David Reynolds
Research Fellow / Lecturer
Dr David Reynolds research focuses on the development and application of novel oceanographic records derived from variations in the width and geochemical composition of annual growth increments formed in the shells of long-lived marine bivalve molluscs.
Marine molluscs, which can live for over 500 years, are increasingly providing long-term baseline records, known as sclerochronologies, of past physical, biological and geochemical variability in marine and aquatic systems over past decades to millennia.
David is responsible for constructing sclerochronologies across Work Packages 1, 2, 3 and 4. His work will focus on establishing new sclerochronological archives from Australia as well as extending existing and generating new sclerochronological records from the northwest European shelf and Iceland. These records will then be used to generate samples for geochemical and eDNA analyses.
