Career

Visiting Scholar, Department of Geology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (1974-1976)

Attachée de Recherche, Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,  Bellevue, France (1976)

Departmental Demonstrator, School of Geography, Oxford (1976-1980)

CUF Lecturer in Geography, University of Oxford (1980-1994)

Fellow of St Hilda's College,  Oxford (1980-1994)

Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Climatic Research and Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1984-1985)

Programme Leader in Palaeoclimatology, Environmental Change Unit, University of Oxford (1992-4)

Research Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University(1995- )

Supernumerary Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford (1995- )

 

Membership of Commissions and Learned Societies

Past President, Palaeoclimate Commission, International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)

Past Member, International Commission on Climate, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP)

Past Member, INQUA Intercongress Committee for the Quaternary of Africa

Past Member, Quaternary Research Subcommittee, British National Committee for Geology

Past Member, Royal Geographical Society Expeditions Committee

Past Member, Expert Panel on the Quaternary, N.E.R.C.

Past Member, Executive Committee of COHMAP (Climates of the Holocene Mapping Project)

Past Member, Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group 1, Discussion Groups on 'Paleo-Analog Forecasting' and 'Oceans and Climate'

Past Member, U.K. InterAgency Committee on Global Environmental Change, Working Group on 'Past Environmental Change'

U.K. National Representative, Australia-New Zealand-U.K. Tripartite Programme on Climate Change (1990)

Member, Science Management Audit, N.E.R.C. Radiocarbon Laboratory  (1991)

Past Member, INQUA Working Group on Global Change

Past Member, Northern Hemisphere Steering Committee, International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL)

Past Member, International Steering Committee, PMIP (Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison Project)

Past Member, Environmental Research Committee, Royal Society

Past Member, Executive Committee and Meetings Sub-Committee, Quaternary Research Association

Past Member, U.S. National Geophysical Data Centre, Lake-Level Data Cooperative Advisory Panel

Past Member, N.E.R.C. Quaternary Dating Review Group

Past Member, Editorial Boards, Journal of Paleolimnology,  Palaeoclimates: Data and Modelling, Quaternary Research, The Holocene, Journal of Quaternary Science.

Member, Editorial Board, Palaeoecology of Africa.

Fellow, Royal Geographical Society / IBG

Chartered Geographer (by invitation), Royal Geographical Society /IBG

 

Recent publications

Grove, A.T., Street, F.A. and Goudie, A.S.  1975.  Former lake levels and climatic change in the Rift Valley of Southern Ethiopia.  Geographical Journal 141, 175-194

Street-Perrott, F.A.  1992. Atmospheric methane - tropical wetland sources.  Nature 355, 23-24 (News and Views).

(with Holmes, J A and Hales, P E). 1992. Trace-element chemistry of non-marine ostracods as a means of palaeolimnological reconstruction : An example from the Quaternary of Kashmir, northern India. Proceedings, Conference on 'Plasma Spectrometry in the Earth Sciences,' Kingston, July 1989.  Chemical Geology 95, 177-186.

O'Hara, S.P., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Burt, T.P. 1993. Prehispanic soil erosion around Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico. Nature 362, 48-51.

O'Hara, S.L., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Burt, T.P. 1993. Climate change and soil erosion.  Reply to comments by Professor C. Vita-Finzi. Nature 364, 197.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Hales, P.E., Perrott, R.A., Fontes, J-Ch. and Pearson, A.. 1993. Limnology and palaeolimnology of a tropical karstic lake: Wallywash Great Pond, Jamaica Journal of Paleolimnology 9, 3-22.

Roberts, N. and Street-Perrott, F.A. 1993. Past climates and future greenhouse warming.  In The Changing Global Environment (Roberts, N., Ed.), pp. 47-68 .  Blackwell, Oxford.

