Research project

Descent into the Icehouse

Research groups:
Lead researchers:

Professor Gavin Foster
Other researchers:

Professor Toby Tyrrell,

Professor J. Andy Milton,

Professor Robert Marsh
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

Connect with Gavin

Email: G.L.Foster@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Toby Tyrrell

Professor of Earth System Science

Connect with Toby

Email: Toby.Tyrrell@soton.ac.uk

Professor J. Andy Milton

Prof Fellow in Analytical Geochemistry

Connect with J. Andy

Email: jam1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

Connect with Robert

Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Research outputs

Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Marcus Gutjahr, Andy Ridgwell, Philip F. Sexton, Eleni Anagnostou, Paul N. Pearson, Heiko Pälike, Richard D. Norris, Ellen Thomas & Gavin L. Foster, 2017, Nature, 548, 573-577

DOI: 10.1038/nature23646

Type: article

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

Gavin L. Foster, Dana L. Royer & Daniel J. Lunt, 2017, Nature Communications, 8

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14845

Type: article

A record of Neogene seawater δ11B reconstructed from paired δ11B analyses on benthic and planktic foraminifera

Rosanna Greenop, Mathis Hain, Sindia M. Sosdian, Kevin Oliver, Philip Goodwin, Thomas Chalk, Caroline H. Lear, Paul A. Wilson & Gavin Foster, 2017, Climate of the Past, 13(2), 149-170

DOI: 10.5194/cp-13-149-2017

Type: article

Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation

Daniel J. Lunt, Alex Farnsworth, Claire Loptson, Gavin L. Foster, Paul Markwick, Charlotte L. O'Brien, Richard D. Pancost, Stuart A. Robinson & Neil Wrobel, 2016, Climate of the Past, 12(5), 1181-1198

DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1181-2016

Type: article

Changing atmospheric CO₂ concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

Eleni Anagnostou, Eleanor H. John, Kirsty M. Edgar, Gavin L. Foster, Andy Ridgwell, Gordon N. Inglis, Richard D. Pancost, Daniel J. Lunt & Paul N. Pearson, 2016, Nature, 533(7603), 380-384

DOI: 10.1038/nature17423

Type: article

A new boron isotope-pH calibration for Orbulina universa, with implications for understanding and accounting for ‘vital effects'

Michael J. Henehan, Gavin L. Foster, Helen C. Bostock, Rosanna Greenop, Brittney J. Marshall & Paul A. Wilson, 2016, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 282-292

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.024

Type: article

Assessing the impact of diagenesis on d11B, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite

Kirsty M. Edgar, Eleni Anagnostou, Paul N. Pearson & Gavin L. Foster, 2015, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 166, 180-209

DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018

Type: article