Personal Details

Associate Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Villavägen 16, 75236, Uppsala, Sweden

Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia

Education/Qualifications

University of Oxford (Jesus College), Centre for the Environment; D.Phil. (2007; Quaternary Science - Supervisors: D.S.G. Thomas and S.J. Armitage) Late Quaternary climate recorded in Chinese loess: OSL analysis of record continuity and preservation.

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences; Geosciences M.S. (2003; GPA: 3.842, Supervisor: W.D. McCoy) Aminostratigraphy of mid to late Pleistocene loess in middle Europe.

University of Wales, Swansea, Department of Geography; Geography B.Sc. (2001; 1st Class Honours) Attica earthquake, Greece 1999: maximum acceleration, epicentral distance, site conditions and damage. (Received 81% - 1st Class)

Career/Employment History

Sept 2014 – present Associate Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden Jan 2009 –Aug 2014 Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Physical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London February 2007 – December 2008 Royal Society visiting researcher – Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark January 2007 – December 2008 Lecturer in Earth System Science, School of Earth Sciences and Geography, Kingston University October 2005 – December 2006 Oxford Rock Breakdown Laboratory technician and Research Assistant, OUCE, University of Oxford September 2002 – January 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Geology, University of South Florida September 2001 – September 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research

Main Research Interests Asian palaeoclimate, tectonics and surface process interactions Monsoon dynamics and forcing over the Cenozoic Loess sequences, their source, age and palaeoclimate records Luminescence geochronology and application to novel environments Past atmospheric dust sources, dynamics and characteristics Sedimentary records of denudation, their transport and storage H Index: 19 (Scopus) / 21 (Google Scholar)

Publication Outputs

Key Selected Publications in top 10 multi-disciplinary Geosciences journals by Impact Factor OR in top multi-disciplinary science journals 1. Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Bird, A., Stevens, T., Garzanti, E., Ando, S., Vezzoli, G., Dutt,

R., Xu, Z., Lu, H., 2016. The provenance of Taklamakan desert sand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 437, 127-137 (20% contribution). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.036

2. Újvári, G., Stevens, T., Svensson, A., Klötzli, U.S., Manning, C., Németh, T., Kovács, J., Sweeny, M.R., Gocke, M., Wiesenberg, G.L.B., Marković, S.B., Zech, M., 2015. Two possible sources for Central Greenland last glacial dust. Geophysical Research Letters. 42, (30% contribution) doi:10.1002/2015GL066153.

3. Nie, J., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Stockli, D., Garzanti, E., Limonta, M., Bird, A., Ando, S., Vermeesch, P., Saylor, J., Lu, H., Breecker, D., Hu, X., Liu, S., Resentini, A., Vezzoli, G., Peng, W., Carter, A., Ji, S., Pan, B., 2015. Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau derived Yellow River sediment. Nature Communications 6, 8511 (40% contribution) doi:10.1038/ncomms9511.

4. Markovic. S., Stevens, T., Kukla, G., Hambach, U., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Gibbard, P., Buggle, B., Zech, M., Guo, Z., Hao, Q., Wu, H., O’Hara Dhand, K., Smalley, I.J., Újvári, G., Sümegi, P., Timar-Gabor, A., Veres, D., Sirocko, F., Vasiljević, D.A., Jary, Z., Svensson, A., Jović, V., Lehmkuhl, F., Kovács, J., Svirčev, Z., 2015. Danube loess stratigraphy – towards a pan-European stratigraphic model. Earth Science Reviews 148, 228-258 (30% contribution). doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.005

5. Albani, S., Mahowald, N.M., Winckler, G., Anderson, R.F., Bradtmiller, L.I., Delmonte, B., François, R., Gomanm M., Heavens, N.G., Hesse, P.P., Hovan, S.A., Johfeld, K.E., Lu, H., Maggi, V., Mason, J.A., Mayewski, P.A., McGee, D., Miao, X., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Perry, A.T., Pourmand, A., Roberts, H.M., Rosenbloom, N., Stevens, T., Sun, J., 2015. Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives. Climates of the Past 11, 869-903. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-869-2015 (15% contribution).

6. Feurdean, A., Persoiu, A., Tantau, I., Stevens, T., Magyari, E.K., Onac, B.B., Markovic. S., Andric, M., Connor, S., Galka, M., Hoek, W.S., Lamentowicz, M., Sümegi, P., Persoiu, I., Kolaczek, P., Kuneš, P., Marinova, E., Slowinski, M., Michczyńska, D., Stancikaite, M., Svensson, A., Veski, S., Fărcaş, S., Tămaş, T., Zernitskaya, V., Timar, A., Tonkov, S., Toth, M., Willis, K.J., Płóciennik, M., Gaudeny, T., 2014 106, 206-224. Climate variability and associated vegetation response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews. http://dx.doi.org10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.003 (20% contribution).

7. Nie, J., Song, Y., Möller, A., Stockli, D.F., Peng, W., Stevens, T., Horton, B.K., Liu, S., Bird, A., Oalmann, J., Gong, H., Fang, X., 2014. Provenance of the Upper Miocene-Pliocene Red Clay Deposits of the Chinese Loess Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 407, 35-47. http://dx.doi.org10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.026 (20% contribution).

8. Nie, J., Stevens, T., Song, Y., King, J.W., Zhang, R., Ji, S., Gong, L., Cares, D., 2014. Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification. Nature Scientific Reports 4, 5474. http://dx.doi.org10.1038/srep05474 (35% contribution)

9. Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Ussler III, W., McGann, M., Buylaert, J.-P., Lundsten, E., 2014. The timing of sediment transport down Monterey Submarine Canyon, offshore California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 126, 103-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B30931.1 (80% contribution)

10. Stevens, T., Adamiec, G., Bird, A.F., Lu, H., 2013. An abrupt shift in dust source on the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed through high sampling resolution OSL dating. Quaternary Science Reviews 82, 121-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.014 (80% contribution)

11. Stevens, T., Carter, A., Watson, T.P., Vermeesch, P., Andò, S., Bird, A.F., Lu, H., Garzanti, E., Cottam, M.A., Sevastjanova, I., 2013. Genetic linkage between the Yellow River, the Mu Us desert and the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 78, 355-368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.032 (70% contribution)

12. Lu, H., Yi, S., Liu, Z., Mason, J.A., Jiang, D., Cheng, J., Stevens, T., Xu, Z., Zhang, E., Jin, L., Zhang, Z., Guo, Z., Wang, Y., Otto-Bliesner, B., 2013. Variation of East Asian Monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing. Geology 41, 1023-1026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G34488.1 (20% contribution)

13. Giosan, L., Clift, P.D., Macklin, M.G., Fuller, D.Q., Constantinescu, S., Durcan, J.A., Stevens, T., Duller, G.A.T., Tabrez, A., Gangal, K., Adhikari, R., Alizai, A., Filip, F., VanLaningham, S., Syvitski, J.P.M., 2012. Fluvial dynamics and the fate of Harappan civilisation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 109, E1688-E1694. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112743109 (20% contribution)

14. Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Heller, F., McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Buggle, B., Zöller, L., 2011. The last million years recorded at the Stari Slankamen (Northern Serbia) loess-palaeosol sequence: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term environmental trends. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1142-1154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.004 (30% contribution)

15. Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Zech, M., Sümegi, P., 2011. Dust deposition and climate in the Carpathian Basin over an independently dated last glacial-interglacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 662-681. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.011 (80% contribution)

16. Stevens, T., Palk, C., Carter, A., Lu, H., Clift, P.D., 2010. Assessing the provenance of loess and desert sediments in northern China using U-Pb dating and morphology of detrital zircons. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122, 1331-1344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B30102.1 (60% contribution)

17. Stevens T., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., 2008. Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the Late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon. Geology 36, 415-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G24524A.1 (75% contribution)

18. Stevens, T., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., Lunn, H.R., Lu, H., 2007. Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: A detailed OSL investigation. Earth-Science Reviews 80, 111-136. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.09.001 (75% contribution)

19. Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., 2006. Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records. Geology 34, 849-852. http://dx.doi.org/doi: 10.1130/G22472.1 (75% contribution)

Other journal publications 20. Stevens, T., Buylaert, J.-P., Lu, H., Thiel, C., Murray, A.S., Frechen, F., Yi, S., Zeng, L., in press. Mass

accumulation rate and monsoon records from Xifeng, Chinese Loess Plateau, based on a luminescence age model. Journal of Quaternary Science in press.

