Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274352
- Office Address
- G22 St Mary's, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Keele University: Environmental Research Unit. Position: Research Assistant Oct-Dec 1990.
Brunel University: Department of Geography & Geology. Position: Temporary Lecturer Feb-July 1991.
Coventry University: Geography Subject Area. Position: Lecturer (1991-1994) Senior Lecturer (1994-2005).
University of Aberdeen: Department of Geography & Environment, School of Geosciences (2005-present) Senior Lecturer in Palaeoecology.
External Memberships
Co-editor, Scottish Geographical Journal http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RSGJ
NERC Peer Review College Member
Membership of External Bodies
Association of Environmental Archaeology
Early Mines Research Group
Historical Metallurgy Society
Irish Quaternary Association
Quaternary Research Association
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
The Prehistoric Society
- Research
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Research Overview
- Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis
- Peat geochemistry and reconstructing palaeo-pollution records from bogs and lakes
- Holocene vegetational history
- Holocene environmental change
Current Research
Recent publications
Langford, H.E. et al. 2013: Palaeoecology of a late MIS7 interglacial deposit from eastern England. Quaternary international http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quatint.2013.05.046
Crew, P. & Mighall, T.M. 2013. The fuel supply and woodland management at a 14th century bloomery in Snowdonia, a multi-disciplinary approach. In Humphris, J. & Rehren, T. (eds) The World of Iron. London: Archetype Publications, 473-482.
Mighall, TM, Chambers, FM, Timberlake, S & O’Brien, WF. 2012. Characterising vegetation changes in former mining and metalworking areas during prehistoric and Roman times. Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 20, 117-130.
Ongoing Research Projects
- Land degradation and environmental change in the Karoo, Eastern Cape, South Africa. See http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/other/karoo.php
- The function and environmental impact of burnt mounds in prehistory.
- The ecology and landscapes of early medieval royal centres.
- Placing early mining and metalworking into its environmental context. See http://www.earlyminesresearchgroup.org.uk/
- Holocene environmental changes in NW Iberia
- Publications
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Identifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona: New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 168-192Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCopper Mining in the Bronze Age at Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, Wales
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 87, pp. 261–291Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReply to discussion on ‘Deglaciation and neotectonics in SE Raasay, Scottish Inner Hebrides’, by Smith et al. 2021 (SJG, 57, 106–116)
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 57, no. 2, sjg2021-014Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2021-014
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Deglaciation and neotectonics in South East Raasay, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 57, no. 2, sjg2021-006Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLong-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes
Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2408-2422Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSettlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in N.E. Scotland
The Holocene, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 897-914Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComment on: “A novel approach to peatlands as archives of total cumulative spatial pollution loads from atmospheric deposition of airborne elements complementary to EMEP data: Priority pollutants (Pb, Cd, Hg)” by Ewa Miszczak, Sebastian Stefaniak, Adam Michczyński, Eiliv Steinnes and Irena Twardowska
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 737, 138699Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesLate Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in central-eastern Brazil: insights from a ~35k cal a BP peat record in the Cerrado biome
Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 664-676Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHuman bones tell the story of atmospheric mercury and lead exposure at the edge of Roman World
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 710, 136319Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHolocene atmospheric dust deposition in NW Spain
The Holocene, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 507-518Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619875193
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