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Rebecca is a biogeochemist, specialising in nutrient cycling and environmental change in modern and past environments. Her research focuses on the biogeochemistry of peats, soils and sediments during environmental disturbance; the subsurface microbial response to natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric sulphur deposition, temperature, storms and floods, mineral reactivity and chemical ...

James is an organic geochemist specialising in paleoclimatology. His research develops and uses molecular tools to reconstruct past environmental conditions and addresses two key themes: (1) Developing new quantitative paleoclimate proxies; (2) Holocene and Cenozoic climate evolution.

For more information visit my personal website:

https://jamesbendle.wordpress.com/

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Ian is a micropalaeontologist who studies calcareous microfossils, particularly ostracods (microscopic Crustacea), but also benthic foraminifera, to reconstruct past environments.

Tom is a micropalaeontologist and paleoceanograher specializing in the study of fossil coccolithophore algae. His research interests are focused on the warm-climate states of the Paleogene period and include the use of coccolithophore assemblages and geochemical signatures as palaeoceanographic proxies. Tom is also interested in improving reconstructions of warm climate temperature ...

Kirsty is a micropalaeontologist and palaeoceanographer, specialising in planktic foraminifer and foraminifer-based geochemical records. She is interested in understanding the timing and nature of the interaction between global climate, geochemical cycling, and biota during the Cenozoic. A major research focus is elucidating the dynamics and consequences of transient climate events in the ...

Ian Fairchild is a geoscientist with broad interests in the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface, climate change and Quaternary and Neoproterozoic earth history. He employs this breadth of knowledge in research and public outreach including geoconservation in the West Midlands. He is equally at home in the field and the laboratory with a wealth of experience in glacial ...

Sarah is a palaeoclimatologist, geobiologist, and Earth system modeller studying the biogeochemical cycling of carbon between the atmosphere, the ocean, and marine sediments. Particular research interests include rapid carbon cycle perturbations (Mesozoic mass extinctions, Palaeogene hyperthermals), protracted multi-mullion year carbon cycle trends (co-evolution of life and the carbon cycle), and ...

Professor Hilton is a research focused palaeobotanist and evolutionary plant biologist with wide-ranging interests in palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates through Earth history. He has a broad background in Geobiology and Earth Systems Science, and is an active researcher across a number of fields closely allied to his specialisation including investigations on mass extinctions, hyperthermal ...

Peter is interested in understanding and predicting climate change in both the past and future. Peter specialises in using Earth System models, particularly as applied to the periods prior to industrialisation.

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Steve Jones is a numerate geologist who studies the influence of the deep earth on climate. His published work spans mantle and crustal processes, oceanography and atmospheric science.

James Wheeley is a teaching-focused lecturer in sedimentary geology and sedimentary basin analysis. His research interests lie in carbonate sedimentology and applied micropalaeontology (especially conodont isotopes) which he is using to address deep time (Palaeozoic) palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological problems. 

Dr Pam Vervoort is a paleoclimatologist who uses Earth system models to understand the role of carbon cycle feedbacks in driving Earth's climate and environmental changes throughout Earth's history. She studies past episodes of global warming, such as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and other hyperthermal events to understand what caused past global warming in the first place and to ...

Matthew Allison is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr. Stephen Jones. His project is entitled: "New North Atlantic Palaeo-Temperature Reconstruction from Terrestrial Sedimentary Archives: Implications for the Influence of the Icelandic Plume on Oceanic Circulation and Climate."

Hannah Bird is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Kirsty Edgar. Her project is entitled: "Fish like it hot? Response of fish and shark communities to abrupt past global warming."

Patthapong Chaiseanwang is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "An application of a new suite of biomarkers from Gram-negative bacteria to reconstruct the first Holocene temperature in Southeast Asia region based on 3-hydroxy fatty acids."

Xin-Shi Cheng is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Prof Jason Hilton, on a project entitled: "Seeds as proxies of seed plant evolutionary and diversity changes through profound intervals of climate and environment change."

Dan Doherty is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Sarah Greene, on a project entitled: "Global carbon cycle feedbacks from massive volcanism."

Sarah Gale is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Shan Huang, on a project entitled: "The relationship between marine extinction and climate change in space and time."

Changhai Hou is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr James Bendle, on a project entitled: "The application of 3-OH-FA based biomarkers to lake sediments."

Hazel Knight is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, supervised by Dr Stephen Jones, on a project entitled: "Did the North Atlantic Igneous Provice drive the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum?"