Dr. Michael Burn

Lecturer

michael.burn@uwimona.edu.jm

Website: www.caribbeanenvironments.com

Skype Address: michael-burn

Current Research 

• Environmental change and reconstruction in the Neotropics
• Tropical palaeoclimatology
• Quantitative palaeoecology
• Modern pollen-vegetation relationships

Research Record

Burn, M.J., Mayle, F.E. and Killeen, T.J. (In preparation): Pollen-based differentiation of Amazonian rainforest communities and implications for lowland palaeoecology in tropical South America. To be submitted October 2009.

Whitney, B., Mayle, F.E., Punyasena, S., Fitzpatrick, K., Burn, M.J., Chavez, E., Guillen, R., Pennington, T., Metcalfe, S. and Mann, D. (In preparation): A 45,000-year record of climate change in the heart of tropical South America. To be submitted October 2009.

Whitney, B.S., Mayle, F.E., Pennington, R.T., Burn, M.J., Loader, N.J., Chavez, E. and Guillen, R. (In preparation): The Glacial-Holocene transition in the Bolivian Pantanal: Rapid flooding and vegetation change at 12.2 cal. ka BP.

Mayle, F.E., Burn, M.J., Power, M. and Urrego, D. (2009): Tropical vegetation and ecosystem dynamics in South America during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). In: F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri (Eds.) Past Climate variability in South America and Surrounding regions: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Developments in Palaeoenvironmental Research. Springer, Dordrecht.

Burn, M.J. and Mayle, F.E. (2008): Palynological differentiation between genera of the Moraceae family and implications for Amazonian palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 149, 187-201. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.12.003.

Burn, M.J. and Mayle, F.E. (2007): Palynological characterisation of Amazonian rainforest communities. Quaternary International 167/168, Supplement p54, XVII INQUA Congress 2007, Cairns, Australia. July 28th – August 3rd.

Burn, M.J. (2007): Palynological characterisation of Amazonian rainforest communities in the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. Quaternary Newsletter 113, 59-61.

Burn , M.J. (2007): Differentiation of distinct pollen-types of the Moraceae family: implications for Amazonian palaeoecology. British Ecological Society Tropical Ecology Group (BES-TEG), University of Leeds, March 7 th -8 th.

Burn , M.J. (2005): Palynological characterisation of Amazonian rainforest communities, Northeast Bolivia. QRA 4 th International Postgraduate Symposium, University of Plymouth, August 31 st –September 2 nd.

Wney, B.S., Mayle, F.E., Pennington, R.T., Burn, M.J., Loader, N.J., Chavez, E. and Guillen, R. (In prepat Gl

Courses

• GEOG1201 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• GEOG2202 ATMOSPHERE AND BIOSPHERE
• GGEO3203 CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE TROPICS

Professional Society Memberships

1. Member of the Quaternary Research Association
2. Member of the British Ecological Society  
3. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)