Evelyn Keaveney
Member since 2025
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Bio
Evelyn Keaveney is an Independent Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research, supported by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) fellowship awarded in 2024, focuses on 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, she has developed a portfolio of skills in chronology, stepped-combustion carbon dating, and ramped pyroxidation, as well as an in-depth understanding of carbon cycling in terrestrial and aquatic areas. Evelyn investigated the freshwater reservoir age offset (FRO) and improved chronology for investigating past environments and archaeological settlements near rivers and lakes. This research determined that there was too much variability to produce a regional/global FRO correction, and that variation resulted from fluctuating terrestrial inputs from the catchment to the foodweb, with this insight drawing from her ecological knowledge.
Evelyn’s work is multi-disciplinary, important to palaeoecology, environmental science, and archaeology.
