Coring ocean sediments in the tropics

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Explore our current research projects, investigating the Earth's system across the world.
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Stratigraphy and chronology of IODP Exp. 374 (Ross Sea West Antarctica Ice Sheet History) drill cores: Implications for West Antarctica Glaciations

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

Staff

Lead researchers

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

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Terrestrial Palaeoclimate additional funds - J Marshall - National Geographic

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Testing the amplitude and rapidity of carbonate saturation change and global climate during the high pCO2 Oligocene "cold house"

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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The contribution of plasticity to adaptive divergence: domestication as a model

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Lead researchers

Professor Mark Chapman

Professor
Research interests
  • Novel and Underutilised Crops (NUCs) for climate change resilience and food security
  • The genomic bases of speciation and hybridisation
  • Domestication genomics
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Email: M.Chapman@soton.ac.uk

Other 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.
Connect with Tom

Email: T.Ezard@soton.ac.uk

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The Devonian mass extinction: cataclysm or death by a thousand cuts?

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The paradox of high-amplitude inter(glacial) variability across the Oligo-Miocene transition - Wilson - NERC

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Transforming our understanding of the geodynamo

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Transition to a forested planet - John Marshall - NERC

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Understanding of diachroneity: Palaeoenvironmental controls on dispersal of planktic foraminifera in the Plio-Pleistocene oceans

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