21. Bate, S., Stevens, T., Buylaert, J-P., Marković, S.B., Roos, P., Tasić, N., in press. Pottery versus sediment: Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating of the Neolithic Vinča culture, Serbia. Quaternary International. http:dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.042 (40% contribution).

22. Han, Z., Li, X., Yi, S., Stevens, T., Chen, Y., Wamg, X., Lu, H., 2015. Extreme monsoon aridity recorded in South China during Heinrich Events. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimateology, Palaeoecology 440, 467-474 doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.09.037 (30% contribution)

23. Buylaert, J-P., Yeo, E-Y., Thiel, C., Yi, S., Stevens, T., Thompson, W., Frechen, M., Murray, A., Lu, H., 2015. A detailed post-IR IRSL chronology for the last interglacial soil at the Jingbian loess site (northern China). Quaternary Geochronology 30B, 194-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.022 (15% contribution)

24. Bird, A.S., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2015. Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimateology, Palaeoecology 435, 254-264 (40% contribution). doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.024

25. Basarin, B., Buggle, B., Hambach, U., Marković, S.B., O’Hara Dhand, K., Kovačević, A., Stevens, T., Guo, Z., Lukić, T., 2014. Time-scale and astronomical forcing of Serbian loess-palaeosol sequences. Global and Planetary Change 122, 89-106. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.08.007 (10% contribution)

26. Stevens, T., Jestico, M., Evans, G., Kirkham, A., 2014. Eustatic control of late Quaternary sea-level change in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Quaternary Research 82, 175-184. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2014.03.002 (40% contribution).

27. Marković, S.B., Yang, S., Catto, N., Stevens, T., 2014. Loess in China and Europe: a tribute to Edward Derbyshire. Quaternary International 334-335, 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.027 (10% contribution)

28. Marković, S.B., Korać, M., Mrdić, N., Buylaert, J-P., Thiel, C., McLaren, S., Stevens, T., Tomić, N., Petić, N., Jovanović, M., Vasiljević, D.A., Sümegi, P., Gavrilov, M.B., Obreht, I., 2014. Palaeoenvironment and geoconservation of mammoths from the Nosak loess-palaeosol sequence (Drmno, Kostolac, Northeastern Serbia): initial results and perspectives. Quaternary International 334-335, 30-39 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.047 (10% contribution).

29. Marković, S.B., Timar-Gabor, A., Stevens, T., Hambach, U., Popov, D., Tomić, N., Obrecht, I., Jovanović, M., Lemhkhul, F., Kels, H., Marković, R., Gavrilov, M.B., 2014. Environmental dynamics and luminescence chronology from the Orlovat loess-palaeosol sequence (Vojvodina, Northern Serbia). Journal of Quaternary Science 29, 189-199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qs.2693 (20% contribution).

30. Murray, A.S., Schmidt, E., Stevens, T., Buylaert, J-P., Marković, S.B., Tsukamoto, S., Frechen, M., 2014. Dating middle Pleistocene loess from Stari Slankamen (Vojvodina, Serbia) – implications imposed by the saturation behaviour of an elevated temperature IRSL signal. Catena 117, 34-42 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.029 (20% contribution).

31. Nie, J., Peng, W., Pfaff, K., Moeller, A., Garzanti, E., Andò, S., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Chang, H., Song, Y., Liu, S., Ji, S., 2013. Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and Red Clay. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology 381-382, 110-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.020 (15% contribution)

32. Svirčev, Z., Marković, S.B., Stevens, T., Codd, G., Smalley, I.J., Obrecht, I., Simeunović, J., Dulić, T., Pantelić, D., Hambach, U., 2013. Importance of biological loess crusts for loess formation in semi-arid environments. Quaternary International 296, 206-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.10.048 (20% contribution)

33. Marković, S.B., Ruman, A., Gavrilov, M.B., Stevens, T., Zorn, M., Komac, B., Perlo, D. 2013. Modelling of the Aral and Caspian seas drying out influence to climate and environmental changes. Acta Geographica Slovenica 54, 143-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3986/AGS54304 (5% contribution)

34. Sümegi, P., Guylas, S., Csökmei, B., Molnar, D., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Markovic, S.B., Almond, P.C., 2012. Climatic fluctuations inferred for the Middle and Late Pleniglacial (MIS 2) based on high-resolution (~ ca. 20 y) preliminary environmental magnetic investigation of the loess section

of the Madaras brickyard (Hungary). Central European Geology 55, 329-345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/CEuGeol.55.2012.3.6 (10% contribution)

35. Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Jovanović, M., O’Hara-Dhand, K., Basirin, B., Lu, H., Smalley, I., Buggle, B., Zech, M., Svirčev, Z., Sümegi, P., Milojković, N., Zöller, L., 2012. Loess in the Vojvodina region (Northern Serbia): an essential link between European and Asian Pleistocene environments. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie in Mijnbouw 91, 173-188. http://www.njgonline.nl/publish/articles/000477/english.html (20% contribution)

36. Yi, S., Lu, H., Stevens, T., 2012. SAR TT-OSL dating of the loess deposits in the Horqin dunefield (northeastern China). Quaternary Geochronology 10, 56-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.03.011 (30% contribution)

37. Schatz, A-K., Buylaert, J-P., Murray, A.S., Stevens, T., Scholten, T., 2012. Establishing a luminescence chronology for a palaeosol-loess profile at Tokaj (Hungary): a comparison of quartz OSL and polymineral IRSL signals. Quaternary Geochronology 10, 68-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2012.02.018 (15% contribution)

38. Újvári, G., Varga, A., Ramos, F.C., Kovács, J., Németh, T., Stevens, T., 2012. Evaluating the use of clay mineralogy, Sr-Nd isotopes and zircon U-Pb ages in tracking dust provenance: An example from loess of the Carpathian Basin. Chemical Geology 304-305, 83-96. http://dx.doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.02.007 (10% contribution)

39. Lu, H., Mason, J.A., Stevens, T., Zhou, Y., Yi, S., Miao, X., 2011. Response of surface processes to climatic change in the dunefields and Loess Plateau of North China during the late Quaternary. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36, 1590-1603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.2168 (25% contribution)

40. Smith, M.J., Stevens, T., MacArthur, A., Malthus, T.J., Lu, H., 2011. Characterising Chinese loess stratigraphy and past monsoon variation using field spectroscopy. Quaternary International 234, 146-158. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.04.011 (40% contribution)

