Palaeoenvironments

Percussive Rapid Access Isotope Drill

The ice sheets of Antarctica can be several kilometres thick, and contain precious information about the past climate. However, the bottoms of the ice sheets are melting, erasing this information. …

Late Quaternary changes in the Westerly Winds over the Southern Ocean

In this NERC-funded project, we are generating Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) proxy records from each of the three major sectors of the Southern Ocean, focusing on subantarctic islands situated in …

Arctic marine geophysics

This research focuses on investigating the glacial histories of Arctic ice sheets and ice caps using the marine geological record preserved on continental margins. By reconstructing past ice sheets, their …

ANiSEED – AmuNdsen Sea Embayment Exposure Dating

This project will reconstruct millennial-scale ice sheet change in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, using high-precision exposure dating.

Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica

Understanding the contribution that polar ice sheets make to global sea-level rise is recognised internationally as urgent. The mission of this five-year project is to capture new observations and data …

Back to the Future: Using long-term observational and paleo-proxy reconstructions to improve model projections of Antarctic climate

7 June, 2019

Direct injection liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry for determination of primary and secondary terrestrial and marine biomarkers in ice cores

1 April, 2019

Evaluation of mumiyo deposits from East Antarctica as archives for the Late Quaternary environmental and climatic history

1 January, 2019

The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for PMIP4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka

5 September, 2018

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

25 June, 2018

The Holocene retreat dynamics and stability of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland

29 May, 2018

Globally discordant Isocrinida (Crinoidea) migration confirms asynchronous Marine Mesozoic Revolution

17 May, 2018

Key stages in the evolution of the Antarctic marine fauna

1 May, 2018

Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene

16 April, 2018

Holocene multi-proxy environmental reconstruction from Lake Hakluytvatnet, Amsterdamøya Island, Svalbard (79.5°N)

1 February, 2018

Global patterns of declining temperature variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

1 February, 2018

The last forests on Antarctica: reconstructing flora and temperature from the Neogene Sirius Group, Transantarctic Mountains

12 January, 2018

Climatic and in-cave influences on δ18O and δ13C in a stalagmite from northeastern India through the last deglaciation

1 November, 2017

The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials scientific objectives and experimental Designs for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

1 November, 2017

Subglacial sediment pathways and deglacial chronology of the northern Barents Sea Ice Sheet

1 October, 2017

Synchronous volcanic eruptions and abrupt climate change ∼17.7 ka plausibly linked by stratospheric ozone depletion

19 September, 2017

The formation and Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of sediment mounds in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

1 September, 2017

A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica

1 August, 2017

West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions

1 July, 2017

Evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake on the Antarctic continental shelf

1 June, 2017

The late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstȁtte: an extraordinary post-glacial fossil and sedimentary record

1 January, 2017

Geomorphic and shallow-acoustic investigation of an Antarctic Peninsula fjord system using high-resolution ROV and shipboard geophysical observations: Ice dynamics and behaviour since the Last Glacial Maximum

1 December, 2016

The Paleocene of Antarctica: dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and implications for the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana

1 October, 2016

Low atmospheric CO2 levels during the Little Ice Age due to cooling-induced terrestrial uptake

1 September, 2016

Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse

16 August, 2016

Source identification and distribution reveals the potential of the geochemical Antarctic sea ice proxy IPSO25

1 August, 2016

Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

1 April, 2016

Highly productive polar forests from the Permian of Antarctica

1 January, 2016

Development of a regional glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT)-temperature calibration for Antarctic and sub-Antarctic lakes

1 January, 2016

On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

1 October, 2015

Millennial changes in North American wildfire and soil activity over the last glacial cycle

1 September, 2015

Retrieving the paleoclimactic signal from the deeper part of the EPICA Dome C ice core?

