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My research is situated within the discipline biometeorology, exploring the impacts of climate change on both the natural environment and human populations. My published research can be grouped into three main themes: 1) long term climate and environmental change throughout the late Quaternary reconstructed from palaeoenvironmental proxy records, 2) contemporary climate change over recent decades and 3) the impact of these climatic changes on tourism. This research has involved the quantitative analysis of climate records and palaeoenvironmental proxies from Iran, Lesotho and South Africa, and has involved collaboration with researchers from Iran, the United Kingdom, Sweden and South Africa.
My focus on contemporary climate change over recent decades first includes analyses of synoptic climatological changes. This has included findings of shifts in the frequency and position of tropical cyclones in the south-east Indian Ocean, changes in climatic seasonality across South Africa and modelling temporal and spatial variability in precipitation and thermal comfort in Iran. This research also has a strong focus on the impacts of climate change over recent decades on plant and animal phenology, with relevance to agricultural vulnerability and tourism associated with phenological events.
The second theme examines climate change over considerably longer time periods, spanning the last ~24 000 years, through the use of proxy records. My research in this domain focuses exclusively on southern Africa, a chronically under-researched region, despite the tremendous palaeoenvironmental significance of the region as the cradle of humankind. I work primarily with fossil pollen, diatoms and sedimentary properties, including geochemistry, and work on reconstructing past environments to inform climate change analysis, archaeological work and contaminant histories.
The third theme involves multi-disciplinary research on the impacts of climate change on tourism, and the potential for mitigating associated threats within the tourism industry. The field of climate change and tourism remains largely eurocentric with little application in the Middle East or the African continent. Moreover, there is a significant disjuncture between the perceptions of foreign tourists and local accommodation establishment owners regarding climate change threats to tourism. This has prompted a critical examination of the methodological challenges currently hindering the application of globally accepted approaches to the quantification of climate change threats to tourism in Southern Africa.
I am a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), the African Councillor of the International Society of Biometeorology, and the President-Elect of the Society of South African Geographers. I serve on the editorial board of the International Journal of Biometeorology and the South African Journal of Science.
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Climate Dynamicspp.1-14, (2024)
C. J. Curtis,N. L. Rose, H. Yang, S. Turner, K. Langerman,J. Fitchett, A. Milner, A. Kabba,J. Shilland
Science of the total environmentpp.173493-173493, (2024)
Kayleigh Raines,Jennifer M. Fitchett
International Journal of Biometeorologypp.1-11, (2024)
Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Floodingpp.87-100, (2024)
Alexi M. Marinaki,Jennifer M. Fitchett
Journal of Mountain Scienceno. 6 (2024): 1941-1953
Ariel S. Prinsloo,Jennifer M. Fitchett
International journal of biometeorology (2024)
International Journal of Biometeorologyno. 6 (2023): 933-955
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCEno. 7-8 (2023)
International journal of climatologyno. 6 (2023): 2930-2952
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#Papers: 126
#Citation: 1395
H-Index: 20
G-Index: 32
Sociability: 5
Diversity: 3
Activity: 54
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