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

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Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

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

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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

Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Sean P. S. Gulick,
Amelia E. Shevenell,
Aleksandr Montelli,
Rodrigo Fernandez,
Catherine Smith,
Sophie Warny,
Steven M. Bohaty,
Charlotte Sjunneskog,
Amy Leventer,
Bruce Frederick,
& Donald D. Blankenship
, 2017 , Nature , 552 (7684) , 225--229
DOI: 10.1038/nature25026
Type: article
An Antarctic stratigraphic record of stepwise ice growth through the Eocene-Oligocene transition
Sandra Passchier,
Daniel J. Ciarletta,
Triantafilo E. Miriagos,
Peter K. Bijl,
& Steven M. Bohaty
, 2017 , Geological Society of America Bulletin , 129 (3-4) , 318--330
DOI: 10.1130/B31482.1
Type: article
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
Robustness of fossil fish teeth for seawater neodymium isotope reconstructions under variable redox conditions in an ancient shallow marine setting
Claire E. Huck,
Tina van de Flierdt,
Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo,
Steven M. Bohaty,
Ursula Röhl,
& Samantha J. Hammond
, 2016 , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems , 17 (3) , 679--698
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC006218
Type: article
Antarctic Ice Sheet variability across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition
S. Galeotti,
R. DeConto,
T. Naish,
P. Stocchi,
F. Florindo,
M. Pagani,
P. Barrett,
S.M. Bohaty,
L. Lanci,
D. Pollard,
S. Sandroni,
F. M. Talarico,
& J. C. Zachos
, 2016 , Science , 352 (6281) , 76--80
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0669
Type: article