20 August, 2015

The late Oligocene flora from the Río Leona Formation, Argentinian Patagonia

1 May, 2015

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) shallow water hydrocarbon seeps from Snow Hill and Seymour Islands, James Ross Basin, Antarctica

15 January, 2015

Antarctic palynology and palaeoclimate – a review

1 January, 2015

The James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory ice-core drilling projects

1 December, 2014

Absence of a Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age and twentieth century warming in Skarvsnes, Lützow Holm Bay, East Antarctica

1 October, 2014

Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

Proxy development: a new facet of morphological diversity in the marine diatom Eucampia antarctica (Castracane) Mangin

2 September, 2014

Latest Cretaceous–earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

15 August, 2014

Insight into the Latest Messinian (5.7-5.2 Ma) paleoclimatic events from two deep-sea Atlantic Ocean ODP sites

1 August, 2014

A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula during the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene

1 July, 2014

New views of plant fossils from Antarctica: a comparison of X-ray and neutron imaging techniques

1 July, 2014

Factors controlling the last interglacial climate as simulated by LOVECLIM1.3

27 June, 2014

Climate variability features of the last interglacial in the East Antarctic EPICA Dome C ice core

16 June, 2014

Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles

15 April, 2014

Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline

26 February, 2014

The Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands: Inception and retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

1 January, 2014

The Early Miocene Cape Melville Formation fossil assemblage and the evolution of modern Antarctic marine communities

1 January, 2014

Investigating the consistency between proxy-based reconstructions and climate models using data assimilation: a mid-Holocene case study

6 December, 2013

Ecosystem impacts of feral rabbits on World Heritage sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island: a palaeoecological perspective

1 November, 2013

Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current

1 October, 2013

Plants and soil microbes respond to recent warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

9 September, 2013

The links between large igneous provinces, continental break-up and environmental change: evidence reviewed from Antarctica

22 July, 2013

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

15 May, 2013

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison

15 March, 2013

Sea surface temperature controls on warm climate water isotopes in Greenland ice cores

1 March, 2013

Lake highstands in the Pensacola Mountains and Shackleton Range 4300-2250 cal. yr BP: Evidence of a warm climate anomaly in the interior of Antarctica

1 March, 2013

Dating and synchronizing paleoclimatic records over the last interglacial

1 March, 2013

Sea ice in the paleoclimate system. 1st Sea Ice Proxies (SIP) Working Group workshop, Montreal, Canada, 7-9 March 2012

1 March, 2013

The 4th PAGES Past Interglacials Workshop. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Uk, 2-5 July 2012

1 March, 2013

Differing source water inputs, moderated by evaporative enrichment, determine the contrasting δ18OCELLULOSE signals in maritime Antarctic moss peat banks

1 March, 2013

Palaeoenvironmental records from the West Antarctic Peninsula drift sediments over the last 75 ka

1 January, 2013

Sedimentary processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed: comparison between modelled ice dynamics and subglacial bedform imprint

1 January, 2013

Exploring controls on LGM ice-stream grounding-line retreat in a dynamic numerical model of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

1 January, 2013

West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat from Pine Island Bay during the Holocene: New insights into forcing mechanisms

1 January, 2013

Antarctic palaeoenvironments and earth-surface processes

1 January, 2013

Greater supply of Patagonian-sourced detritus and transport by the ACC to the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during the last glacial period

1 January, 2012

Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice shelf history

1 January, 2012

Modelling constrained by geophysical data reveals the controls on long-term palaeo-ice-stream retreat in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica

1 January, 2012

Glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al exposure ages in the northern Dufek Massif, Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica

1 January, 2012

Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?

1 January, 2012

Volcanic synchronisation between the EPICA Dome C and Vostok ice cores (Antarctica) 0–145 kyr BP

1 January, 2012

The last ice-sheet advance and retreat across the Antarctic continental shelf: Current knowledge and uncertainties

1 January, 2012

The last ice-sheet advance and retreat across the Antarctic continental shelf: Synchrony or diachrony?

