Valerie Hall

Valerie Hall is a Professor in Palaeoecology at Queens University Belfast. She gained a 2:2 in botany at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 and subsequently a PhD in Palaeoecology in 1989. She has produced a number of publications of which the best known may be Flora Hibernica which she co-wrote along with J. Pilcher and published in 2001.[1][2]

She is the Director of Research in the School of Archaeology-Palaeoecology at Queens University, Belfast.

Valerie is Vice President of the INQUA Commission for Tephrochronology and Volcanology and is the Honorary Company Secretary of the Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.

Publications

She has 30 peer-reviewed papers as listed in Scopus. The most cited is "Dates of Holocene Icelandic volcanic eruptions from tephra layers in Irish peats" Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A., McCormac, F.G. Holocene 5 (1), pp. 103–110, (1995), which has been cited 85 times by March 2010.

References

  1. "Prof Valerie Hall". School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology. Queens University, Belfast. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. "Network Member Profiles: Valerie Hall, Queen's University, Belfast.". Irish Environmental History Network. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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