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Dr Thomas White

Dr Tom White

Senior Curator, Non-Insect Invertebrates

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Invertebrates Division
Specialisms: Mollusca, Palaeolithic archaeology, Quaternary period, bivalves, climate change, curation, non-marine Gastropoda, palaeoclimatic reconstructions, palaeoecology, river terraces
Contact: email
Phone: 020 7942 6479

Summary

I am a Principal Curator of the NHM's non-insect Invertebrate collections, with responsibilities for material across many collections. In particular, I am responsible for the Bivalvia and smaller classes of Mollusca (Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Monoplacophora etc.) and also the Porifera collections.

My research expertise is in Mollusca and I have worked extensively on the taxonomy and systematics of South Asian molluscs. I also work collaboratively as a Quaternary malacologist, using non-marine molluscs to develop biostratigraphical models and palaeoecological / palaeoclimatic reconstructions. These are crucial for understanding climate change in the recent geological past (the Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years), which provides a framework for understanding a diverse range of topics, from human evolution to predicting future climate patterns.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BA (Hons), Archaeology, University of Durham, UK
  • MA, Prehistory, University of Durham, UK
  • PhD, Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK

External Positions

Malacological Society of London: Hon. Membership Secretary, 2016 - on going.

Malacological Society of London: Hon. Secretary, 2008 - 2016.

Publications

Groucutt HS, White TS, Scerri EML, Andrieux E, Clark-Wilson R, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Stewart M, Drake N, Louys J, Price GJ, Duval M, Parton A, Candy I, Carleton WC, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Zahir M, Blinkhorn J, Blockley S, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2022) Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 602 (7895) : E15 - E15. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04289-2

Scerri EML, Frouin M, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Candy I, Groucutt HS, Drake N, Parton A, White TS, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (null) The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89489-6

Das NK, Páll-Gergely B, Naggs F, Preece RC, White TS, Aravind NA (2021) Redescription of Acmella tersa (Benson, 1853), the type species of Acmella W.T. Blanford, 1869 (Gastropoda: Assimineidae), from Meghalaya, Northeast India. Molluscan Research, 41 (4) : 324 - 331. doi: 10.1080/13235818.2021.1991255

Groucutt HS, White TS, Scerri EML, Andrieux E, Clark-Wilson R, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Stewart M, Drake N, Louys J, Price GJ, Duval M, Parton A, Candy I, Carleton WC, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Zahir M, Blinkhorn J, Blockley S, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2021) Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 597 (7876) : 376 - 380. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y

Sherriff JE, Schreve DC, Candy I, Palmer AP, White TS (2021) Environments of the climatic optimum of MIS 11 in Britain: evidence from the tufa sequence at Hitchin, southeast England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36 (4) : 508 - 525. doi: 10.1002/jqs.3303

(2019) The Quaternary Fluvial Archives of the Major English Rivers: Field Guide. Bridgland DR, Briant RM, Allen P, Brown EJ, White TS (Eds). Quaternary Research Association : London.

Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Parker AG, Preston GW, Sung WW, Breeze PS, Leng MJ, Groucutt HS, White TS, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2018) Middle-late Quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202 : 78 - 97. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.010

Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, Errico FD, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R, Herries AIR, Jembe S, Kourampas N, Lee-Thorp J, Marchant R, Mercader J, Marti AP, Prendergast ME, Rowson B, Tengeza A, Tibesasa R, White TS, Petraglia MD, Boivin N (null) Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04753-0

Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, Errico FD, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R, Herries AIR, Jembe S, Kourampas N, Lee-Thorp J, Marchant R, Mercader J, Marti AP, Prendergast ME, Rowson B, Tengeza A, Tibesasa R, White TS, Petraglia MD, Boivin N (null) 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3

Chauhan PR, Bridgland DR, Moncel M-H, Antoine P, Bahain J-J, Briant R, Cunha PP, Despriée J, Limondin-Lozouet N, Locht J-L, Martins AA, Schreve DC, Shaw AD, Voinchet P, Westaway R, White MJ, White TS (2017) Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group. Quaternary Science Reviews, 166 : 114 - 149. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.016

