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Dr Emma Hocking

Associate Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

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Emma Hocking

My research focuses on reconstructing relative sea level and environmental change on Holocene timescales. I work in a variety of environments, including tidal marshes, isolation basins, lakes, peatlands, and use a combination of sedimentology, microfossil (diatom) and geochronological methods for reconstructing past environments. Currently I am working on a range of research projects across the world, tied together by the methodological approach of using diatom analysis. These include reconstruction of great earthquake and tsunami history in south-central Chile, reconstructing lake mixing regimes in Finland, and reconstructing past human impacts on neotropical landscapes including the Brazilian savannah and Amazonia. 

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Microfossil and geochemical evidence for the Storegga tsunami at Budle Bay, Northumberland, Pickering, L., Summers, G., Hocking, E., Garrett, E., Simms, A. 12 Aug 2024, In: Sedimentologika
  • Temperate to tropical palaeoclimates on the northwest margin of Europe during the middle Cenozoic, McCoy, J., Gibson, M., Hocking, E., O'Keefe, J., Riding, J., Roberts, R., Campbell, S., Abbott, G., Pound, M. 26 Aug 2024, In: Palaeontologia Electronica
  • Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Pirabas Formation (Neogene, Pará State-Brazil), Gomes, B., Aguilera, O., da Silva-Caminha, S., D'Apolito, C., Cárdenas, D., Hocking, E., Lemes, K. 1 Apr 2023, In: Marine Micropaleontology
  • Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula, Heredia Barión, P., Roberts, S., Spiegel, C., Binnie, S., Wacker, L., Davies, J., Gabriel, I., Jones, V., Blockley, S., Pearson, E., Foster, L., Davies, S., Roland, T., Hocking, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., Hayward, C., McCulloch, R., Strelin, J., Kuhn, G. 1 Jun 2023, In: The Holocene
  • Honduran Reef Island Shoreline Change and Planform Evolution over the Last 15 Years: Implications for Reef Island Monitoring and Futures, Husband, E., East, H., Hocking, E., Guest, J. 30 Sep 2023, In: Remote Sensing
  • The impact of Holocene deglaciation and glacial dynamics on the landscapes and geomorphology of Potter Peninsula, King George Island (Isla 25 Mayo), NW Antarctic Peninsula, Heredia Barión, P., Strelin, J., Roberts, S., Spiegel, C., Wacker, L., Niedermann, S., Bentley, M., Pearson, E., Czalbowski, N., Davies, S., Schnetger, B., Grosjean, M., Arcusa, S., Perren, B., Hocking, E., Kuhn, G. 4 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Earth Science
  • The late Holocene introduction of Juglans regia (walnut) to Cyprus, Pound, M., Hazell, C., Hocking, E. 1 Mar 2023, In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Author Correction: Past penguin colony responses to explosive volcanism on the Antarctic Peninsula, Roberts, S., Monien, P., Foster, L., Loftfield, J., Hocking, E., Schnetger, B., Pearson, E., Juggins, S., Fretwell, P., Ireland, L., Ochyra, R., Haworth, A., Allen, C., Moreton, S., Davies, S., Brumsack, H., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D. Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications
  • High-resolution Bronze Age palaeoenvironmental change in the eastern Mediterranean: exploring the links between climate and societies., Hazell, C., Pound, M., Hocking, E. 2 Oct 2022, In: Palynology
  • Middle Miocene (Serravallian) wetland development on the northwest edge of Europe based on palynological analysis of the uppermost Brassington Formation of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, McCoy, J., Barrass-Barker, T., Hocking, E., O'Keefe, J., Riding, J., Pound, M. 1 Oct 2022, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

  • Leeza Pickering Reconstructing and modelling lake mixing regimes in southern Finland and quantifying their future impact in the global carbon cycle. Start Date: 01/10/2021
  • Sefa Sahin Reconstructing Historical Earthquakes and Sea-Level Change in South-Central Chile from Tidal Marshes and Uplifted Beaches Start Date: 22/01/2017 End Date: 28/07/2023

  • Geography PhD June 30 2010
  • Geography Studies (Science) MSc August 31 2006
  • Geography BSc (Hons) June 30 2005
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA


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