Dr. Emily Bradshaw

Honorary Research Fellow

B.Sc. (Queen Mary University of London)

MRes (University College London)

PhD (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

email: E.Bradshaw@lboro.ac.uk

Career

2001 – present. Project Researcher, Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark (on maternity leave since June 2005)


Research interests

My primary research interest is in the use of diatom-based palaeolimnology to investigate past water quality (particularly lake nutrient status) in relation to human impacts and environmental change. I have worked on several multidisciplinary projects, together with palynologists and archaeologists, concerned with the impacts of early agriculture (in Denmark, England, and the Faroe Islands) on landscapes and lakes. Other interests include work with annually laminated lake sediments, ecosystem responses to climate change, diatom ecology, and applications of diatom analysis to archaeological studies.

Through my work at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, I have also been involved in research that aims to define 'reference' biological conditions for a variety of Danish lake types, to provide valuable information of particular relevance for the EU's Water Framework Directive.


Research grants

• High-resolution study of natural aquatic variability utilising the annually laminated (varved) sediments from Sarup Sø, Funen, Denmark, September 2003 – (Carlsberg Foundation: 1,540,000 DKK = £149,000)

Publications:

Bradshaw, E. G., A. B. Nielsen, and N. J. Anderson. 2006. Using diatoms to assess the impacts of prehistoric, pre-industrial and modern land-use on Danish lakes. Regional Environmental Change 6: 17-24.

Bradshaw, E. G., P. Rasmussen, H. Nielsen, and N. J. Anderson. 2005a. Mid- to late-Holocene land-use change and lake development at Dallund So, Denmark: trends in lake primary production as reflected by algal and macrophyte remains. Holocene 15: 1130-1142.

Bradshaw, E. G., P. Rasmussen, and B. V. Odgaard. 2005b. Mid- to late-Holocene land-use change and lake development at Dallund So, Denmark: synthesis of multiproxy data, linking land and lake. Holocene 15: 1152-1162.

Hannon, G. E., R. H. W. Bradshaw, E. G. Bradshaw, I. Snowball, and S. Wastegard. 2005. Climate change and human settlement as drivers of late-Holocene vegetational change in the Faroe Islands. Holocene 15: 639-647.

Rasmussen, P., and E. G. Bradshaw. 2005. Mid- to late-Holocene land-use change and lake development at Dallund So, Denmark: study aims, natural and cultural setting, chronology and soil erosion history. Holocene 15: 1105-1115.

Bradshaw, E. G., and N. J. Anderson. 2003. Environmental factors that control the abundance of Cyclostephanos dubius (Bacillariophyceae) in Danish lakes, from seasonal to century scale. Eur. J. Phycol. 38: 265-276.

Bradshaw, E. G., N. J. Anderson, J. P. Jensen, and E. Jeppesen. 2002. Phosphorus dynamics in Danish lakes and the implications for diatom ecology and palaeoecology. Freshw. Biol. 47: 1963-1975.

Bradshaw, E. G., and N. J. Anderson. 2001. Validation of a diatom-phosphorus calibration set for Sweden. Freshw. Biol. 46: 1035-1048.

Renberg, I., R. Bindler, E. Bradshaw, O. Emteryd & S. McGowan, 2001. Sediment evidence of early eutrophication and heavy metal pollution of Lake Mälaren, central Sweden, Ambio, 30, 496-502.

Bradshaw, E. G., V. J. Jones, H. J. B. Birks, and H. H. Birks. 2000. Diatom responses to late-glacial and early-Holocene environmental changes at Krakenes, western Norway. J. Paleolim. 23: 21-34.