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2022-    Professor of Physical Geography

2012-2022 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer then Reader in Physical Geography

2011-2012 C3W Lecturer in Quaternary Environmental Change, Aberystwyth University 

2008-2011 SAGES Lecturer in Geosciences, University of Glasgow

2007-2008 Lecturer in Quaternary Environmental Change, Aberystwyth University 

2004-2007 NSF PDRA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Education

2000-2004 Ph.D. Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London

1998-1999 M.Res. Environmental Science, University College London

1995-1998 B.Sc. (Hons) Natural Sciences, Durham University

• Articles

  • Henderson ACG, Wang J, Zhu L, Haberzettl T, Ju J, Vogel H, Clarke L. The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet Plateau (NamCore): A one-million-year sedimentary record from the Third Pole. Past Global Changes Magazine 2024, 32(2), 76-77.
  • Do NT, Trinh DA, Panizzo VN, McGowan S, Runeckles H, Henderson ACG, Large A, Hackney CR. Human activity controls nitrogen loads in a large sub-tropical delta from 2000 to 2020. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2024, 213, 108021.
  • Laurie N, Henderson ACG, Rodriguez Arismendiz R, Calle O, Clayton D, Russell AJ. For an Environmental Ethnography in Human and Physical Geography: Reenvisioning the Impacts and Opportunities of El Niño in Peru. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Trinh DA, Do NT, Panizzo VN, McGowan S, Salgado J, Large ARG, Henderson ACG, Vu TT. Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X 2024, 12, 100183.
  • Meister P, Alexandre A, Bailey H, Barker P, Biskaborn BK, Broadman E, Cartier R, Chapligin B, Couapel M, Dean JR, Diekmann B, Harding P, Henderson ACG, Hernandez A, Herzschuh U, Kostrova SS, Lacey J, Leng MJ, Lucke A, MacKay AW, Magyari EK, Narancic B, Porchier C, Rosqvist G, Shemesh A, Sonzogni C, Swann GEA, Sylvestre F, Meyer H. A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment - trends and implications for climate reconstruction. Climate of the Past 2024, 20(2), 363-392.
  • Walton RE, Moorhouse HL, Roberts LR, Salgado J, Ladd CJT, Do NT, Panizzo VN, Van PDT, Downes NK, Trinh DA, McGowan S, Taylor S, Henderson ACG. Using lake sediments to assess the long-term impacts of anthropogenic activity in tropical river deltas. The Anthropocene Review 2023, 11(2), 442-462.
  • Rahman MF, Ladd CJT, Large ARG, Banerjee S, Vovides AG, Henderson ACG, Renaud FG, Balke T, Wood L, Le H, Huq S. Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation. One Earth 2023, 6(2), 81-85.
  • McGowan S, Large ARG, Henderson ACG, Wallerstein N. Dammed deltas: sinking Asian deltas in a warming world. One Earth 2023, 6(3), 195-199.
  • Broadman E, Kaufman DS, Anderson RS, Bogle S, Ford M, Fortin D, Henderson ACG, Lacey JH, Leng MJ, McKay NP, Muñoz SE. Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modeling. Quaternary Research 2022, 107, 1-26.
  • Lee E, Ross N, Henderson ACG, Russell AJ, Jamieson SSR, Fabel D. Palaeoglaciation in the low latitude, low elevation tropical Andes, northern Peru. Frontiers in Earth Science 2022, 10, 838826.
  • Felder S, Sagawa T, Greaves M, Leng MJ, Ikehara K, Kimoto K, Hasegawa S, Wagner T, Henderson ACG. Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea across the mid-Pleistocene Transition: insights from IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 2022, 37(1), e2021PA004236.
  • Brown AG, Fonville T, van Hardenbroek M, Cavers G, Crone A, McCormick F, Murray E, Mackay H, Whitehouse NJ, Henderson ACG, Barratt P, Davies K, Head K, Langdon PG, Alsos IG, Pirrie D. New integrated molecular approaches for understanding lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antiquity 2022, 96(389), 1179-1199.