41. Shultziner, D., Stevens, T., Stevens, M., Stewart, B.A., Hannagan, R.J., Saltini-Semerari, G., 2010. The causes and scope of political egalitarianism during the last glacial: a multi-disciplinary perspective. Biology and Philosophy 25, 319-346. http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1007/s10539-010-9196-4 (35% contribution)

42. Lukić, T., Marković, S., Stevens, T., Vasiljević, D.A., Machellett, B., Milojković, N., Basarin, B., Obreht, I., 2009. The loess ‘cave’ near the village of Surduk – an unusual pseudokarst landform in the loess of Vojvodina, Serbia. Acta Carsologica 38(2-3), 227-235. http://carsologica.zrc-sazu.si/?stran=article&id=428 (20% contribution)

43. Zech, M., Buggle, B., Leiber, K., Marković, S.B., Glaser, B., Hambach, U., Huwe, B., Stevens, T., Sumegi, P., Wiesenberg, G., Zöller, L., 2009. Reconstructing Quaternary vegetation history in the Carpathian Basin, SE Europe, using n-alkane biomarkers as molecular fossils: problems and possible solutions, potential and limitations. Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart – Quaternary Science Journal 85, 150-157. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.3285/eg.58.2.03 (20% contribution)

44. Stevens, T., Buylaert, J.P., Murray, A., 2009. Towards development of a broadly-applicable SAR TT-OSL dating protocol for quartz. Radiation Measurements 44, 639-645. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2009.02.015 (65% contribution)

45. Stevens, T., Lu, H., 2009. Optical dating as a tool for calculating sedimentation rates in Chinese loess: comparisons to grain-size records. Sedimentology 56, 911-934. http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.01004.x (85% contribution)

46. Novothny, Á., Frechen, M., Horváth, E., Bradák, B., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Stevens, T., 2009. Luminescence and amino acid racemization chronology of the loess-paleosol sequence at Süttő, Hungary. Quaternary International.198, 62-76.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2008.01.009 (15% contribution)

47. Marković, S.B., Bokhorst, M.P., Vandenberghe, J., McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Hambach, U., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., Zöller, L., Stevens, T., Machalett, B., 2008. Late Pleistocene loess-

paleosol sequences in the Vojvodina region, North Serbia. Journal of Quaternary Science 23(1), 73-84. http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1124 (15% contribution)

48. Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., 2007. Examining the potential of high-resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess. Quaternary Geochronology 2, 15-22. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2006.03.004 (75% contribution)

49. Lu, H., Stevens, T., Yi, S., Sun, X., 2006. An erosional hiatus in Chinese loess sequences revealed by closely spaced optical dating. Chinese Science Bulletin 51(18), 2253-2259. http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2097-x (40% contribution)

50. Marković, S.B., McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Savić, S., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., Stevens, T., Walther, R., Ivanišević, P., Galović, Z., 2005. Paleoclimate record in the Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequence at Petrovaradin Brickyard (Vojvodina, Serbia). Geologica Carpathica 56(6), 545-552. http://www.geologicacarpathica.com/browse-journal/volumes/56-6/article-338/ (5% contribution)

Chapters in Books 1. Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Basarin, B., O’Hara-Dhand, K., Gavrilov, M.M.,

Gavrilov, M.B., Smalley, I., Teofanov, N., 2012. Relating the astronomical timescale to the loess-paleosol sequences in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia. In Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects. Berger, A, Mesinger, F.; Sijacki, D., (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Vienna. Pp. 65-78. ISBN 978-3-7091-0972-4.

2. Gillmore, G.K., Stevens, T., Buylaert, J.P., Conningham, R.A.E., Batt, C., Fazeli, H., Young, R. 2011. Geoarchaeology and the value of multi-disciplinary palaeoenvironmental approaches: A case study from the Tehran Plain, Iran. Geological Society of London, Special Publication; Human Interactions with the Geosphere: The Geoarchaeological Perspective (Wilson, L., Ed), v. 352, 49-67.

3. Stevens, T., Lu, H., 2010. Radiometric dating of the late Quaternary summer monsoon on the Loess Plateau, China. Geological Society of London, Special Publication; Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics-Climate Linkage in Asia. (Clift, P.D., Tada, R., Zheng, H., Eds), v. 342, 87-108.

Edited Works

1. Tessier, B., Reynaud, J-Y., in progress. Tidal sedimentology: from process to stratigraphy. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 47, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

2. Martinius, A.W., Ravnas, R., Howell, J., Olsen, T., Steel, R.S., Wonham, J., 2014. From depositional systems to sedimentary successions. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 46, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

3. Morad, S., Ketzer, M., de Ros, L.F., 2013. Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 45, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

4. Li, M.Z., Sherwood, C.R., Hill, P.R., 2012. Sediments, morphology and sedimentary processes on continental shelves: Advances in technologies, research and applications. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 44, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

5. Kendall, C.G.St C., Alsharhan, A., 2010. Quaternary carbonate and evaporate sedimentary facies and their ancient analogues: A tribute to Douglas James Shearman. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 43, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

6. Mutti, M., Piller, W.E., Betzler, C., 2010. Carbonate systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 42, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

7. Swart, P., Eberli, G., McKenzie, J., 2009. Perspectives in carbonate geology. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 41, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

Refereed Journal Articles

Peer-reviewing of multiple articles in many international journals including Nature, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications, Geology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Geochronology, etc.

Other Outputs

Editorials/Journal articles/newsletters/field guides Marković, S. B., Yang, S., Catto, N., Stevens, T., 2014. Loess in China and Europe: a tribute to

Ed Derbyshire. Quaternary International 334-335, 1-3. Editorial. Stevens, T., Kirkham, A., Evans, G., 2011. Quaternary sea levels: recent evidence from Abu

Dhabi. Tribulus 19, 158-159. Stevens, T., Palk, C., Carter, A., Lu, H., Clift, P.D., 2010. Airborne dust sources and health – a

view from single grains of zircon. International Medical Geology Association Newsletter 16, 25-28.

Marković, S. B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Kukla, G. J., Heller, F., McCoy, W. D., Machalett, B., Oches, E. A., Jovanović, M. and Buggle, B. 2009.The Stari Slankamen loess-paleosol sequence-an unique Middle and late Early Pleistocene European paleoclimatic record. Marković, S. B., Hambach, U., Vandenberghe, J., Machalett, B. and Stevens, T. (Eds.): International conference on loess research Loessfest’09 , Novi Sad, Field Guidebook, 1-17.

Lu, H., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Cosgrove, R., Zhao, C., Stevens, T., Zhao, J., 2007. A preliminary survey on loess deposit in eastern Qinling mountains (Central China) and its implications for estimating age of the Pleistocene lithic artefacts. Quaternary Sciences 27(4), 1-9 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Stevens, T., 2007. Late Quaternary climate recorded in Chinese loess: OSL analysis of record continuity and preservation. Quaternary Newsletter 112, 59.

Stevens, T., 2007. Late Quaternary climate recorded in Chinese loess: OSL analysis of record continuity and preservation. Geophemera 99, 21.

Lu, H. Zhou, Y., Mason, J., Stevens, T., Shuangwen, Y., Swinehart, J., 2006. Late Quaternary climatic changes in northern China - new evidences from sand dune and loess records based on optically stimulated luminescence dating. Quaternary Sciences 26(6), 888-894 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Marković, S.B., Oches, E.A., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., McCoy, W.D., Stevens, T., Sümegi, P., Savić S., Ivanišević, P., Walther R. and Galović, Z. 2004. The Late Pleistocene

paleoclimate and paleoenvironment recorded in the loess-paleosol sequence at Irig brickyard exposure. In: Marković, S.B., Jovanović, M. and Ercegovac, M. (Eds.), Milutin Milankovitch Anniversary Symposium, Paleoclimatic Record of Milankovitch’s Loess, Field Guide 2nd September 2004. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 27-24, Belgrade.