White TS, Bridgland DR, Limondin-Lozouet N, Schreve DC (2017) Fossils from Quaternary fluvial archives: Sources of biostratigraphical, biogeographical and palaeoclimatic evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 166 : 150 - 176. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.016

White MJ, Bridgland DR, Schreve DC, White TS, Penkman KEH (2018) Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: Understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives. Quaternary International, 480 : 118 - 131. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.049

White TS, Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Straw A (2017) Evidence for late Middle Pleistocene glaciation of the British margin of the southern North Sea. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32 (2) : 261 - 275. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2826

Candy I, White TS, Elias S (2016) How warm was Britain during the Last Interglacial? A critical review of Ipswichian (MIS 5e) palaeotemperature reconstructions. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (8) : e2910 - e2910. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2910

Jennings RP, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, White TS, Groucutt HS, Breeze PS, Parker AG, Drake NA, Petraglia MD (2016) Human occupation of the northern Arabian interior during early Marine Isotope Stage 3. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (8) : e2920 - e2920. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2920

Breeze PS, Groucutt HS, Drake NA, White TS, Jennings RP, Petraglia MD (2016) Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 144 : 155 - 185. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.012

Stimpson CM, Lister A, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Breeze PS, Drake NA, Groucutt HS, Jennings R, Scerri EML, White TS, Zahir M, Duval M, Grün R, Al-Omari A, Al Murayyi KSM, Zalmout IS, Mufarreh YA, Memesh AM, Petraglia MD (2016) Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 143 : 13 - 36. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.016

Groucutt HS, Breeze P, Drake NA, Jennings R, Parton A, White T, Shipton C, Clark-Balzan L, Al-Omari A, Cuthbertson P, Wedage OMC, Bernal MA, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2016) The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 41 (2) : 131 - 147. doi: 10.1080/00934690.2016.1156928

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS, Westaway R (2015) New insight into the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 126 (4-5) : 466 - 479. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.06.004

Candy I, Schreve D, White TS (2015) MIS 13-12 in Britain and the North Atlantic: understanding the palaeoclimatic context of the earliest Acheulean. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30 (7) : 593 - 609. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2816

Westaway R, Bridgland DR, White TS, Howard AJ, White MJ (2015) The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 126 (4-5) : 480 - 521. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.06.005

Breeze PS, Drake NA, Groucutt HS, Parton A, Jennings RP, White TS, Clark-Balzan L, Shipton C, Scerri EML, Stimpson CM, Crassard R, Hilbert Y, Alsharekh A, Al-Omari A, Petraglia MD (2015) Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites. Quaternary International, 382 : 98 - 119. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.022

Jennings RP, Shipton C, Breeze P, Cuthbertson P, Bernal MA, Wedage WMCO, Drake NA, White TS, Groucutt HS, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Stimpson C, al Omari A-A, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert. Quaternary International, 382 : 58 - 81. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.028

Jennings RP, Singarayer J, Stone EJ, Krebs-Kanzow U, Khon V, Nisancioglu KH, Pfeiffer M, Zhang X, Parker A, Parton A, Groucutt HS, White TS, Drake NA, Petraglia MD (2015) The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations. Quaternary International, 382 : 181 - 199. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.006

Parton A, White TS, Parker AG, Breeze PS, Jennings R, Groucutt HS, Petraglia MD (2015) Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals. Quaternary International, 382 : 82 - 97. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.005

Scerri EML, Breeze PS, Parton A, Groucutt HS, White TS, Stimpson C, Clark-Balzan L, Jennings R, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382 : 200 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.036

Stimpson CM, Breeze PS, Clark-Balzan L, Groucutt HS, Jennings R, Parton A, Scerri E, White TS, Petraglia MD (2015) Stratified Pleistocene vertebrates with a new record of a jaguar-sized pantherine (Panthera cf. gombaszogensis) from northern Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382 : 168 - 180. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.049

Groucutt HS, White TS, Clark-Balzan L, Parton A, Crassard R, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Parker AG, Breeze PS, Scerri EML, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 119 : 116 - 135. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.020

Hilbert YH, White TS, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Crassard R, Groucutt HS, Jennings RP, Breeze P, Parker A, Shipton C, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2014) Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Journal of Archaeological Science, 50 : 460 - 474. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.023

Seyrek A, Demir T, Westaway R, Guillou H, Scaillet S, White TS, Bridgland DR (2014) Corrigendum to “The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited” [Tectonophysics 618 (2014) 35–66]. Tectonophysics, 630 : 319 - 320. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.014

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the Trent. Oxbow Books : 416.

