Research project

Sub-Orbital climate instability and its relation to Late pliocene intensification of Northen hemisphere glaciation, IODP sites 1308 and 1313

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Lead researcher:

Professor Paul Wilson
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

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

Influence of test size, water depth, and ecology on Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca,δ18O and δ13C in nine modern species of planktic foraminifers

Oliver Friedrich, Ralf Schiebel, Paul Wilson, Syee Weldeab, Christopher Beer, Matthew Cooper & Jens Fiebig, 2012, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 319-320(2), 133-145

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.002

Type: article

Biotic and geochemical evidence for a global latitudinal shift in ocean biogeochemistry and export productivity during the late Pliocene

Clara T. Bolton, Kira T. Lawrence, Samantha J. Gibbs, Paul A. Wilson & Timothy D. Herbert, 2011, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308(1-2), 200-210

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.046

Type: article

Glacial–interglacial productivity changes recorded by alkenones and microfossils in late Pliocene eastern equatorial Pacific and Atlantic upwelling zones

Clara T. Bolton, Kira T. Lawrence, Samantha J. Gibbs, Paul A. Wilson, Laura C. Cleaveland & Timothy D. Herbert, 2010, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295(3-4), 401-411

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.014

Type: article

A low threshold for North Atlantic ice rafting from "low-slung slippery" late Pliocene ice sheets

Ian Bailey, Clara T. Bolton, Robert M. DeConto, David Pollard, Ralf Schiebel & Paul A. Wilson, 2010, Paleoceanography, 25, PA1212-[14pp]

DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001736

Type: article

Testing planktic foraminiferal shell weight as a surface water [CO32?] proxy using plankton net samples

Christopher J. Beer, Ralf Schiebel & Paul A. Wilson, 2010, Geology, 38(2), 103-106

DOI: 10.1130/G30150.1

Type: article