Kaufman, D., McKay, N., Routson, C., Erb, M., Davis, B., Heiri, O., ... Zhilich, S. (2020). A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records. Scientific Data, 7 (1), 115. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0445-3

Hawkins, A., Sharpe, R., Spence, K., & Holmes, N. (2018). Inappropriate flushing of menstrual sanitary products. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management. https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/toc/jwama/0/0

Holmes, N. (2018). Mapping glacial landscapes: a case study from the Himalaya. Geography Review, 31 (4), 2-5. https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/geographyreview

Holmes, N. (2017). Engaging with assessment: increasing student engagement through continuous assessment. Active Learning in Higher Education, 19 (1), 23-34. http://doi.org/10.1177/1469787417723230

Rodrigo-Rech, A., Dalsgaard, B., Sandel, B., Sonne, J., Svenning, J.-.C., Holmes, N., & Ollerton, J. (2016). The macroecology of animal versus wind pollination: ecological factors are more important than historical climate stability. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 9 (3), 253-262. http://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2016.1207722

Holmes, N., Langdon, P.G., Caseldine, C.J., Wastegard, S., Leng, M.J., Croudace, I.W., & Davies, S.M. (2016). Climatic variability during the last millennium in Western Iceland from lake sediment records. The Holocene, 26 (5), 756-771. http://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615618260

Turner, J.N., Holmes, N., Davis, S.R., Leng, M.J., Langdon, C., & Scaife, R.G. (2015). A multiproxy (micro-XRF, pollen, chironomid and stable isotope) lake sediment record for the Lateglacial to Holocene transition from Thomastown Bog, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30 (6), 514-528. http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2796

Holmes, N. (2014). Student perceptions of their learning and engagement in response to the use of a continuous e-assessment in an undergraduate module. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 40 (1), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2014.881978

Holmes, N., Langdon, P.G., Caseldine, C., Brooks, S.J., & Birks, H.J.B. (2011). Merging chironomid training sets: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (19-20), 2793-2804. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.013

Holmes, N. (2010). Palaeoecology, sedimentology and archaeology: investigating climate change and the adoption of agriculture in Ireland. Quaternary Newsletter, 120, 31-33.

Langdon, P.G., Leng, M.J., Holmes, N., & Caseldine, C.J. (2010). Lacustrine evidence of early-holocene environmental change in northern Iceland: A multiproxy palaeoecology and stable isotope study. Holocene, 20 (2), 205-214. http://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609354301

Holmes, N., Langdon, P.G., & Caseldine, C.J. (2009). Subfossil chironomid variability in surface sediment samples from Icelandic lakes: Implications for the development and use of training sets. Journal of Paleolimnology, 42 (2), 281-295. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-008-9276-5

Langdon, P., Holmes, N., Stefánsson, S.M., Hannesdóttir, E., & Axford, A. (2008). The 8th European Subfossil Chironomid Workshop, Reykjavik. Quaternary Newsletter, 114, 28-32.

Langdon, P.G., Holmes, N., & Caseldine, C.J. (2008). Environmental controls on modern chironomid faunas from NW Iceland and implications for reconstructing climate change. Journal of Paleolimnology, 40 (1), 273-293. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-007-9157-3

Holmes, N. (2008). Validation of chironomid-inferred temperature reconstructions in Iceland: The potential for reconstructing quantitative changes in holocene climate. Geographica Helvetica, 63 (1), 4-14. http://doi.org/10.5194/gh-63-4-2008

Langdon, P., Holmes, N., Stefánsson, S.M., Hannesdóttir, E., & Axford, Y. (2007). The 8th European Subfossil Chironomid Workshop, Reykjavik. Chironomus Newsletter on Chironomidae Research, 20, 10.

Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., & Holmes, N. (2006). Early Holocene climate variability and the timing and extent of the Holocene thermal maximum (HTM) in northern Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25 (17-18), 2314-2331. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.003

Conference papers

Biddulph, M., Collins, A.L., Foster, I.D.L., & Holmes, N. (2017). The scale problem in tackling diffuse water pollution from agriculture : insights from the Avon Demonstration Test Catchment programme in England. River Research and Applications, 33 (10), 1527-1538. http://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3222

Evans, J., Foster, I., Boardman, J., & Holmes, N. (2017). SMART – Sediment Mitigation Actions for the River Rother, UK. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 375, 35-39. http://www.proc-iahs.net/375/35/2017/

Lotter, A., Poska, A., Huusko, A., Lučeničová, B., Odgaard, B., Caseldine, C., ... Veski, S. (2008). The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: A review and results from the POLLANDCAL network. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 17 (5), 419-443. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-008-0169-3

Book chapters

Holmes, N. (2014). Section 4.1.3: Chironomid analysis: background, methods and geomorphological applications. In Cook, S.J., Clarke, L.E., & Nield, J.M. (Eds.) Geomorphological Techniques (Online Edition). London, UK: British Society for Geomorphology: http://www.geomorphology.org.uk/sites/default/files/geom_tech_chapters/4.1.3_Chironomids.pdf

Holmes, N., Warren, G., & Davis, S. (2010). Palaeoenvironmental analyses from Cregganmore. In North Mayo. IQUA Field Guide No. 31. Irish Quaternary Association

Reports

Holmes, N. (2017). Canadian Yukon 2017 Science Report.