Wright, H.E. Jr., Kutzbach, J.E., Webb, T. III, Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Bartlein, P.J., Eds. 1993. Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum, 569pp. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

Street-Perrott, F.A. and Perrott, R.A. 1993. Ch. 13. Holocene vegetation, lake levels and climate of Africa. In Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (Wright, H.E. Jr, Kutzbach, J.E. Webb, T. III, Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Bartlein, P.J., Eds), 318-356.  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

Webb, T.III, Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A., Markgraf, V., Kutzbach, J.E., Bartlein, P.J., Wright, H.E. Jr and Prell, W.L.) 1993. Ch 19. Climatic changes during the past 18,000 years: Regional syntheses, mechanisms and causes. In Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (Wright, H.E. Jr, Kutzbach, J.E. Webb, T. III, Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Bartlein, P.J., Eds), 514-535. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

Kutzbach, J.E., Bartlein, P.J., Prentice, I.C., Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A., Webb, T.III and Wright, H.E. Jr. 1993. Ch. 20. Epilogue. In Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (Wright, H.E. Jr, Kutzbach, J.E. Webb, T. III, Ruddiman, W.F., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Bartlein, P.J., Eds), 536-542. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

Street-Perrott, F.A. 1993. Ancient tropical methane.  Nature  366, 411-412 (News and Views).

Street-Perrott, F.A. 1994. Palaeoperspectives - changes in terrestrial ecosystems.  Ambio (Special International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme issue) 23, 37-43.

Paul, C.R.O., Hales, P.E. and Perrott, R.A. 1994. The freshwater mollusca of Jamaica In Donovan, S.K., Robinson, W., Saunders, T. and Wright, R.M. eds. The Biostratigraphy of Jamaica.  Geological Society of America Memoir 182, 363-369.

Metcalfe, S.E., Street-Perrott, F.A., O'Hara, S.L., Hales, P.E. and Perrott, R.A. 1994. The palaeolimnological record of environmental change: examples from the arid frontier of Mesoamerica In Effects of Environmental Change in Drylands: Biogeographical and Geomorphological Perspectives (Millington, A.C. and Pye, K., Eds), 131-145. Wiley, Chichester.

Mason, I.M., Guzkowska, M.A.J., Rapley, C.G. and Street-Perrott, F.A. 1994. The response of lake levels and areas to climatic change Climatic Change 27, 161-197.

Street-Perrott, F.A. 1994. Climate change:  drowned trees record dry spells. Nature  369, 518 (News and Views).

(with O'Hara, S.L. and Metcalfe, S.E.). 1994. On the arid margin: the relationship between climate, humans and the environment.  A review of evidence from the highlands of central Mexico. Chemosphere 29, 965-981.

(with Liao X-H. and Mitchell, J.F.B.). 1994. GCM experiments with different cloud parameterization: comparisons with palaeoclimatic reconstructions for 6000 years B.P. Palaeoclimates - Data and Modelling 1, 99-123.

Holmes, J.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Ivanovich, M. and Perrott, R.A. 1995. A late Quaternary palaeolimnological record from Jamaica based on trace-element chemistry of ostracod shells. Chemical Geology 124, 143-160.

Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A. and Eglinton, G. 1995. Molecular and carbon isotopic stratigraphy of a glacial/interglacial sediment sequence from a tropical freshwater lake: Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya. In Organic Geochemistry: Developments and Applications to Energy, Climate, Environment and Human History (Grimalt, J.O. and Dorronsoro, C. Eds.),  826-829.  Pergamon, Oxford.

Holmes, J.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Heaton, T.H.E., Darbyshire, D.P.F., Davies, N.C. and Hales, P.E. 1995. Chemical and isotopic composition of karstic lakes in Jamaica, West Indies Hydrobiologia 312, 121-138.

Street-Perrott, F.A. (Imprint 1995, appeared 1996). Natural variability of tropical climates on 10 - 100 year time scales: limnological and paleolimnological evidence.  In Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales (National Research Council (Martinson, D.G. et al., eds.)), 506-511. National Academy Press, Washington DC.

Holmes, J.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Allen, M.J., Fothergill, P.A.., Harkness, D.D., Kroon, D. and Perrott, R.A. 1997. Holocene palaeolimnology of Kajemarum Oasis, Northern Nigeria: an isotopic study of ostracodes, bulk carbonate and organic carbon.  Journal of the Geological Society of London 154, 311-319.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Huang, Y., Perrott, R.A., Eglinton, G., Barker, P., Ben Khelifa, L., Harkness, D.A. and Olago, D.D. 1997.  Impact of lower atmospheric CO2 on tropical mountain ecosystems.  Science 278, 1422-1426.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Huang, Y., Perrott, R.A. and Eglinton, G. 1998. Carbon isotopes in lake sediments and peats of last glacial age: implications for the global carbon cycle. In Stable Isotopes: Integration of Biological, Ecological and Geochemical Processes (Griffiths, H. Ed.), 381-396.  BIOS Scientific Publishers, Oxford.

