Evelyn Keaveney
Member since 2025
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Bio
Evelyn recently won a NERC Independent Research Fellowship (2024) to study permafrost carbon loss and its fate in aquatic systems – burial or emission.
Over a 16-year career, starting with a PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast Evelyn has developed a portfolio of skills in chronology, stepped-combustion (SC) 14C, and RPO, plus an in-depth understanding of carbon cycling in terrestrial and aquatic areas. Evelyn investigated the freshwater reservoir age offset (FRO) and improve chronology for investigating past environments and archaeological settlements near rivers and lakes, and determined there was too much variability to produce a regional/global FRO correction and variation resulted from fluctuating terrestrial inputs from the catchment to the foodweb, an insight recognised from my ecological knowledge. Evelyn’s work is multi-disciplinary, important to palaeoecology, environmental science, and archaeology.
