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Professor Paul Wilson

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Paul

Email: paw2@soton.ac.uk

Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, SO14 3ZH (View in Google Maps)

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Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 
  • Ocean and atmosphere circulation

Research projects

Active projects

Transforming Understanding Of Past Abrupt Shifts In Aridity/humidity In The North African And Arabian Dust Belt And Upskilling Models To Simulate Them
Does developmental plasticity influence speciation?
Defining nutritional bottlenecks of reef corals growth and stress tolerance

Completed projects

What are the lessons of the recent geological past for understanding future rainfall variability in the Sahel and Sahara?
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: Royal Society
Understanding the response of aridity in the Greater Middle East to CO2-driven global warmth
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: Royal Society
Understanding of diachroneity: Palaeoenvironmental controls on dispersal of planktic foraminifera in the Plio-Pleistocene oceans
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
IODP2: Coupled change in global climate and the carbon cycle across the Eocene-Oligocene transition
Eocene warmth and carbon cycling
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Ecology, evolution and climate in the Southern Ocean from planktic foraminifera of IODP Expedition 383
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
PLIO-CLIMATE
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: European Union
Climate Response to Orbital Forcing During The Eocene Deglaciated, High Temperature, High CO2 State: New Records From Sites 1210, 1258 & 1267
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
IODP post cruise support Exp 342 for D Liebrand - P Wilson - NERC
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
KIGAM Research Agreement - Atmospheric circulation durning Cenozoic using physical and chemical characteristics of Eolian dust in the east equatorial Pacific
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
Fellowship for Jens Herrie
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: European Union
Sub-Orbital climate instability and its relation to Late pliocene intensification of Northen hemisphere glaciation, IODP sites 1308 and 1313
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
FEC Recovery for Co-Chief Scientist Duties for Prof. Paul A. Wilson: IODP Expedition 342 Palaeogene Newfoundland sediment drifts - Paul Wilson - NERC
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
The paradox of high-amplitude inter(glacial) variability across the Oligo-Miocene transition - Wilson - NERC
NERC Strategic Environmental Capital Call - Paul Wilson - NERC/MULSER
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
CDREG - EU ERC - P Wilson
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Sponsor: European Union
Transforming our understanding of the geodynamo
Testing the amplitude and rapidity of carbonate saturation change and global climate during the high pCO2 Oligocene "cold house"
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Climate change, seawater chemistry and planktic foraminiferal
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
What caused the Mid Pleistocene Transition? Insights from a new high resolution CO2 record
Paleogene Climate and Deep-water Evolution in in the Southwest Atlantic: Seismic Reflection and Coring Investigations in support of IODP Proposal 862
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
Dynamics of the Oligocene cryosphere: mid-to-high latitude climate variability and ice sheet stability
Researchers:
Professor Paul Wilson
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