Holmes, J.A., Fothergill, P.A., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Perrott, R.A.  1998.  A high-resolution Holocene ostracod record from the Sahel zone of Northeastern Nigeria. Journal of Paleolimnology 20, 369-380.

Ficken, K.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Swain, D. and Eglinton, G. 1998.  Glacial/interglacial variations in carbon cycling revealed by molecular and isotopic stratigraphy of Lake Nkunga, Mt. Kenya. Organic Geochemistry 29, 1701-1719.

Holmes, J.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Stokes, S., Waller, M.P., Huang, Y., Eglinton, G. and Ivanovich, M.  1999.  Holocene landscape evolution of the Manga Grasslands, NE Nigeria: Evidence from palaeolimnology and dune chronology. Journal of the Geological Society of London 156, 357-368.

Holmes, J.A., Allen, M.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Barber, N.G.H., Ivanovich, M., Perrott, R.A. and Waller, M.P.  1999.  Late Holocene palaeolimnology of Bal Lake, Northern Nigeria, a multidisciplinary study.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 148, 169-185.

Huang, Y., Freeman, K.H., Eglinton, T.I. and Street-Perrott, F.A. 1999.  d13C analyses of individual lignin phenols in Quaternary lake sediments: A novel proxy for deciphering past terrestrial vegetation changes. Geology 27, 471-474.

Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Metzger, P. and Eglinton, G.  1999. Glacial - interglacial environmental changes inferred from molecular and compound-specific d13C analyses of sediments from Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63, 1383-1404.

Olago, D.O., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Ivanovich, M. and Harkness, D.D. 1999.  Late Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycle of climatic and environmental change on Mt. Kenya, Kenya. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29, 593-618.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Holmes, J.A., Allen, M.J., Barber, N.G.H., Fothergill, P.A., Harkness, D.D., Ivanovich, M., Kroon, D., Perrott, R.A. and Waller, M.P. 2000.  Drought and dust deposition in the West African Sahel: a 5500-year record from Kajemarum Oasis, Northeastern Nigeria.  The Holocene 10, 293-302.

Olago, D.O., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Ivanovich, M. and Harkness, D.D. 2000.  Late Quaternary primary tephras in Sacred Lake sediments, northeast Mount Kenya, Kenya.  Journal of African Earth Sciences 30, 957-969.

Barker, P., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A. and Ficken, K. 2000. Diatom productivity from a high altitude tropical lake on Mt. Kenya: preliminary results from Lake Rutundu. Proceedings, Societas Internationalis Limnologiae Conference, Dublin.  Mitt. Int. Ver. Limnol. 27, 1003-1007.

Olago, D.O., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Ivanovich, M., Harkness, D.D. and Odada, E.O.  2000.  Long-term temporal characteristics of palaeomonsoon dynamics in equatorial Africa. Global and Planetary Change  26, 159-171.

Wooller, M.J., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Agnew, A.D.Q.  2000.  Late Quaternary fires and grassland palaeoecology of Mt. Kenya, East Africa: evidence from charred grass cuticles in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 164, 207-230.

Barker, P.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Leng, M.J., Greenwood, P.B., Swain, D.L., Perrott, R.A., Telford, R.J. and Ficken, K.J. 2001.  A 14 ka oxygen-isotope record from diatom silica in two alpine lakes on Mt. Kenya.  Science 292, 2307-2310.

Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, F.A., Metcalfe, S.E., Brenner, M., Moreland, M. and Freeman, K.H.  2001.  Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance.  Science 293, 1647-1651.

Barker, P.A., Perrott, R.A., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Huang, Y. 2001.  Evolution of the carbon cycle in Lake Kimilili, Mt. Elgon, Kenya, since 14,000 yr BP: a multiproxy study. Palaeoecology of Africa 27, 77-94.

