Dr Lindsay L. Vare

I am no longer working in PEGG and have moved to Japan.

Publications

• Axford, Y., Andresen, C.S., Andrews, J.T., Belt, S.T., Geirsdóttir, Á., Massé, G., Miller, G.H., Ólafsdóttir, S. and Vare, L.L. Do paleoclimate proxies agree? A test comparing nineteen climate and sea-ice reconstructions from Icelandic marine and lake sediments. Journal of Quaternary Science. (Submitted).
• Belt, S.T., Vare, L.L., Massé, G., Manners, H.R., Price, J.C., MacLachlan, S.E., Andrews, J.T. and Schmidt, S. Striking similarities in temporal changes to seasonal sea ice conditions across the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago over the last 7,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. (Accepted).
• Shimmield, T.M., Vare, L.L. and Cottier, F.R. Lead contamination in relations to the currents in the Northern North Atlantic. (In preparation).
• Vare, L.L., Sawyer, T. and Shimmield, T.M. Determination of mercury in sediments using ICP-MS. (In preparation).
• Vare, L.L., Shimmield, T M. and Black, K D. An investigation of Pb contamination in sediment cores from the Barents Sea, Arctic: Inferences for sources and transport pathways. (In preparation).
• Belt, S.T., Vare, L.L., Massé, G., Manners, H.R., Price, J.C., MacLachlan, S.E., Andrews, J.T. and Schmidt, S. (2010) Striking similarities in temporal changes to seasonal sea ice conditions across the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago over the last 7,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3489-3504. [doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.041].
• Gregory, T.R., Smart, C.W., Hart, M.B., Massé, G., Vare, L.L. and Belt S.T. (2010) Holocene palaeoceanographic changes in Barrow Strait, Canadian Arctic: foraminiferal evidence. Journal of Quaternary Science 25, 903-910. [doi: 10.1002/jqs.1367].
• Vare, L.L., Massé, G. and Belt, S.T. (2010) A biomarker-based reconstruction of sea ice conditions for the Barents Sea in recent centuries. The Holocene 20, 637-643. [doi: 10.1177/0959683609355179].
• Andrews, J.T., Belt, S.T., Olafsdottir, S., Massé, G. and Vare, L.L. (2009) Sea ice and marine climate variability for NW Iceland/Denmark Strait over the last 2000 cal. yr BP. The Holocene 19, 775-784. [doi: 10.1177/0959683609105302].
• Vare, L.L., Massé, G., Gregory, T.R., Smart, C.W. and Belt, S.T. (2009) Sea ice variations in the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1354-1366. [doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.013].
• Belt, S.T., Massé, G., Vare, L.L., Rowland, S.J., Poulin, M., Sicre, M.-A., Sampei, M. and Fortier, L. (2008) Distinctive ¹³C isotopic signature distinguishes a novel sea ice biomarker in Arctic sediments and sediment traps. Marine Chemistry 112, 158-167. [doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2008.09.002].
• Vare, L.L., Shimmield, T.M., Black, K.D. and Shimmield, G.B. (2006) Anthropogenic input of heavy metals to the Kongsfjorden area, Svalbard. Abstract EGU06-A-06079, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2006.
• Vare, L.L. (2006) Who is polluting the Arctic? NERC’s Planet Earth.

Presentations

• 20th Annual Meeting of the British Organic Geochemical Society, Bristol, U.K., 7-8 July 2009. Oral presentation (colleague): "IP₂₅: The Specific Sea Ice Indicator".
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, U.S.A., 15-19 December 2008. Oral presentation (colleague): "High Resolution Reconstructions of Arctic Sea Ice for the Last 2 Millennia".
• Seminar, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K., 13 May 2008. Oral presentation: "A Novel Chemical Fossil of Palaeo Sea Ice: IP₂₅: Background and Applications".
• 23^rd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Torquay, U.K., 9-14 September 2007. Oral presentation: "Novel Highly Branched Isoprenoid Biomarkers as Indicators of Sea-Ice Diatoms: Implications for Histroical Sea-Ice Records and Future Predictions".
• UHI Postgraduate Research Conference. UHI Millennium Institute, Inverness, U.K., April 2006. Oral presentation.
• EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2006. Oral presentation.
• Oban Challenger Conference for Marine Science, Oban, U.K., September 2006. Oral presentation.
• Liverpool Challenger Conference for Marine Science, Liverpool, U.K. September 2005. Poster presentation.
• UHI Postgraduate Research Conference. UHI Millennium Institute, Inverness, U.K., October 2004. Oral presentation.