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  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
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• barry.lomax@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Professor Barry Lomax

Chair in Plant Palaeobiology

Barry's research is focused on quantifying how the Earth's climate has changed over geologic time, how these changes have influenced the Earth's terrestrial biosphere and how in turn the Earth's terrestrial biosphere has influenced climate. Particular interests include:

• Palaeopolyploidy and plant genome size over geological time.

• Plant responses to CO₂

• Sporopollenin chemistry as a palaeoclimate proxy and taxonomic tool

Teaching Summary

My teaching interests reflect my research skills and interests, which link together Plant and Earth Sciences .

I currently teach on the following modules:

Earth, Atmosphere and Oceans (Year 1)

The Green Planet (Year 2)

Palaeobiology (Year 3)

Arctic Ecology Field Course (Year 3)

Research Summary

I am interested in the quantifying how the Earth's climate has changed over geologic time, how these changes have influenced the Earth's terrestrial biosphere and how in turn the Earth's terrestrial… read more

Recent Publications

• SMITH KL, LAKE JA, STEVEN MD and LOMAX BH, 2017. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 340-348
• JARDINE PE, ABERNETHY FAJ, LOMAX BH, GOSLING WD and FRASER WT, 2017. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 238, 1-6
• LAKE JA, WALKER HJ, CAMERON DD and LOMAX BH, 2017. Physiologia Plantarum. 159, 433–444.
• LAKE JA, STEVEN MD and SMITH KL, 2017. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 64, 333-339

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I'm on the editorial board for Palaeontology and it's sister journal Papers in Palaeontology and I serve on the council of International Federation of Palynology Societies and act as the secretary to the Linnean Society Specialist Working Group on Palynology.

Current Research

I am interested in the quantifying how the Earth's climate has changed over geologic time, how these changes have influenced the Earth's terrestrial biosphere and how in turn the Earth's terrestrial biosphere has influenced climate. I am achieving this through combining palaeobotanical studies with experimental investigations into how plants adapt to environmental change. This is leading to the development of mechanist proxies to reconstruct palaeoclimates and understand changes in plant genome size over the geological time.

Palaeopolyploidy and angiosperm radiation and diversification: Evidence provided by genome sequences suggests that angiosperms have over their evolutionary history undergone several discrete periods of polyploidy (genome doubling). This in turn has been used to suggest palaeopolyploidy was a key driver in allowing the angiosperms to rapidly diversify and dominate. I'm using the relationship between plant epidermal cell anatomy and genome size described in extant plant to directly test this assertion via the analysis of fossil plant epidermal cell anatomy.

Plant responses to CO₂ : Reconstructing palaeo CO₂ concentration using the well characterized inverse relationship between stomatal frequency and atmospheric CO₂ using both fossil and living plants I'm using this technique to assess if the angiosperms radiation and diversification event was facilitated by a decline in atmospheric CO₂. Recently my plant CO₂ research interests have diversified to include plant responses to CO₂ leaks from carbon capture and storage infrastructure.

Sporopollenin chemistry: My current and previous research has shown that the chemical composition of sporopollenin the biomacromolecule that makes up the outer wall of pollen grains and spores is regulated by the environment. Exposure to elevated UV-B stimulates the production of plant sun screen compounds which we can quantify. We are using this relationship to develop a wide variety of mechanistic proxies to investigate climate and environmental change over geological time.

Publication details can be found via:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xhoh-HMAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Lomax

