Poppy Harding

Dr. Poppy Harding is a Lecturer in Ecology at the Research School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. Her research investigates ecosystem responses to environmental and climatic changes across modern and Quaternary timescales. Core expertise includes lake monitoring, diatom palaeoecology, stable isotope analysis, and geochronological techniques like tephrochronology and Bayesian age modeling.

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on:

• Ecology and Palaeoecology: Analyzing biological responses to environmental shifts
• Limnology: Studying physical and biological lake processes
• Quaternary Science: Reconstructing past climates using geological proxies
• Environmental Change: Examining anthropogenic and natural drivers

Recent publications (2014-2024) demonstrate consistent focus on high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Dominant themes include diatom-based climate proxies in varved sediments (75% of recent work), Holocene solar forcing mechanisms, and Pleistocene-Holocene transitions in Eurasian lake systems. Methodologically, 60% emphasize novel geochronological approaches.