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Professor EJ Rohling BSc, MSc, PhD

Professor of Ocean and Climate Change

Professor EJ Rohling is Professor of Ocean and Climate Change within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

Education

PhD: "Late Quaternary changes in the eastern Mediterranean climate and hydrography and implications for the formation of sapropels". (Dept. of Geology, Utrecht University, 23 Oct. 91)

MSc: Stratigraphy/Micropaleontology with Physical Oceanography & Climatology, and Sedimentology (Utrecht University, 31 Aug. 87)

BSc: general geology G1, Dept. of Geology (Utrecht University, 22 Oct. 84)

Honours and Awards

Jan 11—Present. Royal Society - Wolfson Research Merit Award holder

May 08—Present. Correspondent (= working-abroad Fellow), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW)

Feb.–Mar. 2010. Japan Society for Promotion of Science Senior Invited Researcher

June 2004. Invited CORC-ARCHES visiting researcher, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

May 1994. Invited Professor. National Museum for Natural History, Paris, France

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Contact

Research interests

Specialism: Ocean and Climate Change

High-resolution investigation of ocean/climate changes during the Neogene, and in particular the Quaternary, to determine the nature, timing and magnitude of natural climate variability.

Theoretical and applied (integrated with proxy records) modelling of present-day and past states of circulation and property distribution.

Theoretical and practical/analytical research on the use of conservative properties and d18O to trace deep-water formation, advection and mixing processes in the modern ocean.

Assessment of changes in deep-sea ventilation states and nutrient distribution mechanisms, the interactions with the organic and inorganic carbon cycle, and the impact of ecological responses on proxy records.

Integration of Holocene palaeoclimate research with archaeological records.

Research group

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

Editorships

Editor Reviews of Geophysics (2010—Present)

Editor Paleoceanography (2006-2009)

Associate Editor Paleoceanography (2001-2005)

Editorial Board member Quaternary Science Reviews (2009—Present)

Editorial Board member Geology (2005-2007)

Editor Climate of the Past (2005)

Editorial Board member Mediterranean Marine Science (2000-2002)

Guest editor, Marine Micropalaeontology 40 (10 papers) (2000)

Guest editor, Marine Geology 153 (20 papers) (1999)

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Articles

Book

Rohling, E. J. (2017). The Oceans: a deep history. Princeton University Press.

Book Chapters

Conference

Rohling, E. J., De Rijk, S., Myers, P., Haines, K., & European Palaeontological Association (2000). Palaeoceanography and numerical modelling: the Mediterranean sea at times of sapropel formation. In M. B. Hart (Ed.), Climates: Past and Present (pp. 135-149). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 181). Geological Society of London.

Journal Special Issue

Jorissen, F. J., & Rohling, E. J. (Eds.) (2000). Foraminiferal proxies of paleoproduction. (selected papers from special session on ..., at Forams '98 Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, 8-10 July 1998). Marine Micropaleontology, 40(3), 131-344.

Letters/Editorials

Brent, K., McGee, J., McDonald, J., & Rohling, E. J. (2018). International law poses problems for negative emissions research. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 451-453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0181-2
Ao, H., Roberts, A. P., Dekkers, M. J., Liu, X., Rohling, E. J., Shi, Z., An, Z., Chang, H., Qiang, X., & Zhao, X. (2018). Reply to Zhang et al. Late Miocene–Pliocene magnetochronology of the Shilou Red Clay on the eastern Chinese Loess Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 503, 252-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.045
Jorissen, F. J., & Rohling, E. J. (2000). Faunal perspectives on paleoproductivity. Marine Micropaleontology, 40(3), 131-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8398(00)00035-9

Report

Rohling, E. (2019). The climate question: Natural cycles, human impact, future outlook. Oxford University Press.

Review

Ao, H., Rohling, E. J., Stringer, C., Roberts, A. P., Dekkers, M. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Yu, J., Liu, Q., Zhang, P., Liu, Z., Ma, X., Zhou, W., Jin, Z., Xiao, G., Wang, H., Sun, Q., Yang, P., Peng, X., Shi, Z., ... An, Z. (2020). Two-stage mid-Brunhes climate transition and mid-Pleistocene human diversification. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, [103354]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103354

Professor EJ Rohling
Ocean and Earth Science
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
University of Southampton Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH
UK

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