Palaeoclimate, Palaeobiology, and Environmental change: exploring the past and future Earth system through geochemistry, sedimentology, and palaeontology
This area of research encompasses palaeoclimate, palaeoenvironments, and palaeobiology. We aim to reconstruct past climatic, environmental, and biotic changes in the oceans and on the land, spanning a wide range of timescales from the Precambrian to the present day, with a view to understanding how the Earth system operates and how it might change in the future. We are particularly interested in aspects such as landscape dynamics, ice sheet-ocean-climate interactions, biogeochemical and carbon cycling, ecosystem changes, biogeography, and evolutionary responses to environmental change.听
听Research Staff:
Dr Byron Adams,听Prof Paul Bown, Prof Peter Clift,听Dr Matthew Fox,听Dr Lewis A. Jones,听Dr Susan Little,听Dr Philip Mannion, Prof John McArthur,听Prof Graham Shields,听Prof Paul Upchurch,听听Prof Pieter Vermeesch,听Prof Bridget Wade, Dr David Wilson听
To this end, we develop and apply a wide range of observational and analytical techniques to sedimentary and fossil archives, including isotope and trace-element geochemistry, geochronology, sedimentology, petrography, microfossil assemblages, 3D digital visualisation, and macroevolutionary and morphometric analysis. Such approaches are ground-truthed by laboratory experiments and modern calibrations, and the results are integrated with landscape, climate, and ecosystem modelling to explore the dynamics of past and future environmental change.
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