By Professor Chris Turney

Journal articles

Lynch A; Beringer J; Kershaw PA; Marshall AL; Mooney SD; Tapper N; Turney C; Van Der Kaar S, 2007, 'The scope for the palaeorecords to evaluate climate and fire interactions in Australia', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, pp. 215 - 239

Turney CSM; Fifield LK; Palmer JG; Hogg AG, 2007, 'Towards a radiocarbon calibration for oxygen isotope stage 3 using New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis)', , http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/3685

Lynch A; Beringer J; Kershaw PA; Marshall AL; Mooney SD; Tapper N; Turney C; Van Der Kaar S, 2007, 'Using the paleorecord to evaluate climate and fire interactions in Australia', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, pp. 215 - 239

Yeloff D; Mauquoy D; Barber K; Way S; Van Geel B; Turney C, 2007, 'Volcanic ash deposition and long-term vegetation change on subantarctic Marion Island', Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, 39, pp. 500 - 511

Turney C, 2006, 'In one year and out the other', New Scientist, 192, pp. 40 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(06)61456-5

Turney CSM; Kershaw AP; Lynch A, 2006, 'Introduction: Integrating high-resolution past climate records for future prediction in the Australasian region', Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, pp. 679 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1072

Bird M; Ayliffe L; Fifield L; Turney C; Cresswell R; Barrows T; David B, 2006, 'Radiocarbon dating of "old" charcoal using a wet oxidation, stepped-combustion procedure', Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research, 41, pp. 127 - 140, https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/3802

Turney C; Wheeler D; Chivas AR, 2006, 'Carbon isotope fractionation in wood during carbonization', Geochimica et Cosmochimica ACTA, 70, pp. 960 - 964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2005.10.031

Turney C; Kershaw PA; Lowe JJ; Van Der Kaar S; Johnstone R; Rule S; Moss P; Radke L; Tibby J; McGlone M; Wilmshurst JM; Vandergoes M; Fitzsimons SJ; Bryant CJ; James S; Branch NP; Cowley J; Kalin RM; Ogle N; Jacobsen G; Fifield LK, 2006, 'Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20-10 ka BP)', Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, pp. 886 - 903

Hogg AG; Fifield LK; Turney C; Palmer JG; Galbraith R; Baillie MGL, 2006, 'Dating ancient wood by high-sensitivity liquid scintillation counting and accelerator mass spectrometry - Pushing the boundaries', Quaternary Geochronology, 1, pp. 241 - 248

Shulmeister J; Turney C; Fink D; Newnham R; Alloway BV, 2006, 'Developing an event stratigraphy for Australasian climate change', Earth Observing System, 87, pp. 283 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006EO290005

Kershaw P; van der Kaars S; Moss P; Opdyke B; Guichard F; Rule S; Turney C, 2006, 'Environmental change and the arrival of people in the Australian region', Before Farming, 2006, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bfarm.2006.1.2

Palmer J; Lorrey A; Turney CSM; Hogg A; Baillie M; Fifield K; Ogden J, 2006, 'Extension of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) tree-ring chronologies into Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 3', Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, pp. 779 - 787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1075

Turney C; Kershaw PA; James S; Branch NP; Cowley J; Fifield LK; Jacobsen G; Moss P, 2006, 'Geochemical changes recorded in Lynch's Crater, Northeastern Australia, over the past 50 ka', Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 233, pp. 187 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.09.009

Turney C; Baillie MGL; Palmer JG; Brown D, 2006, 'Holocene climatic change and past Irish societal response', Journal of Archaeological Science, 33, pp. 34 - 38

Reimer PJ; Bard E; Buck C; Guilderson TP; Hogg A; Hughen K; Kromer B; Reimer R; Southon J; Turney CSM; Van der Plicht J; Weyhenmeyer CE; Ramsey CB, 2006, 'IntCal and the future of radiocarbon calibration', PAGES news, 14, pp. 9 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.22498/pages.14.3.9

Turney C; Haberle S; Fink D; Kershaw PA; Barbetti M; Barrows T; Black M; Cohen T; Correge T; Hesse P; Huang Q; Johnston R; Morgan V; Moss PA; Nanson GC; Van Ommen T; Rule S; Williams NK; Zhao JX; D Costa D; Feng YX; Gagan M; Mooney SD; Xia Q, 2006, 'Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records for the Australian Last Glacial Maximum and Termination: a contribution from the OZ INTIMATE group', Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, pp. 751 - 761

Turney C; van den Burg K; Wastegard S; Davies SM; Whitehouse NJ; Pilcher JR; Callaghan C, 2006, 'North European Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT; 15-10 ka) tephrochronology: Extended limits and new events', Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, pp. 335 - 345

Head K; Turney CSM; Pilcher JR; Palmer JG; Baillie MGL, 2006, 'Problems with identifying the ‘8200-year cold event’ in terrestrial records of the Atlantic seaboard: a case study from Dooagh, Achill Island, Ireland', Journal of Quaternary Science, 22, pp. 65 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1006

Hogg AG; Turney CSM; Palmer JG; Fifield LK, 2006, 'The potential for extending IntCal04 using OIS-3 New Zealand sub-fossil Kauri', PAGES News, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05214

Hogg AG; Turney CSM; Palmer JG; Fifield LLK; Baillie GI, 2006, 'The potential for extending Intcal04 using OIS-3 New Zealand sub-fossil Kauri', PAGES news, 14, pp. 11 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.22498/pages.14.3.11

Davies S; Hoek W; Bohncke S; Lowe J; O'Donnell S; Turney C, 2005, 'Detection of Lateglacial distal tephra layers in the Netherlands', Boreas, 34, pp. 123 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009480510012944

Turney C, 2005, 'Finding the Hobbit', Planet Earth, pp. 28 - 29

Blockley SP; Pyne-o donnell SDF; Lowe JJ; Matthews IP; Stone A; Pollard AM; Turney C; Molyneux EG, 2005, 'A new and less destructive laboratory procedure for the physical separation of distal glass tephra shards from sediments', Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, pp. 1952 - 1960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.12.008

Davies SM; Hoek WZ; Bohncke SJP; Lowe JJ; Pyne-o donnell SDF; Turney C, 2005, 'Detection of Lateglacial distal tephra layers in The Netherlands', Boreas, 34, pp. 123 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01010.x

Ogle N; Turney C; Kalin RM; O''Donnell L; Butler CJ, 2005, 'Palaeovolcanic forcing of short-term dendroisotopic depletion: The effect of decreased solar intensity on Irish oak', Geophysical Research Letters, 32, pp. L04708-1 - L04708-4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021623

Turney C; Baillie M; Clemens S; Brown D; Palmer J; Pilcher J; Reimer P; Leuschner HH, 2005, 'Testing solar forcing of pervasive Holocene climate cycles', Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, pp. 511 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.927

McGlone MS; Turney CSM; Wilmshurst JM, 2004, 'Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic history of the Cass Basin, central South Island, New Zealand', Quaternary Research, 62, pp. 267 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2004.09.003

Morwood MJ; Soejono RP; Roberts RG; Sutikna T; Turney CSM; Westaway KE; Rink WJ; Zhao JX; Van Den Bergh GD; Due RA; Hobbs DR; Moore MW; Bird MI; Fifield LK, 2004, 'Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia', Nature, 431, pp. 1087 - 1091, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02956

Turney CSM; Kershaw AP; Clemens SC; Branch N; Moss PT; Fifield LK, 2004, 'Millennial and orbital variations of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high-latitude climate in the last glacial period', Nature, 428, pp. 306 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02386

Turney CSM; Lowe JJ; Davies SM; Hall V; Lowe DJ; Wastegård S; Hoek WZ; Alloway B, 2004, 'Tephrochronology of Last Termination sequences in Europe: A protocol for improved analytical precision and robust correlation procedures (a joint SCOTAV-INTIMATE proposal)', Journal of Quaternary Science, 19, pp. 111 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.822

Turney C; Robinson D; Lee M; Soutar A, 2004, 'Bringing the mountain to the student: developing a fully integrated online volcano module', Planet, 12, pp. 12 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2004.00120012

Kershaw P; Turney C, 2004, 'The Day After TOMORROW', Australasian Science, 25, pp. 29 - 31

Turney C; McGlone MS; Wilmshurst JM, 2003, 'Asynchronous climate change between New Zealand and the North Atlantic during the last deglaciation', Geology (Boulder), 31, pp. 223 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2003)​031<0223:ACCBNZ>​2.0.CO;2

Walker MJC; Coope GR; Sheldrick C; Turney CSM; Lowe JJ; Blockley SPE; Harkness DD, 2003, 'Devensian Lateglacial environmental changes in Britain: A multi-proxy environmental record from Llanilid, South Wales, UK', Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, pp. 475 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00247-0

Bird MI; Turney CSM; Fifield LK; Smith MA; Miller GH; Roberts RG; Magee JW, 2003, 'Radiocarbon dating of organic- and carbonate-carbon in Genyornis and Dromaius eggshell using stepped combustion and stepped acidification', Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, pp. 1805 - 1812, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00151-3

Turney C, 2003, 'El Niño and the Southern Oscillation. Multiscale variability and global and regional impacts, H. F. Diaz and V. Markgraf (eds). Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000 (496 pp) ISBN 0‐521‐62138‐0', Journal of Quaternary Science, 18, pp. 467 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.775

, 2003, 'Temporary Empty DOI 118', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_js_rc.41.3802

Turney CSM; Hunt JE; Burrows C, 2002, 'Deriving a consistent δ¹³C signature from tree canopy leaf material for palaeoclimatic reconstruction', New Phytologist, 155, pp. 301 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00453.x

Mackie EAV; Davies SM; Turney CSM; Dobbyn K; Lowe JJ; Hill PG, 2002, 'The use of magnetic separation techniques to detect basaltic microtephra in last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT; 15-10 ka cal. BP) sediment sequences in Scotland', Scottish Journal of Geology, 38, pp. 21 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/sjg38010021

Bird MI; Turney CSM; Fifield LK; Jones R; Ayliffe LK; Palmer A; Cresswell R; Robertson S, 2002, 'Radiocarbon analysis of the early archaeological site of Nauwalabila I, Arnhem Land, Australia: Implications for sample suitability and stratigraphic integrity', Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, pp. 1061 - 1075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00058-0

Davies SM; Branch NP; Lowe JJ; Turney CSM, 2002, 'Towards a European tephrochronological framework for Termination 1 and the Early Holocene', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 360, pp. 767 - 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2001.0964

Turney CSM; Bird MI, 2002, 'Determining the timing and pattern of human colonisation in Australia: Proposals for radiocarbon dating 'early' sequences', Australian Archaeology, 54, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2002.11681734

Jones MD; Leng MJ; Eastwood WJ; Keen DH; Turney CSM, 2002, 'Interpreting stable-isotope records from freshwater snail-shell carbonate: A Holocene case study from Lake Gölhisar, Turkey', Holocene, 12, pp. 629 - 634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683602hl564rr

Turney CSM; Bird MI; Roberts RG, 2001, 'Elemental δ¹³C at Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: Assessing post-depositional disturbance and reconstructing past environments', Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, pp. 779 - 784, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.633

Turney CSM; Kershaw AP; Moss P; Bird MI; Fifield LK; Cresswell RG; Santos GM; Di Tada ML; Hausladen PA; Zhou Y, 2001, 'Redating the onset of burning of Lynch's Crater (North Queensland): Implications for human settlement in Australia', Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, pp. 767 - 771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.643

Turney CSM; Bird MI; Fifield LK; Kershaw AP; Cresswell RG; Santos GM; Di Tada ML; Hausladen PA; Youping Z, 2001, 'Development of a robust ¹⁴C chronology for Lynch's crater (North Queensland, Australia) using different pretreatment strategies', Radiocarbon, 43, pp. 45 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200031611

Turney C; Bird MI; Fifield LK; Roberts RG; Smith M; Dortch CE; Grün R; Lawson E; Ayliffe LK; Miller GH; Dortch J; Cresswell RG, 2001, 'Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago', Quaternary Research, 55, pp. 3 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.2000.2195

Davies SM; Turney CSM; Lowe JJ, 2001, 'Identification and significance of a visible, basalt-rich Vedde Ash layer in a Late-glacial sequence on the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland', Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, pp. 99 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.611

Fifield LK; Bird MI; Turney CM; Hausladen PA; Santos GM; Tada LD, 2001, 'Radiocarbon dating of the human occupation of Australia prior to 40 ka BP; successes and pitfalls', Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research, 43, pp. 1139 - 1145, https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/3945

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