Research Grants and Contracts

Large grants > £5000

NERC joint standard grant (lead PI): Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last 22 Myr (Total budget is ~£1 million. Royal Holloway component £328,675) - Jan 2011

National Geographic Grant for research (lead PI): Investigating the East Asian monsoon through geochronological, geochemical and magnetic fabric analyses of late Cenozoic sediments in China (US$14,400 – all Royal Holloway) - July 2008

Collaborator on Steno grant from The Danish Council for Independent Research/Natural Sciences: The first independent chronology for the East Asian Monsoon over the last 200,000 years from loess. Total budget (held at lead institution Aarhus University, Denmark): £273,985 - May 2011

Minor grants < £5000 (All PI)

RSF fund application to Royal Holloway. £3600. Quantifying one of the great unknowns of the past climate system – atmospheric dust flux – October 2012

RSF fund application to Royal Holloway. £3600. Volcanic ash layers in Chinese environmental records: a new avenue for research and grant income - November 2011

NERC FSF ASD fieldpro probe loan (588.1209) - £1980 equivalent - January 2010

QRA Research Grant - £350 - June 2009

Geological Society of London research grant (Elspeth Matthews Fund) £1016 - February 2009

Quaternary Research Association (Quaternary Research Fund) £500 - February 2008

Royal Society Outgoing Short Visit Grant £3476 - May 2007

Geological Society of London research grant (Elspeth Matthews Fund) £1610 - April 2007

Norman Ellis and Charles Green research awards - Jesus College, Oxford University - March 2006

NERC, UK Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry awards (OSS/279/0205 and OSS/302/1105) - February 2004 and January 2006

Norman Ellis research award – Jesus College, Oxford University - May 2004

Consultancies

November 2010 – 5 OSL dates from Australian Dune samples.

Academic Prizes, Awards, Honours

January 2004 – October 2006 Meyricke Scholar of Jesus College, University of Oxford

September 2001 – September 2002 British Universities North America Club BEST John S. Ball Memorial Scholar

Invited and Keynote Presentations

February 2016, Darmstadt Technical University, Germany: Plio-Pleistocene loess and red clay records of East Asian monsoon and Tibetan plateau denudation. Invited talk

September 2015, Jerusalem, Israel, AEOMED International workshop: Chinese Loess Plateau dust: desert, river or mountain sources? Invited talk.

April 2015, Vienna, Austria, EGU international conference. Yellow River sediment dynamics and the provenance of Chinese Loess Plateau dust – an unexpected relationship. Keynote.

February 2015, Stockholm University: Loess, deserts and the yellow River: genetic linkage and an explanation for mismatched Cenozoic climate and denudation records?

May 2013, Kingston University, London, UK: Rivers of dust: the Tibetan plateau, Yellow River and Chinese loess

October 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia, Ed@80s international conference. Could the Chinese Loess Plateau receive significant dust input from the Yellow River? Keynote.

September 2012, Arid Environment Research Centre, Lanzhou, China. Sources of loess and sand in north China – a surprise in store?

October 2010, Leibniz Institute for Geophysics, Hannover, Germany. Loess in Serbia.

August 2010, Lanzhou, China, Chinese Quaternary Conference (CHIQUA). Single-grain analysis of the provenance of loess and desert sediments in China.

August 2010, Lanzhou, China, Chinese Quaternary Conference (CHIQUA). OSL dating: methodologies, challenges, prospects. Workshop.

August 2010, Institute of Salt Lake Research, Xining University, Xining, China. Aeolian sediments in China: clues from two different minerals.

August 2009, Novi Sad, Serbia, Loessfest international conference 2009. Assessing the sources of loess using single-grains. Keynote.

September 2008, Bochum, Germany, International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting. Understanding rapid climate change: clues from the sedimentary record. Keynote.

August 2008, School of Oceanographic & Geographic Science, Nanjing University, China. The monsoon and late Cenozoic sediments in China.

July 2007, Cairns, Australia, INQUA conference. Optical dating of the late Quaternary East Asian monsoon. Keynote.

Conference papers Zhang, H., Lu, H., Xu, X., Liu, X., Yang, T., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Xu, Z., Zhang, T., Lei, F., Feng,

H., 2015. Characteriszation of detrital zircon U-Pb age patterns of the sandy and Gobi desert and implication for Chinese loess source. AGU congress, San Francisco, USA.

Stevens, T., 2015. Chinese Loess Plateau dust: desert, river or mountain sources? AEOMED International workshop, Jerusalem, Israel, September 2015 – international conference.

Nie, J., Stevens, T., Song, Y., King, J.W., Zhang, R., Ji, S., Gong, L., Cares, D., 2014. Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification. INQUA congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan, July 2015 – international conference.

Markovic, S., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Timar-Gabor, A., Obrech, I., Zeeden, C., Stevens, T., Jary, Z., Gavrilov, M., 2015. Climate and Environmental dynamics recorded at East-Central European Loess belt during the last glacial cycle. INQUA congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan, July 2015 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Nie, J., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Limonta, M., Resentini, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Millar, I., Lin, Z., Zhang, H., 2015. Is Chinese Loess Plateau dust a source or sink for Yellow River sediment? INQUA congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan, July 2015 – international conference.

Zaremba, K., Stevens, T., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Limonta, M., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Xu, Z., 2015. High-resolution single-grain record of last glacial dust provenance at Beiguoyuan, NW Chinese Loess Plateau. INQUA congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan, July 2015 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Zaremba, K., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Limonta, M., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Xu, Z., Adamiec, G., 2015. Variability in Chinese loess single-grain provenance data and the influence of the Quaternary East Asian winter monsoon. EGU congress 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 2015 – international conference.

Nie, J., Stevens, T., King, J.W., Song, Y., 2014. Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification. EGU congress 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 2015 – international conference.

Rittner, M., Vermeesch. P., Carter, A., Bird, A., Stevens, T., Garzanti, E., Ando, S., Lu, H., Xu, Z., 2014. Multi-proxy provenance analysis of the Tarim basin, NW China. EGU congress 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 2015 – international conference.

Markovic, S., Timar-Gabor, A., Stevens, T., Guo, Z., Hao, Q., Song, Y., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Peric, Z., Obrecht, I., Zeeden, C., Veres, D., Gavrilov, M., 2015. Dust deposition during the Early Holocene on the loess plateaus of the Vojvodina region in Northern Serbia. EGU congress 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 2015 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Nie, J., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Limonta, M., Resentini, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Huayu, L., Millar, I., Lin, Z., Zhang, H., 2015. Yellow River sediment dynamics and the provenance of Chinese Loess Plateau dust – an unexpected relationship. EGU congress 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 2015 – international conference.

Markovic, S.B., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Hambach, U., Fitzsimmons, K.E., et al., 2014. The Danube loess record – between illusion and reality. In memory to George Kukla. Kukla Loessfest 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Carter, A., et al., 2014. Northern Tibet as a Pliocene-Quaternary dust source to the Chinese Loess Plateau. In memory to George Kukla. Kukla Loessfest 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014 – international conference.

