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Because I am passionate about Geography and geographical-related research, especially in areas in the area of environmental reconstruction and the application of techniques such as Dendrochronology and pollen analysis.
'Study what you most affect' - W Shakespeare
Quaternary environments
Biogeography
Environmental & landscape assessment
Dendrochronology
Woodland / peatland conservation & management
Archaeology / Industrial Archaeology
Landscape history
BA Hons Geography (Hull) 1987
PhD Palaeoecology (Keele) 1992
PGCE (MMU) 1999
Research Assistant / Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Environmental Research Unit,
Keele University, 1991-1994
2006 - 2017 Environment & Geography Sandwich Placement Coordinator (MMMU)
National Council for Work Experience – MMU placements in environment and geography finalists / runners up / noted for excellence four years running 2008-2012
Previous External Examiner:
Reaseheath College - Environmental Degrees
Myerscough College, University of Central Lancashire - MSc in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
University College Warrington - Environmental Degrees
Geographers and environmental scientists are really useful people with broad outlooks and wide-ranging skills sets. This makes our graduates not only very interesting people, but valuable ones in the world of work. We have numerous alumni engaged in really intresting jobs that they love - also providing us with a broad network of contacts for assisting research and employability (student & staff).
Our degrees in Geography, Human geography, Physical Geography and Environmental Science are excellent platforms for graduate employment, as well as for furthering research and academic careers. They are also fun as our subjects have strong practical and field-based elements, with day field trips and also residential field courses. There are also opportunities to undertake interesting final year research projects (Dissertation), either exploring topics of your own interest, as well as related to staff specialisms. Recent undergraduate Dissertations that Ive supervised include:
Reconstructing subfossil woodland preserved in peat (Lindow Moss, Cheshire)
Dating bog oak woodland using Dendrochronology (Martin Mere, Lancashire) - Display poster and fact sheet produced for the Wetland & Wildfowl Trust
Dating bog oak woodland using Dendrochronology (Little Woolden Moss, Lancashire)
Recent Masters research project supervision:
Lageard et al 2019. Tracing aluminium production using tree chemistry. SEGH 2019 - 35th International Conference on Geochemistry and Health (1-5 July, Manchester Metropolitan University) - conference poster
External Examiner Myerscough College (UCLAN) - MSc in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 2013 - 2017
External Examiner Reaseheath College - Foundation Science
Quaternary Palaeoecology, including environmental reconstruction and wetland archaeology. Forest history (palynology, dendrochronology, historical sources). Dendrochronology, dendroecology, dendrochemistry: environmental reconstructions using tree growth variability. Environmental Archaeology. Industrial Heritage / Industrial Archaeology
2006 - present English Beech Mast Survey [DATA 1980 - present] - current responsibility for SE transect (4 sites) and Congleton Park. Previously coordinated data collection across all sites and also undertook NE transect (3 sites). Collaboration with: Universities of Wolverhampton, Keele, Liverpool, Cambridge, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), University of Canterbury (NZ)
Peat coring & Archaeology (2014 - HLF funded) - MMU, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shropshire CC Archaeology Service
Dendroclimatology of Atlas cedar - MMU & University of Manchester
Accessing Manchester's Mosslands (2015) - MMU, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Manchester Geographical Society
Investigating veteran olive trees (Bidnija Grove, Malta) - MMU & University of Malta / Malta Environment & Resource Authority
Tibetan Buddhism & Climate Change - MMU & Guangxi University (China)
K. Copes-Gerbitz, W. Fletcher, JGA. Lageard, M. Rhanem, SP. Harrison (2019). Multidecadal variability in Atlas cedar growth in Northwest Africa during the last 850 years: Implications for dieback and conservation of an endangered species. Dendrochronologia. 56, pp.125599-125599.
D. Ascoli, J. Maringer, A. Hacket-Pain, M. Conedera, I. Drobyshev, et al. R. Motta, M. Cirolli, W. Kantorowicz, C. Zang, S. Schueler, L. Croisé, P. Piussi, R. Berretti, C. Palaghianu, M. Westergren, JGA. Lageard, A. Burkart, R. Gehrig Bichsel, PA. Thomas, B. Beudert, R. Övergaard, G. Vacchiano. (2017). Two centuries of masting data for European beech and Norway spruce across the European continent. Ecology. 98(5), pp.1473-1473.
A. Hacket-Pain, J. Lageard, P. Thomas (2017). Drought and reproductive effort interact to control growth of a temperate broadleaved tree species (Fagus sylvatica). Tree Physiology. 37(6), pp.744-754.
JGA. Lageard, PA. Thomas, J. Cheng (2017). Animating tree colonization and growth. Dendrochronologia. 42, pp.13-20.
JGA. Lageard, PA. Ryan (2013). Microscopic fungi as subfossil woodland indicators. The Holocene. 23(7), pp.990-1001.
