The Oceans and Climate Research Group

The Oceans and Climate Research Group consists of researchers from a diverse range of backgrounds (oceanography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, geochemistry, biology), who share an interest in developing an understanding of the oceans and their role in modulating and driving global environmental variability and change.

Our current research focuses on: Marine biogeochemical processes and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous cycles. Deriving high-resolution paleoceanography and paleoclimatology records. Determining the origin and fate of natural and anthropogenic pollutants in coastal areas. Understanding the relationship between environmental change and genetic evolution in marine plankton. Using remote sensing in mapping and quantifying ocean currents and sea surface temperature.

• Fossil corals recorders of past ENSO variability
• Marine bivalves and paleoenvironmental studies
• Monsoon variability and rapid climate change
• Arabian sea oxygen minimum zone and benthic biogeochemistry
• The global carbon cycle
• Modelling and observing the air-sea interface
• Biogeochemical processes in the Antarctic sea ice environment
• Fate of terrestrial carbon in estuaries
• Genetics, foraminifera and Paleoclimatology
• Galapagos Islands coral monitoring and mapping programme
• Palaeoceanography of the coral sea across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
• Past climate changes and biogeochemical cycling in the tropical oceans

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