Dr Roderick Bale BA, PhD

Roderick Bale

Contact Details

School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology
E-mail: r.j.bale@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lab technician

Role in the University

Lab technician and palaeoenvironmental/ dendrochronological/archaeological contract work

Background

Employment and academic

Lab technician, University of Wales, Lampeter, 2010 - present

Stable isotope dendroclimatology technician, Department of Geography, University of Wales, Swansea (2008-2010)

PhD Geography (Stable isotope dendroclimatology) University of Wales, Swansea (2005-2008)

Archaeological excavator (various organisations in UK and Ireland- 2002-2005)

BA Environment & Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter (1999-2002)

Publications

2011

Hafner, P., I.Robertson, D.McCarrol, N.J. Loader, M.Gagen, R.J. Bale, H.Jungner, E.Sonninen, E.Hilasvuori, T.Levanic. 'Climate signals in the ring widths and stable carbon, hydrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of Larix decidua growing at the forest limit in the southeastern European Alps'. Trees - Structure and Function DOI 10.1007/s00468-011-0589-z

Bale, R.J., I. Robertson, M.W. Salzer, N.J. Loader, S.W. Leavitt, M. Gagen, T.P. Harlan, and D. McCarroll. 2011. 'An annually resolved bristlecone pine carbon isotope chronology for the last millennium.' Quaternary Research, Vol. 76, Issue 1, pp 22-29, July 2011. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.05.004

2010

Robertson, I, Levanic, T, Hafner, P, Gagen, M, Bale, R.J, Loader, N.J, Hilasvuori, E, Sonninen, E, Jungner, H and McCarroll, D. ‘Climatic reconstruction from larch in Slovenia’. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12. EGU general assembly.

Bale, R.J., Robertson, I., Leavitt, S.W, Loader, N.J., Harlan, T.P., Gagen, M., Young, G.H.F., Csank, A., Froyd, C., McCarroll, D. ‘Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring stable oxygen isotope chronologies over the last two centuries’. The Holocene, 20, 1.

2008

Doctoral thesis ‘Climatic reconstruction of the last 1000 years from bristlecone pine tree rings at Blanco, White Mountains, California, USA’

2005

Bale, R. J.  ‘A 223 year (AD1779-2001) modern oak tree ring chronology from Allt Lanlas, Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion.’ Swansea Geographer, 40