Biography

• Mick graduated from Kingston University in 1993 with a BSc (Hons) in Geology.
• His doctoral research, carried out at the University of Cambridge (1993-97), was primarily concerned with the multi-proxy analysis of a long (319m, half a million year-old) sedimentary sequence from the Ioannina lake basin in NW Greece.
• On gaining a Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge (1996-2000), his post-doctoral work continued these investigations, focusing in particular on the character of climatic variability in the Eastern Mediterranean during the last interglacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 5e).
• Mick joined the University of Sussex in October 2000 as a Lecturer in Physical Geography and has since been extending the geographical range of his research by looking at Late Holocene lake sites in Peru. He became Senior Lecturer in October 2005 and received a University Teaching Award (a joint award with Dr D Kniveton) in 2008.

Role

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography; Laboratory Director (2012–2015).

Community and Business

Appointed to the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College 2010 – 2013.

Mick is a Quaternary palaeoecologist whose research interests currently include: (1) the use of stable isotope geochemistry to help determine the climatic histories of lake basins; (2) the analysis of changes in Quaternary palaeobiogeographical patterns of selected invertebrate faunal groups, particularly around the Mediterranean; and (3) the relationship between rapid-scale climatic change and societal collapse in the Andean highlands of Peru.

Mick is a member of the ISOMED working group, involved in the analysis and synthesis of Mediterranean isotopic climatic records; he is also a founding member of the ECCUZ working group, concerned with examining the links between Late Holocene environmental and cultural change in the Cuzco region of Peru.

See also the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments research group.

Level 1: The Natural World 1 (convenor)

Level 1: The Natural World 2 (contributor)

Level 2: Ice Age Earth (convenor)

Level 2: Environmental Research Skills (contributor)

Level 3: Palaeoenvironments and Human Impact (convenor)

Student Consultation

Advice and feedback hours for Autumn Term 2013 will be Tuesdays 14.00–15.00 and Fridays 10.00-11.00. Please email me to arrange an appointment if you can't make either of these slots.

Wilson, G P, Frogley, M R, Roucoux, K H, Jones, T D, Leng, M J, Lawson, I T and Hughes, P D (2013) Limnetic and terrestrial responses to climate change during the onset of the penultimate glacial stage in NW Greece. Global and Planetary Change, 107. pp. 213-225. ISSN 0921-8181

Laken, B A, Kniveton, D R and Frogley, M R (2010) Cosmic rays linked to rapid mid-latitude cloud changes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10 (22). pp. 10941-10948. ISSN 1680-7316

Cundy, Andrew B, Gaki-Papanastassiou, K, Papanastassiou, D, Maroukian, H, Frogley, M R and Cane, T (2010) Geological and geomorphological evidence of recent coastal uplift along a major Hellenic normal fault system (the Kamena Vourla fault zone, NW Evoikos Gulf, Greece). Marine Geology, 271. pp. 156-164. ISSN 0025-3227

Leng, Melanie J, Jones, Matthew D, Frogley, Michael R, Eastwood, Warren J, Kendrick, Chris P and Roberts, C Neil (2010) Detrital carbonate influences on bulk oxygen and carbon isotope composition of lacustrine sediments from the Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change, 71 (3-4). pp. 175-182. ISSN 0921-8181

Frogley, Mick, Chepstow-Lusty, Alex and Leng, Melanie (2010) High and dry in the Andes. pp. 28-29.

Chepstow-Lusty, A J, Frogley, M R, Bauer, B S, Leng, M J, Boessenkool, K P, Carcaillet, C, Ali, A A and Gioda, A (2009) Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context. Climate of the Past, 5 (3). pp. 375-388. ISSN 1814-9324

Roberts, N, Jones, M D, Frogley, M R and et al, (2008) Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes: the ISOMED synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27 (25). pp. 2426-2441. ISSN 0277-3791

Roucoux, K H, Tzedakis, P C, Frogley, M R, Lawson, I T and Preece, R C (2008) Vegetation history of the marine isotope stage 7 interglacial complex at Ioannina, NW Greece. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27 (14). pp. 1378-1395. ISSN 0277-3791

Wilson, Graham P, Reed, Jane M, Lawson, Ian T, Frogley, Michael R, Preece, Richard C and Tzedakis, Polychronis C (2008) Diatom response to the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in the Ioannina basin, northwest Greece: implications for Mediterranean palaeoclimate reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27 (3-4). pp. 428-440. ISSN 0277-3791

Chepstow-Lusty, Alex J, Frogley, Michael R, Bauer, Brian S, Leng, Melanie J, Cundy, Andy B, Boessenkool, Karin P and Gioda, Alain (2007) Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 (7). pp. 1178-1186. ISSN 0305-4403

Frogley, M R and Preece, R C (2007) A review of the aquatic Mollusca from Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina, an ancient lake in NW Greece. Journal of Conchology, 39 (3). pp. 271-296.

Sterken, Mieke, Sabbe, Koen, Chepstow-Lusty, Alex, Frogley, Michael, Vanhoutte, Koenraad, Verleyen, Elie, Cundy, Andy and Vyverman, Wim (2006) Hydrological and land-use changes in the Cuzco region (Cordillera Oriental, South East Peru) during the last 1200 years: a diatom-based reconstruction. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 165 (3). pp. 289-312.

Cundy, A B, Sprague, D, Hopkinson, L, Maroukian, H, Gaki-Papanastassiou, K, Papanastassiou, D and Frogley, M R (2006) Geochemical and stratigraphic indicators of late Holocene coastal evolution in the Gythio area, southern Peloponnese, Greece. Marine Geology, 230 (3-4). pp. 161-177.

Harou, Aurelie P, Lajoie, Robert F, Kniveton, Dominic R and Frogley, Michael R (2006) The influence of the Indian Ocean dipole mode on precipitation over the Seychelles. International Journal of Climatology, 26 (1). pp. 45-54. ISSN 0899-8418

Chepstow-Lusty, Alex, Bush, Mark B, Frogley, Michael R, Baker, Paul A, Fritz, Sherilyn C and Aronson, James (2005) Vegetation and climate change on the Bolivian Altiplano between 108,000 and 18,000 yr ago. Quaternary Research, 63 (1). pp. 90-98. ISSN 0033-5894

Tzedakis, P C, Frogley, M R, Lawson, I T, Preece, R C, Cacho, I and de Abreu, L (2004) Ecological thresholds and patterns of millennial-scale variability: the response of vegetation in Greece during the last glacial period. Geology, 32 (2). pp. 109-112. ISSN 0091-7613

Griffiths, H I and Frogley, M R (2004) Fossil ostracods and faunistics: implications for the evolution of regional biodiversity. In: Balkan Biodiversity: Pattern and Process in the European Hotspot. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 261-272. ISBN 1-4020-2853-9

Lawson, Ian, Frogley, Mick, Bryant, Charlotte, Preece, Richard and Tzedakis, Polychronis (2004) The Late glacial and Holocene environmental history of the Ioannina basin, north-west Greece. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23. pp. 1599-1625. ISSN 0277-3791

Chepstow-Lusty, Alex, Bauer, Brian S and Frogley, Michael (2004) The environmental history of the Cuzco region. In: Ancient Cuzco. University of Texas Press, pp. 23-29. ISBN 978-0-292-70279-0

Frogley, M, Krystufek, B, Griffiths, H I, Reed, J M and Preece, R C (2004) A faunistic review of the modern and fossil molluscan fauna from Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina, an ancient lake in NW Greece: implications for endemism in the Balkans. In: Balkan Biodiversity: Pattern and Process in the European Hotspot. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 243-260. ISBN 1-4020-2853-9

Tzedakis, P C, Lawson, I T, Frogley, M R, Hewitt, G M and Preece, R C (2003) Response to comment on "buffered tree population changes in a quaternary refugium: evolutionary implications". Science, 299 (5608). p. 825. ISSN 0036-8075

Tzedakis, P C, Frogley, M R and Heaton, T H E (2003) Last interglacial conditions in southern Europe: evidence from Ioannina, northwest Greece. Global and Planetary Change, 36. pp. 157-170.

Chepstow-Lusty, Alex, Frogley, Michael R, Bauer, Brian S, Bush, Mark B and Herrera, Alfredo Tupayachi (2003) A late Holocene record of arid events from the Cuzco region, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science, 18 (6). pp. 491-502. ISSN 0267-8179

Tzedakis, Polychronis C, Frogley, Michael R and Heaton, Timothy H E (2002) Duration of last interglacial conditions in northwestern Greece. Quaternary Research, 58 (1). pp. 53-55. ISSN 0033-5894

Tzedakis, P C, Lawson, I T, Frogley, M R, Hewitt, G M and Preece, R C (2002) Buffered tree population changes in a Quaternary refugium: evolutionary implications. Science, 297 (5589). pp. 2044-2047. ISSN 0036-8075

Frogley, M R, Griffiths, H I and Martens, K (2002) Modern and fossil ostracods from ancient lakes. In: The Ostracoda: Applications in Quaternary Research. American Geophysical Union, pp. 167-184.

Frogley, Michael R, Griffiths, Huw I and Heaton, Timothy H E (2001) Historical biogeography and Late Quaternary environmental change of Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina (north-western Greece): evidence from ostracods. Journal of Biogeography, 28 (6). pp. 745-756.

Galanidou, N, Tzedakis, P C, Lawson, I T and Frogley, M R (2000) A revised chronological and palaeoenvironmental framework for the Kastritsa rockshelter northwest Greece. Antiquity, 74 (284). pp. 349-355. ISSN 0003-598X

Frogley, M R, Tzedakis, P C and Heaton, T H E (1999) Climate variability in northwest Greece during the last interglacial. Science, 285 (5435). pp. 1886-1889. ISSN 0036-8075