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Off balance: the CO2 and sea level seesaw – An interview with Dr Gavin Foster
The study “Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales” by Dr Gavin Foster and Professor Eelco Rohling which was this week published in the Proceedings of the National […]
New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have […]
Scientists develop new approach to support future climate projections
Descent into the Icehouse members Gavin Foster and Dan Lunt, as part of the multinational Palaeosens project lead by Professor Eelco Rohling, have re-evaluated published estimates of prehistoric climate sensitivity. […]
Presentations, papers, and a curious case of planktonic foraminiferal evolution that may be linked to global cooling
By Paul Pearson Paul Pearson, a Descent into the Icehouse participant, made two presentations to the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, North Carolina, this month. The first was a […]
Researchers Struggle to Assess Responses to Ocean Acidification
It seems that Paul’s Bown and Samantha’s Gibbs talk at the Third Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held on 24-27 September in Monterey, stimulated a lot of discussion among science journalists. […]
Nature News: Tiny fossils hint at effects of ocean acidification
The Ocean Acidification talk that Paul Bown and Samantha Gibbs presented in the Third Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held on 24-27 September in Monterey, provoked interest from […]
Climate change stories from the abyss
A team of scientists, including University of Southampton scientists who are based at the National Oceanography Centre, have shed new light on the world’s history of climate change. The Pacific […]
NOC hosts its first Eco-School visit. The Ludlow Juniors
On Thursday 10th May 2012, over 30 children from Ludlow Junior School visited NOC Southampton. This was the first Eco-School visit hosted by the Centre. Eco-Schools is a national programme run […]
CO2 and climate closely linked during the middle Miocene (11 to 17 million years ago)
by Gavin Foster, Carrie Lear and James Rae The Miocene epoch spans a relatively long period of Earth’s history from 5 million to 23 million years ago. It contains the […]
Recovering the Critical Time Interval
These are exciting days for the scientists above JR, on the IODP Expedition 342. Recovering a complete record of the Eocene and Oligocene when Earth goes from being a really […]