Dr Emma Hocking

My research focuses on reconstructing relative sea level and environmental change on Holocene timescales. I work in a variety of environments, including tidal marshes, isolation basins, lakes, peatlands, and use a combination of sedimentology, microfossil (diatom) and geochronological methods for reconstructing past environments. Currently I am working on a range of research projects across the world, tied together by the methodological approach of using diatom analysis. These include reconstruction of great earthquake and tsunami history in south-central Chile, reconstructing lake mixing regimes in Finland, and reconstructing past human impacts on neotropical landscapes including the Brazilian savannah and Amazonia. 

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• Millennial-scale fire and climate dynamics in the world’s largest tropical wetland show emerging fire threat to flooded ecosystems  , Whitney, B., Neves, D., Loughlin, N., D'Apolito, C., Tavares Carla, C., Hocking, E., Mayle, F., Power, M., Silva, A., Assine, M. 17 Jan 2026, In: Global and Planetary Change
• Environmental response of coastal lake Huelde, Chile, after tsunami inundation and earthquake-induced subsidence, Hocking, E., Kempf, P., Pleskot, K., Suchora, M., Kołaczek, P., Niederstätter, M., Moernaut, J. 1 Oct 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene, Thompson, N., Salzmann, U., Hutchinson, D., Strother, S., Pound, M., Utescher, T., Brugger, J., Hickler, T., Hocking, E., Lunt, D. 1 Feb 2025, In: Earth-Science Reviews
• It’s In Our Hands: Facilitating agency, personal connections and collective cohesion in climate education through board game play, Padwick, A., Hocking, E., Shimwell, J., Davenport, C., Bourne, J., Ransome, K., Baxter, C., Ramsay, A., Blazey, E. 31 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
• Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene, Holmes, R., Salzmann, U., Djamaluddin, R., Hocking, E., Williams, M., Berrio, J., Siregar, I., Tjoa, B., Fusi, M., Diele, K. Feb 2025, In: Ecological Indicators
• Microfossil and geochemical evidence for the Storegga tsunami at Budle Bay, Northumberland, Pickering, L., Summers, G., Hocking, E., Garrett, E., Simms, A. 12 Aug 2024, In: Sedimentologika
• Temperate to tropical palaeoclimates on the northwest margin of Europe during the middle Cenozoic, McCoy, J., Gibson, M., Hocking, E., O'Keefe, J., Riding, J., Roberts, R., Campbell, S., Abbott, G., Pound, M. 26 Aug 2024, In: Palaeontologia Electronica
• Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Pirabas Formation (Neogene, Pará State-Brazil), Gomes, B., Aguilera, O., da Silva-Caminha, S., D'Apolito, C., Cárdenas, D., Hocking, E., Lemes, K. 1 Apr 2023, In: Marine Micropaleontology
• Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula, Heredia Barión, P., Roberts, S., Spiegel, C., Binnie, S., Wacker, L., Davies, J., Gabriel, I., Jones, V., Blockley, S., Pearson, E., Foster, L., Davies, S., Roland, T., Hocking, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., Hayward, C., McCulloch, R., Strelin, J., Kuhn, G. 1 Jun 2023, In: The Holocene
• Honduran Reef Island Shoreline Change and Planform Evolution over the Last 15 Years: Implications for Reef Island Monitoring and Futures, Husband, E., East, H., Hocking, E., Guest, J. 30 Sep 2023, In: Remote Sensing

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• Shifted Ecological Baselines in the Brazillianb Savannah (SEBBS), Whitney, B. (Principal Investigator), Hocking, E. (Co Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/09/19 - 31/01/21, £91,901.00

• Leeza Pickering Alteration of lake mixing regimes in southern Finland in response to climate change: reconstructing Holocene lake mixing regimes and modelling 21st century changes Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 17/10/2025
• Leeza Pickering Alteration of lake mixing regimes in southern Finland in response to climate change: reconstructing Holocene lake mixing regimes and modelling 21st century changes Start Date: 01/10/2021

• Geography PhD June 30 2010
• Geography Studies (Science) MSc August 31 2006
• Geography BSc (Hons) June 30 2005
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA

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• Cold and Palaeoenvironments Research Group
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