Personal profile
Research interests
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.
Biography
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/emma-hocking-nee-watcham/
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, PhD, Late Quaternary relative sea level change in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Durham University
1 Sept 2006 → 30 Jun 2010
Award Date: 30 Jun 2010
Geography Studies (Science), MSc, Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London
1 Sept 2005 → 31 Aug 2006
Award Date: 31 Aug 2006
Geography, BSc (Hons), Geography
20 Sept 2002 → 30 Jun 2005
Award Date: 30 Jun 2005
External positions
External Examiner, Newcastle University
1 Sept 2021 → 31 Aug 2025
Research Group keywords
- Environmental Monitoring and Reconstruction
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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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. S., Neves, D. M., Loughlin, N. J. D., D'Apolito, C., Tavares Carla, C., Hocking, E. P., Mayle, F. E., Power, M. J., Silva, A. & Assine, M. L., 1 Apr 2026, In: Global and Planetary Change. 259, 9 p., 105318.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental response of coastal lake Huelde, Chile, after tsunami inundation and earthquake-induced subsidence
Hocking, E. P., Kempf, P., Pleskot, K., Suchora, M., Kołaczek, P., Niederstätter, M. & Moernaut, J., 1 Oct 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 365, 18 p., 109474.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene
Thompson, N., Salzmann, U., Hutchinson, D. K., Strother, S., Pound, M., Utescher, T., Brugger, J., Hickler, T., Hocking, E. & Lunt, D. J., 1 Feb 2025, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 261, 23 p., 105036.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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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, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene
Holmes, R., Salzmann, U., Djamaluddin, R., Hocking, E. P., Williams, M., Berrio, J. C., Siregar, I., Tjoa, B. A., Fusi, M. & Diele, K., Feb 2025, In: Ecological Indicators. 171, p. 1-16 16 p., 113231.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)47 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Shifted Ecological Baselines in the Brazillianb Savannah (SEBBS)
Whitney, B. (PI) & Hocking, E. (CoI)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/09/19 → 31/01/21
Project: Research