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- New study reveals insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change
- Mercury rising: study sheds new light on the environmental impact of ancient volcanoes
- Professor David Pyle awarded Geological Society Murchison Medal
- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: the cosmic fertiliser that fuelled the origins of life
- Earth Scientists Ready to Rock the Rugby Varsity Matches
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- Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
- New training centre will bridge the gap between environmental science and AI to address global environmental challenges
- Ancient carbon in rocks releases as much Carbon Dioxide as the world’s volcanoes
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- Damaged tectonic plates underlying large igneous provinces heal themselves during cooling new study shows
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- Earthquakes in ice could be used to reduce uncertainty in sea-level rise projections.
- Importance of deep and offshore groundwater in the current water scarcity crisis
- World’s biggest cumulative logjam, newly mapped in the arctic, stores 3.4 million tones of carbon
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- Magma takes the long way around
- Earth Sciences undergraduate publishes ‘Crater formation during the onset of mud volcanism’ from 2nd year internship.
- Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how ‘flying dinosaurs’ took flight
- New study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources
- Dr Richard Palin awarded the Max Hey Medal of the Mineralogical Society for 2023
- Fossil CSI: Analysis of Giant Extinct Marine Reptile Graveyard Suggests Mysterious Site Was Ancient Birthing Grounds
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- 500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
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- New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards
- Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight
- Study reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers may contribute to sea level rise
- Oxford Earth Science Graduate Selected to Run the World’s Most Remote Post Office in Antarctica
- New model mechanistically links Earth’s interior processes with surficial ones
- Professor Mike Kendall FRS elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Improving the Understanding of the Distribution of Earthquake Hazard in Afghanistan
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- New Study Reveals the Earliest Evidence of Fruit-Eating by Birds
- The Dynamics of Partially Molten Rock
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- Megalith - theatre that explores humankind’s long and complicated relationship to copper, premieres in Edinburgh this summer
- Earth Science DPhil student Odysseus Archontikis wins a G A Paul Graduate Scholarship at University College.
- Studying past climate fluctuations shows how human-generated atmospheric CO2 is impacting natural climate rhythms
- Prof. Tamsin Mather on NHK World's Direct Talk
- Royal Society Newton International Fellow to continue working on eruption forecasting of La Soufrière volcano, St. Vincent at Oxford.
- Oxford Volcanologists provide guidance on latest COPE book
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- DPhil student Alexandra Morton-Hayward awarded a Scholarship from the Anglo-Danish Society
- Disentangling the role of mantle convection in shaping Earth’s topography
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- Earth Sciences recognised in the Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards
- Oxford Undergraduate joins the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Program with the LPI
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- Professor Ros Rickaby elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- Dr Paula Koelemeijer joins Oxford Earth Sciences
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- New study finds giant predatory dinosaurs could hunt underwater
- Weak Cubic CaSiO3 Perovskite in Earth’s Mantle
- Three University of Oxford Earth Scientists have been honoured with the title of Geochemistry Fellow today
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022
- New seismometer technology deployed in Antarctica ahead of potential use on distant icy moons
- Oxford Earth Scientist honoured in the annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
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- New computer algorithm supercharges climate models and could lead to better predictions of future climate change
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- Stress mapping reveals secrets of coupled supraglacial lake drainages by hydro-fracture
- Professor Tamsin Mather elected Fellow of the Royal Society
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- Climate models underestimate carbon cycling through plants
- Scientists Untangle Interactions Between the Earth’s Early Life Forms and the Environment over 500 million Years
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- Lot Koopmans Honoured in MPLS Teaching Awards
- Isotopes analysis deepens understanding of plants’ responses to a changing climate
- Disentangling extinction risk in deep time
- From dislocations to subduction: the microphysics of olivine deformation and its geodynamic implications
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- Tidal dissipation, magmatism and mantle convection on Io
- Granular dilatancy and the mechanics of faults
- Calum Braham
- Half a billion-year-old spiny slug reveals the origins of molluscs
- LEAF Award Success for Earth Sciences Lab Facilities
- Professor Erin Saupe presented with Paleontological Society’s Schuchert Award
- Granular geophysics: models of particle-laden flow
- Deciphering Extraterrestrial Magentism Using Magnetite Framboids
- Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean
- Vanadium isotopes: 15 years retrospective and future research prospects
- How a salt giant radically reshaped Mediterranean marine biodiversity
- Dynamics of natural landslides from numerical modelling and seismic inversion
- Paleogeography of the southern Eurasian margin in the lead-up to India-Eurasia collision
- The Shuram anomaly: What caused the largest ever carbon isotope anomaly and what can it tell us?
