Descent into the Icehouse

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

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

Other researchers

Professor Toby Tyrrell

Professor of Earth System Science

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Email: Toby.Tyrrell@soton.ac.uk

Professor J. Andy Milton

Prof Fellow in Analytical Geochemistry

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Email: jam1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

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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

Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

Gordon N. Inglis, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel Lunt, Gavin L. Foster, Christopher J. Hollis, Mark Pagani, Phillip E. Jardine, Paul N. Pearson, Paul Markwick, Amanda M. J. Galsworthy, Lauren Raynham, Kyle. W. R. Taylor & Richard D. Pancost, 2015, Paleoceanography, 30(7), 1000-1020

DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002723

Type: article

A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise

Eelco J. Rohling, Ivan D. Haigh, Gavin L. Foster, Andrew P. Roberts & Katharine M. Grant, 2013, Scientific Reports, 3(3461), 1-7

DOI: 10.1038/srep03461

Type: article

Warm climates of the past - a lesson for the future?

D.J. Lunt, H. Elderfield, R. Pancost, A. Ridgwell, G.L. Foster, A. Haywood, J. Kiehl, N. Sagoo, C. Shields, E.J. Stone & P. Valdes, 2013, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 1-12

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0146

Type: article

Warm ocean processes and carbon cycling in the Eocene

Eleanor. H. John, Paul N. Pearson, Helen K. Coxall, Heather Birch, Bridget S. Wade & Gavin L. Foster, 2013, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 20130099

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0099

Type: article

Controls on the spatial distribution of oceanic δ¹³C_DIC

P.B. Holden, N.R. Edwards, S.A. Müller, K.I.C. Oliver, R.M. Death & A. Ridgwell, 2013, Biogeosciences, 10(3), 1815-1833

DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-1815-2013

Type: article

Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales

G.L. Foster & E.J. Rohling, 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(4), 1209-1214

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216073110

Type: article

Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

E.J. Rohling, A. Sluijs, H.A. Dijkstra, P. Köhler, R.S.W. van de Wal, A.S. von der Heydt, D.J. Beerling, A. Berger, P.K. Bijl, M. Crucifix, R. DeConto, S.S. Drijfhout, A. Fedorov, G.L. Foster, A. Ganopolski, J. Hansen, B. Hönisch, H. Hooghiemstra, M. Huber, P. Huybers, R. Knutti, D.W. Lea, L.J. Lourens, D. Lunt, V. Masson-Demotte, M. Medina-Elizalde, B. Otto-Bliesner, M. Pagani, H. Pälike, H. Renssen, D.L. Royer, M. Siddall, P. Valdes, J.C. Zachos & R.E. Zeebe, 2012, Nature, 491(7426), 683-691

DOI: 10.1038/nature11574

Type: article