Valerie Hall (1946–2016) was a professor in Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast until her retirement in 2010, after which she remained a professor emerita. She gained a 2:2 in botany at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 and a PhD in Palaeoecology in 1989. She has produced a number of publications of which the best known may be Flora Hibernica, which she co-wrote along with J. Pilcher and published in 2001. She was the Director of Research in the School of Archaeology-Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast. Valerie was Vice President of the INQUA Commission for Tephrochronology and Volcanology and was the Honorary Company Secretary of the Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.