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Publications

Altaweel, M., Mohammed, D.A., Squitieri, A., Paine, A.R., Radner, K., Fleitmann, D. (2025) Early Urbanism in Mesopotamia Coincided with Increased Moisture between 6500 to 5500 Years BP. Quaternary Science Reviews 369: 109614

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Paine, A.R., Frieling, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Lacey, J.H., Mather, T.A., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M. Regulation of lacustrine Hg deposition by terrestrial reservoirs during glacial-interglacial cycles. ESS Open Archive 10.22541/essoar.175035035.54804379/v1
(in review for Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology)

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Wadsworth, F.B., Vasseur, J., Foster, A., Smith, A.P.W., Byatt, N.A., Allgood, C., Loisel, A., Bintang, F., Squirrell, D., Paine, A.R., Bretagne, E., Brown, J., Winstanley, R., Lavallée, Y., Brown, R.J., Kueppers, U. (2025) Projectile motion: experimental datasets and classroom exercises. Physics Education 60: 045024

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Morgan, A.W., Paine, A.R., Haldon, J., Koç, K., Hofmeister, E., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Matter, A., Tüysüz, O., Hajdas, I., Fleitmann, D. (2025) Societal responses to cold-season rainfall variability: a speleothem perspective on Byzantine and Hittite climate interactions in Late Holocene Türkiye and southeast Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews 358: 109365

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Paine, A.R., Frieling, J., Shanahan, T.M., Mather, T.A., McKay, N., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M., Fendley, I.M., Kiely, R., Gosling, W.D. (2025) Evidence for millennia-scale interactions between Hg cycling and hydroclimate from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. Climate of the Past 21: 817–839, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-817-2025

 

Paine, A.R., Wadsworth, F.B. (2025) Large explosive eruptions may be dominated by pyroclastic flows instead of buoyant plumes: insights from a global data compilation. Journal of Applied Volcanology 14: 3 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-025-00151-6 

 

Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Zanchetta, G., Bertini, A., Cavinato, G.P., de Franco, R., Florindo, F., Hodell, D.A., Neubauer, T.A., Nomande, S., Pereira, A., Sadori, L., Satolli, S., Tzedakis, P.C., Albert. P., Boncio, P., De Jonge, C., Francke, A., Heim, C., Masi, A., Marchegiano, M., Roberts, H.M., Noren, A., & MEME team. (2024) International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) workshop on the Fucino paleolake project: the longest continuous terrestrial archive in the MEditerranean recording the last 5 Million years of Earth system history (MEME). Scientific Drilling 33: 249-266 https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-33-249-2024

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Kiely, R.E., Paine, A.R., McMichael, C.H., Gosling, W.D. (2025) Heat, Hydroclimate & Herbivory: A Late-Pleistocene Record of Environmental Change from Tropical Western Africa. Quaternary International 717: 109636 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.109636

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Paine, A.R., Baldini, J.U.L.,  Ünal-İmer, E., Wadsworth, F.B., Iveson, A.A., Humphreys, M.C.S., Brown, R.J., Müller, W., Ottley, C. Abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition recorded in a speleothem from the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews 339: 108841 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108841

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Paine, A.R., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A., Lacey, J.H., Wagner, B., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M., Francke, A., Them, T.R., Panagiotopoulos, K. (2024) Mercury records covering the past 90 kyr from lakes Prespa and Ohrid, SE Europe. Biogeosciences 21(2): 531-556
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/531/2024/ 

 

Baldini, J.U.L., Brown, R.J., Wadsworth, F.B., Paine, A.R., Campbell, J., Green, C., Mawdsley, N., Baldini, L.M. (2023) New Laacher See eruption date potentially compromised by magmatic carbon dioxide. Nature 619: E1-E2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05965-1


Paine, A.R., Wadsworth, F.B., Baldini, J.U.L. (2021) Supereruption doublet at a climate transition. Communications: Earth & Environment 2: 219
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00293-6 


Paine, A.R., Baldini, J.U.L., Wadsworth, F.B., Lechleitner, F.A., Baldini, L.M., Brown, R.J., Müller, W., Hercman, H., GÄ…siorowski, M.,
Stefaniak, K., Socha, P., Sobczyk, A., Kasprzak, M. (2021) The trace-element composition of a Polish stalagmite: Implications for the use of speleothems as a record of explosive volcanism. Chemical Geology
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0: 120157
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120157
 

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In review...​​​

 

Wadsworth, F.B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., Paine, A.R., Marshall, L., Casas, A.S., Suzuki, Y.J., Hick, B., Foster, A., Buckland, H.M., Dingwell, D.B., Anagnostopoulos, I., Delmelle, P., Baldini, J.U.L., Morgan, A., Lavalleé, Y., Hughes, E., Renggli, C. Syn-eruptive high temperature sulfur scrubbing can reduce the climate impacts of volcanic eruptions. Nature Geoscience.