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the Trent. Oxbow Books : 416.

Seyrek A, Demir T, Westaway R, Guillou H, Scaillet S, White TS, Bridgland DR (2014) The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited. Tectonophysics, 618 : 35 - 66. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.01.008

Bridgland DR, Allen P, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the lower Thames & Eastern Essex : Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association : London. 242.

Shipton C, Parton A, Breeze P, Jennings R, Groucutt H, White TS, Drake N, Crassard R, Alsharekh A, Petraglia M (2014) Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia. null, 446 - 462.

Bridgland DR, Harding P, Allen P, Candy I, Cherry C, George W, Horne DJ, Keen DH, Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Rhodes EJ, Scaife R, Schreve DC, Schwenninger J-L, Slipper I, Ward GR, White MJ, White TS, Whittaker JE (2013) An enhanced record of MIS 9 environments, geochronology and geoarchaeology: data from construction of the High Speed 1 (London–Channel Tunnel) rail-link and other recent investigations at Purfleet, Essex, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 124 (3) : 417 - 476. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.03.006

Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Bridgland DR, Keen DH, Meijer T, Parfitt SA, White TS, Collins MJ (2013) An aminostratigraphy for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 61 : 111 - 134. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.046

White TS, Preece RC, Whittaker JE (2013) Molluscan and ostracod successions from Dierden's Pit, Swanscombe: insights into the fluvial history, sea-level record and human occupation of the Hoxnian Thames. Quaternary Science Reviews, 70 : 73 - 90. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.007

Harding P, Bridgland DR, Allen P, Bradley P, Grant MJ, Peat D, Schwenninger J-L, Scott R, Westaway R, White TS (2012) Chronology of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in NW Europe: developer-funded investigations at Dunbridge, Hampshire, southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 123 (4) : 584 - 607. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.03.003

Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Romieh MA, Candy I, Daoud M, Demir T, Galiatsatos N, Schreve DC, Seyrek A, Shaw AD, White TS, Whittaker J (2012) The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: Downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks. Geomorphology, 165-166 : 25 - 49. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.01.011

Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Bridgland DR, Keen DH, Meijer T, Parfitt SA, White TS, Collins MJ (2011) A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Nature, 476 (7361) : 446 - 449. doi: 10.1038/nature10305

Boreham S, White TS, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ (2010) The Quaternary history of the Wash fluvial network, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (4) : 393 - 409. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.02.003

Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Howard AJ, Innes JB, Long AJ, Mitchell WA, White MJ, White TS (2010) The role of glacio-isostasy in the formation of post-glacial river terraces in relation to the MIS 2 ice limit: evidence from northern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (2) : 113 - 127. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.11.004

White TS, Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Howard AJ, White MJ (2010) Evidence from the Trent terrace archive, Lincolnshire, UK, for lowland glaciation of Britain during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (2) : 141 - 153. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.05.001

White TS, White MJ, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ (2009) Palaeolithic and Quaternary research in the Trent Valley (UK): contributions by early collectors. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 120 (4) : 223 - 232. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.08.010

Howard AJ, Bridgland D, Knight D, McNabb J, Rose J, Schreve D, Westaway R, White MJ, White TS (2007) 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, 26 (22-24) : 2724 - 2737. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.029

Mishra S, White MJ, Beaumont P, Antoine P, Bridgland DR, Limondin-Lozouet N, Santisteban JI, Schreve DC, Shaw AD, Wenban-Smith FF, Westaway RWC, White TS (2007) Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26 (22-24) : 2996 - 3016. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.035

White TS, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ (2007) The Quaternary of the Trent Valley & Adjoining Regions Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association : 163.

Awards

Halstead Award, 2016.

Lewis Penny Medal, 2015.

