Cardiff University School of Earth & Ocean Sciences

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News and Events

4th Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop

will be held in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, from 4^th – 9^th August 2013.

Dr Jenny Pike and colleagues published in latest Nature Geoscience

Lecture Series 2012–2013: DANGEROUS EARTH

Open to the public – come join us! (Follow link below for schedule...)

PhD projects for 2013 are now open!

Dr Stephen Barker and Dr T.C. Hales were both awarded NERC standard grants totalling ~£700,000 to study climate and its effects on landscapes

Dr Kate Hendry was recently awarded a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (€100,000) and a Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£75,000)

21 Jan 2013

In the latest Nature Geoscience, Dr Jenny Pike and colleagues present a record of glacial ice discharge on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene. They show that two processes of atmospheric forcing – more frequent La Niña events and intensified summer insolation – had a stronger influence than the predominant oceanic processes affecting the Palmer Deep in the late Holocene. Given the uncertainty of future El Niño–Southern Oscillation dynamics, Pike et alia offer new insight into the climatic sensitivity of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet system.

To read Cardiff University's press release about Dr Pike and her research, click here.