1 January, 2012

Co-variation of crenarchaeol and branched GDGTs in globally-distributed marine and freshwater sedimentary archives

1 January, 2012

Palaeomagnetic and biostratigraphic dating of marine sediments from the Scotia Sea, Antarctica: First identification of the Laschamp excursion in the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2012

The neodymium isotopic composition of waters masses in the eastern Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2012

Regional imprints of millennial variability during the MIS 3 period around Antarctica

1 January, 2012

Sensitivity of Pliocene ice sheets to orbital forcing

15 August, 2011

Environmental isotopic records preserved in Antarctic peat moss banks

1 January, 2011

Reworked late Neogene Austrochlamys anderssoni (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from northern James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2011

Geological constraints on glacio-isostatic adjustment models of relative sea-level change during deglaciation of Prince Gustav Channel, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2011

800,000 years of abrupt climate variability

1 January, 2011

The presence of polynyas in the Weddell Sea during the Last Glacial Period with implications for the reconstruction of sea-ice limits and ice sheet history

1 August, 2010

Depositional environments and chronology of Late Weichselian glaciation and deglaciation in the central North Sea

1 July, 2010

Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP) : experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1)

26 March, 2010

Evidence for elevated alkalinity in the glacial Southern Ocean

1 January, 2010

Shifting ocean carbonate chemistry during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: implications for deep ocean Mg/Ca paleothermometry

1 January, 2010

Location for direct access to subglacial Lake Ellsworth: an assessment of geophysical data and modeling

1 January, 2010

Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

1 January, 2010

Sea ice extent and seasonality for the Early Pliocene northern Weddell Sea

1 January, 2010

Age assignment of a diatomaceous ooze deposited in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment after the Last Glacial Maximum

1 January, 2010

Extreme deepening of the Atlantic overturning circulation during deglaciation

1 January, 2010

Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data

1 January, 2010

Improving constraints on paleo-ice sheets in the Amundsen Sea Embayment

1 January, 2010

Climate of the last million years: new insights from EPICA and other records

1 January, 2010

A record of Holocene glacial and oceanographic variability in Neny Fjord, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2010

Holocene isostatic uplift of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, modelled from raised beaches

1 January, 2010

The Antarctic palaeo record and its role in improving predictions of future Antarctic Ice Sheet change

1 January, 2010

Andean sinistral transpression and kinematic partitioning in South Georgia

1 January, 2010

Evolutionary dynamics at high latitudes: speciation and extinction in polar marine faunas

1 January, 2010

Atmospheric decadal variability from high-resolution Dome C ice core records of aerosol constituents beyond the Last Interglacial

1 January, 2010

Early Pliocene Weddell Sea seasonality determined by bryozoans

1 January, 2010

Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic climate variability at orbital and suborbital scale: ice sheet ocean and atmospheric interactions

1 January, 2009

The Arctic cryosphere in the Mid-Pliocene and the future

1 January, 2009

Magmatic and tectonic patterns over the Northern Victoria Land sector of the Transantarctic Mountains from new aeromagnetic imaging

1 January, 2009

Antarctic ice sheet and climate history since the Last Glacial Maximum

1 January, 2009

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

1 January, 2009

Exploring former subglacial Hodgson Lake, Antarctica Paper I: site description, geomorphology and limnology

1 January, 2009

Toward a better understanding of climate of the past million years

1 January, 2009

Controls on stable isotope and trace metal uptake in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral) from an Antarctic sea-ice environment

1 January, 2009

Middle Miocene to Pliocene history of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

1 January, 2009

FIRST ANTARCTIC CLIMATE EVOLUTION SYMPOSIUM Workshop on Amundsen Sea Embayment: Tectonic and Climatic Evolution Programme and Abstracts

1 January, 2009

Quantifying subglacial bed roughness in Antarctica: implications for ice-sheet dynamics and history

1 January, 2009

Cenozoic climate history from seismic reflection and drilling studies on the Antarctic continental margin

1 January, 2009

Quantitative relationships between benthic diatom assemblages and water chemistry in Macquarie Island lakes and their potential for reconstructing past environmental changes

1 January, 2009

Climate spectrum estimation in the presence of timescale errors

1 January, 2009

Mechanisms of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Antarctic Peninsula region

1 January, 2009

Exploring former subglacial Hodgson Lake, Antarctica. Paper II: palaeolimnology

1 January, 2009

Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation

1 January, 2009

Palaeoecological tools for improving the management of coastal ecosystems: a case study from Lake King (Gippsland Lakes) Australia

1 January, 2008

Constraining the age and formation of stone runs in the Falkland Islands using Optically Stimulated Luminescence

