Dr Matthew Higginson
Research Associate
Location: LGC Forensics,
E: matthewjhigginson@gmail.com
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Dr Higginson has worked in LGC Forensics since 2004, first under the Forensic Alliance brand and more recently under LGC Forensics, in various posts:
- National Business Unit Head, Illicit Drugs & Toxicology April 2010 – Present
- Operations Head, Chemistry and Firearms January 2007 – March 2010
- Court Reporting Forensic Scientist and Team Leader June 2004 – December 2006
He was a University Lecturer, in Boston University, Boston MA, Department of Earth Sciences September. 2002 – May 2004, and a Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Research Associate April. 2000 – August 2002, in the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.
Background
Dr Higginson graduated from Oxford University, Saïd Business School Oxford, UK, with a Master of Business Administration (Executive), Distinction September 2010
- Awarded Dean’s Prize for outstanding academic achievement in 2009-2010 Executive MBA class
- Awarded Oxford Alumni Executive MBA Scholarship
- University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, with a Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry (co-supervised by Prof. Sir Nicholas Shackleton, Cambridge) March 2000
- Oxford University, Keble College Oxford, UK, Bachelor of Arts, Geography, First Class Honours June 1996
Selected publications
Selected publications
Zhao M., Mercer J. L., Eglinton, G., Higginson M. J., and Huang, C.-Y., 2006, Comparative molecular biomarker assessment of phytoplankton paleo-productivity for the last 160 kyr off Cap Blanc, NW Africa. Organic Geochemistry, 37, 72-97.
Kienast M., Higginson M. J., Mollenhauer G., Eglinton T., Chen M., and Calvert S., 2005, On the sedimentological origin of down-core variations of bulk sedimentary nitrogen isotope ratios. Paleoceanography, 20, PA2009, doi:10.1029/2004PA001081.
Higginson M. J., Altabet M. A., Wincze L., Herbert T. D., and Murray D. W., 2004, A solar (irradiance) trigger for millennial-scale abrupt changes in the southwest monsoon? Paleoceanography, 19, PA3015, doi:10.1029/2004PA001031.
Higginson, M. J., and Altabet, M. A., 2004, Initial Test of the Silicic Acid Leakage Hypothesis Using Sedimentary Biomarkers. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L18303, doi:10.1029/2004GL020511
Higginson M. J., Altabet M. A., Murray D. W., Murray R. W., and Herbert T. D., 2004, Geochemical Evidence for Abrupt Changes in Relative Strength of the Arabian Monsoons During a Stadial/Interstadial Climate Transition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 3807-3826.
Higginson M. J., and Altabet M. A., 2004, Comment on “Sedimentary phosphorus record from the Oman margin: New evidence of high productivity during glacial periods” by F. Tamburini et al., Paleoceanography, 19, PA2024, doi:10.1029/2004PA001017.
Higginson M. J., Maxwell J. R. and Altabet M. A., 2003, Nitrogen isotope and chlorin paleoproductivity records from the Northern South China Sea: remote vs. local forcing of millennial- and orbital-scale variability. Marine Geology, 201, 223-250.
Altabet M. A., Higginson M. J. and Murray D. W., 2002, The effect of millennial-scale changes in Arabian Sea denitrification on atmospheric CO2. Nature, 415, 159-162.
Wang P., Prell W. L., Blum P., (inc. Higginson M. J.) et al., 2000, Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 184 [CD-ROM]. Available from: Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77845-9547, USA.
Stokes S., Haynes G., Thomas D. S. G., Horrocks J. L., Higginson M. J. and Malifa M., 1998, Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 137, 305-322.
Invited Lectures
Author of more than 30 scientific presentations at national and international workshops and meetings, including:
- 2008 IOM3, London, UK Institute of Materials: New Technologies in Forensic Science
- 2006 Wyboston, UK Forensic Science Society: ‘Fact or Fiction’
- 2005 Preston, UK Forensic Outdoor Scenes Workshop: Soils, pollen
- 2003 American Geophysical Union, CA Enhanced global denitrification at deglaciation
- 2003 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Solar irradiance trigger for Monsoon changes
- 2003 Brown University Triggers for deglaciation found on Peru margin
- 2003 EUG, Nice Alkenone-based Chronostratigraphy
- 2002 University of Bremen Paleo-monsoon, origins of Abrupt Climate