Introduction

Summary

I am a Principal Curator of the NHM's non-insect Invertebrate collections, with responsibilities for material across many collections. In particular, I am responsible for the Bivalvia and smaller classes of Mollusca (Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Monoplacophora etc.) and also the Porifera collections.

My research expertise is in Mollusca and I have worked extensively on the taxonomy and systematics of South Asian molluscs. I also work collaboratively as a Quaternary malacologist, using non-marine molluscs to develop biostratigraphical models and palaeoecological / palaeoclimatic reconstructions. These are crucial for understanding climate change in the recent geological past (the Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years), which provides a framework for understanding a diverse range of topics, from human evolution to predicting future climate patterns.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BA (Hons), Archaeology, University of Durham, UK
  • MA, Prehistory, University of Durham, UK
  • PhD, Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professional activities

External Positions

Malacological Society of London: Hon. Membership Secretary, 2016 - on going.

Malacological Society of London: Hon. Secretary, 2008 - 2016.

Publications

Publications

Groucutt HS, White TS, Scerri EML, Andrieux E, Clark-Wilson R, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Stewart M, Drake N, Louys J, Price GJ, Duval M, Parton A, Candy I, Carleton WC, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Zahir M, Blinkhorn J, Blockley S, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2022) Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 602 (7895) : E15 - E15. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04289-2

Scerri EML, Frouin M, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Candy I, Groucutt HS, Drake N, Parton A, White TS, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (null) The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89489-6

Das NK, Páll-Gergely B, Naggs F, Preece RC, White TS, Aravind NA (2021) Redescription of Acmella tersa (Benson, 1853), the type species of Acmella W.T. Blanford, 1869 (Gastropoda: Assimineidae), from Meghalaya, Northeast India. Molluscan Research, 41 (4) : 324 - 331. doi: 10.1080/13235818.2021.1991255

Groucutt HS, White TS, Scerri EML, Andrieux E, Clark-Wilson R, Breeze PS, Armitage SJ, Stewart M, Drake N, Louys J, Price GJ, Duval M, Parton A, Candy I, Carleton WC, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Zahir M, Blinkhorn J, Blockley S, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2021) Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 597 (7876) : 376 - 380. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y

Sherriff JE, Schreve DC, Candy I, Palmer AP, White TS (2021) Environments of the climatic optimum of MIS 11 in Britain: evidence from the tufa sequence at Hitchin, southeast England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36 (4) : 508 - 525. doi: 10.1002/jqs.3303

(2019) The Quaternary Fluvial Archives of the Major English Rivers: Field Guide. Bridgland DR, Briant RM, Allen P, Brown EJ, White TS (Eds). Quaternary Research Association : London.

Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Parker AG, Preston GW, Sung WW, Breeze PS, Leng MJ, Groucutt HS, White TS, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2018) Middle-late Quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202 : 78 - 97. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.010

Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, Errico FD, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R, Herries AIR, Jembe S, Kourampas N, Lee-Thorp J, Marchant R, Mercader J, Marti AP, Prendergast ME, Rowson B, Tengeza A, Tibesasa R, White TS, Petraglia MD, Boivin N (null) Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04753-0

Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, Errico FD, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R, Herries AIR, Jembe S, Kourampas N, Lee-Thorp J, Marchant R, Mercader J, Marti AP, Prendergast ME, Rowson B, Tengeza A, Tibesasa R, White TS, Petraglia MD, Boivin N (null) 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3

Chauhan PR, Bridgland DR, Moncel M-H, Antoine P, Bahain J-J, Briant R, Cunha PP, Despriée J, Limondin-Lozouet N, Locht J-L, Martins AA, Schreve DC, Shaw AD, Voinchet P, Westaway R, White MJ, White TS (2017) Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group. Quaternary Science Reviews, 166 : 114 - 149. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.016

White TS, Bridgland DR, Limondin-Lozouet N, Schreve DC (2017) Fossils from Quaternary fluvial archives: Sources of biostratigraphical, biogeographical and palaeoclimatic evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 166 : 150 - 176. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.016

White MJ, Bridgland DR, Schreve DC, White TS, Penkman KEH (2018) Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: Understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives. Quaternary International, 480 : 118 - 131. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.049

