• Project 1: Exceptional 20th century ocean circulation in the Northeast Atlantic

    During our 2014 research cruise, we targeted high sedimentation drift sites to enable investigation of industrial-era climate. The striking results reveal the exceptional nature of recent changes and have important implications for marine resources and policy management. This work captured public attention with an accompanying, widely read (>800,000) article in...

  • Project 2: Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison Project

    The groups efforts around the modelling of past climates occur within the Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP4). Dr Brierley have a special responsibility for fostering research that crosses many different time periods and draws quantitative links to the future climate. PMIP is one of the longest running components of the...

  • Project 3: Advances in ocean proxies

    In order to gain insight into paleoceanographic conditions, it is necessary that we have a well-equipped toolbox, which we apply and interpret the results of appropriately. One component of our research therefore contributes to the development and application of a range of ocean proxies. The OACD group have advanced how...

  • Project 4: Uncertainty in Climate Projections

    The question of what climate we will experience in the future is a vital one, with many repercussions. Our interest is in how we quantify and explain uncertainty in climate research. As part of his PhD work, Damian Oyarzún highlighted a common deficiency with projections used to inform planning...

  • Project 5: Early Human-climate interactions

    We have been actively engaged in interdisciplinary research on the role of humans in Earth’s history. We have contributed both ideas and modelling expertise to this developing topic through collaborations across UCL with archaeologists, geologists and geneticists. Our expertise on the Plio-Pleistocene climate has led to Dr Brierley collaborating on...

  • Project 6: Constraining the state and variability of the paleo-Atlantic

    We have developed high quality geochemical and sedimentological records examining past variability in the deep circulation of the North Atlantic. Our work using traditional foraminiferal oxygen and carbon stable isotope analysis has provided vital constraints on past circulation changes that are used as a benchmark for changes in...