Environment, oceans and climate
The department has a long-standing reputation for the reconstruction of past environments from geochemical measurements in sediments and other archives. This work relies on detailed knowledge and expertise of the relevant archives, and on a range of state-of-the-art geochemical equipment which allow measurement of paleoclimate proxies and provision of accurate timescales. The department has recently expanded its portofolio of ocean science and now boasts expertise in chemical, physical and biological oceanography, with particular emphasis on biogeochemical cycles in seawater and on the role of the oceans in Earth’s climate system.
Relevant research group pages (and group leaders)
Environmental microbiology (Gardner)
Isotopes and Climate (Henderson)
Physical Oceanography (Johnson)
Ocean Biogeochemistry (Rickaby)
Stratigraphy and sedimentology (Hesselbo / Jenkyns)
Relevant faculty members and senior research fellows (and expertise)
Heather Bouman (biological oceanography)
Gideon Henderson (paleoclimate and ocean chemistry)
Stephen Hesselbo (stratigraphy and past environments)
Hugh Jenkyns (stratigraphy and past environments)
Helen Johnson (physical oceanography)
Tamsin Mather (environmental mercury chemistry)
Don Porcelli (environmental geochemistry, ocean chemistry)
David Pyle (climate and volcanism)
Ros Rickaby (biogeochemistry and past climates)
Links to research programmes with department involvement
The 21st Century Ocean Institute (James Martin School)
GEOTRACES ocean chemistry programme
IKIMP Mercury Knowledge Exchange