Dr Tim Daley

Qualifications

Qualifications

PhD, Geography, University of Southampton
B.Sc (Hons) Geography, 1st Class, University of Southampton
Honour Moderations (Geography), Oxford University

Background

2017 -         Associate Professor of Physical Geography

2015 - 2017    Deputy Director - Sustainable Earth Institute

2013 - 2015    Director of the Institute for Sustainability Solutions Research, University of Plymouth

2010 - 2013    Lecturer in Geography, Plymouth University

2009 - 2010    DEFRA / EA Climate Change Adaptation Co-ordinator for Northwest England

2008 - 2009    NERC QUEST Postdoctoral Research Officer, Swansea University

Professional Awards

• Award for Best Postgraduate Research Poster, NERC RAPID International Science Meeting, Birmingham, 2006
• Award for Best Postgraduate Research Poster, NERC RAPID 1st Annual Meeting, Nottingham, 2004
• Florence Miller Award for Best Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Southampton, School of Geography, Class of 2003

Professional membership

• Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
• European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Roles on external bodies

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College Member

Teaching interests

I love teaching. It's a joy to be able to engage and excite others in things that have fascinated me all my life. I am primarily a researcher in climate and earth system science. It should be little surprise then that this is where I teach. 

You can find me leading modules in 

• Stage 1: Environment and Climate
• Stage 4: Climate Change - Adaptation and Mitigation; Global Climate Change
• Stage 7: Climate Change: Science and Policy

I also contribute to several others from the philosophy and history of science, to approaches to knowledge creation and fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Staff serving as external examiners

University College Cork (2020 - 2022) 

Research interests

Other research

https://www.agritechcornwall.co.uk/projects/farm-carbon-cutting-toolkit/

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

PhD student completions:

Grants & contracts

NERC RCL award 1903.0415: "Testing the late Holocene hydroclimatic and stable isotopic signal from ombrotrophic bogs in southernmost Chile and the Falkland Islands" £5120 - to TJD (June 2015)

NERC radiocarbon award 1740.1013: "Testing the late Holocene hydroclimatic and stable isotopic signal from ombrotrophic bogs in southernmost Chile and the Falkland Islands" £4640 - to TJD to progress the doctoral research of PhD grad student Emma Rice (December 2013)

Exmoor National Park (MIRES project): "The context of prehistoric landscapes: preliminary analysis of sites on Exmoor” £10,700 - to Ralph Fyfe (PI, Plymouth) and TJD (Co-I) (July 2013- December 2013)

NERC Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BESS) programme grant: “Quantifying the biodiversity threshold for peatland carbon service delivery” £20,084 - to TJD, PI (July 2013 – June 2014)

This project seeks to use a novel molecular biomarker approach to test the relationship between microbial biodiversity and carbon sequestration in temperate peatlands. I am working with Dr Ralph Fyfe as Co-I and Dr Paola Garcia-Meneses as Post-Doctoral Technician.

Exmoor National Park: "Vegetation and climate change on Exmoor over the last millennium - Phase II" £22,795 - to Ralph Fyfe (PI, Plymouth) and TJD (Co-I) (March 2013 - December 2013)

NERC algorithm PhD studentship to Emma Rice £85,627 - TJD DoS (October 2012 - September 2016)

Tracking Holocene changes in the southern hemisphere westerly wind belt from lakes and bogs in Tierra del Fuego.

Exmoor National Park: "Vegetation and climate change on Exmoor over the last millennium" £18,018 - to Ralph Fyfe (PI, Plymouth) and TJD (Co-I) (Awarded July 2012)

Assessing ability to reconstruct climate and environmental change in the last millennium for peat conservation / restoration and archaeological stakeholders.

Royal Society Grant : Quantifying carbon cycling in peatlands under different hydrological conditions - £10,040 - to TJD - PI (December 2011 - November 2012)

Awarded October 2011

Peatlands sequester carbon, but it is unclear how much of this is drawn from atmospheric carbon dioxide or recycled from methane. Peatland re-wetting has become a widespread land management practise in response, in part, to the potential for carbon sequestration. This project will test how past bog hydrology influenced this sourcing of carbon for the growth of Sphagnum mosses. The project will have implications for the efficacy of peatland restoration as a tool for mitigating atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions and therefore have implications for global carbon farming and carbon credit trading. Outputs from the work will be exchanged directly with stakeholders through the University's new Institute, the ISSR.

