Research project

Descent into the Icehouse

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Gavin Foster
Other researchers:

Professor Toby Tyrrell,

Professor J. Andy Milton,

Professor Robert Marsh
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

Connect with Gavin

Email: G.L.Foster@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Toby Tyrrell

Professor of Earth System Science

Connect with Toby

Email: Toby.Tyrrell@soton.ac.uk

Professor J. Andy Milton

Prof Fellow in Analytical Geochemistry

Connect with J. Andy

Email: jam1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

Connect with Robert

Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Research outputs

A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa, with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects'

Michael J. Henehan, Gavin L. Foster, Helen C. Bostock, Rosanna Greenop, Brittney J. Marshall & Paul A. Wilson, 2016, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 282-292

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.024

Type: article

Assessing the impact of diagenesis on d11B, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite

Kirsty M. Edgar, Eleni Anagnostou, Paul N. Pearson & Gavin L. Foster, 2015, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 166, 180-209

DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018

Type: article

Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

Gordon N. Inglis, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel Lunt, Gavin L. Foster, Christopher J. Hollis, Mark Pagani, Phillip E. Jardine, Paul N. Pearson, Paul Markwick, Amanda M. J. Galsworthy, Lauren Raynham, Kyle. W. R. Taylor & Richard D. Pancost, 2015, Paleoceanography, 30(7), 1000-1020

DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002723

Type: article

A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise

Eelco J. Rohling, Ivan D. Haigh, Gavin L. Foster, Andrew P. Roberts & Katharine M. Grant, 2013, Scientific Reports, 3(3461), 1-7

DOI: 10.1038/srep03461

Type: article

Warm climates of the past - a lesson for the future?

D.J. Lunt, H. Elderfield, R. Pancost, A. Ridgwell, G.L. Foster, A. Haywood, J. Kiehl, N. Sagoo, C. Shields, E.J. Stone & P. Valdes, 2013, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 1-12

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0146

Type: article