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Research project

IODP2: Coupled change in global climate and the carbon cycle across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 
Connect with Paul

Email: paw2@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry
Connect with Gavin

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

North Atlantic evidence for a unipolar icehouse Climate State at the Eocene-Oligocene transition
James F. Spray, Steven M. Bohaty, Andrew Davies, Ian Bailey, Brian W. Romans, Matthew J. Cooper, James A. Milton & Paul A. Wilson, 2019, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
DOI: 10.1029/2019PA003563
Type: article
Transient temperature asymmetry between hemispheres in the Palaeogene Atlantic Ocean
Zhonghui Liu, Yuxin He, Yiqing Jiang, Huanye Wang, Weiguo Liu, Steven M. Bohaty & Paul A. Wilson, 2018, Nature Geoscience, 11(9), 656-660
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0182-9
Type: article
Meridional contrasts in productivity changes driven by the opening of Drake Passage
Jean-Baptiste Ladant, Yannick Donnadieu, Laurent Bopp, Caroline H. Lear & Paul A. Wilson, 2018, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003211
Type: article
A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera
Rosanna Greenop, Mathis Hain, Sindia M. Sosdian, Kevin Oliver, Philip Goodwin, Thomas Chalk, Caroline H. Lear, Paul A. Wilson & Gavin Foster, 2017, Climate of the Past, 13(2), 149-170
DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-149-2017
Type: article
Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1–17.1Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264
Diederik Liebrand, Helen Beddow, Lucas Lourens, Heiko Palike, Isabella Raffi, Steven Bohaty, Frederik Hilgen, Mischa Saes, Paul A. Wilson, Arnold van Dijk, David Hodell, Dick Kroon, Claire Huck & Sietske Batenburg, 2016, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007
Type: article