1 January, 2008

Introduction to ‘Antarctic cryosphere and Southern Ocean climate evolution (Cenozoic-Holocene)

1 January, 2008

Antarctic cryosphere and Southern Ocean climate evolution (Cenozoic-Holocene): Selected papers from the EGU Meeting, Vienna, April 2006 and XXIX SCAR Meeting, Hobart, July 2006

1 January, 2008

Coarse-grained terrigenous sediment deposition on continental rise drifts: a record of Plio-Pleistocene glaciation on the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2008

Time shifts between environmental and climatic markers during the Last Glaciation and Terminations 1 and 2 (last 140 kyr) as recorded at Dome C (East Antarctica)

1 January, 2008

Six million years of glacial history recorded in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2008

Basaltic subglacial sheet-like sequences: evidence for two types with different implications for the inferred thickness of associated ice

1 January, 2008

Comparison of contemporary and fossil diatom assemblages from the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

1 January, 2008

Closure of the Panama Seaway during the Pliocene: implications for climate and Northern Hemisphere glaciation

1 January, 2008

High-latitude paleolimnology

1 January, 2008

100 million years of Antarctic climate evolution: evidence from fossil plants

1 January, 2008

When is the “present”?

1 January, 2007

Joint Italian-British petrological-palaeoenvironmental investigations of Neogene volcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land, 2005-06

1 January, 2007

Divergent flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer contintental shelf of the Amundsen Sea during the late Quaternary

1 January, 2007

Past atmospheric composition and chemistry from ice cores – progress and prospects

1 January, 2007

Paleoclimatology

1 January, 2007

Ice core analysis and dating techniques

1 January, 2007

Terminal Cretaceous climate change and biotic response in Antarctica

1 January, 2007

South Sandwich Islands

1 January, 2007

South Shetland Islands

1 January, 2007

Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake

1 January, 2007

The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

1 January, 2007

Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams

1 January, 2007

Palaeoclimate reconstructions from the Antarctic Peninsula: diatoms as indicators of Holocene environmental change

1 January, 2007

The Scotia Sea: reconstructing glacial climates from diatom assemblages

1 January, 2007

Deep-time perspectives on climate change : marrying the signal from computer models and biological proxies

1 January, 2007

Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica: introduction

1 January, 2006

The future of El Niño?

1 January, 2006

Palaeoclimate analysis of Late Cretaceous of angiosperm leaf floras, James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2006

Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica: introduction

1 January, 2006

Mid-Cretaceous stratigraphy of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2006

Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2006

The Holocene history of George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2005

Structural variations in derivatives of the bacteriochlorophylls of Chlorobiaceae: impact of stratigraphic resolution on depth profiles as revealed by methanolysis

1 January, 2004

Stratigraphic correlations between the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C and Vostok ice cores showing the relative variations of snow accumulation over the past 45 kyr

1 January, 2004

An evaluation of two spatial interpolation techniques in global sea-surface temperature reconstructions: Last Glacial Maximum and Pliocene case studies

1 January, 2004

Prydz Bay fan and the history of extreme ice advances in Prydz Bay

1 January, 2004

Environmental factors influencing the pigment composition of in situ benthic microbial communities in east Antarctic lakes

1 January, 2004

Paleolimnological studies from the Antarctic and subantarctic islands

1 January, 2004

Miocene changes in bottom current regime recorded in continental rise sediments on the Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2004

Evolución desde el Mioceno del margen pacífico de la Península Antártica frente a la Isla Adelaida: un ejemplo de margen pasivo glacial

1 January, 2004

A new aspidostomatid bryozoan from the Cape Melville Formation (Lower Miocene) of King George Island, West Antarctica

1 January, 2004

A customised GIS to aid Gondwana research

1 January, 2004

Late Quaternary deglaciation and climate history of the Larsemann Hills (East Antarctica)

1 January, 2004

Coastal oceanographic conditions in the Prydz Bay region (East Antarctica) during the Holocene recorded in an isolation basin

1 January, 2004

Quantifying habitat-specific diatom production: a critical assessment using morphological and biogeochemical markers in Antarctic marine and lake sediments

