Roseanna Mayfield

Contact

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  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• Roseanna.Mayfield@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Roseanna's research focuses on understanding climate, nutrient, and human driven lake ecosystem change over timescales of 100s to 1000s of years. I am particularly interested in arctic and subarctic lake ecosystems, which are highly sensitive to a warming climate and currently undergoing large scale change.

Teaching Summary

Roseanna teaches lake systems, water quality, climate change, and statistical analysis.

Roseanna is co-convenor for:

- Academic Skills (BIOS 1069)

Roseanna currently teaches on the following courses:

- Climate Change Science (BIOS2013)

- Environmental Geochemistry (BIOS2044)

- Climate Change Mitigation (BIOS3103)

Research Summary

Research interests include:

• freshwater invertebrates (such as Chironomidae, non-biting midges) as a proxy for past climate and lake ecosystem conditions
• changes in lake methane production with changing climatic and environmental conditions
• development and application of statistical tools to increase our understanding of complex systems, such as ecosystems
• human-driven lake ecosystem change

Recent Publications

• ROSEANNA J. MAYFIELD, DILLI P. RIJAL, PETER D. HEINTZMAN, PETER G. LANGDON, DIRK N. KARGER, ANTONY G. BROWN and INGER G. ALSOS, 2024. Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest Quaternary Science Reviews. 345, 109045
• MAYFIELD, R.J., 2024. Summartive report on 'Exploring Polar Environments' Day 2023 Quaternary Newsletter. 163, 25-29
• LANGDON, P.G., BROWN, A.G., CLARKE, C.L., EDWARDS, M.E., HUGHES, P.D.M., MACKAY, H., MAYFIELD, R., MONTEATH, A. and SEAR, D., 2023. Peat and Lake records of climate change.. In: POLLARD, A.M., ed., Handbook of Archaeological Sciences 2.
• MAYFIELD, R.J., DEARING, J.A., DONCASTER, C.P. and LANGDON, P.G., 2022. Stability of chironomid community structure during historic climatic and environmental change in subarctic Alaska. Limnology and Oceanography. 67, S444-S460

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• ROSEANNA J. MAYFIELD, DILLI P. RIJAL, PETER D. HEINTZMAN, PETER G. LANGDON, DIRK N. KARGER, ANTONY G. BROWN and INGER G. ALSOS, 2024. Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest Quaternary Science Reviews. 345, 109045
• MAYFIELD, R.J., 2024. Summartive report on 'Exploring Polar Environments' Day 2023 Quaternary Newsletter. 163, 25-29
• LANGDON, P.G., BROWN, A.G., CLARKE, C.L., EDWARDS, M.E., HUGHES, P.D.M., MACKAY, H., MAYFIELD, R., MONTEATH, A. and SEAR, D., 2023. Peat and Lake records of climate change.. In: POLLARD, A.M., ed., Handbook of Archaeological Sciences 2.
• MAYFIELD, R.J., DEARING, J.A., DONCASTER, C.P. and LANGDON, P.G., 2022. Stability of chironomid community structure during historic climatic and environmental change in subarctic Alaska. Limnology and Oceanography. 67, S444-S460
• LOWE, J.J., MATTHEWS, I.P., MAYFIELD, R., LINCOLN, P., PALMER, A.P., STAFF, R. and TIMMS, R.G.O., 2021. The Kingshouse 2 record for timing the deglaciation of the Rannoch basin.. In: PALMER, A.P., LOWE, J.J. and MATTHEWS, I.P., eds., The Quaternary of the West Grampian Highlands: Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association.
• MAYFIELD, R.J., LANGDON, P.G., DONCASTER, C.P., DEARING, J.A., WANG, R., VELLE, G., DAVIES, K.L. and BROOKS, S.J., 2021. Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change. Journal of Quaternary Science. 38(3), 360-376
• NAZAROVA, L., SYRYKH, L.S., MAYFIELD, R.J., FROLOVA, L.A., IBRAGIMOVA, A.G. and GREKOV, I.M., 2020. Palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic conditions on the Karelian Isthmus (northwestern Russia) during the Holocene. Quaternary Research. 95, 65-83
• MAYFIELD, R.J., LANGDON, P.G., DONCASTER, C.P., DEARING, J.A., WANG, R., NAZAROVA, L.B., MEDEIROS, A.S. and BROOKS, S.J., 2020. Metrics of structural change as indicators of chironomid community stability in high latitude lakes Quaternary Science Reviews. 249,
• LOWE, J., MATTHEWS, I, MAYFIELD, R., LINCOLN, P., PALMER, A., STAFF, R. and TIMMS, R., 2019. On the timing of retreat of the Loch Lomond (‘Younger Dryas’) Readvance icefield in the SW Scottish Highlands and its wider significance Quaternary Science Reviews. 219, 171-186