About
Professor Alayne Street-Perrott is a member of the Geography department at Swansea University.
Professor Alayne Street-Perrott
Professor Emeritus (Science)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Available For Postgraduate Supervision
Research Links
Areas Of Expertise
- Palaeoclimatology
- Palaeolimnology
- Tropical Palaeoenvironments
- Stable Isotopes; long-term changes in the carbon cycle in the tropics.
Career Highlights
Research
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Our research focuses on regions especially sensitive to environmental change such as high-latitude, alpine and fire-prone) and those with sparse environmental archives (tropics) to reduce uncertainty in modelled future-change scenarios and advance understanding of the Earth system.
Leader, Swansea Biochar Research Team
Our group aims: constructing a global model of the potential for reducing atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases by producing biochar sustainably; providing assistance to a recycling company that hopes to establish a pyrolysis plant in South Wales; and conducting a pilot study into the physical and chemical changes that take place through time as biochar is weathered within the soil.
Publications
Research Highlights
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Loomis, S., Russell, J., Verschuren, D., Morrill, C., De Cort, G., Sinninghe Damsté, J., Olago, D., Eggermont, H., Street-Perrott, F., Kelly, M., & Street-Perrott, A. (2017). The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science Advances, 3(1), e1600815-7.
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Bellen, S., Mauquoy, D., Payne, R., Roland, T., Hughes, P., Daley, T., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Rice, E., Pancotto, V., & Street-Perrott, A. (2017). An alternative approach to transfer functions? Testing the performance of a functional trait-based model for testate amoebae. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468
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Cockerton, H., Street-Perrott, A., Barker, P., Leng, M., Sloane, H., & Ficken, K. (2015). Orbital forcing of glacial/interglacial variations in chemical weathering and silicon cycling within the upper White Nile basin, East Africa: Stable-isotope and biomarker evidence from Lakes Victoria and Edward. Quaternary Science Reviews, 130, 57-71.
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Daley, T., Thomas, E., Holmes, J., Street-Perrott, F., Chapman, M., Tindall, J., Valdes, P., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Wolff, E., Hopley, P., Atkinson, T., Barber, K., Fisher, E., Robertson, I., Hughes, P., Roberts, C., & Street-Perrott, A. (2011). The 8200yr BP cold event in stable isotope records from the North Atlantic region. Global and Planetary Change, 79(3-4), 288
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Woolf, D., Amonette, J., Street-Perrott, A., Lehmann, J., & Joseph, S. (2010). Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change. Nature Communications, 1(5), 1-9.
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Daley, T., Barber, K., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Crowley, S., Fisher, E., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2010). Holocene climate variability revealed by oxygen isotope analysis of Sphagnum cellulose from Walton Moss, northern England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(13-14), 1590
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Daley, T., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Barber, K., Hughes, P., Fisher, E., Marshall, J., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2009). Terrestrial climate signal of the "8200 yr B.P. cold event" in the Labrador Sea region. Geology, 37(9), 831
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Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., Leng, M., Sloane, H., Wooller, M., Ficken, K., Swain, D., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Towards an understanding of late Quaternary variations in the continental biogeochemical cycle of silicon: multi-isotope and sediment-flux data for Lake Rutundu, Mt Kenya, East Africa, since 38 ka BP. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 375-387.
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Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Biogenic silica: a neglected component of the coupled global continental biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33(9), 1436-1457.
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Leng, M., Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Isotopes in Biogenic Silica (IBiS). Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 311
All Research
Journal Articles
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Cairns, S., Robertson, I., Holliman, P., & Street-Perrott, A. (2022). Treatments of wood ash amended biochar to reduce nutrient leaching and immobilise lead, copper, zinc and cadmium in aqueous solution: column experiments. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 8(6), 1277-1286.
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Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., & Froyd, C. (2021). Detection of signals linked to climate change, land-cover change and climate oscillators in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 260, 112431
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Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., Froyd, C., Cuní-Sanchez, A., & Marchant, R. (2019). Sensitivity of a tropical montane cloud forest to climate change, present, past and future: Mt. Marsabit, N. Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 34-48.
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Bellen, S., Mauquoy, D., Payne, R., Roland, T., Hughes, P., Daley, T., Loader, N., Street-Perrott, F., Rice, E., Pancotto, V., & Street-Perrott, A. (2017). An alternative approach to transfer functions? Testing the performance of a functional trait-based model for testate amoebae. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 468
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Loomis, S., Russell, J., Verschuren, D., Morrill, C., De Cort, G., Sinninghe Damsté, J., Olago, D., Eggermont, H., Street-Perrott, F., Kelly, M., & Street-Perrott, A. (2017). The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science Advances, 3(1), e1600815-7.
