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

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Lead researchers:

Professor Paul Wilson
Other researchers:

Professor Gavin Foster
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Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Paul Wilson

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 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

Response of the Pacific inter-tropical convergence zone to global cooling and initiation of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene Oligocene Transition

Kiseong Hyeong, Junichiro Kuroda, Inah Seo & Paul A. Wilson, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6

DOI: 10.1038/srep30647

Type: article

Incursions of southern-sourced water into the deep North Atlantic during late Pliocene glacial intensification

David C. Lang, Ian Bailey, Paul A. Wilson, Thomas B. Chalk, Gavin L. Foster & Marcus Gutjahr, 2016, Nature Geoscience, 9(5), 375-379

DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2688

Type: article

Global carbon cycle perturbation across the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition

David Armstrong Mckay, Toby Tyrrell & Paul A. Wilson, 2016, Paleoceanography, 31(2), 311-329

DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002818

Type: article

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

Evaluating the utility of B/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera as a proxy for the carbonate system: A case study of Globigerinoides ruber

Michael J. Henehan, Gavin L. Foster, James W.B. Rae, Katy C. Prentice, Jonathan Erez, Helen C. Bostock, Brittney J. Marshall & Paul A. Wilson, 2015, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(4), 1052-1069

DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005514

Type: article