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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Mitchell, Fraser John Gray | |
| Main Department | Botany | |
| College Title | Professor | |
| fraser.mitchell@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1811 | |
| Web | http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/Staff/FMitchell.html | |
| Biography | |
| 2008: Associate Professor of Quaternary Ecology, Trinity College Dublin 2000: Promoted to Senior Lecturer in Quaternary Ecology in the Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin. 1990: Appointed as a College Lecturer in Quaternary Ecology in the Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin. 1985-1990: Postdoctoral Research: Higher Scientific Officer in the Grazing Research Division of The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Edinburgh. 1982-1985: Postgraduate research in the Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin. 1982: BSc (hons) first class University College Galway. | |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Charles Bullard Fellow at Harvard University | 2000 |
| Fellow Trinity College Dublin (F.T.C.D) | 2001 |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Dr Fraser Mitchell joined the Botany department in 1990. He is a member of both the Palaeoecology and Woodland Ecology research groups. His primary research activity is the investigation of long-term vegetation change. This encompasses palaeoecological research (primarily pollen analysis) to reconstruct the change coupled with research into contemporary ecosystems to gain a greater understanding of the mechanisms of vegetation change. Climate change and large herbivore grazing in woodland are actively researched in this respect. He currently collaborates on research projects with Drs. Daniel Kelly, Paul Dowding and Trevor Hodkinson within the Botany Department and with researchers in UCC, Coillte and Teagasc. In 2000 Dr Mitchell was a Charles Bullard Fellow at Harvard University where he investigated the impact of disturbance regimes on the stand dynamics of the Pisgah Old Growth Forest in New Hampshire. |
| Research Interests | |||
| BIODIVERSITY | Biodiversity and Conservation | ECOLOGY | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT |
| Ecology | FOREST ECOSYSTEMS | FOREST HISTORY | FOREST SUCCESSION |
| PALAEOCLIMATE | PALEOECOLOGY | PALEOGEOGRAPHY | PALEOHYDROLOGY |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | WOODUSE |
| Summary | Quantifying woodland resource usage in the Irish midlands using archaeological and palaeoecological techniques |
| Funding Agency | NRA (National Roads Authority) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2008 |
| Date to | 2011 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | PLANFORBIO |
| Summary | Planning and Management Tools for Biodiversity in a Range of Irish Forests www.ucc.ie/en/planforbio/ |
| Funding Agency | COFORD (National Council for Forest Research and Development) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2007 |
| Date to | 2012 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Irish Pine Project |
| Summary | Modern and palaeoecology of Pinus sylvestris in Ireland |
| Funding Agency | IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2005 |
| Date to | 2009 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | ACCROTELM |
| Summary | project will generate continuous records of proxy-climate data from mire sites in transects across Europe, and compare with complementary data on lake-level changes, to focus on episodes of past abrupt climate change. The project will generate a pan-European perspective on climate changes of the past 4500 years, and through study of mire carbon-balance an asssessment of the 'Global Warming Potential' over that period. The benefits include a much clearer perspective on the magnitude, rate, frequency, causes and effects of past climate change in Europe. http://www2.glos.ac.uk/accrotelm/ |
| Funding Agency | EU |
| Programme | 5 |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2003 |
| Date to | 2006 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | BIOFOREST |
| Summary | Biodiversity of Irish plantation forests http://bioforest.ucc.ie/ |
| Funding Agency | EPA and COFORD |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2000 |
| Date to | 2006 |
| Person Months | |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Charman, D. J., Beilman, D. W., Blaauw, M., Booth, R. K., Brewer, S., Chambers, F. M., Christen, J. A., Gallego-Sala, A., Harrison, S. P., Hughes, P. D. M., Jackson, S. T., Korhola, A., Mauquoy, D., Mitchell, F. J. G., Prentice, I. C., van der Linden, M., De Vleeschouwer, F., Yu, Z. C., Alm, J., Bauer, I. E., Corish, Y. M. C., Garneau, M., Hohl, V., Huang, Y., Karofeld, E., Le Roux, G., Loisel, J., Moschen, R., Nichols, J. E., Nieminen, T. M., MacDonald, G. M., Phadtare, N. R., Rausch, N., Sillasoo, Ü., Swindles, G. T., Tuittila, E. S., Ukonmaanaho, L., Väliranta, M., van Bellen, S., van Geel, B., Vitt, D. H. & Zhao, Y. , Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium, Biogeosciences , 10, 2013, p929 - 944 | |
| Mitchell, F.J.G., Exploring vegetation in the fourth dimension, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26, 2011, p45 - 52 | |
| Haslett, J., Salter-Townshend M., Wilson, S.P., Bhattacharya, S., Whiley, M., Allen, J. R. M., Huntley, B. and Mitchell, F. J. G. , Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A169, 2006, p395 - 483 | |
| Mitchell, F.J.G., How open were European primeval forests? Hypothesis testing using palaeoecological data, Journal of Ecology, 93, 2005, p168 - 177 | |
| Cole, E. E. and Mitchell, F.J.G., Human impact on the Irish landscape during the late Holocene inferred from palynological studies at three peatland sites, The Holocene, 13, 2003, p507 - 515 | |
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