Background

Personal Profile

2019 –            Reader in Physical Geography

2016 – 2019.  Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

2012 – 2016.  Lecturer in Physical Geography

2011 – 2012.  C3W Lecturer in Quaternary Environmental Change, Aberystwyth University 

2008 – 2011.  SAGES Lecturer in Geosciences, University of Glasgow

2007 – 2008.  Lecturer in Quaternary Environmental Change, Aberystwyth University 

2004 – 2007.  NSF PDRA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Education

2000 – 2004.  Ph.D. Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London

1998 – 1999.  M.Res. Environmental Science, University College London

1995 – 1998.  B.Sc. (Hons) Natural Sciences, Durham University

Research

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

GEO2037 Ireland Field Trip (Module Leader)

GEO3099 Dissertation (Mentor)

Postgraduate teaching

GEO8024 Environmental Isotopes

GEO8020 Research Dissertation (Mentor)

Publications

• Mackay H, Davies KL, Robertson J, Roy L, Bull ID, Whitehouse NJ, Crone A, Cavers G, McCormick F, Brown AG, Henderson ACG. Characterising life in settlements and structures: incorporating faecal biomarkers within a multiproxy case study of a wetland village. Journal of Archaeological Science 2020, 121, 105202.
• Broadman E, Kaufman DS, Henderson ACG, Berg EE, Anderson RS, Leng MJ, Stahnke SA, Munoz SE. Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 2020, 241, 106420.
• Sear DA, Allen MS, Hassall JD, Maloney AE, Langdon PG, Morrison AE, Henderson ACG, Mackay H, Croudace IW, Clarke C, Sachs JP, Macdonald G, Chiverrell RC, Leng MJ, Cisneros-Dozal LM, Fonville T. Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020, epub ahead of print.
• Waldron S, Vihermaa V, Evers S, Garnett GH, Newton J, Henderson ACG. C mobilisation in disturbed tropical peat swamps: old DOC can fuel the fluvial efflux of old carbon dioxide, but site recovery can occur. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 11429.
• Barr C, Tibby J, Leng MJ, Tyler JJ, Henderson ACG, Overpeck JT, Simpson GL, Cole JE, Phipps SJ, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Hua Q, McRobie FH. Holocene El Niño-Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 1627.
• Andrae JW, McInerney FA, Tibby J, Henderson ACG, Hall PA, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Barr C, Greenway M. Variation in leaf wax n-alkane characteristics with climate in the broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Organic Geochemistry 2019, 130, 33-42.
• Haberzettl T, Daut G, Schulze N, Spiess V, Wang J, Zhu L, St-Onge G, Chen F, Liu X, Lyu X, Ju J, Ma Q, Wu Z, Wunnemann B, Yan D, Yi S, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Zhao H, Buylaert J-P, Murray A, van der Woerd J, Frenzel P, Gleixner G, Harms U, Reicherter K, Schwalb A, Ulfers A, ujvari G, Mehrotra N, Waldmann N, Lami A, Ariztegui D, Barbolini N, Ascough P, Clarke L, Henderson A, Staff R, Noren A, Spanbauer T, Stoner J. ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau: 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake. Scientific Drilling 2019, 25, 63-70.
• Crone A, Cavers G, Allison E, Davies K, Hamilton D, Henderson ACG, Mackay H, McLaren D, Robertson J, Roy J, Whitehouse N. Nasty, Brutish and Short? The life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology 2019, 18(2).
• Ratcliffe JL, Payne RJ, Sloan TJ, Smith B, Waldron S, Mauquoy D, Newton A, Anderson AR, Henderson A, Andersen R. Holocene carbon accumulation in the peatlands of northern Scotland. Mires and Peat 2018, 23(3), 1-30.
• Plancq J, McColl JL, Bendle JA, Seki O, Couto JM, Henderson ACG, Yamashita Y, Kimitaka K, Toney JL. Genomic identification of the long-chain alkenone producer in freshwater Lake Toyoni, Japan: implications for temperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry 2018, 125, 189-195.
• van Hardenbroek M, Chakraborty A, Davies KL, Harding P, Heiri O, Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Lasher GE, Leng MJ, Panizzo VN, Roberts L, Schilder J, Trueman CN, Wooller MJ. The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: Current understanding, challenges, and future directions. Quaternary Science Reviews 2018, 196, 154-176.
• Gallagher SJ, Sagawa T, Henderson ACG, Saavedra-Pellitero M, deVleeschouwer D, Black H, Itak T, Toucanne S, Bassetti MA, Clemens S, Anderson W, Alvarez-Zarikian CA, Tada R. East Asian monsoon history and pale oceanography of the Japan Sea over the last 460,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 2018, 33(7), 683-702.
• Tada R, Irino T, Ikehara K, Karasuda A, Sugisaki S, Xuan C, Sagawa T, Itaki T, Kubota Y, Lu S, Seki A, Murray RW, Alvarez-Zarikian CA, Anderson WT, Bassetti M-A, Brace BJ, Clemens SC, da Costa Gurgel MH, Dickens GR, Dunlea AG, Gallagher SJ, Giosan L, Henderson ACG, Holbourn AE, Kinsley CW, Lee GS, Lee KE, Lofi J, Lopes CICD, Saavedra-Pellitero M, Peterson LC, Singh RK, Toucanne S, Wan S, Zheng HB, Ziegler M. High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346. Progress in Earth and Planetary Sciences 2018, 5, 19.
