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School of Geography

Professor David Horne

David

Emeritus Professor of Micropalaeontology

Email: d.j.horne@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I specialise in the study living and fossil ostracod crustaceans, both marine and freshwater, and their applications in palaeoclimatology, palaeoceanography, biogeography, crustacean phylogeny and the evolution of sex and parthenogenesis. I also work on Mesozoic and Palaeozoic ostracods and their applications.  Current efforts are focused on further development of my Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range method for Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstruction, in parallel with the application of a Multi-Proxy Consensus approach to the testing and refinement of the results of such methods. I also work on Mesozoic and Palaeozoic ostracods and their applications. I collaborate in multidisciplinary research with scientists in the UK as well as mainland Europe, Japan, Canada and North America. I explore Mars in my spare time.

Key publications

  • Wang, H., Matzke-Karasz, R., Horne, D.J., Zhao, X., Cao, M., Zhang, H. & Wang, B. 2020. Exceptional preservation of reproductive organs and giant sperm in Cretaceous ostracods. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences, 287, 20201661.

  • Farjon, A., Horne, D.J., Parfitt, S.A., Buckland, P.I. & Lewis, M.D.  2020. Early Pleistocene conifer macrofossils from Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, and their environmental implications for early hominin occupation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 232, 106115.

  • Marchegiano, M.,  Horne, D.J., Gliozzi, E., Francke, Alexander, Wagner, B. & Ariztegui, D.  2020. Rapid Late Pleistocene climate change reconstructed from a lacustrine ostracod record in central Italy (Lake Trasimeno, Umbria). Boreas, 49, 739–750.  

  • Crasquin, S. & Horne, D.J. 2018. The palaeopsychrosphere in the Devonian. Lethaia, 51,  547-563.
  • Williams, L.R., Hiscott, R.N., Aksu, A.E., Bradley, L.R., Horne, D.J. & Stoica, M. 2018. Holocene paleoecology and paleoceanography of the southwestern Black Sea shelf revealed by ostracod assemblages. Marine Micropaleontology, 142, 48-66.

  • Horne, D.J., Curry, B.B. & Mesquita-Joanes, F. 2012. Mutual climatic range methods for Quaternary ostracods. In: Horne, D.J., Holmes, J.A., Rodriguez-Lazaro, J. & Viehberg, F. (eds) Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change. Developments in Quaternary Science 17, 65-84. Elsevier.
  • Horne, D. J.  2007. A Mutual Temperature Range method for Quaternary palaeoclimatic analysis using European nonmarine Ostracoda. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 1398-1415.

 

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