Research Centres
Publications
Full list of staff publications via Google Scholar.
- Dr Padmasini Behera
- Dr Juan Carlos Berrio
- Dr Arnoud Boom
- Dr Andrew Carr
- Professor Sarah Gabbott
- Dr Tom Harvey
- Dr Andrew McIntyre
- Professor Mark Purnell
- Dr David Unwin
- Dr Tim van Peer
- Professor Mark Williams
- Professor Jens Zinke
Books and articles
- The Anthropocene as a geological time unit
- The Cosmic Oasis
- Journalist Christian Schwaegerl published an article in the popular magazine Yale E360 about the current voting process of the Anthropocene working group and associated research around defining a new geological Epoch. Read the Anthropocene site competition golden spike article.
Blogs
- World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast (The Conversation, 2023)
- Drawing in the sand at the beach? Our ancestors did the same 140,000 years ago (The Conversation, 2023)
- How chickens became the ultimate symbol of the Anthropocene (The Conversation, 2018)
Media
- Exploring the great serendipity of prehistoric tracks where Leicester gets a mention (2023)
- Tracks show where extinct giant zebra once roamed (2023)
- Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes (2023)
- Our environment over a billion years: travel through time into Leicester’s deep past (2023)
- Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change (2022)
- Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts (2022)
- The Cosmic Oasis: Leicester environment experts explore Earth’s biosphere in new popular science book (2022)
- Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene (2022)
- Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form (2022)
- Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition (2021)
- Analysis of coral reveals long-term climate impact in Southeast Asia (2020)
- Taking the pulse of the tropical oceans through the coral’s lens
- University of Leicester research receives international recognition - The Secret History of our Evolution (2019)
- Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene (2019)
- The curse of zombie fossils (2018)
- Study into infested fossil worms shows ancient examples of symbiosis (2017)
- Leicester geologists publish new book on exquisitely preserved fossil animals from 500 million years ago (2017)
- Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see (2016)
Professor Mark Williams appointed as the Palaeontological Association Exceptional Lecturer for 2022/23.
Anthropocene in various media
- January 2023: ARTE TV interview with M. Williams, for the Anthropocene documentary to air in 2024, also featuring J. Zinke, J. Zalaziewics, C. Waters, S. Himson
- January 2023: Canadian National Radio TV interview with M. Williams and J. Zinke on Anthropocene research
- The public Japan Broadcasting Corporation is working on a quite ambitious documentary series about the Anthropocene and will feature several researchers from the Centre. Currently, the material is being collected.
Anthropocene Working Group media and outreach events at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (Germany) May 2022: