Dr Mick Frogley : Geography : University of Sussex

In detail...

Post:	Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
Location:	Chichester 1 CI142
Email:	M.R.Frogley@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	3237 or 7238
UK:	(01273) 873237 or (01273) 877238
International:	+44 1273 873237 or +44 1273 877238

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.

Research

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

Teaching

First Year Courses
Dynamic Earth (convenor)

Second Year Courses
Research Skills in Physical Geography (contributor)
Southern India Fieldclass (co-convenor)

Third Year Courses
Palaeoenvironments and Human Impact (convenor)

Administration

Undergraduate Admissions Officer
Member of Undergraduate Teaching Committee
Co-organiser of 2nd year fieldclass to southern India
Member of the University Appeals Board Committee

Publications

Leng, M.J., Jones, M.D., Frogley, M.R., Eastwood, W.J., Kendrick, C.P. & Roberts, C.N. (in press). Detrital carbonate influences on bulk oxygen and carbon isotope composition of lacustrine sediments from the Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Change.

Chepstow-Lusty, A.C., Frogley, M.R., Bauer, B.S., Leng, M.J., Boessenkool, K.P., Carcaillet, C., Ali, A.A. & Gioda, A. (2009). Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context. Climate of the Past 5, 375-388. [http://www.clim-past.net/5/375/2009/]

Roberts, N., Jones, M.D., Benkaddour, A., Eastwood, W.J., Filippi, M.L., Frogley, M.R., Lamb, H.F., Leng, M.J., Reed, J.M., Stein, M., Stevens, L., Valero-Garcés, B. & Zanchetta, G. (2008). Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes: the ISOMED synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 2426-2441.

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

Wilson, G.P., Reed, J.M., Lawson, I.T., Frogley, M.R., Preece, R.C. & Tzedakis, P.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, 428-440.

Chepstow-Lusty, A.C., Frogley, M.R., Bauer, B.S., Leng, M.J., Cundy, A.B., Boessenkool, K.P. & Gioda, A. (2007). Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities. Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (7), 1178-1186.

Frogley, M.R. & 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), 271-296.

Sterken, M., Sabbe, K., Chepstow-Lusty, A., Frogley, M.R., Cundy, A.B. & Vyverman, W. (2006). Climate and land use changes in the Cuzco region (Cordillera Oriental, South East Peru) during the last 1200 years: a diatom based reconstruction. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 165, 289-312.

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

Harou, A.P., Lajoie, R.F., Kniveton, D.R. & Frogley, M.R. (2006). The influence of the Indian Ocean dipole mode on precipitation over the Seychelles. International Journal of Climatology 26 (1), 45-54.

Chepstow-Lusty, A.C., Bush, M.B., Frogley, M.R., Baker, P.A., Fritz, S.C. & Aronson, J. (2005). Vegetation and climate change on the Bolivian Altiplano between 108,000 and 18,000 yr ago. Quaternary Research 63, 90-98.

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

Chepstow-Lusty, A., Bauer, B. & Frogley, M.R. (2004). The environmental history of the Cuzco region. In: Bauer, B. (ed.), Ancient Cuzco. University of Texas Press.

Lawson, I.T., Frogley, M.R., Tzedakis, P.C., Preece, R.C. & Bryant, C. (2004). Late Glacial and Holocene environmental history of the Ioannina basin, north-west Greece. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1599-1625.

Frogley, M.R. & 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: Griffiths, H.I. and Krystufek, B. (eds.) Balkan Biodiversity. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp.243-260.

Griffiths, H.I. & Frogley, M.R. (2004). Fossil ostracods and faunistics: implications for the evolution of regional biodiversity. In: Griffiths, H.I. and Krystufek, B. (eds.) Balkan Biodiversity. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 261-272.

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

Chepstow-Lusty, A., Frogley, M.R., Bauer, B.S., Bush, M.B. and Herrera, A.T. (2003). A Late Holocene record of arid events from the Cuzco region, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science 18 (6), 491-502.

Frogley, M.R., Griffiths, H.I. & Martens, K. (2002). Modern and fossil ostracods from ancient lakes. In: Chivas, A.R. and Holmes, J.A. (eds.) The Ostracoda: Applications in Quaternary Research. Geophysical Monograph 131, 167-184. American Geophysical Union, Washington DC.

Tzedakis, P.C., Frogley, M.R. & Heaton, T.H.E. (2002). Duration of last interglacial conditions in northwestern Greece. Quaternary Research 58 (1), 53-55.

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

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

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

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