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Loader, N., Street-Perrott, A., Mauquoy, D., Roland, T., Bellen, S., Daley, T., Davies, D., Hughes, P., Pancotto, V., Young, G., Amesbury, M., Charman, D., Mallon, G., & Yu, Z. (2016). Measurements of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon isotope variability inSphagnummoss along a micro-topographical gradient in a southern Patagonian peatland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), 426-435.
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Cockerton, H., Street-Perrott, A., Barker, P., Leng, M., Sloane, H., & Ficken, K. (2015). Orbital forcing of glacial/interglacial variations in chemical weathering and silicon cycling within the upper White Nile basin, East Africa: Stable-isotope and biomarker evidence from Lakes Victoria and Edward. Quaternary Science Reviews, 130, 57-71.
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Daley, T., Thomas, E., Holmes, J., Street-Perrott, F., Chapman, M., Tindall, J., Valdes, P., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Wolff, E., Hopley, P., Atkinson, T., Barber, K., Fisher, E., Robertson, I., Hughes, P., Roberts, C., & Street-Perrott, A. (2011). The 8200yr BP cold event in stable isotope records from the North Atlantic region. Global and Planetary Change, 79(3-4), 288
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Woolf, D., Amonette, J., Street-Perrott, A., Lehmann, J., & Joseph, S. (2010). Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change. Nature Communications, 1(5), 1-9.
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Daley, T., Barber, K., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Marshall, J., Crowley, S., Fisher, E., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2010). Holocene climate variability revealed by oxygen isotope analysis of Sphagnum cellulose from Walton Moss, northern England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(13-14), 1590
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Daley, T., Street-Perrott, F., Loader, N., Barber, K., Hughes, P., Fisher, E., Marshall, J., Street-Perrott, A., & Loader, N. (2009). Terrestrial climate signal of the "8200 yr B.P. cold event" in the Labrador Sea region. Geology, 37(9), 831
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Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., Leng, M., Sloane, H., Wooller, M., Ficken, K., Swain, D., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Towards an understanding of late Quaternary variations in the continental biogeochemical cycle of silicon: multi-isotope and sediment-flux data for Lake Rutundu, Mt Kenya, East Africa, since 38 ka BP. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 375-387.
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Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Biogenic silica: a neglected component of the coupled global continental biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33(9), 1436-1457.
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Leng, M., Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Isotopes in Biogenic Silica (IBiS). Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 311
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Wang, H., Holmes, J., Street‐Perrott, F., Waller, M., Perrott, R., & Street-Perrott, A. (2008). Holocene environmental change in the West African Sahel: sedimentological and mineral‐magnetic analyses of lake sediments from Jikariya Lake, northeastern Nigeria. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(5), 449
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Street-Perrott, F., Barker, P., Swain, D., Ficken, K., Wooller, M., Olago, D., Huang, Y., & Street-Perrott, A. (2007). Late Quaternary changes in ecosystems and carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: a landscape-ecological perspective based on multi-proxy lake-sediment influxes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(13-14), 1838
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Street-Perrott, F., Ficken, K., Huang, Y., Eglinton, G., & Street-Perrott, A. (2004). Late Quaternary changes in carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: an overview of the δ13C record in lacustrine organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23(7-8), 861
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Barker, P., Street-Perrott, F., Leng, M., Greenwood, P., Swain, D., Perrott, R., Telford, R., Ficken, K., Street-Perrott, A., & Ficken, K. (2001). A 14,000-Year Oxygen Isotope Record from Diatom Silica in Two Alpine Lakes on Mt. Kenya. Science, 292(5525), 2307-2310.
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Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, A., & Street-Perrott, A. (2001). Climate Change as the Dominant Control on Glacial-Interglacial Variations in C3 and C4 Plant Abundance. Science, 293(5535), 1647
Career History
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Supernumerary Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford
1995 - Present
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Research Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University
1995 - Present
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Programme Leader in Palaeoclimatology, University of Oxford
1992 - 1994
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Visiting Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin
1984 - 1985
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Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford
1980 - 1994
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CUF Lecturer in Geography, University of Oxford
1980 - 1994
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Departmental Demonstrator, Oxford
1976 - Present
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Attachée de Recherche, Bellevue, France
1976 - 1977
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Visiting Scholar, Addis Ababa University
1974 - 1976