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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

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