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I will be taking a sabbatical from Glasgow, and from June to December 2011 will be returning to Hokkaido University, to work with Dr Osamu Seki and Prof. Kimitaka Kawamura on compound specific D/H isotope analyses of various palaeoclimatic samples. The work is funded by a JSPS Invitation Fellowship award.
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People in the Glasgow Molecular Organic Geochemistry Laboratory (G-MOL)
Post-doctoral:
Dr Jaime Toney NERC PDRA, project: "A Biomarker Goldmine in Wilkes Land, Antarctica: nuggets from the Eocene Greenhouse (BIGWIG). NERC UK-IODP."
Ph.D.s:
 Heiko Moossen SAGES PhD student, project: "Palaeoclimate reconstructions from Arctic and Nordic shelf seas: development and application of multiple proxies."
 Paula Sankelo Kone Foundation (Finland) PhD student, project: "Mapping inputs of plant biomarkers to glacial ice archives: A novel tool for paleoclimatology."
 Huiling Sun China Scholarship Council funded visiting PhD student (PR China), project: "Biomarker records of environmental change from lake Guan Shan in the monsoon marginal zone in northwest China."
Jill McColl NERC PhD Student: "Climate variability of the last 1000 years in the NW Pacific: high resolution, multi-biomarker records from lake and ocean sediments."
Technician:
Christopher Gallagher G-MOL Technician.
Current Undergraduate Bursary and Final year project students:
Anine Hallander NERC-UK-IODP (2011) Bursary Student, project: "Sterol biomarkers in Adelie Drift sediments, Wilkes Land, Antarctica "
William Vorley Final year project student: "Lions Mane (Cyanea capilla) and Moon
Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) Biomarker Assay."
Daniella Peel Final year project student: "Transport and deposition of bacterial hopane
biomarkers in Siberian fluvial and lacustrine settings."
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2007 - present SAGES lecturer and Group Leader of G-MOL , Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.
2005 - 2007 PDRA on an Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) thematic project in the Organic Geochemistry Unit (OGU), School of Chemisty, University of Bristol : “The use of bacterial and higher plant biomarkers to track changes in wetland extent since the Last Glacial period” (PIs: Dr Richard Pancost, Dr Mark Maslin).
2003 - 2005 Royal Society Fellowship Tenable in a Foreign Country – in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Hosted by the laboratory of Professor Kimitaka Kawamura in the Institute of Low Temperature Science. “Mapping inputs of Land-Derived Lipid Biomarkers to the Aerosols and Sediments of the North Pacific: Constraining Modern and Past Environmental Variables”.
Hokkaido University, Japan
1999-2003 PhD, Durham University, supervised by Dr Antoni Rosell-Mele (now at ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)and Professor Ian Shennan.
East Greenland Current, ARCICE cruise, RRS James Clark Ross, 2000
1999 MSc in Quaternary Science, from Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) and University College London (UCL). Dissertation supervised my Professor Mark Maslin.
Research interests 
Organic Geochemistry: we use molecular biomarkers (in red) to study modern and past environmental processes and conditions
Organic carbon compounds are ubiquitous, abundant and sometimes overlooked components of oceans, lakes, sedimentary rocks and even atmospheric aerosols. Directly, or indirectly, they fuel all biogeochemical processes. As a paleoceanographer/paleoclimatologist, trained in molecular biogeochemistry, I am interested in the source, structure, and distribution of such naturally occurring compounds (biomarkers). My research is focused on the development of biomarker proxies of environmental parameters (e.g. terrestrial and sea-surface temperatures, relative humidity, C3/C4 plant distribution, wetland extent) and their application to answer important questions concerning processes or environmental conditions in ancient and modern environments. Current research High resolution palaeoceanography and palaeolimnology. Cenozoic climate evolution. Biomarkers in ice archives.
The RRS James Clark Ross north of Svalbard in the Arctic. I was a participant on the 2008 'ICE CHASER' Arctic research expedition
Recent publications | View all publications >> Bendle, J.A., 2011, Palaeoclimatology: Core data from the Antarctic margin. Nature 470, pp 181-182. View full text >> doi:10.1038/470181a >> Maslin, M., Ettwein, V.J., Boot, C.S., Bendle, J., Pancost, R.D., (2011), Amazon Fan Biomarker evidence against the Pleistocene Rainforest Refuge Hypothesis. Submitted to Journal of Quaternary Science. Sankelo, P., Kawamura, K., Seki, O., Shibata, H., Bendle, J., (2011), n- Alkanes in fresh snow in Hokkaido, Japan: implications for ice core studies. Submitted to Organic Geochemistry. Bendle, J.A.; Pancost, R.D.; Weijers, J.W.; Maslin, M.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Boot, C.; 2010, Major changes in Last Glacial and Holocene Terrestrial temperatures and sources of organic carbon recorded in the Amazon fan by the MBT/CBT continental paleothermometer. Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems (G-cubed) 11, Q12007. View abstract >> doi:10.1029/2010GC003308. >> Dickson, A.J., Leng, M.J., Maslin, M.A., Sloane, H.J., Green, J.,
Bendle, J.A, McClymont, E.L., Pancost, R.D., 2010, Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southeast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11, Paleoceanography , 25, PA3208 doi:10.1029/2009PA001830 >> Recent research grants | View all grants >> Bendle, J. 2011, £17,800 (￥2,354,000) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Research, Expenses and Grant-in-Aid for Invitation Fellowship (June - Decemeber 2011). Bendle, J., Fallick, A.E. (SUERC), 2010, £513,615, A Biomarker Goldmine in Wilkes Land, Antarctica: nuggets from the Eocene Greenhouse (BIGWIG). NERC UK-IODP. Bendle, J. 2009, £10,956, Staff time for participation on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica. NERC UK-IODP. Bendle, J. 2009, £1260, Undergraduate bursary for Robert Jamieson "Application of multiple biomarkers to constrain dietary sources of arctic zooplankton". The Nuffield Foundation. Bendle, J.; 2009, £2,500, "Monitoring seasonal biomarker and isotopic signals in Lake Kuttara, Japan: application for an automated time-series sediment trap" EPSRC Geographical Research Grant. Teaching responsibilities Palaeoclimates 1 (Level 3&4 honours option course) Environmental Change (Level 2 option course) Arran Field Course (Level 2 core course)
Geochemistry (Level 3 core course)
L3 & L4 seminars (Level 3 & 4 core courses) Current postgraduate students
Jill McColl (PhD candidate)
Heiko Moossen (PhD candidate)
Paula Sankelo (PhD candidate)
Huiling Sun (PhD candidate)
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