Prof Paul Hughes

Professor of Palaeoecology, Director of Graduate School

Paul Hughes is Professor of Palaeoecology and a member of the Palaeoecology Laboratory, University of Southampton (PLUS). He has worked at Southampton since 1998.

Qualifications

1997 Ph.D. Palaeoecology, University of Southampton
1993 B.Sc. Geography, University of Southampton

Employment

1998 – present Academic, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
1997 – 1998 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Archaeology Unit, York
1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geography, University of Durham

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Contact

Research interests

Holocene palaeoclimates with a special focus on Atlantic Canada and Patagonia
Tephrochronology of North America
Carbon accumulation in peatlands
Palaeoecological change on damaged and intact Atlantic raised bogs and fens

Research projects

Holocene palaeoclimatic change in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and Maine, USA.
Holocene palaeoclimate of Japan
Assessing bog condition using remote sensing techniques
Fire history of early-Holocene Britain
Holocene palaeoclimates of Hokkaido: developing a temporal moisture balance model from raised peat for comparison with equivalent Atlantic records (NERC award)
Deriving high-resolution palaeoclimatic records from raised bogs in Newfoundland (NERC award)

Research group

Landscape Dynamics and Ecology (LDE)

Faculty Representative for the SPITFIRE Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

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Articles

Book Chapters

Grant, M. J., Barber, K. E., & Hughes, P. D. M. (2009). Early to mid-Holocene vegetation-fire interactions and responses to climatic change at Cranes Moor, New Forest. In R. M. Briant, M. R. Bates, R. T. Hosfield, & F. F. Wenban-Smith (Eds.), The Quaternary of the Solent Basin and West Sussex Raised Beaches: Field Guide (pp. 198-214). Quaternary Research Association.
Grant, M. J., Barber, K. E., & Hughes, P. D. M. (2009). True ancient woodland? – 10,000 years of continuous woodland cover at Mark Ash Wood, New Forest. In R. M. Briant, M. R. Bates, R. T. Hosfield, & F. F. Wenban-Smith (Eds.), The Quaternary of the Solent Basin and West Sussex Raised Beaches: Field Guide (pp. 215-229). Quaternary Research Association.
Hughes (contributor), P. D. M. (2004). Chapter 6: Phase 4. In R. Heawood, C. Howard-Davis, D. Drury, & M. Krupa (Eds.), Old Abbey Farm, Risley: Building Survey and Excavation at a Medieval Moated Site (pp. 55-61). Lancaster Imprints.
Hughes, P. D. M., Morriss, S. H., Schulz, J., & Barber, K. E. (2001). Mire development and human impact in the Teifi Valley: Evidence from the Tregaron (Cors Caron) peatlands. In M. J. C. Walker, & D. McCarroll (Eds.), The Quaternary of West Wales: Field Guide (pp. 76-92). Quaternary Research Association.

Conferences

Reports

Sturt, F., Standen, T., Grant, M., Dix, J., Marshall, P., Cameron, N., & Hughes, P. (2016). 6918 Determining potential: onshore/offshore prehistory. University of Southampton.
Hughes, P. D. M., & Grant, M. J. (2006). Radiocarbon dating of the fen deposits at Cors Wern Goch, Coedydd Aber NNR, North Wales. (Reports from PLUS; No. 2006/01). PLUS.
Hughes, P. D. M., & Grant, M. J. (2005). A stratigraphic and palynological investigation of the fen deposits at Cors Wern Goch, Coedydd Aber NNR, North Wales. (Reports from PLUS; No. 2005/01). PLUS.
Hughes, P. D. M. (2005). Palaeoecological investigations of changes in the composition of ombrogenous raised mire and fen vegetation at Rhos Goch National Nature Reserve, Mid Wales. (CCW Contract Science; No. 712). CCW.
Hughes, P. D. M. (2003). A plant microfossil investigation of the M9 fen communities at Cors Goch and Mynydd y Garn, Anglesey. (Reports from PLUS; No. 2003/02). PLUS.
Hughes, P. D. M. (2002). Coring and assessment of the lagg fen at Cors Caron NNR, Ceredigion, Wales. (Reports from PLUS; No. 2002/01). PLUS.
Hughes, P. D. M. (2001). Deducing Changes in Surface and Sub-Surface Contours from Peat Stratigraphy and Levelling at Wedholme Flow, Cumbria. (Reports from PLUS; No. 2001/02). PLUS.

Prof Paul Hughes
University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ

Email: paul.hughes@soton.ac.uk
Telephone extension = 22489

Room Number : 44/2032

Facsimile: (023) 8059 3295

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