Dr Alice R Paine
I am an Earth Scientist whose mission is to develop an interdisciplinary perspective of climate change on Earth; one that unifies and integrates diverse concepts from paleoclimatology, volcanology, oceanography, and geochemistry (among other disciplines) to better understand the causes of past shifts in the Earth’s climate, how we can use natural archives to understand why these rapid shifts occurred, and how they may be linked to the impact(s) of large, explosive volcanic eruptions.
Selected Publications
Paine, A.R., Wadsworth, F.B. (2025) Large explosive eruptions may be dominated by pyroclastic flows instead of buoyant plumes: insights from a global data compilation. Journal of Applied Volcanology 14: 3 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-025-00151-6
Paine, A.R., Baldini, J.U.L., Ünal-Ä°mer, E., Wadsworth, F.B., Iveson, A.A., Humphreys, M.C.S., Brown, R.J., Müller, W., Ottley, C. Abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition recorded in a speleothem from the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews 339: 108841 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108841
Paine, A.R., Fendley, I.M., Frieling, J., Mather, T.M., LAcey, J.H., Wagner, B., Robinson, S.A., Pyle, D.M., Francke, A., Them II, T.R., Panagiotopoulos, K. (2024) Mercury records covering the past 90 000 years from lakes Prespa and Ohrid, SE Europe. Biogeosciences 21: 531-556 https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/531/2024/
Paine, A.R., Wadsworth, F.B., Baldini, J.U.L. (2021) Super-eruption doublet at a climate transition. Communications Earth & Environment 2: 219