1 January, 2004

Depositional and post-depositional history of warm stage deposits at Knocknacran, Co. Monaghan, Ireland: implications for preservation of Irish last interglacial deposits

1 January, 2004

Aquatic plant microfossils of probable non-vascular origin from the Ballagan Formation (Lower Carboniferous), Midland Valley, Scotland

1 January, 2004

A critical assessment of the analysis and distributions of scytonemin and related UV screening pigments in sediments

1 January, 2004

Structures and profiles of novel sulfur-linked chlorophyll derivatives in an Antarctic lake sediment

1 January, 2004

Identification of bacteriophaeophytin a esterified with geranylgeraniol in an Antarctic lake sediment

1 January, 2004

Cambrian palaeomagnetic data confirm a Natal Embayment location for the Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains, Antarctica, in Gondwana reconstructions

1 January, 2004

Shackleton Fracture Zone: no barrier to early circumpolar ocean circulation

1 January, 2004

Cretaceous (Wealden) climates: a modelling perspective

1 January, 2004

Modelling Pliocene warmth: contribution of atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere

1 January, 2004

Reconstructing the oceans of the Late Miocene: how the shell chemistry of fossils reveals ancient patterns of ocean circulation

1 January, 2004

Late Quaternary terrigenous sediments from the Murray Canyons area, offshore South Australia and their implications for sea level change, palaeoclimate and palaeodrainage of the Murray-Darling Basin

1 January, 2004

Maastrichtian stratigraphy of Antarctica

1 January, 2004

Valdivian ecosystems in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of Antarctica: further evidence from myrtaceous and eucryphiaceous fossil wood

1 January, 2003

Paleolimnology in the High Arctic – implications for the exploration of Mars

1 January, 2003

Past UVR environments and impacts in lakes

1 January, 2003

Paleogene West Antarctic climate and vegetation history in light of new data from King George Island

1 January, 2003

Antarctic Peninsula climate variability: historical and paleoenvironmental perspectives

1 January, 2003

Limited dechlorination of sea-salt aerosols during the last glacial period: evidence from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core

1 January, 2003

Oxygen-isotope (delta18O) evidence of Holocene hydrological changes at Signy Island, maritime Antarctica

1 January, 2003

A late-glacial high-resolution site and source temperature record derived from the EPICA Dome C isotope records (East Antarctica)

1 January, 2003

Palaeobiogeography and biodiversity change: the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic radiations

1 January, 2002

Dinoflagellate cyst evidence for Quaternary palaeoceanographic change in the northern Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean

1 January, 2002

Evolution of subglacial bedforms along a paleo-ice stream, Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf

1 January, 2002

Reconstruction of the historical temperature trend from measurements in a medium-length borehole on the Lomonosovfonna plateau, Svalbard

1 January, 2002

Aptian to Coniacian (Early-Late Cretaceous) palynostratigraphy of the Gustav Group, James Ross Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

Palaeobiogeography and the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic biotic radiations

1 January, 2002

Protoperidiniacean dinoflagellate cyst taxa from the Upper Miocene of ODP Leg 178, Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2002

Effect of density on electrical conductivity of chemically laden polar ice

1 January, 2002

Extending the ice core record beyond half a million years

1 January, 2002

Integrated chronostratigraphic calibration of the Oligocene-Miocene boundary at 24.0 +/- 0.1 MA from the CRP-2A drill core, Ross Sea, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

The Polonez Cove Formation of King George Island, Antarctica: stratigraphy, facies and implications for mid-Cenozoic cryosphere development

1 January, 2002

Sedimentary pigments as markers for environmental change in an Antarctic lake

1 January, 2002

Data report: Strontium isotope dating of barnacle fragments: Antarctic Peninsula Site 1103

1 January, 2002

Age and environment of Miocene-Pliocene glaciomarine deposits, James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

Stable-isotope records from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

1 January, 2002

Terrestrial paleoecology of the Cretaceous (Early Aptian) Cerro Negro Formation, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: a record of polar vegetation in a volcanic arc environment

1 January, 2002

Cenozoic palaeogeography and the rise of modern biodiversity patterns

1 January, 2002

Cretaceous patterns of floristic change in the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2002

