Mark John Hardiman Portrait

Dr Mark Hardiman

Associate Head (Academic)

mark.hardiman@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Environmental Geography and Geosciences Sustainability and the environment Institute of the Earth and Environment

Biography

My research focuses on the investigation and reconstruction of past environments with particular emphasis on understanding abrupt climate change and Earth system response. I joined the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± as a Lecturer in 2013 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2015. As of 2025 I am the Associate Head (Academic) for the School of Environment and Life Sciences.

Research interests

I have two main research specialisms both within the field of Quaternary Science:

1)     Geochronology – The key focus of my research is to augment the tephrostratigraphic framework of southern Europe during the Last Glacial Period and to test the synchronicity (or phasing) of the rapid environmental shifts which occurred during this timeframe. I also have a interest in using tephrochronology to test pre-existing age-depth models. I have expertise in detection of cryptotephra layers in sediment sequences, geochemical analysis and correlation of volcanic glass and the use of Bayesian statistics in integrating chronological datasets.  

2)     Wildfire in the Quaternary – My research assesses wildfires potential role in, and response to, rapid geomorphic and environmental events via charcoal analysis in both complex sediment sequences and high resolution palaeoenvironmental records. I have expertise in quantification, extraction and identification of charcoal fragments (both via optical microscopy and SEM).

Research supervision:

(PhD; 2016-2020): Refining our understanding of wildfire during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in the British Isles, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Eve Horsfall (PhD; 2023-present). Revealing abrupt environmental changes in palaeoclimate records from the Isle of Wight during the Late Quaternary & Holocene (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Dr Paul Lincoln (Senior Research Associate; 2017-2018): Understanding past wildfire regimes in Britain, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Matthew Currie (MRes; 2017-2018): Transport, behavior and breakdown of charcoal, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Amy Webb (MRes; 2018-2019): The History of Fire on Dartmoor, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Roy Payne (MRes; 2019-2020): Using FTIR to understand past fire intensity, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Scarlett Wharram (MRes; 2019-2020): Understanding historical wildfire trends in the UK, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Elina Vainio (MRes; 2020-2021): Quantifying Post-Fire vegetation regrowth of UK heathlands using LiDAR scanning, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Nadege Khedun-burgoine (MRes; 2020-2021): Refining our understanding Holocene wildfire trends in the UK, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Jack Hughes (MRes; 2021-2022): Producing the first charcoal morphotypes record for the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in southern England, (first supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±.

Emilia Evans (MRes; 2023-2024): Augmenting the Late Quaternary stratigraphy and faunal assemblages of East Mersea, Mersea Island, Essex, UK, (First supervisor), аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±

Research outputs

2025

Wang, Y., Feldpausch , T., Swindles, G., Moss, P., McGowan, H., Sim, T., Morris, P., Benfield, A., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Wahl, D., Montoya, E., Githumbi, E., Honorio Coronado, E., Augustijns, F., Verstraeten, G., O'Donnell (Roe), J., Tibby, J., Benavides, J., Hapsari, K. A., Schittek, K., Ramdzan, K. N. M., Bao, K., Cole, L., Anderson, L., Gałka, M., Emuobosa Akpo, O., Strobel, P., Ramya Bala, P., Dommain, R., Marchant, R., Sukumar, R., Chawchai, S., Pullyottum Kavil, S., Mooney, S., Kelly, T., Gao, Y., Voulgarakis, A., Boom, A., Burton, C., Carlos Berrio, J., Ribeiro, K., Anderson, L., Hardiman, M., Spater, M., Page, S., Gallego-Sala, A.

27 May 2025, In: Global Change Biology

Research output: Article

2024

Sayedi, S. S., Abbott, B. W., Vannière, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Romera, G. G., Słowiński, M., Aleman, J. C., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., Aakala, T., Alenius, T., Allen, K., Andric, M., Bergeron, Y., Biagioni, S., Bradshaw, R., Bremond, L., Brisset, E., Brooks, J., Brugger, S. O., Brussel, T., Cadd, H., Cagliero, E., Carcaillet, C., Carter, V., Catry, F. X., Champreux, A., Chaste, E., Chavardès, R. D., Chipman, M., Conedera, M., Connor, S., Constantine, M., Courtney Mustaphi, C., Dabengwa, A. N., Daniels, W., De Boer, E., Dietze, E., Estrany, J., Fernandes, P., Finsinger, W., Flantua, S. G. A., Fox-Hughes, P., Gaboriau, D. M., M.Gayo, E., Girardin, M. P., Glenn, J., Glückler, R., González-Arango, C., Groves, M., Hamilton, D. S., Hamilton, R. J., Hantson, S., Hapsari, K. A., Hardiman, M., Hawthorne, D., Hoffman, K., Inoue, J., Karp, A. T., Krebs, P., Kulkarni, C., Kuosmanen, N., Lacourse, T., Ledru, M., Lestienne, M., Long, C., López-Sáez, J. A., Loughlin, N., Niklasson, M., Madrigal, J., Maezumi, S. Y., Marcisz, K., Mariani, M., McWethy, D., Meyer, G., Molinari, C., Montoya, E., Mooney, S., Morales-Molino, C., Morris, J., Moss, P., Oliveras, I., Pereira, J. M., Pezzatti, G. B., Pickarski, N., Pini, R., Rehn, E., Remy, C. C., Revelles, J., Rius, D., Robin, V., Ruan, Y., Rudaya, N., Russell-Smith, J., Seppä, H., Shumilovskikh, L., T.Sommers, W., Tavşanoğlu, Ç., Umbanhowar, C., Urquiaga, E., Urrego, D., Vachula, R. S., Wallenius, T., You, C., Daniau, A.

8 Feb 2024, In: Fire Ecology. 20, 1, 22p., 18

Research output: Article

2023

Sim, T. G., Swindles, G., Morris, P. J., Gallego-Sala, A. V., Wang, Y., Blaauw, M., Camill, P., Garneau, M., Hardiman, M.

1 Apr 2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 305, 17p., 108020

Research output: Article

Rex, C. L., Bateman, M. D., Panagiotakopulu, E., Livingstone, S. J., Hardiman, M., Eddy, L.

1 Jan 2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 299, 19p., 107882

Research output: Article

2022

Gosden, B., Lovell, H., Hardiman, M.

1 Nov 2022, In: International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31, 11, p. 1033-1042

Research output: Article

Howlett, D., Wulf, S., Wharram, S., Hardiman, M., Byrne, H.

4 May 2022, In: Quaternary. 5, 2, 23p., 27

Research output: Article

2021

Candy, I., Tye, G., Coxon, P., Hardiman, M., Matthews, I., Palmer, A.

1 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 7, p. 1149-1161

Research output: Article

Satow, C., Gudmundsson, A., Gertisser, R., Bronk Ramsey, C., Bazargan, M., Pyle, D., Wulf, S., Miles, A., Hardiman, M.

31 Aug 2021, In: Nature Geoscience. 14, 9p.

Research output: Article

Tsakiridou, M., Cunningham, L., Hardiman, M.

1 Jan 2021, In: Quaternary Research. 99, 12p.

Research output: Article

2020

Kinder, M., Wulf, S., Appelt, O., Hardiman, M., Żarczyński, M., Tylmann, W.

15 Sep 2020, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 402, 9p., 106988

Research output: Article