Sechi, D., Stevens, T., Andreucci, S., Pascucci, V., 2014. Testing luminescence dating methods on Pleistocene carbonate intertidal deposits (bioherms), NW Sardinia (Italy); problems and perspectives. International Sedimentological Congress 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2014 – international congress.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Adamiec, G., Millar, I., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2014. Multi-technique single-grain and whole rock analysis of dust source variation to the Chinese Loess Plateau. International Sedimentological Congress 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2014 – international congress.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Adamiec, G., Millar, I., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2014. Quaternary dust sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau – what role does fluvial transport have? International Conference on Aeolian Research 2014, Lanzhou, China, August 2014 – international congress.

Buylaert, J-P., Thiel, C., Yi, S., Stevens, T., Murray, A.S., Frechen, M., Lu, H., 2014. Using luminescence dating of Chinese loess to identify discontinuities in the sedimentary record. International Conference on Aeolian Research 2014, Lanzhou, China, August 2014 – international congress.

Buylaert, J-P., Murray, A.S., Thiel, C., Yi, S., Jain, M., Thomsen, K., Stevens, T., Lu, H., 2014. Are there systematic errors in SAR post-IR IRSL dating of Chinese loess? International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference 2014, Montreal, Canada, August 2014, - international congress.

Yeo, E-Y., Buylaert, J-P., Thiel, C., Yi, S., Thompson, W., Stevens, T., Frechen, M., Murray, A.S., Lu, H., 2014. A post-IR IRSL chronology for the last interglacial soil at the Jingbian loess site (northern China). International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference 2014, Montreal, Canada, August 2014, - international congress.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2014. Is Quaternary loess-dust on the Chinese Loess Plateau sourced from the Yellow River? Dust 2014, Castalanetta Marina, Italy, June 2014 – international conference.

Bird, A., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Nie, J., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2014. Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Dust 2014, Castalanetta Marina, Italy, June 2014 – international conference.

Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Bird, A., Stevens, T., 2014. Provenance study on the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. Dust 2014, Castalanetta Marina, Italy, June 2014 – international conference.

Markovic, S.B., Stevens, T., Hambach, U., Timar-Gabor, A., 2014. The Danube loess record – between myth and reality. Dust 2014, Castalanetta Marina, Italy, June 2014 – international conference.

Rodenburg, T.N., Bird, A.F., Millar, I.L., Stevens, T., 2014. Modelling Sr and Nd isotope data to investigate provenance of Mu Us desert sands, Northern China. Research in Progress meeting of the UK Geochemistry Group 2014, Milton Keynes, UK, March 2014 – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Bird, A., Rittner, M., Lu, H., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Nie, J., Adamiec, G., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2013. Quaternary dust sources on the Chinese Loess Plateau: a view from single zircon grains, heavy minerals and quartz luminescence. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, Ca, USA, December 2013 – international conference.

Nie, J., Stevens, T., Moller, A., Stockli, D.F., Horton, B.K., Fang, X., 2013. Provenance of the upper Miocene-Pliocene red clay deposits of the Chinese Loess Plateau. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, Ca, USA, December 2013 – international conference.

McGann, M., Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Ussler III, W., Buylaert, J-P., 2013. Constraining the timing of turbidity current driven sediment transport down Monterey Canyon, offshore California. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, Ca, USA, December 2013 – international conference.

Bird, A., Stevens, T., Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Lu, H., Millar, I., Zeng, L., Zhang, H., Xu, Z., 2013. Sediment provenance of modern Yellow River deposits: relationship to Chinese Loess Plateau dust. IGCP581 – Evolution of Asian Rivers meeting, Ha Noi, Vietnam, November 2013 – international meeting.

Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Bird, A., Stevens, T., 2013. Multi-proxy sediment provenance data from the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Co, USA, October 2013 – international meeting.

Stevens, T., Bird, A.., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Lu, H., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Adamiec, G., 2013. Variation in Quaternary dust sources at Beiguoyuan on the northern Chinese Loess Plateau. INQUA loess conference, Leicester, UK, September 2013 – international meeting.

Bird, A., Stevens, T., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Lu, H., Ando, S., Garzanti, E., Nie, J., Millar, I., 2013. Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. INQUA loess conference, Leicester, UK, September 2013 – international meeting.

Marković, S.B., Sumegi, P., Zech, R., Zech, M., Stevens, T., Svircev, Z., Hambach, U., 2013. Crvenka loess-palaeosol sequence (Vojvodina, Northern Serbia) – a record of continuous domination of Late Pleistocene grassland. INQUA loess conference, Leicester, UK, September 2013 – international meeting.

Rittner, M., Vermeesch, P., Bird, A., Stevens, T., 2013. Sediment provenance data from the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. INQUA loess conference, Leicester, UK, September 2013 – international meeting.

Stevens, T., Jestico, M., Kirkham, A., Evans, G., 2013. Constraining late Quaternary sea-level change in the Arabian/Persian Gulf using optically stimulated luminescence dating. International Association of Sedimentologists Meeting, Manchester UK, September 2013 – international meeting.

Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Zech, M., 2013. Detailed post-IR dating of the Irig loess profile, Vojvodina, Serbia. UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Conference, St Andrews, UK, September 2013 – national meeting.

Bate, S.E., Stevens, T., Tasić, N., Marković, S.B., Buylaert, J-P., 2013. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of pottery and sediment of the Neolithic Vinča culture, Serbia. Towards the reconstruction of paleoenvironment of Vinča, Belo brdo – Garden of Eden?, Belgrade, Serbia, June 2013 – international conference.

McGann, M., Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Usller III, W., Buylart, J-P., 2013. Comparison of benthic foraminiferal AMS 14C and optically stimulated luminescence dating techniques used to determine the timing of Holocene sediment transport down the Monterey Submarine Canyon. American Association of Petroleum Geologists conference, Monterey, USA – international conference.

Stevens T., Markovic, S.B., Zech, M., 2012. Quartz OSL and polymineral post-IR IRSL dating of the Irig loess profile in Vojvodina, Serbia. UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating conference 2012, Aberystwyth, UK – national meeting.

Jestico, M.J., Stevens, T., Evans, G., Kirkham, A., 2012. Constraining Late-Quaternary sea-level change in the Arabian/Persian Gulf using optically stimulated luminescence. UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating conference 2012, Aberystwyth, UK – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Watson, T.P., Lu, H., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Cottam, M.A., Sevastjanova, I., Rittner, M., 2012 invited talk. Rivers of dust - loess deposition and major rivers. DEQUA conference 2012, Bayreuth, Germany – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Bird, A., Carter, A., Vermeesch, P., Watson, T.P., Lu, H., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Cottam, M.A., Sevastjanova, I., Rittner, M., 2012 plenary keynote. Could the Chinese Loess Plateau receive significant dust input from the Yellow River? Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Zech, M., 2012. The Irig loess profile in Vojvodina, Serbia: dating using quartz OSL and polymineral post-IR IRSL. Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Jovanović, M., O’Hara-Dhand, K., Lukić, T., Basarin, B., Lu, H., Smalley, I., Buggle, B., Zech, M., Svirčev, Z., Sümegi, P., Milojković, N., Zöller, L., 2012 plenary keynote. Loess in the Vojvodina region (Northern Serbia): an essential link between European and Asian Pleistocene Environments. Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Újvári, G., Stevens, T., Blockley, S., 2012. Age-depth models and beyond: sedimentation velocity, dust flux and acceleration of sedimentation. Deeper insights into aeolian dust dynamics? Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Gulyás, S., Sümegi, P., Molnár, D., Csökmei, B., Persaits, G., Stevens, T., Hambach, U., Markovic, S., 2012. The first high-resolution multiproxy paleoenvironmental record of the past 800 kys from SW Hungary: a comparison with coeval loess/paleosol archives of Vojvodina. Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Basirin, B., Marković, S.B., O’Hara-Dhand, K., Hambach, U., Kovačević, A., Stevens, T., 2012. Timescale and astronomical imprint of Serbian loess deposits. Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Svirčev, Z., Marković, S.B., Stevens, T., Smalley, I., Obreht, I., Hambach, U., Dulić, T., Pantelić, T., 2012. Importance of biological loess crusts for loess formation in semi-arid environments. Ed@80s conference 2012, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Bird, A., Stevens, T., Carter, A., Watson, T.P., Vermeesch, P., Lu, H., Andò, S., Garzanti, E., Cottam, M.A., Sevastjanova, I., 2012. Genetic linkage between the Yellow River and the Chinese Loess Plateau. EGU meeting 2012, Vienna, Austria – international conference.

