Coring ocean sediments in the tropics

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Does developmental plasticity influence speciation?

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tom Ezard

Associate Dean (Education)
Research interests
  • The bridge from micro- to macroevolution.
  • Scaling ecological dynamics across individuals, populations and ecosystems.
  • Demography for conservation and life history evolution.
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Email: T.Ezard@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
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Email: I.Sinclair@soton.ac.uk

Professor Richard Watson

Professor
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Email: R.A.Watson@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Mark Nixon

Research interests
  • My research interests are in image processing and computer vision.
  • I have helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametr…
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Email: msn@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor
Research interests
  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 
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Email: paw2@soton.ac.uk

Professor Clive Trueman

Professor
Research interests
  • Stable isotope ecology in marine settings
  • Ecophysiology (fishes)
  • Sclerochronology
Connect with Clive

Email: trueman@soton.ac.uk

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry
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Email: G.L.Foster@soton.ac.uk

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Dynamics of the Oligocene cryosphere: mid-to-high latitude climate variability and ice sheet stability

Staff

Other researchers

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

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Using Interglacials To Assess Future Sea_level Scenarios

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Earliest detection of sea level rise accelerations to inform planning and implementation time to upgrade/replace the Thames Barrier

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
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Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Dr Philip Goodwin

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Philip has a number of research interests spanning climate and the carbon cycle:
  • (1) Earth’s coupled physical climate and biogeochemical system;
  • (2) The Anthropocene (including surface warming, sea level rise and ocean acidification);
Connect with Philip

Email: P.A.Goodwin@soton.ac.uk

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Ecology, evolution and climate in the Southern Ocean from planktic foraminifera of IODP Expedition 383

Staff

Lead researchers

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

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Eelco Rohling - Royal Society Grant - WRMA

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FEC Recovery for Co-Chief Scientist Duties for Prof. Paul A. Wilson: IODP Expedition 342 Palaeogene Newfoundland sediment drifts - Paul Wilson - NERC

Staff

Lead researchers

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

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Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme: Ocean climate dynamics of a millenial-scale Antarctic climate fluctuation during Termination V

Staff

Lead researchers

Emeritus Professor Alan Kemp

Research interests
  • Diatom ecology and palaeoecology and the role of diatoms in biogeochmical cycling
  • High resolution records of palaeoclimatic and environmental change, especially from laminated…
  • Interannual to decadal scale climate variability
Connect with Alan

Email: aesk@soton.ac.uk

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IODP post cruise support Exp 342 for D Liebrand - P Wilson - NERC

Staff

Lead researchers

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

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