Anthony Newton

Teaching & Research Fellow
telephone: +44 (0)131 650 2546
fax: +44 (0)131 650 2524
email: anthony.newton@ed.ac.uk
room: 3.15

Volcán de Colima, Mexico	Oræfajökull, Iceland	Paricutín, Mexico

I am based in Geography at the School of GeoSciences. My research interests are centred around tephrochronology, mainly in Iceland and Mexico, which has led to research in human-environment interactions. In Iceland, much of this research is carried in collaboration with other workers associated with the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO). My PhD was a study into the origins of ocean-transported pumice in the North Atlantic region. As a consequence of this, I have recently been involved in a project studying jokulhaulps in Iceland and a research into relative sea-level change in north-west Iceland.

A second, but related, research theme is web and database development, which has included the NERC funded Tephrabase tephrochronology database and the Scottish Wetlands Archive Database and the Scottish Palaeoenvironmental Archive Database, which were both Historic Scotland funded projects. I have also been involved in the development of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Images for All project, which has involved the development of a website and database of the Society's collections

I have also developed the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) website and database and its sister Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA) website.