- Utilising the potential of large-N seismology: Monitoring water in the critical zone
- Climate-change-triggered landslide caused the Earth to vibrate for 9 days
- Jack Turner
- Louise Wright
- Stacy Carolin
- Hannah Lingard
- Laboratory Seismology to Unravel Earth’s Mantle Structure and Composition
- The influence of the grain boundary network and grain size on seismic properties of Earth’s mantle
- Percolative reactive flow - ore formation in a capsule
- Reconstructing the Mesozoic record of extra-terrestrial dust flux: implications for seawater chemistry and the solar system
- Tracking ocean circulation in the Cretaceous ‘Chalk Sea’
- Constraining the tempo of Mesozoic Oceanic Anoxic Events using extra-terrestrial He isotopes
- Palaeoecology and palaeophysiology of early flowering plants from the mid Cretaceous of West Greenland
- New research to investigate recovery of rare earth elements from Ascension Island
- Jason Terry
- Jonathan Dolinschi
- DPhil in Earth Sciences: where will your research take you?
- CaSiO3 perovskite in Earth’s deep mantle
- Do clay-rich environments bias the early fossil record?
- CANCELLED Can we engineer our oceans to help deliver a safe, stable climate?
- Ben Aldridge
- Mohammed Alshareef
- Jamie Chow
- Redmond Coleman
- Sofía Hernández Vivar
- Manuel Mojica Boada
- Pedro Silvany Sales
- Miao Sun
- Xiangying Ye
- Minxuan Zhu
- Scientists show accelerating carbon dioxide release from rocks in Arctic Canada with global warming
- Seismic noise sources and background seismicity in London
- Robustly imaging mantle upwellings under isolated oceanic islands
- Solving mid mantle mysteries using seismology, geodynamics and mineral physics
- Towards a holistic understanding of carbonate mineralisation controls
- Milankovitch, tides and marine mixing: drivers of plankton speciation and productivity
- Tidewater glacier mass-loss mechanisms in Northwest Greenland
- Regional impacts of supraglacial lake drainage on ice-flow dynamics
- X-ray computed tomography: A modern Aladdin’s lamp to discover orogenic gold deposits
- Zakeria Shnizai
- Environmental Proxies in Karst (EPIK)
- High-precision seismology to understand slow earthquakes
- Blind source separation in seismology: exploiting small-amplitude shaking to track ocean waves or subsurface structure
- Using earthquakes to constrain stress in the Earth
- Retreating glaciers and carbon-cycle feedbacks
- Draw down of volcanic CO2 as a mechanism of climate recovery following periods of enhanced volcanism in Earth’s geological past
- River methane leaks: novel methods to quantify and fingerprint river methane emissions
- Plastic everywhere: novel analytical approaches to quantifying nano-plastics in the environment
- Fate of past submarine volcanic input to the ocean
- Tectonics, sea-level change, and submarine landsliding in the South Caspian Basin
- Earthquake and related hazards of the South Caucasus
- The stars are out: a palaeontological perspective on the early evolution of the Asterozoa
- Unravelling the deep homology of gill slits and the origin of bilaterian body plans
- New computational method could prove game-changer in tracking down river polluters
- Integrating living species and the fossil record to unravel cnidarian evolution
- The impact of ocean warming on nutrient and carbon acquisition of marine plankton
- Lunar magnetism, moonquakes and mantle overturn
- Early Earth Magnetism: Exploring the role of Earth’s magnetic field in atmospheric evolution
- Hidden Ocean Forests: Understanding the Ecological and Physiological Properties of Phytoplankton in Subsurface Layers
- Exploring the epoch of rapid inner core growth
- The meiofauna frontier: pushing the limits of computed tomography in invertebrate morphology and systematics
- Cycling of Trace Metals in Framvaren Fjord- Understanding Proxies for Past Marine Conditions
- Alasdair Knight
- Graduate Study Online Open Event
- Metal Transport by Colloids and Particles
- Golden bugs: Spectacular new fossil arthropods preserved in fool’s gold
- Buried Alive: Carbon dioxide release from magma deep beneath ancient volcanoes was a hidden driver of Earth’s past climate
- Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology 2024 - Dr Vlada Stamenkovic
- The starting behaviour of volcanic eruption plumes
- The gas geochemistry of hydrothermal resources in the Eastern Caribbean
- A Geologic Map of Pluto: An Astonishing Tale from the Edge of the Solar System
- The role of shear zones in Northwest Scotland for Precambrian crustal assembly and evolution
- Protein specific mineralisation and exceptional fossils
- Multiparametric geophysics and geothermal resources
- Unveiling Permeability Pathways in Ultramafic Rock: Potential for Natural Hydrogen Generation and CO₂ Mineralisation
- Xuan Cao
- Melt focusing and extraction at mid-ocean ridges
- Ocean density identified as a key driver of carbon capture by marine plankton
- Shijia Peng