  • Ribeiro S, Limoges A, Masse G, Johansen KL, Colgan W, Weckström K, Jackson R, Georgiadis E, Mikkelsen N, Kuijpers A, Olsen J, Olsen SM, Nissen M, Andersen TJ, Strunk A, Wetterich S, Syväranta J, Henderson ACG, Mackay H, Taipale S, Jeppesen E, Larsen NK, Crosta X, Giraudeau J, Wengrat S, Nuttall M, Grønnow B, Mosbech A, Davidson TA. Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change. Nature Communications 2021, 12, 4475.
  • Moorhouse HL, Roberts LR, McGowan S, Panizzo V, Barker P, Salehin S, Nga D, Salgardo Bonnet J, Rahman FMF, Ghosh T, Das S, Roy M, Opel A, Henderson A, Large A, Nguyen Thanh P, Hackney CR. Tropical Asian mega-delta ponds: Important and threatened socio-ecological systems. Geo: Geography and Environment 2021, 8(2), e00103.
  • Brown AG, Van Hardenbroek M, Fonville T, Davies K, Mackay H, Murray E, Head K, Barratt P, McCormick F, Ficetola GF, Gielly L, Henderson ACG, Crone A, Cavers G, Langdon PG, Whitehouse NJ, Pirrie D, Alsos IG. Ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and palaeoecological evidence reveals construction and life on early medieval lake settlements. Scientific Reports 2021, 11, 11807.
  • Broadman E, Kaufman DS, Henderson ACG, Berg EE, Anderson RS, Leng MJ, Stahnke SA, Munoz SE. Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 2020, 241, 106420.
  • Sear DA, Allen MS, Hassall JD, Maloney AE, Langdon PG, Morrison AE, Henderson ACG, Mackay H, Croudace IW, Clarke C, Sachs JP, Macdonald G, Chiverrell RC, Leng MJ, Cisneros-Dozal LM, Fonville T, Pearson E. Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020, 117(16), 8813-8819.
  • Broadman E, Kaufman DS, Henderson ACG, Malmierca-Vallet I, Leng MJ, Lacey JH. Coupled impacts of sea ice variability and North Pacific atmospheric circulation on Holocene hydroclimate in Arctic Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020, 117(52), 33034-33042.
  • Mackay H, Davies KL, Robertson J, Roy L, Bull ID, Whitehouse NJ, Crone A, Cavers G, McCormick F, Brown AG, Henderson ACG. Characterising life in settlements and structures: incorporating faecal biomarkers within a multiproxy case study of a wetland village. Journal of Archaeological Science 2020, 121, 105202.
  • Andrae JW, McInerney FA, Tibby J, Henderson ACG, Hall PA, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Barr C, Greenway M. Variation in leaf wax n-alkane characteristics with climate in the broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Organic Geochemistry 2019, 130, 33-42.
  • Crone A, Cavers G, Allison E, Davies K, Hamilton D, Henderson ACG, Mackay H, McLaren D, Robertson J, Roy J, Whitehouse N. Nasty, Brutish and Short? The life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology 2019, 18(2).
  • Haberzettl T, Daut G, Schulze N, Spiess V, Wang J, Zhu L, St-Onge G, Chen F, Liu X, Lyu X, Ju J, Ma Q, Wu Z, Wunnemann B, Yan D, Yi S, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Zhao H, Buylaert J-P, Murray A, van der Woerd J, Frenzel P, Gleixner G, Harms U, Reicherter K, Schwalb A, Ulfers A, ujvari G, Mehrotra N, Waldmann N, Lami A, Ariztegui D, Barbolini N, Ascough P, Clarke L, Henderson A, Staff R, Noren A, Spanbauer T, Stoner J. ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau: 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake. Scientific Drilling 2019, 25, 63-70.
  • Barr C, Tibby J, Leng MJ, Tyler JJ, Henderson ACG, Overpeck JT, Simpson GL, Cole JE, Phipps SJ, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Hua Q, McRobie FH. Holocene El Niño-Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 1627.
  • Waldron S, Vihermaa V, Evers S, Garnett GH, Newton J, Henderson ACG. C mobilisation in disturbed tropical peat swamps: old DOC can fuel the fluvial efflux of old carbon dioxide, but site recovery can occur. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 11429.
