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Palaeo@Leeds 2012

Palaeo@Leeds 2012. Alan Haywood School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK earamh@leeds.ac.uk. Content. Introduction to Palaeo@Leeds What was new for 2012 Some boring statistics Highlights: Quaternary mega fauna extinction and climate

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Palaeo@Leeds 2012

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  1. Palaeo@Leeds 2012 Alan Haywood School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK earamh@leeds.ac.uk

  2. Content • Introduction to Palaeo@Leeds • What was new for 2012 • Some boring statistics • Highlights: • Quaternary mega fauna extinction and climate • Cretaceous Antarctica and sea-ice (Vanessa) • Mass extinctions and climate (Yadong) • Lab/Facilities Report – Cris

  3. 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 Pre-Cambrian to the Quaternary. • 10 Academic Staff – including Independent Fellows • 7 PDRA’s/Fellows • 15 PhD students

  4. Breaking down discipline barriers

  5. What’s new? Rhian Rees-Owen People: Simon Poulton Chair in Biogeochemistry & Earth History Romain Guilbaud – Research Fellow Kathryn Husband – Chemical evolution of the late Proterozoic biosphere Magdalena Georgieva Jamie Lakin Edine Pape Chris Poole Caroline Prescott Rhian Rees-Owen

  6. Basic statistics... • Papers: • ~50 papers published in international science journals • 5 in the Nature-family or Science • Selected Grants: • ERC Starting Grant – “Pliocene constraints on Earth System Sensitivity” (PI Haywood) ~£1.3 million • NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities. “Orbital climate variability during the mid-Miocene” (PI Wade). ~£20,000 • Marsden fund, New Zealand. “Surviving in the Eocene ocean: the unbearable warmness of being” (PI Hollis including Wade). ~£0.5 million. • Royal Society Research Grant "Dinosaur diets and methane emissions" £49,800. PI F. Gill, Co-I Dr Barry Lomax, University of Nottingham, named collaborator Prof. Jurgen Hummel, University of Bonn. Funded purchase of GC-MS. • Leverhulme Trust Research Grant “Investigating biogeochemical evidence for chemosymbiosis at fossil cold seeps”, £85,000. PI F. Gill, Co-Is: Dr Robert Newton, Dr Crispin Little. Funded studentship (EdinePape). • BGS BUFI Studentship – Reconstructing ocean circulation during the Neogene. £35,000. PI Haywood, Bowman, Wade and Riding (BGS). Jamie Lakin (PhD student)

  7. Basic statistics... Outreach: Fiona Gill: Royal Society funded secondment to BBC Science Unit (8 weeks). Fiona Gill, James Witts and Lyndsey Fox: Designed, managed and participated in the Palaeontological Association's contribution to the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2012, with an exhibit entitled "What's in a name?". Aisling Dolan: Polar Exploration station at the Leeds Science Festival

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