Dr Jane Bunting

Jane Bunting is a long term ecologist with research interests focused on better understanding of the long term ecological dynamics of cultural landscapes, mostly from pollen records.

She went to university intending to be a physicist and got distracted along the way - after earning a degree (final year in Botany) and PhD at Cambridge, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Waterloo, Ontario, and at the University of Stirling before joining the University of Hull, initially as a lecturer, in 1997.

At present she works mainly on modelling pollen dispersal and deposition as a tool for reconstructing past land cover and better communicating pollen-based results with archaeologists and conservation scientists.