Dr. Jason Kirby

J.R.Kirby

1994 BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Liverpool.
1999 PhD ‘Holocene floodplain vegetation dynamics and sea-level change in the lower Aire Valley, Yorkshire’, Department of Geography, University of Hull.

2002-2004 Environmental Consultant, Atkins Consultants Ltd.
2000-2002 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University Of Plymouth
1999-2000 Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Hull
1994-1995 Research Assistant, Sea-Level Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Durham

Programme Leader for Geosciences

Vice-Chair, Geographical Association, Liverpool & District Branch
Executive Committee Member, Romney Marsh Research Trust

Holocene sea-level changes and coastal evolution.
Recent coastal changes and the role of the North Atlantic Oscillation
Reconstructing Quaternary environments using micropalaeontology (pollen, diatoms and foraminifera).
Vegetation history and palaeoecology. Climate changes and human impact on the environment. Applied research interests include ecohydrology and coastal and river management.

Edwards, K.J., Schofield, J.E. and Kirby, J.R. In press. Problematic but promising ponds: Palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Norse Eastern Settlement of Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Science.

Plater, A.J. and Kirby, J.R. In press. Sea-level variation and coastal response (Sea-level Variation, and Estuarine and Coastal Environments). In Hansom, J. (Ed.) Treatise on Coastal and Estuarine Science. Elsevier.

Kirby, J.R., Clarke, D., Shaw, T.A. and Toole, E. 2010. The Mid-Late Holocene Evolution of Southern Walland Marsh and the Origin of the ‘Midley Sand’. In Waller, M.P., Edwards, E. & Barber, L. (eds), Romney Marsh: Persistence and Change in a Coastal Lowland. Romney Marsh Research Trust, Sevenoaks, 23-51.

Kirby, J.R. & Wilkinson, J.P. 2010. Sea-level change: from satellites to saltmarshes. Teaching Earth Sciences, 35 (2), 41-45. 

Bennett, M., Gonzalez, S., Huddart, D,. Kirby, J.R. and Toole, E. 2010. Probable Neolithic footprints preserved in inter-tidal peat at Kenfig, South Wales (UK). Proceedings of the Geologists Association 121, 66-76.

Pratolongo, P., Kirby, J.R., Plater, A.J., and Brinson, M.M. 2009. Temperate Coastal Wetlands: Morphology, Sediment Processes and Plant Communities. In: Perillo, G.M.E., Wolanski, E., Cahoon, D. and Brinson, M.M. (eds) Coastal Wetlands, An Integrated Ecosystem Approach.  Elsevier.

Kirby, J.R. and Kirby, R. 2008. Medium timescale stability of tidal mudflats in Bridgwater Bay, Bristol Channel, UK. Influence of tides, waves and climate. Continental Shelf Research 28, 2615-2629.

Gehrels, W.R., Szkornik, K., Bartholdy, J. Kirby, J.R., Bradley, S.L. and Heinemeier, J., Pedersen, J.B.T. and Marshall, W.A. 2006. Late Holocene sea-level changes and isostasy in western Denmark. Quaternary Research 66, 288-302.

Gehrels, W.R., Marshall, W.A., Gehrels, M.J., Larsen, G., Kirby, J.R., Eiriksson, J., Heinemeier, J., and Shimmield, T. 2006.Rapid sea-level rise in the North Atlantic Ocean since the first half of the 19th Century. The Holocene 16, 949-965.

Szkornik, K., Kirby, J.R., and Gehrels, W.R. 2006. Salt-marsh diatom distributions in Ho Bugt (western Denmark) and the development of a transfer function for reconstructing Holocene sea-level changes. Marine Geology 235, 137-150.

Plater, A.J. and Kirby, J.R. 2006. The potential for perimarine wetlands as an ecohydrological and phytotechnological management tool in the Guadiana Estuary, Portugal. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 70, 98-108.

Gehrels, W.R., Kirby, J.R., Prokoph, A., Newnham, R.M., Achterberg, E.P., Evans, E.H., Black, S. and Scott, D.B. 2005. Onset of rapid sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 2083-2100.

Gehrels, W.R., Milne, G.A., Kirby, J.R., Patterson, R.T. and Belknap, D.F. 2004. Late Holocene sea-level changes and isostatic crustal movements in Atlantic Canada. Quaternary International, 120, 79-89.