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Dr. Margaret Jackson

Assistant Professor (Geography)

 


My research focuses on how changes in climate are reflected in glacial landscapes. The causes of Earth's ice ages and their abrupt terminations are still uncertain, but are key to understanding our climate system and its capacity for (sometimes rapid) change.

Glaciers are highly sensitive to changes in climate. I study the traces that glaciers leave on Earth's surface as they grow and decay, and use these markers to reconstruct the timing and extent of past glacial fluctuations in regions around the globe. My goal is to use glacial-geomorphic records to understand the linkages between climate and glaciation, and to learn more about Earth's climate system in the past, present, and future.

This work involves detailed surface mapping, geochronology (surface-exposure dating, radiocarbon), and synoptic assessment of palaeoclimate and geomorphic records.

My research relies heavily on field work, and includes sites in Ireland, Iceland, Peru, Uganda, Greenland, and in the Antarctic.
  Climate Change   climate change impacts   GEOCHRONOLOGY   GEOGRAPHY   GEOMORPHOLOGY   Glacial Geology   PALAEOCLIMATE   Quaternary geology/ geomorphology   QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY
 Life in the Currents
 Assessing the sensitivity of Ireland's glaciers to changing climate using paired glacial geomorphology and glaciologic modelling
 
 The Irish Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility (ICNF): Growing Ireland"s capacity for cutting-edge cosmogenic nuclide geochronology

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Editorial Board, Quaternary Geochronology
Doughty, A., Kelly, M., Russell, J., Jackson, M., Anderson, B., Chipman, J.W., and Nakileza, B., Last Glacial Maximum reconstructions of Rwenzori Mountain Glaciers, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology , 2023, pe2022PA004-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Foreman, A., Bromley, G.R.M., Hall, B.H., and Jackson, M.S., A 10Be dated record of glacial retreat in Connemara, Ireland, after the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for regional climate, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Garelick, S., Russell, J., Richards, A., Smith, J., Kelly, M. Anderson, N., Jackson, M.S., Doughty, A., Nakileza, B., and Ivory, S, Dynamics of warming during the last deglaciation in high-elevation regions of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jackson, M.S., Bromley, G.R.M., and Hall, B.L., Glacial fluctuations in the southwestern Wicklow Mountains, Ireland., European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2022, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
Modeling glacier extents and equilibrium line altitudes in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, over the last 31,000 yr in, editor(s)Richard B. Waitt, Glenn D. Thackray, Alan R. Gillespie , Untangling the Quaternary Period - A Legacy of Stephen C. Porter , 2021, [Doughty, A.M., Kelly, M.A., Russell, J.M., Jackson, M.S., Anderson, B.M., Chipman, J., Nakileza, B., and Dee, S.G], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Vickers, A.C., Shakun, J.S., Goehring, B.M., Gorin, A., Kelly, M.A., Jackson, M.S., Doughty, A.M., and Russell, J.M., Similar Holocene glaciation histories in tropical South America and Africa, Geology, (G48059), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kelly, M.A., Bromley, G., Doughty, A., Jackson, M.S., Cunningham, M., Ruiz-Carrascal, D., Restrepo-Moreno, S.A., Herbert, J., Farnell, A.B., Russell, J.M, Garelick, S., Nakileza, B., Kaplan, M.R., and Hidy, A., The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Termination 1 in the tropics based on glacial extent records, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2021, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
Foreman, A., Bromley, G., Hall, B., and Jackson, M., Abrupt climate change in the Irish cryospheric record, Irish Quaternary Association Autumn Symposium, 2021, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
Garelick, S., Russell, J., Richards, A., Smith, J., Kelly, M.A., Anderson, N., Jackson, M.S., Doughty, A.M., Nakileza, B., and Ivory, S., Impact of temperature and tropical lapse rate variations on mountain environments of Eastern Equatorial Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2021, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
Jackson, M.S., Kelly, M.A., Russell, J.M., Doughty, A.M., Howley, J.A., Cavagnaro, Baber, M.B., D.B., Zimmerman, S.R.H., and Nakileza, B., Glacial fluctuations in tropical Africa during the last glacial termination and implications for tropical climate following the Last Glacial Maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews , 243C, (106455), 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Jackson, M.S., The glacial past, present, and future of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda., University College Dublin Mountain Research Group Seminar Series, 2022, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jackson, M.S., Bromley, G.R.M., Hall, B.L., Eaves, S.R., and Foreman, A., Mountain glacier fluctuations in the Glen of Imaal, Ireland, during the Last Glacial Maximum and Termination 1, Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA) Autumn Symposium, Maynooth, Ireland, 2022, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
Jackson, M.S., Using the Quaternary record to project our future, Irish Quaternary Association Spring Symposium, 2021, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jackson, M.S., Glacial History of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, 2019, Thesis, PUBLISHED