Fossilised forests in a frozen land

1 January, 2002

Data report: Oxygen and carbon isotope measurements on Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (s) from holes 0196B and 1101A, Antarctic Peninsula margin, Leg 178

1 January, 2002

History of Oligocene erosion, uplift and unroofing of the Transantarctic Mountains deduced from sandstone detrital modes in CRP-3 drillcore, Victoria Land basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

A fossil wood flora from King George Island: ecological implications for an Antarctic Eocene vegetation

1 January, 2001

Fossil woods from Williams Point Beds, Livingston Island, Antarctica: a Late Cretaceous southern high latitude flora

1 January, 2001

Quantitative models for reconstructing catchment ice-extent using physical-chemical characteristics of lake sediments

1 January, 2001

Molluscan stable isotope temperature estimates of the southwestern Ross Sea during the Early Oligocene and Early Miocene, CRP-2/2A and CRP-3, Victoria Land basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

Deriving palaeomagnetic poles from independently assessed inclination and declination data: implications for South American poles since 120 Ma

1 January, 2001

First Carboniferous and ?Permian marine macrofaunas from Antarctica and their tectonic implications

1 January, 2001

Were the Larsemann Hills ice-free through the Last Glacial Maximum?

1 January, 2001

Fire-prone plant communities and palaeoclimate of a Late Cretaceous fluvial to estuarine environment, Pecinov quarry, Czech Republic

1 January, 2001

Palaeo-climatic and -biogeographical implications of Oligocene Ostracoda from CRP-2/2A and CRP-3 drillholes, Victoria Land basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

A tentative chronology for the EPICA Dome Concordia Ice Core

1 January, 2001

Weathering rinds as palaeoenvironmental indicators: evidence from the Cape Roberts drill core (CRP-3), Victoria Land basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

Taking the long view: a geological contribution to understanding the causes of global glaciation

1 January, 2001

Palaeontological studies for CRP-3: introduction

1 January, 2001

First survey of Antarctic sub-ice shelf sediments reveals mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat

1 January, 2001

Palaeoecology and taxonomy of Pentoxylales from the Albian of Antarctica

1 January, 2001

Biodiversity and terrestrial ecology of a mid-Cretaceous, high-latitude floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

Gymnosperm woods from the Cretaceous (mid-Aptian) Cerro Negro Formation, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica: the arborescent vegetation of a volcanic arc

1 January, 2001

Cretaceous (Late Albian) coniferales of Alexander Island, Antarctica. 2. Leaves, reproductive structures and roots

1 January, 2001

Cretaceous high-latitude terrestrial ecosystems: an example from Alexander Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2001

Cutting edge. Why the clue to Antarctica’s extinct plants lies in a Chilean rainforest

1 January, 2001

Early Oligocene Nothofagus from CRP-3, Antarctica: implications for the vegetation history

1 January, 2001

A Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous belemnite dredged from the floor of the eastern Weddell Sea

1 January, 2000

The eastern Palmer Land shear zone: a new terrane accretion model for the Mesozoic development of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 2000

Erosional history of the Transantarctic Mountains deduced from sand grain detrital modes in CRP-2/2A, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Definition of Late Cretaceous stage boundaries in Antarctica using Sstrontium ssotope stratigraphy

1 January, 2000

A Cretaceous (Aptian) flora from President Head, Snow Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Evidence for Gondwanan origins for Sassafras (Lauraceae)? Late Cretaceous fossil wood of Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Illicioxylon, an element of Gondwanan polar forests? Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary woods of Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Macrofossils from CRP-2/2A, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

The first record of fossil wood of Winteraceae from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica

1 January, 2000

Migration of methane sulphonate in Antarctic firn and ice

1 January, 2000

Palaeolimnological evidence for marked Holocene environmental changes on Signy Island, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

The relationship between leaf longevity and growth ring markedness in modern conifer woods and its implications for palaeoclimatic studies

1 January, 2000

A method to distinguish between woods produced by evergreen and deciduous coniferopsids on the basis of growth ring anatomy: a new palaeoecological tool

1 January, 2000

Cretaceous (Late Albian) coniferales of Alexander Island, Antarctica. 1: Wood taxonomy: a quantitative approach

1 January, 2000

Antarctic Peninsula Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic palaeoenvironments and Gondwana palaeogeographies

1 January, 2000

A new macroflora from the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica: evidence of an Early to Middle Jurassic age for the Powell Island Conglomerate

1 January, 2000

A petrified cycad trunk from the Late Cretaceous of the Larsen Basin, Antarctica

1 January, 2000

The fossil record of Cunoniaceae: new evidence from Late Cretaceous wood of Antarctica?

