Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoceanography
Our research combines geochemistry, micropalaeontology, and climate modelling to produce an integrated view of ancient, modern and future environmental change across a wide range of time-scales. Research expertise includes stable isotope and trace metal inorganic geochemistry, organic biomarker analyses, quantitative and evolutionary micropaleontology as well as Earth system and climate modelling.
Researchers have made fundamental contributions to the development of new geochemical proxies to reconstruct past climates and environments, climate data-model inter-comparison studies, and the evolution of the Earth’s system through geological time. Our work is also highly interdisciplinary, for instance, we explore how climate change may have driven dinosaur evolution 240 million years ago (linked with the Palaeobiology group), and how gas emissions from Large Igneous Provinces (linked with the Dynamic Earth group) has driven hyperthermal events. Our research is highly international with collaborations in >30 countries. Researchers are deeply engaged with the International Ocean Discovery Program, and its predecessor, e.g., IODP, with shipboard participation in numerous IODP Expeditions. As well as working in the marine realm we also conduct research on lakes, ice-cores and in-cave environments.
Research areas
Research areas
- Climate and Earth System Modelling
- Inorganic Geochemistry
- Micropalaeontology
- Organic Geochemistry