Graeme Swindles

Graeme Swindles is an Earth system scientist whose interdisciplinary research spans earth science, climate science, ecology, biogeochemistry, and hydrology. His work explores the temporal and spatial dynamics of environmental and climatic change—past, present, and future—and their impacts on ecosystems and society. Graeme studies a wide range of environments, from Arctic tundra and Irish peatlands to tropical rainforests, investigating the complex interactions between ecosystems, climate change, and human activity.

In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association in 2012.

Graeme’s research focuses on areas including climate change across past, present, and future timescales; the eco-hydrological dynamics, biogeochemistry, and carbon cycling of temperate, tropical, and subarctic peatlands; pollution impacts on natural ecosystems; and the use of biological indicators such as testate amoebae to track environmental change. He also applies temporal data, probability modelling, quantitative reconstruction, and statistical and numerical methods—including R—to study geohazards, human-environment interactions, and the effects of humans on Planet Earth.