Publications:

• Ethier, J., Banffy, E., Vuković, J.B., Leshtakov, K., Bacvarov, K., Roffet-Salque, M., Evershed, R. & Ivanova, M. 2017. Earliest expansion of animal husbandry beyond the Mediterranean zone in the sixth millennium BC. Scientific Reports. 7, 1-10
• Holtvoeth, J., Vogel, H., Valsecchi, V., Lindhorst, K., Schouten, S., Wagner, B., Wolff, G. A., 2017. Linear and non-linear responses of vegetation and soils to glacial-interglacial climate change in a Mediterranean refuge, Scientific Reports, 7, 8121
• Carmichael, M. J., Inglis, G. N., Badger, M. P. S., Naafs, D. A., Behrooz, L., Remmelzwaal, S.,  Monteiro, F. M., Rohrssen, M., Farnsworth, A., Buss, H. L., Dickson, A. J., Valdes, P. J., Lunt, D. J., Pancost, R. D., 2017. Hydrological and associated biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Global and Planetary Change, 157, 114-138 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.07.014
• Evershed, R. P.,and Roffet-Salque, M., 2017. Organic residue analysis. in SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell
• Webb, E., Lewis, J., Shain, A., Kastrisianaki-Guyton, E., Honch, N., Stewart, A., Miller, B., Tarlton, J., Evershed, R. P., 2017. The influence of varying proportions of terrestrial and marine dietary protein on the stable carbon-isotope compositions of pig tissues from a controlled feeding experiment, Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, vol 3, no. 1, pp. 36-52. DOI: 10.1080/20548923.2016.1275477
• Zheng, Y., Pancost, R. D., Liu, X., Wang, Z., Naafs, B.D.A., Xie, X., Liu, Z., Yu, X., Yang, H., 2017. Atmospheric connections with the North Atlantic enhanced the deglacial warming in northeast China. Geology doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G39401.1
• Chaves Torres, L., Melbourne, L. A., Hernandez-Sanchez, M. T., Inglis, G. N., Pancost, R. D., 2017. Insoluble prokaryotic membrane lipids in continental shelf sediments offshore Cape Town: Implications for organic matter preservation, Marine Chemistry, In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2017.10.003
• Tang, C., Yang, H., Pancost, R., Griffiths, M. L., Xiao, G., Dang, X., Xie, S.,  2017. Tropical and high latitude forcing of enhanced megadroughts in Northern China during the last four terminations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, pp. 98-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.012
• Zheng, Y., Pancost, R. D., Liu, X., Wang, Z., Naafs, B.D.A., Xie, X., Liu, Z., Yu, X., Yang, H., 2017. Atmospheric connections with the North Atlantic enhanced the deglacial warming in northeast China. Geology, 45, no. 11, pp. 1031-1034. DOI: 10.1130/G39401.1
• Whelton, H. L., Roffet-Salque, M., Kotsakis, K., Urem-Kotsou, D., Evershed, R. P., 2017. Strong bias towards carcass product processing at Neolithic settlements in northern Greece revealed through absorbed lipid residues of archaeological pottery, Quaternary International, Corrected proof, in press. Available online 18 December 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.018. 

Conferences:

• Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Gordon Inglis, Sabine Lengger, David Naafs and Rich Pancost attended Goldschmidt in Paris. Mélanie Roffet-Salque and Rich Pancost gave a keynote prenetations entitled "Prehistoric Dairying as an Agent for Late Holocene Ecological and Biological Change" and "The Eocene was Hot", respectively. Gordon Inglis presented a paper on the "Development of Biomarker Proxies for terrestrial Methane Cycling", Sabine Lengger presented a paper on "Tracing Methane Emissions from Temperate Wetlands" and David Naafs gave an invited talk on "Quantifying Terrestrial Temperatures during the early Paleogene: New insights from Novel Organic Geochemical Proxies".
• Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Richard Evershed, Julie Dunne, Helen Whelton, Iain Kendall, Emmanuelle Casanova attended the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) annual meeting held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Julie Dunne, Helen Whelton, Iain Kendall, Emmanuelle Casanova presented papers in a session organised by Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Richard Evershed entitled "Cattle-based agriculture in Central Europe. Introduction, spread and impact". 
• The 28th International Meeting on Organic Geochemsitry (IMOG) was well attended by the OGU. Claudia Chávez-Lara presnted a poster and Ian Bull, Gordon Inglis, David Naafs, Leila Behrooz, Sabine Lengger and Rich Pancost all presented papers at the conference.
• Simon Hammann, Helen Whelton and Ian Bull attended the Agilent GC-QTOF user group meeting held in Manchester. 

Other news:

• We welcomed Marta Frances Negro from the University of Brugos who joined us for 4 months.
• The OGU was awarded a Bronze award in the Green Impact Labs accreditation scheme. The OGU also won the 'Innovation for Engagement Award' for developing education materials  - these have now been adapted so that other labs across the University can use them for sustainability education in their own labs. Well done all!
• Jon Pemberton was on the organising committee for the first ever student-led Chemistry Applications For Environmental Science (CAFES) symposium. Julie Dunne, Gordon Inglis and Catherine McIntyre all gave talks outlining the work undertaken in the OGU.
• We welcomed new PhD students Jerome Blewett (RDP), Sophie Brown (RPE), Leonardo Mena Rivera (RPE, IDB) and masters student Miya Zhang (RPE).
• Congratulations to Dr Iain Kendall for passing his viva on 14th December!