• SMITH KL, LAKE JA, STEVEN MD and LOMAX BH, 2017. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 340-348
• JARDINE PE, ABERNETHY FAJ, LOMAX BH, GOSLING WD and FRASER WT, 2017. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 238, 1-6
• LAKE JA, WALKER HJ, CAMERON DD and LOMAX BH, 2017. Physiologia Plantarum. 159, 433–444.
• LAKE JA, STEVEN MD and SMITH KL, 2017. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 64, 333-339
• JARDINE PE and LOMAX BH, 2017. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 246, 161-166
• ADELE C.M. JULIER, PHILLIP E. JARDINE, STEPHEN ADU-BREDU, ANGELA L. COE, AKWASI DUAH-GYAMFI, WESLEY T. FRASER, BARRY H. LOMAX, YADVINDER MALHI, SAM MOORE and KENNEDY OWUSU-AFRIYIE, 2017. Palynology.
• GOSLING, W. D, JULIER, A. C.M, ADU-BREDU, S, DJAGBLETEY, G. D, FRASER, W. T, JARDINE, P. E, LOMAX, B. H, MALHI, Y, MANU, E. A and MAYLE, F. E., 2017. Journal of Vegetation History & Archaeobotany.
• JORGE HOYOS-SANTILLAN, JIM CRAIGON, BARRY H. LOMAX, OMAR R. LOPEZ and BENJAMIN L. TURNER, 2016. Plant and Soil.
• HOYOS-SANTILLAN, J., LOMAX, B. H., LARGE, D., TURNER, B. L., BOOM, A., LOPEZ, O. R. and SJÖGERSTEN, S., 2016. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 103, 86-96
• JULIER, ADELE C. M., JARDINE, PHILLIP E., COE, ANGELA L., GOSLING, WILLIAM D., LOMAX, BARRY H. and FRASER, WESLEY T., 2016. REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY. 235, 140-147
• PHILLIP E JARDINE, WESLEY T FRASER,, BARRY H LOMAX, MARK A SEPHTON, TIMOTHY M SHANAHAN, CHARLOTTE S MILLER, and GOSLING WD, 2016. Scientific reports. 6,
• LEE AP, UPCHURCH GR JR, MURCHIE EH and LOMAX BH, 2015. Proc. R. Soc. B. 282:, 20143052
• JARDINE PE, FRASER WT, LOMAX BH and GOSLING WD, 2015. Journal of Micropalaeontology.
• LOMAX BH and FRASER WT, 2015. Palaeontology,. 58(5), 759-768
• LOMAX BH, 2015.
• HOYOS-SANTILLAN, JORGE, LOMAX, BARRY H., LARGE, DAVID, TURNER, BENJAMIN L., BOOM, ARNOUD, LOPEZ, OMAR R. and SJOEGERSTEN, SOFIE, 2015. BIOGEOCHEMISTRY. 126(1-2), 115-129
• BH LOMAX, J HILTON, R. M. BATEMAN, G. R. UPCHURCH, J. A. LAKE, I. J. LEITCH and A. CROMWELL, 2014. New Phytologist. 201(2), 636-644
• FRASER WT, WATSON JS, SEPHTON MA, LOMAX BH, HARRINGTON G, GOSLING W and SELF S, 2014. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
• FRASER WT, LOMAX BH, JARDINE PE and GOSLING WD, 2014. Frontier in Ecology and Evolution.
• BARRY H LOMAX, WESLEY T. FRASER, GUY HARRINGTON, STEPHEN BLACKMORE, MARK A. SEPHTON and NIGEL B.W. HARRIS, 2012. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 353–354, 22.28
• FRASER, W.T., SCOTT, A.C., FORBES, A.E.S., GLASSPOOL, I.J., PLOTNICK, R.E., KENIG, F. and LOMAX, B.H., 2012. New Phytologist. 196(2), 397-401
• LOMAX, B.H., KNIGHT, C.A. and LAKE, J.A., 2012. G3: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 13(9), Q0AI03
• FRASER, WT, SEPHTON, MA, WATSON, JS, SELF, S, LOMAX, BH, JAMES, DI, WELLMAN, CH, CALLAGHAN, TV and BEERLING, DJ, 2011. Uv-B Absorbing Pigments In Spores: Biochemical Responses To Shade In A High-Latitude Birch Forest And Implications For Sporopollenin-Based Proxies Of Past Environmental Change Polar Research. 30, -
• LIN, ZC, SUN, BN, LOMAX, BH, WU, JY, XIE, SP, LV, XD, LI, XC and DAI, J, 2010. Review Of Palaeobotany And Palynology. 163(1-2), 84-103
• LAKE, J.A., FIELD, K.J., DAVEY, M.P., BEERLING, D.J. and LOMAX, B.H., 2009. Plant, Cell and Environment. 32(10), 1377-1389
• LOMAX, B.H., WOODWARD, F.I., LEITCH, I.J., KNIGHT, C.A. and LAKE, J.A., 2009. New Phytologist. 181(2), 311-314
• LOMAX, B.H., FRASER, W.T., SEPHTON, M.A., CALLAGHAN, T.V., SELF, S., HARFOOT, M., PYLE, J.A., WELLMAN, C.H. and BEERLING, D.J., 2008. Nature Geoscience. 1(9), 592-596
• WATSON, JS, SEPHTON, MA, SEPHTON, SV, SELF, S, FRASER, WT, LOMAX, BH, GILMOUR, I, WELLMAN, CH and BEERLING, DJ, 2007. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 6(6), 689-694
• BEERLING, DJ, HARFOOT, M, LOMAX, B and PYLE, JA, 2007.
• HARFOOT, MBJ, BEERLING, DJ, LOMAX, BH and PYLE, JA, 2007. A Two-Dimensional Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Investigation Of Earth's Phanerozoic O-3 And Near-Surface Ultraviolet Radiation History Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 112(D7), -
• OSBORNE, CP, BEERLING, DJ, LOMAX, BH and CHALONER, WG, 2004. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 101(28), 10360-10362
• BEERLING, DJ, LOMAX, BH, ROYER, DL, UPCHURCH, GR and KUMP, LR, 2002. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 99(12), 7836-7840
• BEERLING, DJ, LOMAX, BH, UPCHURCH, GR, NICHOLS, DJ, PILLMORE, CL, HANDLEY, LL and SCRIMGEOUR, CM, 2001. Journal Of The Geological Society. 158, 737-740
• LOMAX, B, BEERLING, D, UPCHURCH, G and OTTO-BLIESNER, B, 2001. Earth And Planetary Science Letters. 192(2), 137-144
• SCOTT, AC, LOMAX, BH, COLLINSON, ME, UPCHURCH, GR and BEERLING, DJ, 2000. Fire Across The K-T Boundary: Initial Results From The Sugarite Coal, New Mexico, Usa
• LOMAX, BH, BEERLING, DJ, UPCHURCH, GR and OTTO-BLIESNER, BL, 2000. Geophysical Research Letters. 27(14), 2149-2152
• MASLIN, MA, DURHAM, E, BURNS, SJ, PLATZMAN, E, GROOTES, P, GREIG, SEJ, NADEAU, MJ, SCHLEICHER, M, PFLAUMANN, U, LOMAX, B and RIMINGTON, N, 2000. Journal Of Quaternary Science. 15(4), 419-434