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Gill Plunkett is an archaeologist and palaeoecologist with a specific interest in understanding human-environment interactions in the past. As an archaeologist, Gill has worked on Irish prehistoric and Medieval sites, and has several years experience of wetland archaeology survey and recording. Her palaeoecological expertise includes palynology and plant macrofossil analysis (peatland and archaeobotanical), as well as the application of tephrochronology as both a dating and correlation method and a means of examining volcanic impacts on climate and society. While much of her research is based on Irish bogs, her tephra work extends to polar ice cores, the Caspian Sea and lakes and bogs in North America, Kamchatka and southeast Asia.
Current research projects
Co-Investigator on University of Southampton-led and AHRC-funded Waves of Colonisation in the Sea of Moyle project
Co-Investigator on the University of Lund-led and Swedish Research Council-funded VolcVarve project
Teaching
ARP1006 Ancient Humans and Landscapes
ARP1007 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future
ARP2041 Ireland in Prehistory
ARP2051 Palaeoenvironmental Techniques
ARP3086 Human-environment dynamics in the Holocene
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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R1988NBE: Late-Pleistocene to Holocene tephrostratigraphy over continental China
Sun, C. & Plunkett, G.
21/11/2018 → 28/02/2021
Project: Research
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Bucking the trend: Population resilience in a marginal environment
Plunkett, G. & Swindles, G. T., 27 Apr 2022, In: PLOS ONE. 17, 4, 17 p., e0266680.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies-from collection through analysis
Wallace, K. L., Bursik, M. I., Kuehn, S., Kurbatov, A. V., Abbott, P., Bonadonna, C., Cashman, K., Davies, S. M., Jensen, B., Lane, C., Plunkett, G., Smith, V. C., Tomlinson, E., Thordarsson, T. & Walker, J. D., 26 Jul 2022, In: Scientific Data. 9, 447.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Four widespread East Asian tephra marker horizons during early MIS 3: ∼60–50 ka tephrostratigraphy of Huguangyan Maar Lake southern China
Sun, C., Plunkett, G., Wang, L., Mingram, J., Han, J., Chu, G. & Liu, J., 01 Mar 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 279, 10 p., 107389.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: Implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
Plunkett, G., Sigl, M., Schwaiger, H. F., Tomlinson, E. L., Toohey, M., McConnell, J. R., Pilcher, J. R., Hasegawa, T. & Siebe, C., 18 Jan 2022, In: Climate of the Past. 18, 1, p. 45–65Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
Mackay, H., Plunkett, G., Jensen, B., Aubry, T. J., Corona, C., Kim, W. M., Toohey, M., Sigl, M., Stoffel, M., Anchukaitis, K. J., Raible, C., Bolton, M. S., Manning, J. G., Newfield, T. P., Di Cosmo, N., Ludlow, F., Kostick, C., Yang, Z., Coyle McClung, L., Amesbury, M. & 8 others, , 29 Jun 2022, In: Climate of the Past. 18, p. 1475–1508Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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XXI INQUA Congress
Gill Plunkett (Session chair), Siwan Davies (Session chair), Burke Andrea (Session chair), Michael Sigl (Session chair) & Joseph R. McConnell (Session chair)
14 Jul 2023 → 20 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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IQUA Spring Conference
Gill Plunkett (Organiser)
30 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Bridging the commercial sector-academic divide in archaeological research: challenges and solutions
Gill Plunkett (Keynote speaker)
01 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Volcanoes, Climate, and History
Gill Plunkett (Participant)
10 May 2022 → 12 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Ashes to ashes: Applications of tephrochronology in Scandinavia
Gill Plunkett (Examiner)
25 Feb 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Press / Media
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Peat Uncovers a Uniquely Resilient Irish Community
25/05/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Coverage of research on Antrim Uplands (BBC Newsline)
05/05/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Climate and Society: Royal Irish Society podcast series
24/11/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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