NERC Standard Grant: PATAGON (Palaeoclimate reconstructions from Tierra DelFuego to detect Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions) - £796,000 (£45,000 to TJD - Co-I) (October 2011 - September 2014) (click here for project website)

Awarded August 2011

This grant brings together partners from the Universities of Aberdeen, Southampton and Swansea with Plymouth University to investigate variations in climate in Tierra del Fuego over the last 2000 years. The team will be looking to track past variations in the latitudinal position and intensity of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly wind belt over this time period from its hydroclimatic and stable isotopic footprint recorded in the sub-fossil remains of plants and amoebae in peatland sediments. Through comparison with data from an ongoing NERC grant (PRECIP) based in NE North America and involving the same team members, we aim to test for interhemispheric climate linkages. We want to see if climate at the southern end of South America varied in phase, out of phase, or was irregularly related to changes in the mid-latitude North Atlantic region.

MAPVAR (Mapping Regional Variability in Precipitation Stable Isotopes) University of Plymouth PUP fund - £1250

Awarded March 2011

Testing whether regional-scale spatial variations in δP throughout a 6 month growing season 1) reflect trajectory patterns and 2) are preserved in the modern surface mosses growing in that study area.

Quaternary Research Association (QCF) - £325 

Awarded February 2011

Conference funding to cover invited attendance of EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 3rd 2011.

NERC PRECIP Standard research grant - £800,000 - Project partner - April 2010 - March 2013

Investigating the causes of past climate changes in the last 10,000 years in the region around Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Maine. See first papers from the project under "publications" next tab : Amesbury et al (2012) & Pyne O'Donnell et al., (2012).

Quaternary Research Association (QCF) - £4200 

Awarded December 2008

Conference funding to cover invited attendance of UK peatland palaeoclimate consortium at INQUA/PAGES sponsored Peatland Palaeoclimate workshop, Estonia, 17th-19th May 2009.

Roberts Training Fund - £1000

Awarded to TJD, May 2007

Travel grant funding for the forging of US/UK international collaboration on stable isotopic analysis of water isotopes from ice cores and organics with INSTAAR, Boulder, Colorado.

Reports & invited lectures

Newton, T., Gehrels, W.R., Daley, T.J., Long, A.J., Bentley, M.J., (2014) Holocene sea-level changes in the Falkland Islands, EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-PREVIEW, 2014

Roland, T., Hughes, P.D.M., Mauquoy, D., van Bellen S., Daley, T.J., Loader, N.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., (2014) Multi-proxy palaeoclimate reconstructions from peatlands in southern South America, EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-PREVIEW, 2014

Daley, T.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Loader, N.J., Hughes, P.D.M., Charman, D.J., Mauquoy, D., Amesbury, M.J., Mallon, G., (2013) “Providing a challenge for isotope-enabled models: stable isotopic analysis of Sphagnum alpha-cellulose from raised peat bogs” Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP23C-2001.

Daley, T.J., (2013) “To wet or not to wet? Climate-carbon interactions in peatlands” Invited seminar, York, November 2013.

Daley, T.J., (2012) “Hasta del fin del mundo por el amor de la cientia” Invited seminar, CNRS – ECOLAB, Toulouse, France, May 2012.

Daley, T.J., (2012) “Abrupt Climate Change 8200 years ago: how well do models simulate the data?” Invited Keynote, Annual GEOTOP research conference, Montreal, Quebec, January 2012.

Daley, T.J., (2011) “Improved understanding of Holocene climate change using peat bog stable isotopes” EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-12961EGU

Daley, T.J., (2010) Late Holocene Patagonian Palaeoclimate Variability from Raised Peat Bog Sediments, PAGES-LOTRED 2nd International Symposium “Reconstructing Climate Variations in South America and the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 2000 years”, 27th – 30th October 2010, Valdivia, Chile

Street-Perrott, F. A., Daley, T. J., Fraser, R., (2009) Global maps of reconstructed d13C values of terrestrial biomass from 30ka BP to present. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, 072061

Daley, T.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Loader, N.J., Hughes, P.D.M., Barber, K.E., Fisher, E.H., Marshall, J.D., (2008) “Tracking Holocene Climate Change Using Peat Bog Stable Isotopes”, Invited Keynote, 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Abstract EGC06201L

Daley, T.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Fraser, R. (2008) “New Global Maps of δ13C values of terrestrial biomass from 21ka BP to Present, 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Abstract EGC06206L

Daley, T.J., Hughes P.D.M., Street-Perrott, F.A., Loader, N.J., Barber, K.E., (2006) “Evidence for the severity of the 8.2ka cold event from a peat bog in Newfoundland”, NERC RAPID International Science Meeting, Birmingham

Daley, T.J., Hughes P.D.M., Street-Perrott, F.A., Loader, N.J., Barber, K.E., (2005) “Oxygen-Isotopic Variability Across the 8.2 ka Cold Event From an Ombrotrophic Peat bog on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland” Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13A-1482

Other academic activities

PhD theses examined

2013 - Dr Samantha Allcock,
"Living with a changing landscape: Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories, central Turkey"

Links

Twitter: @drtimdaley (https://twitter.com/drtimdaley)