Sr zonation in a fish otolith (ear bone)

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Find out more about our research into greenhouse gas removal, climate change, volcanology and others.
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The role of marine diagenesis of tephra in the carbon cycle - M Palmer- NERC

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry
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Email: M.R.Palmer@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Thomas Gernon

Professorial Fellow (Research)
Research interests
  • Solid Earth drivers of Earth's climate state
  • Earth surface processes
  • Influence of global tectonics on geochemical cycles through geologic time
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Email: T.M.Gernon@soton.ac.uk

Professor J. Andy Milton

Professor of Analytical Geochemistry
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Email: jam1@soton.ac.uk

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Transformative Science and Engineering for Nuclear Decommissioning

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Professor Andrew Cundy

Chair in Environmental Radiochemistry
Research interests
  • Environmental radioactivity and radiochemistry
  • Environmental geology
  • Contaminated land, wastes and water management
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Email: A.Cundy@soton.ac.uk

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Transition to a forested planet - John Marshall - NERC

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Transport of toxic metals in clay mineral barriers: Influences of mobile sorbent nanoparticles

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Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Research interests
  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
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Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor John Marshall

Professor
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Email: jeam@soton.ac.uk

Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry
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Email: M.R.Palmer@soton.ac.uk

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UK-IODP Moratorium Award For Lewis Grant - Shipboard Scientist IODP Exp 390

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Damon Teagle

Professor of Geochemistry
Research interests
  • formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • fluid-rock interactions and Ore mineralisation
  • geochemical analysis
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Email: Damon.Teagle@southampton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Rosalind Coggon

Principal Research Fellow
Research interests
  • The role of hydrothermal fluids in the formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • Reconstructing records of past seawater chemistry
  • Global biogeochemical cycles
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Email: R.M.Coggon@soton.ac.uk

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UK-IODP Moratorium Award for Rosalind Coggon - Co-chief scientist IODP Exp 390/393

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Rosalind Coggon

Principal Research Fellow
Research interests
  • The role of hydrothermal fluids in the formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • Reconstructing records of past seawater chemistry
  • Global biogeochemical cycles
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Email: R.M.Coggon@soton.ac.uk

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Understanding Pathways to and Impact of a 1.5 degrees rise in Global Temperature

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Lead researchers

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

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

Professor Juerg Matter

Professor of Geoengineering & Carbon Management
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Email: J.Matter@southampton.ac.uk

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What caused the Mid Pleistocene Transition? Insights from a new high resolution CO2 record