1 January, 2000

Fossil angiosperm wood: its role in the reconstruction of biodiversity and palaeoenvironment

1 January, 2000

Reconstruction of Antarctic palaeoclimates using angiosperm wood anatomy

1 January, 1999

The upper Cenozoic tephra record in the south polar region: a review

1 January, 1999

Latest Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst climatostratigraphy for three cores from the Falkland Trough, Scotia and Weddell seas, Southern Ocean

1 January, 1999

Walvis Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic Ocean

1 January, 1999

Rhynchonellid brachiopods from the Oligocene of King George Island, West Antarctica

1 January, 1999

Discovery of an Ordovician invertebrate fauna in the Blaiklock Glacier Group, Shackleton Range, Antarctica

1 January, 1999

The first record of fossil atherospermataceous wood from the upper Cretaceous of Antarctica

1 January, 1999

An evolutionary perspective on marine faunal connections between southernmost South America and Antarctica

1 January, 1999

Laser-derived particle characterisation of CRP-1, McMurdo Sound, Antarctic

1 January, 1998

Atmospheric near-surface nitrate at coastal Antarctic sites

1 January, 1998

Lower Miocene macrofossils from CRP-1 drillhole, Cape Roberts, (Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica)

1 January, 1998

High latitude Eocene climate deterioration: evidence from the northern Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 1998

Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic climatic variations of the northern Antarctic Peninsula: new geochemical evidence and review

1 January, 1998

Early Cretaceous fern foliage from President Head, Snow Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1998

Marine High Mg Calcite Cements in Teredolites-Bored Fossil Wood; Evidence for Cool Paleoclimates in the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1998

The proto-Andean margin of Gondwana: an introduction

1 January, 1998

Stratigraphy of Antarctic late Cenozoic pectinid-bearing deposits

1 January, 1998

Preface [to special section on Greenland Summit Ice Cores]

1 November, 1997

Validity of the temperature reconstruction from water isotopes in ice cores

1 November, 1997

Particle fluxes, benthic processes and the palaeoenvironmental record in the Northern Weddell Sea

1 November, 1997

Late Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Admiralty Sound region, James Ross Basin, Antarctica

1 February, 1997

Hepatophytes from the Early Cretaceous of Alexander Island, Antarctica: systematics and paleoecology

1 January, 1997

Floristics of a Lower Cretaceous freshwater lake deposit from President Head, Snow Island, South Shetland Islands

1 January, 1997

The pteridophyte Ashicaulis livingstonensis(Osmundaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Williams Point, Livingston Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1997

Fern thickets from the Cretaceous of Alexander Island, Antarctica containing Alamatus bifarius Douglas and Aculea acicularis sp. nov

1 April, 1996

Taxonomy and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous (Late Albian) angiosperm leaves from Alexander Island, Antarctica

1 April, 1996

Palynology of the Byers Group (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of Livingston and Snow islands, Antarctic Peninsula: its biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance

1 March, 1996

The diversity, distribution and ecology of diatoms from Antarctic inland waters

1 January, 1996

Location, movement and reactions of impurities in solid ice

1 January, 1996

The record of aerosol deposited species in ice cores, and problems of interpretation

1 January, 1996

Late Jurassic palaeogeography and anaerobic-dysaerobic sedimentation in the northern Antarctic Peninsula region

1 January, 1995

Preliminary palynological investigation of the Byers Group (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous), Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula

1 December, 1994

High latitude palaeotemperature variation: New data from the Thithonian to Eocene of James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 February, 1994

