Palaeo@Leeds

The Palaeo@Leeds Research Group is a multidisciplinary group of palaeontologists, climate modellers, and geochemists, allowing an interdisciplinary perspective to palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironments. Research interests span a range of time scales in Earth History from the Devonian to the Quaternary.

We use both extensive field work, geochemistry and computer modelling to understand past climates and oceans and how these relate to the modern day environment.

Our work includes unravelling the complexities of mass extinctions, examining the links with volcanism and climate change, studying the fauna of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and seeps, ocean circulation in a warmer world and how this relates to the El Nino southern Oscillation (ENSO), changes in tropical sea surface temperatures and fauna through the Cenozoic, studying Antarctic and Arctic palaeoclimates, and the stability of present-day ice sheets.