Michael Marshall

Michael Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Initial Teacher Education at the University of Derby's College of Arts, Humanities and Education. His research focuses on paleoclimatology, environmental science, and radiocarbon dating, with a particular emphasis on reconstructing past climate systems and their archaeological implications. He has contributed to studies on Lake Suigetsu (Japan) and Lake Tana (Ethiopia), analyzing sediment records and varve chronologies to understand climate transitions and human dispersal patterns.

His work integrates geological, archaeological, and environmental data to address questions about climate variability and its impacts on human evolution and migration. Recent publications highlight correlations between global climate archives, the Younger Dryas climate event in East Asia, and the application of radiocarbon calibration methods in paleoenvironmental studies.

While no scientific awards are explicitly listed here, his research has been published in journals such as Global and Planetary Change, Radiocarbon, and Quaternary Science Reviews. He collaborates internationally on projects involving sediment micro-facies analysis, chronological frameworks, and interdisciplinary environmental reconstructions.