Evolutionary history of Antarctica

1 January, 1994

Marked polymorphism in Archangelskya furcata, a pteridospermous frond from the Jurassic of Antarctica

1 January, 1994

Biofacies and biostratigraphic constraints on regression in the uppermost Fossil Bluff Group (Aptian-Albian), Alexander Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1993

Stable isotope palaeotemperatures and the evolution of high palaeoclimate in the Cretaceous

1 January, 1993

Oxygen stable isotope composition of skeletal carbonates from living Antarctic marine invertebrates

1 January, 1993

Revised interpretations of Mesozoic palaeogeography and volcanic arc evolution in the northern Antarctic Peninsula region

1 January, 1993

The use of inorganic chemistry in studying the palaeoceanography of the Weddell Sea

1 January, 1993

Late Cretaceous palaeoenvironments and biotas: an Antarctic perspective

1 December, 1992

Marine molluscan constraints on the age of Cretaceous fossil forests of Alexander Island, Antarctica

1 November, 1992

Eocene microplankton from La Meseta Formation, northern Seymour Island

1 September, 1992

Palynology of the James Ross Island area, Antarctic Peninsula

1 September, 1992

Palynology of the Marambio Group (Upper Cretaceous) of northern Humps Island

1 September, 1992

Microplankton from the Cape Lamb Member, López de Bertodano Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Cape Lamb, Vega Island

1 September, 1992

Dinoflagellate cysts from an allochthonous block of Nordenskjöld Formation (Upper Jurassic), north-west James Ross Island

1 September, 1992

Vertebrate trackways from the Triassic Fremouw Formation, Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica

1 January, 1992

Merely the tip of the ice core

1 January, 1992

Dinoflagellate cysts from the Rabot Member (Santa Marta Formation) of eastern James Ross Island

1 January, 1992

The record of global change in circum-Antarctic marine sediments

1 January, 1991

Stratigraphic and paleoclimatic studies of a 5500-Year-old moss bank on Elephant Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1991

Palaeoenvironments of the Nordenskjöld Formation: an Antarctic Late Jurassic—Early Cretaceous black shale-tuff sequence

1 January, 1991

Palaeoclimatic significance of Cretaceous-early Tertiary fossil forests of the Antarctic Peninsula

1 January, 1991

High-paleolatitude Late Cretaceous paleotemperatures: New data from James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1990

A problematical belemnite from the Lower Cretaceous of the Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina

1 January, 1989

Origins and evolution of the Antarctic biota

1 January, 1989

Seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin: A record of Pliocene-Pleistocene ice volume and paleoclimate

1 January, 1989

Trace fossils from a submarine fan-slope complex in the Cretaceous of James Ross Island, Antarctica

1 January, 1987

Growth rings in Cretacous and Tertiary wood from Antarctica and their palaeoclimatic implications

1 January, 1986

Upper Jurassic belemnites from the Orville Coast, Western Antarctica, and their palaeobiogeographical significance

1 January, 1986

Orientation studies of waterlogged wood: A paleocurrent indicator?

1 January, 1985

International research expedition heads to West Antarctica

28 January, 2019

An international team of scientists is travelling to the Amundsen Sea – one of the most vulnerable sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet – to answer vital scientific questions about …

New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrank

15 June, 2018

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is one of the fastest-flowing glaciers in Antarctica. Over the last eleven years, four major icebergs have broken off from its floating ice shelf. …

New map reveals landscape beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

14 December, 2017

A new map of what lies beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is published this week (Thursday 14 December 2017). By providing scientists with the most comprehensive, high resolution and accurate …

Study shows ice sheet loss over the last 11,000 years

5 July, 2017

Reporting this week (Wednesday 5 July) in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the …

Team discovers sub-glacial lake from over 20,000 years ago

20 June, 2017

Researchers have provided new evidence that large sub-glacial lakes existed under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the last glacial period – around 20,000 years ago – a period when …

Raising Horizons: Portraits of women in science

2 March, 2017

BAS Director features in photographic portraits of women in science

NEWS STORY: BAS at leading fossil festival

1 April, 2015

British Antarctic Survey exhibits at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Staff from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are displaying some amazing Antarctic fossil and biological collections at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival …