Research project

Dynamics of the Oligocene cryosphere: mid-to-high latitude climate variability and ice sheet stability

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Other researchers:

Professor Paul Wilson
Status:

Not active

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

Greenhouse climates
Ice sheet instability
Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity

Connect with Paul

Email: paw2@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1–17.1Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264

Diederik Liebrand, Helen Beddow, Lucas Lourens, Heiko Palike, Isabella Raffi, Steven Bohaty, Frederik Hilgen, Mischa Saes, Paul A. Wilson, Arnold van Dijk, David Hodell, Dick Kroon, Claire Huck & Sietske Batenburg, 2016, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.007

Type: article

Antarctic Ice Sheet variability across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition

2016, Science, 352(6281), 76-80

DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0669

Type: article

Robustness of fossil fish teeth for seawater neodymium isotope reconstructions under variable redox conditions in an ancient shallow marine setting

2016, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(3), 679-698

DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006218

Type: article

Expansion and diversification of high-latitude radiolarian assemblages in the late Eocene linked to a cooling event in the southwest Pacific

2015, Climate of the Past, 11(12), 1599-1620