Dr Emma Hocking

My research focuses on reconstructing relative sea level and environmental change on Holocene timescales. I work in a variety of environments, including tidal marshes, isolation basins, lakes, peatlands, and use a combination of sedimentology, microfossil (diatom) and geochronological methods for reconstructing past environments. Currently I am working on a range of research projects across the world, tied together by the methodological approach of using diatom analysis. These include reconstruction of great earthquake and tsunami history in south-central Chile, reconstructing lake mixing regimes in Finland, and reconstructing past human impacts on neotropical landscapes including the Brazilian savannah and Amazonia. 

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• Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene, Thompson, N., Salzmann, U., Hutchinson, D., Strother, S., Pound, M., Utescher, T., Brugger, J., Hickler, T., Hocking, E., Lunt, D. 1 Feb 2025, In: Earth-Science Reviews
• Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene, Holmes, R., Salzmann, U., Djamaluddin, R., Hocking, E., Williams, M., Berrio, J., Siregar, I., Tjoa, B., Fusi, M., Diele, K. Feb 2025, In: Ecological Indicators
• Microfossil and geochemical evidence for the Storegga tsunami at Budle Bay, Northumberland, Pickering, L., Summers, G., Hocking, E., Garrett, E., Simms, A. 12 Aug 2024, In: Sedimentologika
• Temperate to tropical palaeoclimates on the northwest margin of Europe during the middle Cenozoic, McCoy, J., Gibson, M., Hocking, E., O'Keefe, J., Riding, J., Roberts, R., Campbell, S., Abbott, G., Pound, M. 26 Aug 2024, In: Palaeontologia Electronica
• Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Pirabas Formation (Neogene, Pará State-Brazil), Gomes, B., Aguilera, O., da Silva-Caminha, S., D'Apolito, C., Cárdenas, D., Hocking, E., Lemes, K. 1 Apr 2023, In: Marine Micropaleontology
• Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula, Heredia Barión, P., Roberts, S., Spiegel, C., Binnie, S., Wacker, L., Davies, J., Gabriel, I., Jones, V., Blockley, S., Pearson, E., Foster, L., Davies, S., Roland, T., Hocking, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., Hayward, C., McCulloch, R., Strelin, J., Kuhn, G. 1 Jun 2023, In: The Holocene
• Honduran Reef Island Shoreline Change and Planform Evolution over the Last 15 Years: Implications for Reef Island Monitoring and Futures, Husband, E., East, H., Hocking, E., Guest, J. 30 Sep 2023, In: Remote Sensing
• The impact of Holocene deglaciation and glacial dynamics on the landscapes and geomorphology of Potter Peninsula, King George Island (Isla 25 Mayo), NW Antarctic Peninsula, Heredia Barión, P., Strelin, J., Roberts, S., Spiegel, C., Wacker, L., Niedermann, S., Bentley, M., Pearson, E., Czalbowski, N., Davies, S., Schnetger, B., Grosjean, M., Arcusa, S., Perren, B., Hocking, E., Kuhn, G. 4 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Earth Science
• The late Holocene introduction of Juglans regia (walnut) to Cyprus, Pound, M., Hazell, C., Hocking, E. 1 Mar 2023, In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
• Author Correction: Past penguin colony responses to explosive volcanism on the Antarctic Peninsula, Roberts, S., Monien, P., Foster, L., Loftfield, J., Hocking, E., Schnetger, B., Pearson, E., Juggins, S., Fretwell, P., Ireland, L., Ochyra, R., Haworth, A., Allen, C., Moreton, S., Davies, S., Brumsack, H., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D. Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications

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• Shifted Ecological Baselines in the Brazillianb Savannah (SEBBS), Whitney, B. (Principal Investigator), Hocking, E. (Co Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/09/19 - 31/01/21, £91,901.00

Leeza Pickering Alteration of lake mixing regimes in southern Finland in response to climate change: reconstructing Holocene lake mixing regimes and modelling 21st century changes Start Date: 01/10/2021

• Geography PhD June 30 2010
• Geography Studies (Science) MSc August 31 2006
• Geography BSc (Hons) June 30 2005
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA

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• Cold and Palaeoenvironments Research Group
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