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Understanding Climate Recovery From Warming. 

 The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a rapid warming event (hyperthermal) 56 million years ago. It is studied as an analogy of current climate warming, so that we understand what happens during increasing temperatures.. We are examining how the climate recovered several tens of thousands of years after the warming started. 

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Tracing silicate weathering processes in the permafrost-dominated Lena River watershed using lithium isotopes

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  Sometimes it is easy to forget to step outside the academic bubble... This is the first in a range of articles which will bring together ways and means how Climate Change is presented and understood in the world outside of our office doors. Related...

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Press Release: Study shows oxygen loss could be a huge issue for oceans   A major study from universities including Birkbeck, UCL, Otago, Exeter and Oxford into an ancient climate change event that impacted a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans...

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Climate Change and Communications with the world

  Sometimes it is easy to forget to step outside the academic bubble... This is the first in a range of articles which will bring together ways and means how Climate Change is presented and understood in the world outside of our office doors. Related...

Press Release

Press Release: Study shows oxygen loss could be a huge issue for oceans   A major study from universities including Birkbeck, UCL, Otago, Exeter and Oxford into an ancient climate change event that impacted a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans...