Career

2005 - (present) Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University
1991 - 2005, Department of Geography, Swansea University
1990 - 1991 Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Southampton
1987 - 1990 NERC post-doc, Department of Geology, University of Cardiff

Currently Externally-funded Research Projects

PI - The Millennium Project. MILLENNIUM is an EU-funded palaeoclimate project with the central aim of determining whether the magnitude and rate of 20th Century climate change exceeds the natural variability of European climate over the last millennium.

Selected Publications

Gagen, M., McCarroll, D, Robertson, I., Loader, N.J. and Jalkanen R: In Press.
Do tree ring stable carbon isotope series from Pinus sylvestris in northern Fennoscandia contain long-term non climatic trends? In press, Chemical Geology.

McCarroll, D. Gagen, M.H., Loader, N.J., Robertson, I, Jalkanen, R. Objective correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. In Review, Geochimica et cosmochimica acta

Loader, N.J., McCarroll, D, Gagen, M., Robertson, I and Jalkanen R: 2007, Extracting Climatic Information from Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings. In: Dawson, R E. and Siegwolf, R. T. W. Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change Terrestrial Ecology.

N. J. Loader, D. McCarroll, W.O. van der Knaap, M. Gagen, I. Robertson. Characterising carbon isotopic variability in Sphagnum. The Holocene, Vol. 17, No. 3, 403-410 (2007)

Gagen, M., McCarroll, D, Loader, N.J., Robertson, I., Jalkanen, R. and Anchukaitis, K. 2007: A 350 year summer temperature reconstruction from Finish Lapland using non-detrended stable carbon isotope measurements from tree rings. Submitted to, The Holocene, Vol. 17, No. 4, 435-446.

Gagen M., McCarroll D and Edouard J-L. 2006 Combining tree ring width, density and stable carbon isotope series to enhance the climate signal in tree rings: and example from the French Alps. Climatic change. 10.1007/s10584-006-9097-3

Gagen M, McCarroll D and Edouard J-L. 2004: Latewood width, maximum density  and stable carbon isotope ratios of pine as palaeoclimate indicators in a dry sub-alpine environment in the southern French Alps. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 36, 2, pp166-171

McCarroll, D., Jalkanen, R., Hicks, S., Tuovinen, M., Pawellek, F., Gagen, M., Eckstein, D., Schmitt, U., Autio, J., and Heikkinen, O., 2003: Multi-proxy dendroclimatology: a pilot study in northern Finland. The Holocene, 13, 6, pp829-838