Wooller, M.J., Swain, D.L., Mathai, S., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Agnew, A.D.Q. 2001.  An altitudinal and stable carbon isotope survey of C3 and C4 graminoids on Mount Kenya.  East African Journal of Natural History 90, 69-85.

Ficken, K.J., Wooller, M.J., Swain, D.L., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Eglinton, G.  2002. Reconstruction of a subalpine grass dominated ecosystem, Lake Rutundu, Mount Kenya: a novel multiproxy approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology  177, 137-149.

Griffiths, S.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Holmes, J.A., Leng, M.J. and Tzedakis, C. 2002. Chemical and isotopic composition of modern water bodies in the Lake Kopais Basin, central Greece: analogues for the interpretation of the lacustrine sedimentary sequence.  Sedimentary Geology  148, 79-103.

Wooller, M.J., Swain, D.L., Ficken, K.J., Agnew, A.D.Q., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Eglinton, G.  2003.  Late Quaternary vegetation changes around Lake Rutundu, Mount Kenya, East Africa: Evidence from grass cuticles, pollen and stable isotopes.  Journal of Quaternary Science 18, 3-15.

Olago, D.O., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A. and Odada, E.O.  2003.  Late Holocene sedimentology and palaeoenvironment of Kiluli Swamp, Mount Kenya.  African Journal of Science and Technology  4, 12-23.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Ficken, K.J., Huang, Y., and Eglinton, G. 2004.  Late Quaternary changes in carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: an overview of the d13C record in lacustrine organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews (Isotopes in Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction (ISOPAL) Special Issue)  23, 861-879.

Smith, A.B., Street-Perrott, F.A.  2004.  Survey effort and sighting probabilities for non-native cats in Carmarthenshire.  Swansea Geographer  39, 51-58.

Barker, P., Talbot, M.R., Street-Perrott, F.A., Marret, F., Scourse, J. and Odada, E. 2004.  Late Quaternary climatic variability in intertropical Africa. In Past Climatic Variability through Europe and Africa (Battarbee, R.W. et al., Eds), 117-138.  Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Street-Perrott, F. A., Hooper T. and and Smith A.B.  2006.  Exotic cats in Britain: an historical perspective.  In Proceedings of the Eastern Cougar Conference 2004 (Tischendorf, J, McGinnis, H and Ropski, S J, Eds.), The Eastern Cougar Foundation and the American Ecological Research Institute, North Spring, West Virginia, 9-19.

Smith, A.B., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Hooper, T.  2006.   A method for grading sightings of non-native cats: application to South and West Wales.  In Proceedings of the Eastern Cougar Conference 2004 (Tischendorf, J., McGinnis, H. and Ropski, S.J., Eds.), The Eastern Cougar Foundation and the American Ecological Research Institute, North Spring, West Virginia, 102-121.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Barker, P.A., Swain, D.L., Ficken, K.J., Wooller, M.J., Olago, D.O., Huang, Y. 2007. Late Quaternary changes in ecosystems and carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: a landscape-ecological perspective based on multi-proxy lake-sediment influxes. Quaternary Science Reviews  26, 1838-1860.

Waller, M.P., Street-Perrott, F.A. and Wang, H.  2007.  Holocene vegetational history of the Sahel: pollen, sedimentological and geochemical data from Jikariya Lake, north-eastern Nigeria.  Journal of Biogeography  34, 1575-1590.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Barker, P.A. In press.  Biogenic silica, a neglected component of the coupled global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon: potential for investigation using Quaternary lake-sediment records. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (BGRG Special Issue).

Wang, H., Holmes, J.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Waller, M.P., Perrott, R.A. In press.  Holocene environmental change in the West African Sahel: sedimentological and mineral-magnetic analyses of lake sediments from Jikariya Lake, Northeastern Nigeria. Journal of Quaternary Science.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Barker, P.A. In press. Towards an understanding of Late Quaternary variations in the continental biogeochemical cycle of silicon: multi-isotope and sediment-flux data for Lake Rutundu, Mt. Kenya, East Africa, since 38 ka BP. Journal of Quaternary Science (IBiS Special Issue).

Leng, M.J., Street-Perrott, F.A., Barker, P.A.  In press.  Preface: Isotopes in biogenic silica (IBiS). Journal of Quaternary Science (IBiS Special Issue).