  • Zander PD, Kaufman DS, McKay NP, Kuehn SC, Henderson ACG. Using correlated tephras to refine radiocarbon-based age models, upper and lower Whitshed Lakes, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Geochronology 2018, 45, 9-22.
  • van Hardenbroek M, Chakraborty A, Davies KL, Harding P, Heiri O, Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Lasher GE, Leng MJ, Panizzo VN, Roberts L, Schilder J, Trueman CN, Wooller MJ. The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: Current understanding, challenges, and future directions. Quaternary Science Reviews 2018, 196, 154-176.
  • Ratcliffe JL, Payne RJ, Sloan TJ, Smith B, Waldron S, Mauquoy D, Newton A, Anderson AR, Henderson A, Andersen R. Holocene carbon accumulation in the peatlands of northern Scotland. Mires and Peat 2018, 23(3), 1-30.
  • Bailey HL, Kaufman DS, Sloane HJ, Hubbard AL, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ, Meyer H, Welker JM. Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: A new terrestrial diatom and δ¹⁸O dataset from the Aleutian Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 2018, 194, 27-38.
  • Tada R, Irino T, Ikehara K, Karasuda A, Sugisaki S, Xuan C, Sagawa T, Itaki T, Kubota Y, Lu S, Seki A, Murray RW, Alvarez-Zarikian CA, Anderson WT, Bassetti M-A, Brace BJ, Clemens SC, da Costa Gurgel MH, Dickens GR, Dunlea AG, Gallagher SJ, Giosan L, Henderson ACG, Holbourn AE, Kinsley CW, Lee GS, Lee KE, Lofi J, Lopes CICD, Saavedra-Pellitero M, Peterson LC, Singh RK, Toucanne S, Wan S, Zheng HB, Ziegler M. High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346. Progress in Earth and Planetary Sciences 2018, 5, 19.
  • Plancq J, McColl JL, Bendle JA, Seki O, Couto JM, Henderson ACG, Yamashita Y, Kimitaka K, Toney JL. Genomic identification of the long-chain alkenone producer in freshwater Lake Toyoni, Japan: implications for temperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry 2018, 125, 189-195.
  • Gallagher SJ, Sagawa T, Henderson ACG, Saavedra-Pellitero M, deVleeschouwer D, Black H, Itak T, Toucanne S, Bassetti MA, Clemens S, Anderson W, Alvarez-Zarikian CA, Tada R. East Asian monsoon history and pale oceanography of the Japan Sea over the last 460,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 2018, 33(7), 683-702.
  • Schmidt M, Fuchs M, Henderson ACG, Kossler A, Leng MJ, Mackay AW, Shemang E, Riedel F. Paleolimnological features of a mega-lake phase in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Kalahari, Botswana) during Marine Isotope Stage 5 inferred from diatoms. Journal of Paleolimnology 2017, 58(3), 373-390.
  • Zhang J, Ma XY, Qiang M, Huang XZ, Li S, Guo XY, Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Chen FH. Developing inorganic carbon-based radiocarbon chronologies for Holocene lake sediments in arid NW China. Quaternary Science Reviews 2016, 144, 66-82.
  • Tibby J, Barr C, McInerney FA, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ, Greenway M, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Tyler JJ, McNeil V. Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology 2016, 22(10), 3474-3486.
  • Bailey HL, Kaufman DS, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ. Synoptic-scale controls on the δ¹⁸0 in precipitation across Beringia. Geophysical Research Letters 2015, 42(11), 4608-4616.
  • Kaufman DS, Axford YL, Henderson ACG, McKay NP, Oswald WW, Saenger C, Anderson RS, Bailey HL, Clegg B, Gajewski K, Hu FS, Jones MC, Massa C, Routson CC, Werner A, Wooller MJ, Yu ZC. Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 2015, 147, 312-339.
  • Bailey HL, Henderson ACG, Sloane HJ, Snelling A, Leng MJ, Kaufman DS. The effect of species on lacustrine δ¹⁸O_diatom and its implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of Quaternary Science 2014, 29(4), 393-400.
  • Riedel F, Henderson ACG, Heussner KU, Kaufmann G, Kossler A, Leipe C, Shemang E, Taft L. Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50 ka. Hydrobiologia 2014, 739(1), 25-53.
