Research project

IODP2: Coupled change in global climate and the carbon cycle across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Research groups:

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate
Lead researcher:

Professor Paul Wilson
Other researchers:

Professor Gavin Foster
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Other researchers

Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

Connect with Gavin

Email: G.L.Foster@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

North Atlantic evidence for a unipolar icehouse Climate State at the Eocene-Oligocene transition

James F. Spray, Steven M. Bohaty, Andrew Davies, Ian Bailey, Brian W. Romans, Matthew J. Cooper, James A. Milton & Paul A. Wilson, 2019, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

DOI: 10.1029/2019PA003563

Type: article

Transient temperature asymmetry between hemispheres in the Palaeogene Atlantic Ocean

Zhonghui Liu, Yuxin He, Yiqing Jiang, Huanye Wang, Weiguo Liu, Steven M. Bohaty & Paul A. Wilson, 2018, Nature Geoscience, 11(9), 656-660

DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0182-9

Type: article

Meridional contrasts in productivity changes driven by the opening of Drake Passage

Jean-Baptiste Ladant, Yannick Donnadieu, Laurent Bopp, Caroline H. Lear & Paul A. Wilson, 2018, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003211

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

Response of the Pacific inter-tropical convergence zone to global cooling and initiation of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene Oligocene Transition

Kiseong Hyeong, Junichiro Kuroda, Inah Seo & Paul A. Wilson, 2016, Scientific Reports, 6

DOI: 10.1038/srep30647

Type: article