Research project

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

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Lead researcher:

Professor Paul Wilson
Other researchers:

Professor Gavin Foster
Status:

Not active

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

Estimating the impact of the cryptic degassing of Large Igneous Provinces: A mid-Miocene case-study

David I. Armstrong Mckay, Toby Tyrrell, Paul A. Wilson & Gavin L. Foster, 2014, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 403, 254-262

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.040

Type: article

Middle Miocene climate instability associated with high-amplitude CO₂ variability

Rosanna Greenop, Gavin L. Foster, Paul A. Wilson & Caroline H. Lear, 2014, Paleoceanography, 29(6), 845-853

DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002653

Type: article

Orbitally tuned timescale and astronomical forcing in the middle Eocene to early Oligocene

T. Westerhold, U. Röhl, H. Pälike, R. Wilkens, P.A. Wilson & G. Acton, 2014, Climate of the Past, 10(3), 955-973

DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-955-2014

Type: article

Testing the impact of diagenesis on the δ18O and δ13C of benthic foraminiferal calcite from a sediment burial depth transect in the equatorial Pacific

Kirsty M. Edgar, Heiko Pälike & Paul Wilson, 2013, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 28(3), 468-480

DOI: 10.1002/palo.20045

Type: article

Middle Eocene to early Oligocene magnetostratigraphy of ODP Hole 711A (Leg 115), western equatorial Indian Ocean

Jairo F. Savian, Luigi Jovane, Steven Bohaty & Paul Wilson, 2013, Geological Society London Special Publications, 373, 97-110

DOI: 10.1144/SP373.16

Type: journalSpecialIssue