  • Liu X, Colman SM, Brown ET, Henderson ACG, Werne JP, Holmes JA. Abrupt deglaciation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: evidence from Lake Qinghai. Journal of Paleolimnology 2014, 51(2), 223-240.
  • Leng MJ, Henderson ACG. Recent advances in isotopes as palaeolimnological proxies. Journal of Paleolimnology 2013, 49(3), 481-496.
  • Henderson ACG, Shemesh A, Clarke GH, Hu FS. The role of seasonality and Bering Sea ice extent in the Holocene climate evolution of southern Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 2012. In Preparation.
  • Rao ZG, Wu Y, Zhu ZY, Jia GD, Henderson A. Is the maximum carbon number of long-chain n-alkanes an indicator of grassland or forest? Evidence from surface soils and modern plants. Chinese Science Bulletin 2011, 56(16), 1714-1720.
  • Gavin DG, Henderson ACG, Westover KS, Fritz SC, Walker IR, Leng MJ, Hu FS. Abrupt Holocene climate change and anti-phased response to solar forcing in western Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 2011, 30(9-10), 1243-1255.
  • Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Leng MJ. Late Holocene isotope hydrology of Lake Qinghai, NE Tibetan Plateau: effective moisture variability and atmospheric circulation changes. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010, 29(17-18), 2215-2223.
  • Henderson ACG, Holmes JA. Palaeolimnological evidence for environmental change over the past millennium from Lake Qinghai sediments: a review and future research prospective. Quaternary International 2009, 194(1-2), 134-147.
  • Rao Z, Zhu Z, Jia G, Henderson ACG, Wu Y, Xue Q, Wang S. Compound specific δD of long-chain n-alkanes derived from terrestrial higher plants are indicative of the δD of meteoric waters: Evidence from surface soils in eastern China. Organic Geochemistry 2009, 40(8), 922-930.
  • Liu ZH, Henderson ACG, Huang YS. Regional moisture source changes inferred from late Holocene stable isotope records. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 2008, 25(6), 1021-1028.
  • Colman SM, Yu SY, An Z, Shen J, Henderson ACG. Late Cenozoic climate changes in China’s western interior: A review of research on Lake Qinghai and comparison with other records. Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26(17-18), 2281-2300.
  • Sayer CD, Hoare DJ, Simpson GL, Henderson ACG, Liptrot EL, Jackson ML, Appleby PG, Boyle JF, Jones JI, Waldock MJ. TBT causes ecosystem collapse in freshwater lakes. Environment, Science and Technology 2006, 40(17), 5269-5275.
  • Liu ZH, Henderson ACG, Huang YS. Alkenone-based reconstruction of late Holocene surface temperature and salinity changes in Lake Qinghai, China. Geophysical Research Letters 2006, 33(9), L09707.
  • Zhang JW, Min J, Chen FH, Battarbee RW, Henderson ACG. High-resolution precipitation variations in the Northeast Tibetan Plateau over the last 800 years documented by sediment cores from Qinghai Lake. Chinese Science Bulletin 2003, 48(14), 1451-1456.
  • Henderson ACG, Holmes JA, Zhang JW, Leng MJ, Carvalho LR. A carbon- and oxygen-isotope record of recent environmental change from Qinghai Lake, NE Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin 2003, 48(14), 1463-1468.

• Book Chapters

  • Walton RE, Salgado J, Bisht T, Large A, Henderson ACG, Renaud FG, Hensengerth O, Van PDT, Cremin E, Murshed SB, Chowdhury AIA, Le H, Connor J, Vu A, Banerjee S. Building resilience in South and Southeast Asian mega-deltas. In: Thoms, M.; Fuller, I, ed. Resilience and Riverine Landscapes. Elsevier, 2023, pp.425-444.
  • Henderson ACG, Das S, Ghosh T, Panizzo VN, Moorhouse HL, Roberts LR, Walton RE, Zheng Y, Bass AM, McGowan S. The Indian Sundarbans: biogeochemical dynamics and anthropogenic impacts . In: Das S; Ghosh T, ed. Estuarine Biogeochemical Dynamics of the East Coast of India. Springer, Cham, 2021, pp.239-260.