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Paine, A.R., Frieling, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Lacey, J.H., Mather, T.A., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M. Regulation of lacustrine Hg deposition by terrestrial reservoirs during glacial-interglacial cycles. Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology.

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Conference Presentations

2025

Paine, A.R., Held, F., Cheng, H., and Fleitmann, D. (2025) A seasonally resolved late Holocene paleoclimate record from Sofular Cave, Northern Türkiye., EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-11210, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11210.

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2024

Paine, A.R., Frieling, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Lacey, J.H., Mather, T.A., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M. Regulation of lacustrine Hg deposition by terrestrial reservoirs during glacial-interglacial cycles. Swiss Geosciences Meeting 2024, Basel, Switzerland.

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2023

Vasseur, J., Wadsworth, F.B., Paine, A.R., Dingwell, D.B. (2022) Hot volcanic ash filters eruptive SO2 within 100 seconds of transport: Apredictive model with implications for the climate impacts of volcanic eruptions. EGU General Assembly (EGU23-11407) https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11407 

 

Paine, A.R., Gosling, W.D., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A., Shanahan, T.M., McKay, N., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M., Kiely, R. (2023) Does hydroclimate drive mercury fluxes in Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana? To be presented at 2023 INQUA Congress, 14-20 July

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2022

 

Paine, A.R., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A., Lacey, J.H., Pyle, D.M., Robinson, S.A., Wagner, B., Them II, T.R., Panagiotopoulos, K.
(2022) Mercury cycling since 90 ka recorded in lacustrine sediments from SE Europe. [PP55C-0483] presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting

 

Paine, A.R., Vasseur, J., Wadsworth, F.B., Dingwell, D.B. (2022) Hot volcanic ash filters eruptive SO2 within 100 seconds of transport: A
predictive model with implications for the climate impacts of volcanic eruptions [A15H-1329] presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting


Paine, A.R., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A., Lacey, J.H., Pyle, D.M., Robinson, S.A., Wagner, B., Them II, T.R., Panagiotopoulos, K.
(2022) Sniffing out global volcanic fingerprints using mercury in Quaternary sediment records. Presented at the Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) Annual Meeting, 4 July


Paine, A.R., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.A., Lacey, J.H., Pyle, D.M., Robinson, S.A., Wagner, B., Them II, T.R. (2022) Why lacustrine
mercury reconstructions might not be good records of large volcanic eruptions. VMSG Conference Abstracts, 2022. https://vmsg.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2022/01/vVMSG2022_abstract-volume.pdf (p. 81)


Paine, A.R., Wadsworth, F.B., Mather, T.A., Pyle, D.M., Baldini, J.U.L., Pausata, F.S.R., Condron, A., Brown, R.J. (2022) The case for
volcanism as a major driver of Last Glacial millennial-scale climate change. VMSG Conference Abstracts, 2022. https://vmsg.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2022/01/vVMSG2022_abstract-volume.pdf (p. 80)

 

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2021

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Paine, A.R., Baldini, J.U.L., Ünal-İmer, E., Wadsworth, F.B., Brown, R.J., Carolin, S.A., Iveson, A.A., Müller, W., Verniers, T. (2021) Did the 74ka Toba eruption cause aridity in the Eastern Mediterranean over millennia? VMSG Conference Abstracts, 2021.
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/events/2021/VMSG%20ABSTRACT%20BOOK.pdf (p. 18)

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2020

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Paine, A.R., Swindles, G.T. (2020) Identification of Holocene tephra in the Northern Pennines, UK. VMSG Conference Abstracts, 2020.
https://vmsg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Abstract_Volume_Plym2020.pdf (p. 87)

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