Dr James Bendle MSc, PhD

Dr James Bendle

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Reader (Associate Professor) in Organic Geochemistry

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6156
Email
j.bendle@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

James is an organic geochemist specialising in paleoclimatology. His research develops and uses molecular tools to reconstruct past environmental conditions and addresses two key themes: (1) Developing new quantitative paleoclimate proxies; (2) Holocene and Cenozoic climate evolution.

For more information visit my personal website:

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6826-8658

Qualifications

2010 – PGCHE, University of Glasgow
2003 – PhD, University of Durham
1999 – MSc in Quaternary Science, RHUL and UCL (University of London)

Teaching

I undertake ca. 80 hours of campus-based and 2 to 3 wks (50-150 hrs) of field based teaching per year.  Including:

  • Palaeoclimates (3rd year UG and M-level)
  • Advanced Field Skills II: Assynt, NW Scotland Field course (2nd year UG)
  • Geog/Geol Final year projects (3rd year)
  • Research Skills (1st Year)
  • Advanced Projects (MSci)
  • Earth Systems (1st year)

Postgraduate supervision

James Bendle uses molecular biomarkers to study modern and past environmental processes and conditions. Organic carbon compounds are ubiquitous, abundant and sometimes overlooked components of oceans, lakes, sedimentary rocks and even atmospheric aerosols. Directly, or indirectly, they fuel all biogeochemical processes. As a paleoclimatologist, trained in molecular biogeochemistry, Dr Bendle is interested in the source, structure, and distribution of such naturally occurring compounds (biomarkers). His research is focused on the development of biomarker proxies of environmental parameters (eg, terrestrial and sea-surface temperatures, relative humidity, C3/C4 plant distribution, wetland extent) and their application to answer questions about past climatic and environmental changes.

Dr Bendle is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in all his areas of interest.

Other activities

  • Doctorial Researcher (DR) tutor for school of Earth Sciences (currently)
  • Director of the NERC CENTA Doctoral Training Partnership (2013-2019)
  • Senior DR tutor for school of GEES and Director of International Recruitment (2012-2013)
  • Membership of the American Geophysical Union, Quaternary Research Association
  • Reviewer for various journals and funding agencies, including: NERC (the UK Natural Environmental Research Council), the NSF, the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and the NWO (the Dutch research council), Nature, PNAS, Geology, Paleoceanography, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Geophysical Research Letters, Paleogeography Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Special Publications of The Geological Society of London.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Dong, Z, Yang, Y, Wang, C, Bendle, JA, Ruan, X, L眉, X & Xie, S 2023, '', Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 9, 1050269.

Thorpe, AC, Mackay, EB, Goodall, T, Bendle, JA, Thackeray, SJ, Maberly, SC & Read, DS 2023, '', Molecular ecology resources.

De Lira Mota, M, Dunkley Jones, T, Sulaiman, N, Edgar, K, Yamaguchi, T, Leng, MJ, Adloff, M, Greene, S, Norris, R, Warren, B, Duffy, G, Farrant, J, Murayama, M, Hall, J & Bendle, J 2023, '', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 4748.

Duncan, B, McKay, R, Levy, R, Naish, T, Prebble, JG, Sangiorgi, F, Krishnan, S, Hoem, F, Clowes, C, Jones, TD, Gasson, E, Kraus, C, Kulhanek, DK, Meyers, SR, Moossen, H, Warren, C, Willmott, V, Ventura, GT & Bendle, J 2022, '', Nature Geoscience, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 819鈥�825.

Inglis, GN, Toney, JL, Zhu, J, Poulsen, CJ, R枚hl, U, Jamieson, SSR, Pross, J, Cramwinckel, MJ, Krishnan, S, Pagani, M, Bijl, PK & Bendle, J 2022, '', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, vol. 37, no. 2, e2021PA004348.

Thorpe, AC, Anderson, A, Goodall, T, Thackeray, SJ, Maberly, SC, Bendle, JA, Gweon, HS & Read, DS 2022, '', Environmental DNA, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1340-1355.

Yang, Y, Wang, C, Bendle, J, Luo, Z, Dang, X, Xue, J, Xiang, X & Xie, S 2021, '', Organic Geochemistry, vol. 160, 104277.

Ashley, KE, Crosta, X, Etourneau, J, Campagne, P, Gilchrist, H, Ibraheem, U, Greene, SE, Schmidt, S, Eley, Y, Mass茅, G & Bendle, J 2021, '', Biogeosciences, vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 5555-5571.

Wang, C, Bendle, JA, Yang, H, Yang, Y, Hardman, A, Yamoah, A, Thorpe, A, Mandel, I, Greene, SE, Huang, J & Xie, S 2021, '', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 302, pp. 101-119.

Yang, Y, Bendle, JA, Pancost, RD, Yan, Y, Ruan, X, Warren, B, L眉, X, Li, X, Yao, Y, Huang, X, Yang, H & Xie, S 2021, '', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 11, e2020GL091853.

Ashley, K, McKay, R, Etourneau, J, Jimenez-Espejo, F, Condron, A, Albot, A, Crosta, X, Riesselman, C, Seki, O, Mass茅, G, Golledge, N, Gasson, E, Lowry, D, Barrand, N, Johnson, K, Bertler, N, Escutia, C, Dunbar, R & Bendle, J 2021, '', Climate of the Past, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-19.

Johnson, KM, McKay, RM, Etourneau, J, Jim茅nez-Espejo, FJ, Albot, A, Riesselman, CR, Bertler, NAN, Horgan, HJ, Crosta, X, Bendle, J, Ashley, KE, Yamane, M, Yokoyama, Y, Pekar, SF, Escutia, C & Dunbar, RB 2021, '', Nature Geoscience, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 762-768.

Yang, Y, Wang, C, Bendle, JA, Yu, X, Gao, C, L眉, X, Ruan, X, Wang, R & Xie, S 2020, '', Organic Geochemistry, vol. 141, 103975.

Bendle, J 2020, '', Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Conference contribution

Hall, J, Jones, S, Jones, TD & Bendle, J 2021, . in EGU General Assembly 2021., EGU21-220, European Geosciences Union, EGU General Assembly 2021, 19/04/21.