White TS, Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Straw A (2017) Evidence for late Middle Pleistocene glaciation of the British margin of the southern North Sea. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32 (2) : 261 - 275. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2826

Candy I, White TS, Elias S (2016) How warm was Britain during the Last Interglacial? A critical review of Ipswichian (MIS 5e) palaeotemperature reconstructions. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (8) : e2910 - e2910. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2910

Jennings RP, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, White TS, Groucutt HS, Breeze PS, Parker AG, Drake NA, Petraglia MD (2016) Human occupation of the northern Arabian interior during early Marine Isotope Stage 3. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (8) : e2920 - e2920. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2920

Breeze PS, Groucutt HS, Drake NA, White TS, Jennings RP, Petraglia MD (2016) Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 144 : 155 - 185. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.012

Stimpson CM, Lister A, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Breeze PS, Drake NA, Groucutt HS, Jennings R, Scerri EML, White TS, Zahir M, Duval M, Grün R, Al-Omari A, Al Murayyi KSM, Zalmout IS, Mufarreh YA, Memesh AM, Petraglia MD (2016) Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 143 : 13 - 36. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.016

Groucutt HS, Breeze P, Drake NA, Jennings R, Parton A, White T, Shipton C, Clark-Balzan L, Al-Omari A, Cuthbertson P, Wedage OMC, Bernal MA, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2016) The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 41 (2) : 131 - 147. doi: 10.1080/00934690.2016.1156928

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS, Westaway R (2015) New insight into the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 126 (4-5) : 466 - 479. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.06.004

Candy I, Schreve D, White TS (2015) MIS 13-12 in Britain and the North Atlantic: understanding the palaeoclimatic context of the earliest Acheulean. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30 (7) : 593 - 609. doi: 10.1002/jqs.2816

Westaway R, Bridgland DR, White TS, Howard AJ, White MJ (2015) The use of uplift modelling in the reconstruction of drainage development and landscape evolution in the repeatedly glaciated Trent catchment, English Midlands, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 126 (4-5) : 480 - 521. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.06.005

Breeze PS, Drake NA, Groucutt HS, Parton A, Jennings RP, White TS, Clark-Balzan L, Shipton C, Scerri EML, Stimpson CM, Crassard R, Hilbert Y, Alsharekh A, Al-Omari A, Petraglia MD (2015) Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites. Quaternary International, 382 : 98 - 119. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.022

Jennings RP, Shipton C, Breeze P, Cuthbertson P, Bernal MA, Wedage WMCO, Drake NA, White TS, Groucutt HS, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Stimpson C, al Omari A-A, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert. Quaternary International, 382 : 58 - 81. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.028

Jennings RP, Singarayer J, Stone EJ, Krebs-Kanzow U, Khon V, Nisancioglu KH, Pfeiffer M, Zhang X, Parker A, Parton A, Groucutt HS, White TS, Drake NA, Petraglia MD (2015) The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations. Quaternary International, 382 : 181 - 199. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.006

Parton A, White TS, Parker AG, Breeze PS, Jennings R, Groucutt HS, Petraglia MD (2015) Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals. Quaternary International, 382 : 82 - 97. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.005

Scerri EML, Breeze PS, Parton A, Groucutt HS, White TS, Stimpson C, Clark-Balzan L, Jennings R, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382 : 200 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.036

Stimpson CM, Breeze PS, Clark-Balzan L, Groucutt HS, Jennings R, Parton A, Scerri E, White TS, Petraglia MD (2015) Stratified Pleistocene vertebrates with a new record of a jaguar-sized pantherine (Panthera cf. gombaszogensis) from northern Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382 : 168 - 180. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.049

Groucutt HS, White TS, Clark-Balzan L, Parton A, Crassard R, Shipton C, Jennings RP, Parker AG, Breeze PS, Scerri EML, Alsharekh A, Petraglia MD (2015) Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 119 : 116 - 135. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.020

Hilbert YH, White TS, Parton A, Clark-Balzan L, Crassard R, Groucutt HS, Jennings RP, Breeze P, Parker A, Shipton C, Al-Omari A, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia MD (2014) Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Journal of Archaeological Science, 50 : 460 - 474. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.023

Seyrek A, Demir T, Westaway R, Guillou H, Scaillet S, White TS, Bridgland DR (2014) Corrigendum to “The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited” [Tectonophysics 618 (2014) 35–66]. Tectonophysics, 630 : 319 - 320. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.014

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the Trent. Oxbow Books : 416.

Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the Trent. Oxbow Books : 416.

Seyrek A, Demir T, Westaway R, Guillou H, Scaillet S, White TS, Bridgland DR (2014) The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited. Tectonophysics, 618 : 35 - 66. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.01.008

Bridgland DR, Allen P, White TS (2014) Quaternary of the lower Thames & Eastern Essex : Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association : London. 242.

Shipton C, Parton A, Breeze P, Jennings R, Groucutt H, White TS, Drake N, Crassard R, Alsharekh A, Petraglia M (2014) Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia. null, 446 - 462.

Bridgland DR, Harding P, Allen P, Candy I, Cherry C, George W, Horne DJ, Keen DH, Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Rhodes EJ, Scaife R, Schreve DC, Schwenninger J-L, Slipper I, Ward GR, White MJ, White TS, Whittaker JE (2013) An enhanced record of MIS 9 environments, geochronology and geoarchaeology: data from construction of the High Speed 1 (London–Channel Tunnel) rail-link and other recent investigations at Purfleet, Essex, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 124 (3) : 417 - 476. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.03.006

Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Bridgland DR, Keen DH, Meijer T, Parfitt SA, White TS, Collins MJ (2013) An aminostratigraphy for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 61 : 111 - 134. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.046

White TS, Preece RC, Whittaker JE (2013) Molluscan and ostracod successions from Dierden's Pit, Swanscombe: insights into the fluvial history, sea-level record and human occupation of the Hoxnian Thames. Quaternary Science Reviews, 70 : 73 - 90. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.007

Harding P, Bridgland DR, Allen P, Bradley P, Grant MJ, Peat D, Schwenninger J-L, Scott R, Westaway R, White TS (2012) Chronology of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in NW Europe: developer-funded investigations at Dunbridge, Hampshire, southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 123 (4) : 584 - 607. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.03.003

Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Romieh MA, Candy I, Daoud M, Demir T, Galiatsatos N, Schreve DC, Seyrek A, Shaw AD, White TS, Whittaker J (2012) The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: Downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks. Geomorphology, 165-166 : 25 - 49. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.01.011

Penkman KEH, Preece RC, Bridgland DR, Keen DH, Meijer T, Parfitt SA, White TS, Collins MJ (2011) A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Nature, 476 (7361) : 446 - 449. doi: 10.1038/nature10305

Boreham S, White TS, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ (2010) The Quaternary history of the Wash fluvial network, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (4) : 393 - 409. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.02.003

Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Howard AJ, Innes JB, Long AJ, Mitchell WA, White MJ, White TS (2010) The role of glacio-isostasy in the formation of post-glacial river terraces in relation to the MIS 2 ice limit: evidence from northern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (2) : 113 - 127. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.11.004

White TS, Bridgland DR, Westaway R, Howard AJ, White MJ (2010) Evidence from the Trent terrace archive, Lincolnshire, UK, for lowland glaciation of Britain during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 121 (2) : 141 - 153. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.05.001

White TS, White MJ, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ (2009) Palaeolithic and Quaternary research in the Trent Valley (UK): contributions by early collectors. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 120 (4) : 223 - 232. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.08.010

Howard AJ, Bridgland D, Knight D, McNabb J, Rose J, Schreve D, Westaway R, White MJ, White TS (2007) 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, 26 (22-24) : 2724 - 2737. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.029

Mishra S, White MJ, Beaumont P, Antoine P, Bridgland DR, Limondin-Lozouet N, Santisteban JI, Schreve DC, Shaw AD, Wenban-Smith FF, Westaway RWC, White TS (2007) Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26 (22-24) : 2996 - 3016. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.035

White TS, Bridgland DR, Howard AJ, White MJ (2007) The Quaternary of the Trent Valley & Adjoining Regions Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association : 163.

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Awards

Halstead Award, 2016.

Lewis Penny Medal, 2015.