Holmes, N. (2017). Canadian Yukon 2017 Science Report.

Holmes, N. (2016). Indian Himalaya 2016 Science Report.

Holmes, N. (2015). Indian Himalaya 2015 Science Report.

Holmes, N. (2015). Arctic Finnmark 2014 Science Report.

Lewis, H., Gallagher, C., Davis, S., Turner, J., Foster, G., Courtney, L., ... Meehan, R. (2009). An integrated, comprehensive GIS model of landscape evolution and land use history in the River Boyne valley. Phase II Report. The Heritage Council.

Presentations

Irvine-Fynn, T., Bridge, J., Griffiths, H., & Holmes, N. (2021). Immersive fieldwork learning through self-directed exploration of virtual landscape spheres. Presented at: 11th Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase, Online

Holmes, N., Hawkins, A., Simpson, S., & Wharton, L. (2021). Student experiences of virtual fieldwork learning opportunities [as a response to C-19]. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online

Buckley, B., Goldwood, M., Holmes, N., Dowey, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Producing a JEDI impact assessment and checklist for local field visits. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online

Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Giving the students their (anonymous) voices: encouraging engagement in online sessions. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online

Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Learning about the outdoors, indoors: encouraging individual engagement with learning and the environment through assessment. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online

Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Learning about the outdoors, indoors: encouraging individual engagement with learning and the environment through assessment. Presented at: CHES Annual Forum (IES), Online

Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Giving the students their (anonymous) voices: encouraging engagement in online sessions. Presented at: CHES / IES Annual Forum, Online

Holmes, N. (2015). Boggy Places. Presented at: .PLACE. symposium: Celebrating ten years of Geography at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus, Penryn, UK

Biddulp, M., Collins, A., Foster, I.D.L., & Holmes, N. (2014). Testing the efficacy of on-farm pollution mitigation measures in agricultural catchments in England. Presented at: International Association for Sediment Water Science Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa

Holmes, N., Warren, G., Davis, S., & Turner, J. (2013). Developing quantitative records of past climate and environment in Ireland: a palaeoecological, sedimentological and archaeological approach. Presented at: Subfossil Chironomid Workshop, New Forest, UK

Davis, S., Warren, G., & Holmes, N. (2010). Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological investigations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Ireland. Presented at: Annual Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, Kyoto, Japan

Holmes, N., Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., Thompson, G., Wastegård, S., Larsen, G., & Davies, S. (2010). Determining temperature changes in Western Iceland over the last millennium: chronological issues. Presented at: UCD Chronology Day, Dublin, Ireland

Warren, G., Holmes, N., & Davis, S. (2010). Climate change and the Neolithic in North Mayo. Presented at: Re-Framing the Neolithic, Dublin

Caseldine, C., Holmes, N., Langdon, P., Thompson, G., Wastegård, S., Larsen, G., & Davies, S. (2010). Determining temperature changes in Western Iceland over the last millennium: issues and results. Presented at: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Turner, J., Davis, S., Scaife, R., Langdon, C., Holmes, N., Leng, M., ... Cummins, T. (2010). A multiproxy (pollen, stable isotope, chironomid and µXRF) record for the Late Glacial to Holocene transition from Thomastown Bog, Ireland. Presented at: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Holmes, N., Warren, G., & Davis, S. (2010). Investigating the environmental and human history of north Co. Mayo, Ireland. Presented at: Wetland Archaeology in Ireland and Beyond, Dublin

Warren, G., Holmes, N., & Davis, S. (2009). Belderrig: extreme weather, climate and history. Presented at: Theoretical Archaeology Group 31st Annual Meeting, Durham, UK

Warren, G., Holmes, N., Davis, S., & Turner, J. (2009). Palaeoclimatology and Archaeology of a Prehistoric Landscape in North Mayo. Presented at: Dealing with Neolithic Landscapes, Belfast

Holmes, N. (2009). Climate change and the adoption of agriculture in Ireland. Presented at: Irish Quaternary Association Spring Meeting, Dublin, Ireland

Holmes, N. (2009). Chironomids and climate: investigating the adoption of agriculture in Ireland. Presented at: Chironomid Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark

Holmes, N., Langdon, P., Brooks, S., & Caseldine, C. (2007). Comparing and merging chironomid training sets: implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions. Presented at: XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia

Holmes, N., Langdon, P., & Caseldine, C. (2007). Development of a high resolution chironomid record from Baulárvallavatn, W Iceland. Presented at: Chironomid Workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland

Langdon, P., Axford, Y., Holmes, N., & Caseldine, C. (2007). Holocene development of the Icelandic chironomid fauna: palaeolimnological evidence from lakes in northern Iceland. Presented at: Arctic Workshop, Skaftafell, Iceland

Holmes, N., Langdon, P., & Caseldine, C. (2006). Validation of Chironomid-Inferred Temperature Reconstructions in Iceland: The Potential for Reconstructing Quantitative Changes in Holocene Climate. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Langdon, P., Holmes, N., & Caseldine, C. (2005). Environmental controls on modern chironomid faunas from NW and W Iceland: implications for reconstructing climate change. Presented at: EGU General Meeting, Vienna, Austria

Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., & Holmes, N. (2005). Palaeoecological Quantitative Estimates of the Extent and Timing of the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Iceland. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Holmes, N. (2004). Reconstructing Holocene climate and environment in NW Iceland. Presented at: Chironomid Workshop, Barcelona, Spain

Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., & Holmes, N. (2004). Terrestrial Responses to Holocene Climatic Forcing – Examples from N/NW Iceland. Presented at: Arctic Workshop, Boulder, USA

Holmes, N. (2002). Comparing biotic palaeoclimatic proxies for the last 11Kyr from NW Iceland. Presented at: Chironomid Workshop, Exeter, UK

Posters

Walton, S., Holmes, N., Storrar, R., Bridge, J., Ewertowski, M., Tomczyk, A., & Jones, A. (2022). Upland deglaciation since the Little Ice Age at Skálafellsjökull, southeast Iceland. Presented at: Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting, Online, Sheffield

Rivers, G., Burr, I., Storrar, R., Jones, A., & Holmes, N. (2022). Pattern and morphometry of Crevasse Squeeze Ridges, Northwest Territories, Canada. Presented at: Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting, Online

Holmes, N., Hawkins, A., Simpson, S., & Wharton, L. (2021). Student experiences of virtual fieldwork learning opportunities [as a response to C-19]. Presented at: BSG Annual Meeting, Online

Walton, S., Holmes, N., Storrar, R., & Bridge, J. (2021). Climate and Environmental Change in Southeast Iceland. Presented at: BSG Annual Meeting, Online

Schwartz-Narbonne, R., Oladapo, O., Rahim, A.H., Holmes, N., & Lacey, M. (2021). Investigating the role of coal mine water heavy metal contamination to antibiotic resistance in Sheffield soil microbes. Presented at: BSG Annual Conference, Online

Storrar, R., Holmes, N., & Bradwell, T. (2019). A refined size frequency approach to lichenometric dating and spreadsheet for surface age estimations. Presented at: British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting, Sheffield

Holmes, N., & Lem, R. (2016). Wild science: undertaking geomorphological research on youth expeditions. Presented at: British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting, Plymouth, 2016

Holmes, N., Storrar, R., Wright, H., Stefaniak, A., Cranmer, R., Feng, H., ... Sterrow, C. (2016). Investigating recent environmental change through geomorphological mapping of glacial landforms in Ladakh, India: a geomorphological outreach project. Presented at: British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting, Plymouth, 2016

Sharpe, R., Holmes, N., & Douterelo, I. (2016). A methodological proposal to investigate the long term storage of pollutants in freshwater sediment biofilms and their response to environmental disturbances. Presented at: British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting, Plymouth, 2016

Holmes, N., Warren, G., Davis, S., Turner, J., McCarron, S., Leng, M., & Brooks, S. (2010). Developing quantitative records of past climate and environment in Ireland: a palaeoecological, sedimentological and archaeological approach. Presented at: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Cunningham, L., Holmes, N., Bigler, C., Dadal, A., Bergman, J., Caseldine, C., & Langdon, P. (2010). Reconstructing temperatures from lake sediments in northern Europe: what do the biological proxies really tell us? Presented at: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Holmes, N., Davis, S., & Warren, G. (2009). Palaeoecology, sedimentology and archaeology: beginning to untangle the environmental and human history of Belderrig, north County Mayo, Ireland. Presented at: Association for Environmental Archaeology 30th Anniversary Meeting: Environmental Archaeology in a Changing World, York, UK

Davis, S., Holmes, N., & Warren, G. (2009). Climate change and the adoption of agriculture in Ireland. Presented at: Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting, Oxford, UK

Holmes, N., Davis, S., & Warren, G. (2009). Climate change and the adoption of agriculture in Ireland. Presented at: Irish Quaternary Association Meeting, Dublin, Ireland

Langdon, P., Caseldine, C., Holmes, N., Thompson, G., & Croudace, I. (2007). Climate over the last Millennium in western Iceland: lacustrine evidence from Baulárvallavatn. Presented at: XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia

Langdon, P., Caseldine, C., Holmes, N., Thompson, G., Croudace, I., & Leng, M. (2007). Climate of the last Millennium in Iceland: as assessment of the sediments from Baulárvallavatn, W Iceland. Presented at: Arctic Workshop, Skaftafell, Iceland

Holmes, N., Langdon, P., Caseldine, C., & Thompson, G. (2007). Development of a high resolution chironomid record from Baulárvallavatn, W Iceland. Presented at: Arctic Workshop, Skaftafell, Iceland

Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., & Holmes, N. (2006). Quantitative Terrestrial Palaeoclimatic Records From Iceland: A Comparison With Marine Data. Presented at: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Caseldine, C., Langdon, P., & Holmes, N. (2003). Biological proxies for Holocene climate change in Iceland – Patterns and Issues. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno. Presented at: XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, USA

Other publications

Holmes, N. (2014). Science Report.