Syvirčev, Z., Marković, S.B., Stevens, T., Smalley, I., Obreht, I., 2011. Importamce of biological loess crusts for loess formation in semi-arid environments. Workshop of Quaternary climates and dust dynamics, Bremen, Germany – international conference.

Schatz, A-K., Buylaert, J-P., Murray, A.S., Stevens, T., Scholten, T., 2011. Estimating a luminescence chronology for a palaeosol-loess profile at Tokaj (Hungary); quartz OSL versus post-IR IRSL. International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Conference 2011, Gliwice, Poland – international conference.

Stevens, T., Marković, S.B., Lu, H., 2011. Dust accumulation rates and climate from Quaternary loess deposits. IAS meeting, Zaragoza, Spain – international conference.

Stevens, T., Watson, T., Carter, A., Palk, C., Lu, H., Sevastjanova, I., 2011. Constraining the origin of Mu Us Desert (China) sands using detrital zircons. IAS meeting, Zaragoza, Spain – international conference.

Stevens, T., Watson, T., Carter, A., Palk, C., Sevastjanova, I., Lu, H., 2011. Constraining the provenance of Mu Us Desert (China) sands using U-Pb dating of detrital zircons and heavy mineral assemblages. INQUA Congress 2011, Bern, Switzerland – international conference.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Marković, S.B., 2011. Using luminescence dating to reconstruct past loess dust accumulation rates: significance, trials and tribulations. INQUA Congress 2011, Bern, Switzerland – international conference.

Stevens, T., Vermeesch, P., Parrish, R.P., Carter, A., Palk, C., Lu, H., 2011. How can loess source region datasets be used to help constrain past atmospheric dust transport? INQUA Congress 2011, Bern, Switzerland – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Smalley, I.J., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Machalett, B., Buggle, B., Zech, M., Basarin, B., Ujvari, G., Sumegi, P., Kovacs, J., O’Hara Dhand, K., Jovanovic, M., Lukic, T., Gaudenyi, T., Zöller, L., 2011. Danube Loess Stratigraphy: Towards Eurasian loess chronostratigraphy. 6th International INQUA loess workshop, Wroclaw, Poland – international conference.

Schmidt, E.D., Murray, A.S., Stevens, T., Buylaert, J-P., Marković, S.B., Tsukamoto, S., Frechan, M., 2010. Elevated temperature IRSL dating of the lower part of the Stari Slankamen loess sequence (Vojvodina, Serbia) – investigating the saturation behaviour of the post-IR IR 290°C. UK luminescence and electron spin resonance dating conference, Oxford, September 2010 – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Ussler III, W., McGann, M., Buylaert, J-P., 2010. Examining the timing of sand transport from land to the abyssal plain. International Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina – international conference.

Stevens, T., Watson, T., Carter, A., Sevastjanova, I., Cottam, M., Lu, H., 2010. Variability of provenance across the Mu Us Desert (Northern China) from analysis of heavy minerals and single zircon grains. International Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina – international conference.

Stevens, T., Smith, M.J. and MacArthur, A.M., 2010. Loess spectroscopy: a comparative assessment of reflectance and destructive geochemical techniques as proxies for past climate change. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference, September, 2010 – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Sumegi, P., Stevens T., Zech, M., 2010. The upper and the latest Middle Pleistocene paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of the brickyard section at Crvenka (North Serbia), based on Quaternary mollusc remains. EQMal 2010, Szeged, Hungary, 23 – national meeting.

Lukić, T., Marković, S.B., Stevens, T., Vasiljević, Dj. A., Basarin, B., Milojković, N., Lazić, L., Obreht, I., Đorđević, J. 2010. Importance of geoconservation of the loess "cave" in Surduk village as rare pseudokarst landform in the loess-paleosol sequences of Vojvodina (N Serbia). International conference on Geoheritage and Geotourism Research Geotrends’10 , Novi Sad, June 24th –June 26th 2010, Abstract book, 64-65 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Watson, T., Carter, A., Sevastjanova, I., Cottam, M., Lu, H., 2010. Single-grain analysis of the provenance of loess and desert sediments in China. CHIQUA conference abstracts, Lanzhou, China, 104 – national meeting.

Markovic, S.B., Stevens, T., Hambach, U., Machalett, B., Svircev. 2010. High resolution multi-proxy records of the last 60 kyr in the Southeastern Carpathian basin: towards a palaeoclimatic reconstruction from NW to SE Europe. EGU abstracts, Vienna – international conference.

Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Ussler III, W., McGann, M., Buylaert, J.-P., 2009. OSL dating of Monterey Canyon (CA, USA) sediment. UK luminescence and electron spin resonance dating conference, RHUL, August, 2009 – national meeting.

Stevens, T., 2009. Assessing the sources of loess using single-grains. Keynote for INQUA Loessfest 2009, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Smith, M.J., Stevens, T. 2009. Loess spectroscopy and its use as a proxy for past climate change. INQUA Loessfest 2009, Novi Sad, Serbia – international conference.

Marković, S. B., Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Machalett, B., Kukla, G. J., Oches, E. A., McCoy, W. D., Buggle, B., Gavrilov, M. B., Gavrilov, M. M., Basarin, B. and Zöller, L. 2009.The Last Million Years Recorded at the Loess- Paleosol Sequences in the Vojvodina Region, Serbia. International conference on loess research. Loessfest 09 , Novi Sad, 26-27 – international conference.

Zech, M., Buggle, B. Marković, S. B. Hambach, U., Stevens, T., Zöller, L. 2009. Multi-proxy analytical characterisation and palaeoclimatic interpretation of the Crvenca loess-palaeosol sequence, Serbia. Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, 8191 – international conference.

Marković, S. B. Bokhorst, M.P., Machalett, B., Štrbac, D., Hambach, U., Basarin, B., Svirčev, Z., Stevens, T., Frechen, M., Vandenberghe, J. 2009. Last glacial aeolian dynamics at the Titel loess plateau (Vojvodina, Serbia). Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, 6331 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Paull, C.K., Ussler III, W., McGann, M., Buylaert, J.-P., 2009. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediment transport down Monterey Canyon (CA, USA). 27th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting, Alghero (Italy) 2009 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Palk, C., Carter, A., Lu, H., Clift, P.D., 2009. Provenance of loess and desert sediments in Northern China: U-Pb dating and grain morphology of detrital zircons. 27th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting, Alghero (Italy) 2009 – international conference.

