25: (1) 195-212