• Bailey HL, Kaufman DS, Sloane HJ, Hubbard AL, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ, Meyer H, Welker JM. Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: A new terrestrial diatom and δ¹⁸O dataset from the Aleutian Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 2018, 194, 27-38.
• Zander PD, Kaufman DS, McKay NP, Kuehn SC, Henderson ACG. Using correlated tephras to refine radiocarbon-based age models, upper and lower Whitshed Lakes, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Geochronology 2018, 45, 9-22.
• Schmidt M, Fuchs M, Henderson ACG, Kossler A, Leng MJ, Mackay AW, Shemang E, Riedel F. Paleolimnological features of a mega-lake phase in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Kalahari, Botswana) during Marine Isotope Stage 5 inferred from diatoms. Journal of Paleolimnology 2017, 58(3), 373-390.
• Kaufman DS, Axford YL, Henderson ACG, McKay NP, Oswald WW, Saenger C, Anderson RS, Bailey HL, Clegg B, Gajewski K, Hu FS, Jones MC, Massa C, Routson CC, Werner A, Wooller MJ, Yu ZC. Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 2015, 147, 312-339.
• Tibby J, Barr C, McInerney FA, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ, Greenway M, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Tyler JJ, McNeil V. Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology 2016, 22(10), 3474-3486.
• Zhang J, Ma XY, Qiang M, Huang XZ, Li S, Guo XY, Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Chen FH. Developing inorganic carbon-based radiocarbon chronologies for Holocene lake sediments in arid NW China. Quaternary Science Reviews 2016, 144, 66-82.
• Bailey HL, Kaufman DS, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ. Synoptic-scale controls on the δ¹⁸0 in precipitation across Beringia. Geophysical Research Letters 2015, 42(11), 4608-4616.
• Riedel F, Henderson ACG, Heussner KU, Kaufmann G, Kossler A, Leipe C, Shemang E, Taft L. Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50 ka. Hydrobiologia 2014, 739(1), 25-53.
• Bailey HL, Henderson ACG, Sloane HJ, Snelling A, Leng MJ, Kaufman DS. The effect of species on lacustrine δ¹⁸O_diatom and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of Quaternary Science 2014, 29(4), 393-400.
• Liu X, Colman SM, Brown ET, Henderson ACG, Werne JP, Holmes JA. Abrupt deglaciation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: evidence from Lake Qinghai. Journal of Paleolimnology 2014, 51(2), 223-240.
• Leng MJ, Henderson ACG. Recent advances in isotopes as palaeolimnological proxies. Journal of Paleolimnology 2013, 49(3), 481-496.
• Gavin DG, Henderson ACG, Westover KS, Fritz SC, Walker IR, Leng MJ, Hu FS. Abrupt Holocene climate change and anti-phased response to solar forcing in western Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 2011, 30(9-10), 1243-1255.
• Rao ZG, Wu Y, Zhu ZY, Jia GD, Henderson A. Is the maximum carbon number of long-chain n-alkanes an indicator of grassland or forest? Evidence from surface soils and modern plants. Chinese Science Bulletin 2011, 56(16), 1714-1720.
• Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Leng MJ. Late Holocene isotope hydrology of Lake Qinghai, NE Tibetan Plateau: effective moisture variability and atmospheric circulation changes. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010, 29(17-18), 2215-2223.
• Rao Z, Zhu Z, Jia G, Henderson ACG, Wu Y, Xue Q, Wang S. Compound specific δD of long-chain n-alkanes derived from terrestrial higher plants are indicative of the δD of meteoric waters: Evidence from surface soils in eastern China. Organic Geochemistry 2009, 40(8), 922-930.
• Henderson ACG, Holmes JA. Palaeolimnological evidence for environmental change over the past millennium from Lake Qinghai sediments: a review and future research prospective. Quaternary International 2009, 194(1-2), 134-147.
• Liu ZH, Henderson ACG, Huang YS. Regional moisture source changes inferred from late Holocene stable isotope records. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 2008, 25(6), 1021-1028.
• Colman SM, Yu SY, An Z, Shen J, Henderson ACG. Late Cenozoic climate changes in China’s western interior: A review of research on Lake Qinghai and comparison with other records. Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26(17-18), 2281-2300.
• Liu ZH, Henderson ACG, Huang YS. Alkenone-based reconstruction of late Holocene surface temperature and salinity changes in Lake Qinghai, China. Geophysical Research Letters 2006, 33(9), L09707.
• Sayer CD, Hoare DJ, Simpson GL, Henderson ACG, Liptrot EL, Jackson ML, Appleby PG, Boyle JF, Jones JI, Waldock MJ. TBT causes ecosystem collapse in freshwater lakes. Environment, Science and Technology 2006, 40(17), 5269-5275.
• Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Zhang JW, Leng MJ, Carvalho LR. A carbon- and oxygen-isotope record of recent environmental change from Qinghai Lake, NE Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin 2003, 48(14), 1463-1468.
• Zhang JW, Min J, Chen FH, Battarbee RW, Henderson ACG. High-resolution precipitation variations in the Northeast Tibetan Plateau over the last 800 years documented by sediment cores from Qinghai Lake. Chinese Science Bulletin 2003, 48(14), 1451-1456.