Smith, M.J., Stevens, T. 2009. Loess spectroscopy and its use as a proxy for past climate change. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference, Leicester, UK, September, 2009 – international conference.

Gillmore, G.K., Stevens, T., 2008. Multidisciplinary palaeoenvironmental approaches in geoarchaeology: a case study from the Tehran Plain, Iran. 10th International Congress on Iranian Archaeology, Bandar Abbas, Iran, December, 2008 – international conference.

Oches, E.A., Machalett, B., Marković, S.B., McCoy, W.D., Stevens, T. 2008. Amino acid geochronology as an independent test of numerical dating methods applied to Loess Deposits in Southeastern Europe and Central Asia. American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2008 – international conference.

Marković, S. B. Hambach, U., Machalett, B., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Heller, F., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Buggle, B., Zoeller, L., Basarin, B., Milojković, N., Lukić, T. 2008. The last 850 millennia recorded at the Stari Slankamen loess-paleosol sequence: revised chronostratigraphy and longterm environmental trends. AGU Fall Meeting 2008, November, San Francisco, USA, PP13A-1421 – international conference.

Smith, M.J., Stevens, T. 2008. Loess spectroscopy and its use as a proxy for past climate change. Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) High Resolution Geological Remote Sensing meeting December 2008, London UK – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Buylaert, J.P., Murray, A.S., 2008. Development of a broadly-applicable SAR TT-OSL dating protocol for quartz. 12th International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference (LED), Beijing 2008, 144 – international conference.

Lu, Z., Zhou, Y.L., Mason, J., Stevens, T., Yi, S.W., Swinehart, J. 2008. Climatic change in Late Quaternary in Northern China revealed by optically stimulated luminescence dating in sands and loess. 12th International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference (LED), Beijing 2008, 107 – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Hambach, U., Machalett, B., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Smalley, I.J., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Zöller, L., Buggle, B., Jovanović, M., O´Hara Dhand, K., Gaudenyi, T., Frechen. M., 2008. Danube loess stratigraphy: Serbian viewpoint. Deutschen Quartärvereinigung meeting (DEUQUA), Vienna 2008 – national meeting.

Zech, M., Buggle, B., Markovic, S., Lucic, T., Stevens, T., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanovic, M., Huwe, B., Zöller, L., 2008. First Alkane Biomarker Results for the Reconstruction of the Vegetation History of the Carpathian Basin (SE Europe). In: J. Reitner et al. (Editors.), Veränderter Lebensraum – Gestern, Heute und Morgen. DEUQUA Symposium 2008. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 62, Wien, pp. 123-127 – national meeting.

Stevens, T. 2008 (invited keynote in special symposium). Understanding rapid climate change: clues from the sedimentary record. 26th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting, Bochum 2008, abstract volume, 261 – international conference.

Stevens, T. Lu, H. 2008. Optically stimulated luminescence dating as a tool for calculating sedimentation rates in Chinese loess: comparisons to grain-size records. 26th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting, Bochum 2008, abstract volume, 260 – international conference.

Gillmore, G.K., Stevens, T., Coningham, R.A.E., Batt, C., Fazeli, H., Young, R. Buylaert, J.P., 2008. Human-landscape interactions on the Tehran Plain during the Neolithic-Chalcolithic transition and Iron Age: 14C and OSL dating of alluvial fan deposits at Tepe Pardis, Iran. 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC) Oslo 2008 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., 2007 (Keynote). Optical dating of the late Quaternary East Asian monsoon. XVII INQUA congress, Cairns, Australia, 2007. Quaternary International 167-168 (Supp. 1) 396 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., 2007. Reinterpreting climate proxy records in Chinese loess. XVII INQUA congress, Cairns, Australia, 2007. Quaternary International 167-168 (Supp. 1) 396-397 – international conference.

Lu, H., Zhou, Y., Mason, J., Stevens, T., Yi, S., Swineheart, J., 2007. Late Quaternary climatic changes in Northern China – New evidences from sand dune and loess records based on optically

stimulated luminescence dating. XVII INQUA congress, Cairns, Australia, 2007. Quaternary International 167-168 (Supp. 1) 253 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Lu, H. 2007. Anomalous quartz luminescence behaviour revealed through high sampling resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess. UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Dating Conference, Sheffield, UK, abstracts 70-71 – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J.A., Lunn, H.R., 2006. Continuity and resolution of the Chinese loess record; evidence for rapid climate change? BGRG, Geomorphology and Earth System Science, GESS, Loughborough, 2006, 121 – national meeting.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Armitage, S.J.A., Thomas, D.S.G., Lunn, H.R., 2006. Sedimentation, diagenesis and preservation of late Quaternary Chinese loess; implications for interpreting the palaeoclimate record. 17th International Sedimentological Congress, ISC, Fukuoka, Japan 2006, Volume A, 145 – international conference.

Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Marković, S.B., Horváth, E., Stevens, T., Walther, A.R. 2006. Amino Acid Racemization in Fossil Gastropod Shells From European Loess Sequences. "Danubius Pannonico Mysicus - Space of challenges" International meeting in honour of 280th anniversary of the first multiciplinary research about the middle and lower Danube Basin written by Luigi Ferdinadno Marsigli. Novi Sad, Serbia, 29 September-02 October 2006. Abstract book: 20 – international conference.

Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Thomas, D.S.G., Lu, H., Stokes, S., 2005. The nature of deposition on the Chinese Loess Plateau assessed using high-resolution OSL dates. International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, LED 2005, Cologne, Germany. Abstracts, 178 – international conference.

Oches, E.A., Marković, S.B., McCoy, W.D., Stevens, T., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanovic, M., Walther, R., 2003. Linking the loess – paleosol record of Pleistocene climate in Serbia with the expanding central European aminostratigraphy. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, USA. Abstracts, 53-7, 167 – international conference.

Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Walther, R.A., Stevens, T., 2003 Ground-temperature controls on racemization-derived paleotemperature estimates for the last glaciation in central Europe. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, USA. Abstracts, 5-40, 80 – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Oches, E., Zöller, L., Savić, S., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., Sümegi, P., McCoy, W.D., Ivanisević, P., Stevens, T., 2003. 150.000 years of paleoclimate and palaeoenvironment recorded in the loess-paleosol sequence at Petrovaradin brickyard exposure (Vojvodina, Serbia). INQUA Loess Commission, Moscow, Russia. Abstracts, 47-48 – international conference.

Marković, S.B., Oches, E., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanović, M., McCoy, W.D., Stevens, T., Sümegi, P., Savić, S., Ivanisević, P., Walther, R., Galović, Z., 2003. Late Pleistocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment recorded in the loess-paleosol sequence at Irig brickyard exposure (Vojvodina; Serbia). Applied Environmental Geology, AEG 2003, Vienna, Austria, Abstracts, 152-153 – international conference.

Organisation of Conferences

September 2009, RHUL, UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Conference – co-organising and hosting.

Scientific board of all International Association of Sedimentologists conferences since 2008 and on Loessfest and Ed@80s conferences in Novi Sad, Serbia

Organiser of ‘Geologic Record of Dust’ session at Dust2014 conference, Castalanetta Marina, Italy, June 2014.

Editorships of Learned Journals

Editor in Chief of International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publications (2007-2014)

Ed@80s conference special issue co-editor – Quaternary International (volume published June 2014, volume 334-335)

PhD Student and Postdoc Supervision

2015-present: PhD supervision of Ms Angela Moissl (Uppsala): Geochemical and mineralogical analysis of geological archives of fine (<10 microns) aeolian dust.