JJ. Blackford, W. Fletcher, PA. Ryan, J. Carson, A. Hogg, et al. JB. Innes, SE. Kneen, J. Lageard, C. O'Brien. (2012). 036 Climate change, fire history and disturbance of upland forest in the UK : testing multiple hypotheses using NPPs and multi-proxy palaeoecology. 日本花粉学会会誌. 58(0),
IJ. Fairchild, NJ. Loader, PM. Wynn, S. Frisia, PA. Thomas, et al. JGA. Lageard, AD. Momi, A. Hartland, A. Borsato, NL. Porta, J. Susini. (2009). Sulfur Fixation in Wood Mapped by Synchrotron X-ray Studies: Implications for Environmental Archives. Environmental Science & Technology. 43(5), pp.1310-1315.
JGA. Lageard, JA. Howell, JJ. Rothwell, IB. Drew (2008). The utility of Pinus sylvestris L. in dendrochemical investigations: pollution impact of lead mining and smelting in Darley Dale, Derbyshire, UK. Environ Pollut. 153(2), pp.284-294.
JGA. Lageard, IB. Drew (2008). Hydrogeomorphic control on tree growth responses in the Elton area of the Cheshire Saltfield, UK. Geomorphology. 95(3-4), pp.158-171.
JGA. Lageard, DB. Wilson, N. Cresswell, LE. Cawley, HE. Jones, et al. SJM. Caporn. (2005). Wood growth response of Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull to elevated N deposition and drought. Dendrochronologia. 23(2), pp.75-81.
TM. Mighall, JGA. Lageard, FM. Chambers, MH. Field, P. Mahi (2004). Mineral deficiency and the presence of Pinus sylvestris on mires during the mid- to late Holocene: palaeoecological data from Cadogan's Bog, Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, southwest Ireland. HOLOCENE. 14(1), pp.95-109.
JGA. Lageard, PA. Thomas, FM. Chambers (2000). Using fire scars and growth release in subfossil Scots pine to reconstruct prehistoric fires. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY. 164(1-4), pp.87-99.
JGA. Lageard, FM. Chambers, PA. Thomas (1999). Climatic significance of the marginalization of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) c. 2508 BC at White Moss, south Cheshire, UK. HOLOCENE. 9(3), pp.321-331.
FM. Chambers, JGA. Lageard, G. Boswijk, PA. Thomas, KJ. Edwards, et al. J. Hillam. (1997). Dating prehistoric bog-fires in northern England to calendar years by long-distance cross-matching of pine chronologies. JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE. 12(3), pp.253-256.
JGA. LAGEARD, FM. CHAMBERS, PA. THOMAS (1995). RECORDING AND RECONSTRUCTION OF WOOD MACROFOSSILS IN 3-DIMENSIONS. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 22(4), pp.561-567.
Lageard J.G.A. (2017). Dendrochronology. In: A.S. Gilbert (Ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Dordrecht, Springer.
Lageard J.G.A. (in prep). Dendrochronology. In: A.S. Gilbert (Ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (2nd Edition). Dordrecht, Springer.
2009 Eurodendro2009 international conference, Cala Millor, Mallorca, Spain: Organising committee, session chair Dendrochronology and Archaeology
2002 Co-Leader, Quaternary Research Association field meeting ‘The Quaternary of south west Ireland’, Killarney, Eire
Expert reviewer for 18 international journals
2005 Atmospheric sulphate in speleothem carbonate: applications to climate science. NERC - NE/C511805/1 Collaborative project: Universities of Birmingham, Keele, Innsbruck, Manchester Metropolitan, Swansea, University College Dublin, Museo Tridentino (Trento, Italy)
2007 Sulphur distribution in two tree species: cellular, annual and long-term variability. European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) Grant EC-146 (Collaborators as above)
2007 The Prehistoric Deforestation of Upland Britain. AHRC Research Grants (Speculative) Scheme: – AH / E009530 / 1 Collaborative Project: Universities: Manchester, Durham, Manchester Metropolitan
2014 COMM2 Peat Coring and Archaeology. (HLF funded) Collaborative Project (Meres & Mosses Landscape Partnerhip Scheme): Shropshire Wildlife Trust, MMU, Shropshire County Council Archaeology Service.
2015 Accessing Manchester’s Mosslands: MMU, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Manchester Geographical Society
2020 History of subfossil Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) woodland at Curlew Lane, Burscough, Lancashire. MMU, Manchester Geographical Society
Cole Mere Project 2014-15: Part of the Meres & Mosses Landscape Partnership Scheme, coordinated by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. HLF funded.
Accessing Manchesters Mosslands 2016-17: Project part-funded by the Manchester Geographical Society and Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes aging prehistoric bog oak woodland at Little Woolden Moss. Chat Moss Bog Oak Festival 4-9 June 2017. Project partner - Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
Martin Mere's Ancient Woodland: dating bog oak trees from the Wetland and Wildfowl Trust reserve and current environmental information project.
EGS Placements have been chosen as finalists in the National Council for Work Experience annual awards 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 (J Lageard Placement Coordinator 2006 - 2017)
Quaternary Research Association