Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

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Mr Lingle Chen

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Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 

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Dr Philip Goodwin

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Philip has a number of research interests spanning climate and the carbon cycle:
  • (1) Earth’s coupled physical climate and biogeochemical system;
  • (2) The Anthropocene (including surface warming, sea level rise and ocean acidification);

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Dr Richard Pearce

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Research interests include the study of past climates, in particular from varve archives in freshwater and marine environments, the mineralogy of fine-grained clay-rich sediments, and the application of electron microscopy techniques to archaeological materials.
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Dr Richard Stockey BA MSci PhD

Lecturer in Palaeobiology

Research interests

  • Treating the geologic record as a historical laboratory for studying the responses of marine ecosystems to environmental change
  • Earth system, ecological and biogeochemical modelling to better understand relationships between changes observed in the fossil and geochemical record
  • The importance of Earth system evolution for ecological and oceanographic responses to ancient climate change

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Mr Thomas Arney

Research interests

  • Antarctic palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate
  • West Antarctic iceberg-rafted debris provenance
  • Geological history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Professor Tom Ezard

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology

Research interests

  • The bridge from micro- to macroevolution.
  • Scaling ecological dynamics across individuals, populations and ecosystems.
  • Demography for conservation and life history evolution.

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