Supervisor of post-doc Dr Anna Bird, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (NERC post doc on dust storms project) – 2011-June 2014.

Supervisor of Mr Yajun Li on Royal Holloway-Lanzhou Excellence PhD Scholarship, (Debris flow dynamics around the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau in relation with climate variations and tectonic activity during the Quaternary period) – Sept 2013 – present. After September 2014 switched to external supervisor.

Supervisor to visiting post doc Dr Daniele Sechi (Cagliari University, Sardinia) in both Royal Holloway and at the Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence dating, Risø, Denmark. 2014 - present.

Supervisor of visiting post-doc (4 months) Dr Elisa Beilinson, University of La Plata, Argentina (Sequence Stratigraphy of Mar del Plata Continental Sequences) – 2012.

Supervisor of visiting PhD student (6 months) Mr Suhail Choudhary, University of Karachi, Pakistan (OSL dating of Thar Desert dunes) -2012.

Advisor to Royal Holloway PhD Gareth Tye (MIS 11 varved lake sequences, Marks Tey, England) – 2011-2014.

Teaching

Teaching Achievements

Distinction in Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) accredited

CAPITAL new lecturer course at Royal Holloway

Fellow of Higher Education Funding Council of England

Designing of innovative e-learning, assessment and feedback on 1st year statistics

course, Royal Holloway

Design and leading of successful 3rd year option course at Royal Holloway

Implementation of a wide range of teaching and assessment methods

Outstanding Individual Award for improving access for disabled and dyslexic students

at Royal Holloway, 2014.

Taught Courses

Currently taught ‘Geomorphology’ and ‘Environmental Change on Geological Timescales’ MSc courses at

Uppsala University.(teach all of both courses except one lecture on Geomorphology) ‘Landskapsutveckling’ undergraduate course at Uppsala University (1 lecture, 1 practical) MSc and undergraduate student supervision at Uppsala University Previously taught Multiple MSc and BSc student dissertations at Royal Holloway, Kingston and Oxford Statistics for Geographers (Royal Holloway – 1st years). GG1011 – Module D. Redesigned

and incorporated innovative online assessment. 100-140 students Physical Geography Field Course to Ireland (Royal Holloway – 2nd years) GG2001. Course

leader 2011 and 2013. Designed two field days. 15-40 students. China: Climate change, tectonics and people (Royal Holloway – 3rd years). GG3036.

Module Leader and course designer. 20-30 students. Tutorials for 1st to 3rd years (Royal Holloway) 4-7 students. Sedimentology (Royal Holloway, MSc). GG5201. Module Leader. 10-22 students. Palaeoclimatology – monsoons and Quaternary climate (Royal Holloway, MSc). GG5291.

Designed part of course. 10-22 students. Principles of Quaternary Research (Royal Holloway, MSc). GG5293. Designed part of

course. 10-22 students. Applied Sedimentology. GL3300B. (Kingston – 3rd years) Plate Margin Processes. GL3250B. (Kingston – 3rd years) Atmosphere and Oceans. GL2330B. (Kingston – 2nd years) Tenerife Fieldtrip. GL2800B. (Kingston – 2nd years) Peak District fieldtrip. GL1890B. (Kingston – 1st years) Earth Environments. GG1020B. (Kingston – 1st years) Investigating the Earth and Environment. GL1880. (Kingston – 1st years) Module Leader

and Fieldtrip Leader ~130 students Tutorials – The Quaternary Period (Oxford – 1st, 2nd and 3rd years) Statistics and Quantitative Analysis (Oxford – 1st years) Sediment Analysis Lab Class. (Oxford – 2nd years). Developed.

External Engagement/Impact

Science Nordic article related to Nie et al. (2015) Nature Communications paper (October 2015): http://sciencenordic.com/scientists-rewrite-history-ancient-region

Various newspaper/website articles related to Giosan et al., (2012) PNAS paper, including articles in the Los Angeles Times, Sciencedailey.com and a Royal Holloway press release (May 2012).

Coverage in various websites including Sciencedaily.com and a RHUL press release (15th Oct 2013) for Stevens et al., (2013) – Quaternary Science Reviews paper.

Widespread, international media coverage (City AM, Forbes, Dagbladet, Repubblica, Ecoticias, Science Daily, Easy Branches) and Royal Holloway press release (27th June 2014) for Nie et al., (2014) – Nature Scientific Reports paper.

TV report on Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 (Latin American TV channel) including appearance – 09/07/14 – Nature Scientific Reports paper. http://www.ntn24.com/videos/la-union-de-las-americas-propicio-la-edad-de-hielo-de-hace-26-millones-de-anos-138914

Geological Society of America press release for Stevens et al., 2014 GSA Bulletin paper as ‘highlight’. http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/13-80.htm

Talk to the High Weald Branch of the A level Geographers Association 19/01/10 – completed.

Website for public engagement with NERC project on dust storms - www.rhul.ac.uk/chinesedust – ongoing.

Running of ‘Ice age Practical’ element of summer ‘Science Taster Days’ for A level students, hosted at Royal Holloway, 2010-2013.

Administration/Leadership

Secretary of Centre for Quaternary Research, Geography, Royal Holloway (September 2010 - September 2014)

Head of Lab and Field Committee, Geography, Royal Holloway (September 2012 -September 2014). Secured £200,000 for department lab equipment and submitted NERC Capital equipment bids (up to £500,000) to College.

Key member of Royal Holloway team working towards joint research and teaching links and institutional agreement between Royal Holloway and Lanzhou University, China. Ongoing.

Representative of ‘new academic staff’ during Royal Holloway audit by HEFCE, May 2011 to comment on ‘student learning experience’.

Line manager of dedicated Geography laboratory technicians on RSF funded Chinese Loess Tephrochronology project and Hungarian Dust Accumulation projects. Completed 2013.

Supervisor of post-doc Dr Anna Bird, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (NERC post doc on dust storms project) – 2011-2014

Supervisor of visiting post-doc (4 months) Dr Elisa Beilinson, University of La Plata, Argentina (Sequence Stratigraphy of Mar del Plata Continental Sequences) – 2012.

Responsibility for budgets on various grants, including NERC grant on dust sources in China over the last 22 million years (> £1 million). 2011-2014.

Leadership of various Geography undergraduate and masters level courses Elected Bureau Member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) 2007-

2014. National Correspondent for Sweden for the International Association of Sedimentologists

(IAS) – 2016- present INQUA PALCOMM group corresponding member (since 2009)

Memberships

Fellow of the Geological Society of London Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

International Association of Sedimentologists (Bureau member from 2007-2014) Quaternary Research Association UK INTIMATE member

Staff Development Activities

Doctoral Supervisor Training within the Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University (Autumn 2015, 2 full day equivalents).

CAPITAL (HEFCE accredited) training program for new lecturers – Distinction in final result (2009-2011)

InsideEdge Media Training workshop 01/12/11 Fieldwork/Outdoor First Aid Course 12-13/12/11 Project ‘REVISE’ training 14/09/10 Gas Safety Course 09/12/09 E-learning seminars 09-16/09/09 Coaching skills for researchers workshop, 26/05/09 Equality and Law Seminar, Eversheds LLP, 02/04/09 Asperger Syndrome seminar, National Autistic Society 18/02/09 First Aid at Work St Johns Ambulance Qualification 13/02/09 GEES new lecturers workshop – Birmingham 21-22/05/07