Danielle Schreve is a Reader in Physical Geography and Deputy Director of the Centre for Quaternary Research.at Royal Holloway. Danielle graduated with a B.Sc. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Quaternary mammalian palaeontology from the Department of Biology, also at UCL, in 1997.
This was followed by a three-year post as Senior Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham. Here, she worked with Dr David Bridgland on a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled “Mammalian Biostratigraphy of NW European Rivers”, which explored correlations between the British Middle Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphic model that she had formulated during her doctoral research and the fossil mammalian evidence from fluvial sequences in the Netherlands, northern France and Germany. Danielle joined the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway in 2001 as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and became a Lecturer in the department in 2004.
Danielle’s research is focussed on various aspects of Quaternary mammals and the history of the British and European mammal fauna, in particular biostratigraphy, past environments and environmental change and hominid-faunal interactions. She is also interested in Pleistocene stratigraphy and geological correlation and in British and European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology. Most recently, she has been developing research into the long-term effects of large herbivores on the landscape and in examining the possibility of “re-wilding” parts of Britain through the introduction of Konik horses as wetland grazing managers.
She is also actively engaged in promoting public understanding of science, for example, in 2006-7, organizing school workshops, running demonstrations during National Science Week and A Day in the Ice Age public events at Royal Holloway and Birmingham, giving an invited presentation at the British Association’s Festival of Science in 2006 and radio, newspaper and television interviews at local, national and international level. In 2006-7, these included appearances and interviews on BBC News 24, Channel 4’s Timeteam, Radio 4’s Today programme, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Sky News and Geoscientist magazine.
Where the Woolly Rhinos Roam: A natural history of Ice Age animals
Danielle Schreve
12th November 2008; Science Oxford.
Over the last half million years, Britain has experienced extreme variations in climate, switching from “Ice Ages” to warmer times when hippos wallowed in the Thames.
- Schreve, D.C., Keen, D.H., Limondin-Lozouet, N., Auguste, P., Santisteban, J.I., Ubilla, M., Matoshko, A., Bridgland, D.R. and Westaway, R. In press. Progress in faunal correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences 2000-4: the report of the IGCP 449 biostratigraphy subgroup. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- Howard, A.J., Bridgland, D., Knight, D. McNabb, J., Rose, J., Schreve, D., Westaway, R., White, M.J. and White, T. In press. The British Pleistocene fluvial archive: East Midlands drainage evolution and human occupation in the context of the British and NW European record. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- Mishra, S., White, M.J., Beaumont, P., Antoine, P., Bridgland, D.R., Limondin-Lozouet, N., Santisteban, J.I., Schreve, D.C., Shaw, A.D., Wenban-Smith, F.F., Westaway, R.W.C. and White, T.S. In press. Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- Penkman, K.E.H., Preece, R.C., Keen, D.H., Maddy, D., Schreve, D.C. and Collins, M.J. In press. Testing the aminostratigraphy of fluvial archives: the evidence from intra-crystalline proteins within freshwater shells. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- Maddy, D., Demir, T., Bridgland, D.R., Veldkamp, A., Stemerdink, C., van der Schriek, T. and Schreve, D. In press. The Pliocene initiation and early Pleistocene volcanic disruption of the palaeo-Gediz fluvial system, western Turkey. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- Candy, I. and Schreve, D.C. 2007. Land–sea correlation of Middle Pleistocene temperate sub-stages using high-precision uranium-series dating of tufa deposits from southern England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 1223-1235.
- Schreve, D.C., Harding, P., White, M.J., Bridgland, D.R., Allen, P., Clayton, F. and Keen, D.H. 2006. A Levallois knapping site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary context, environment and age. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 72, 21-52.
- Schreve, D.C. 2006. The taphonomy of a Middle Devensian (MIS 3) vertebrate assemblage from Lynford, Norfolk, UK, and its implications for Middle Palaeolithic subsistence strategies. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, 543-565.
- Green, C.P., Field, M.H., Keen, D.H., Wells, J.M., Schwenninger, J.-L., Preece, R.C., Schreve, D.C., Canti, M.G. and Gleed-Owen, C.P. 2006. Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, North London, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews,25, 89-113.
