Rate My Professor Neil Loader

Loader's contributions include pioneering stable isotope tree-ring dating methods applied to historical timbers, enabling precise calendar dating of wooden artefacts. Key publications feature 'Stable isotopes in tree rings' (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004), 'Tree ring dating using oxygen isotopes: a master chronology for central England' (Journal of Quaternary Science, 2019), 'Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201–2000 CE, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings' (Journal of Quaternary Science, 2020), and recent works such as 'ISODATE – Software for stable isotope dendrochronology' (Dendrochronologia, 2025) and 'Stable isotope tree-ring dates: List 6' (Vernacular Architecture, 2025). His research collaborates with institutions including the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the University of Oxford, Environments of Change at the University of Waterloo, the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, and the School of the Environment at the University of Auckland. Loader engages in public outreach through events like the Welsh National Eisteddfod, Urdd Eisteddfod, National Science Week, Oriel Science, the Green Man Festival, BBC Gardeners’ Question Time, and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Innovation Festival, as well as resources developed with the Royal Meteorological Society for schools on tree-rings and climate.