The Latest Danian Event (LDE) occurred 62 million years ago and was the first in the series of hyperthermal events that punctuated this time interval - the most famous of which is the PETM.

🚨New paper on abrupt carbon release & calcification feedbacks!🚨
Led by MSc student Margareta Harbich & Dr James Barnet, we show the first Cenozoic hyperthermal was associated with warming, acidification, and a surprising feedback in key calcifiers…🐚🧵pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar…

Excited to share this new record of deep ocean temperatures over the last ~60 Million years! Using the clumping of carbon and oxygen isotopes in ancient shells we show that peak Cenozoic deep sea temperatures were warmer (~20 C!) and more dynamic than previously thought 🧵

Spent the Christmas break redrew the Carboniferous Scotland/Northsea palaeogeographies creating 3 time slices, Tournaisian, Asbian and Kinderscoutian using realworld hydrology engines and fractals to create a more ‘photo realistic’ palaeogeography.

ScottishGeology Edinburgh Geological Society

The past is the key to our uncertain future... Check out this short YouTube video made by one of my recent Masters students based on our research at University of St Andrews Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews The STAiG Lab

Delighted to see this review published in Geoscientist last week. The New Forest is teeming with tourists at the moment...I wonder how many are on a fossil hunt?! The Crowood Press Visit the New Forest New Forest NPA geoscientist.online/sections/books…

Our new paper on paleo CO2 is now out!
annualreviews.org/eprint/BCV3YBF…
We compile and reevaluate boron isotope & alkenone data, finding a striking correspondence between atmospheric CO2 & global climate for the past 66 million years (THREAD)

It may feel warm outside today but not as warm as it would have felt across southern Britain 40 million years ago during the Eocene...
Learn about changing environments of the past and the fossil evidence in my book! Visit the New Forest New Forest NPA Ringwood Geology OceanEarthUniSoton

Abrupt deep-sea warming occurred just 200 kyr before the K/Pg boundary at South Atlantic ODP 1262 (doi.org/10.1130/G39771…) but was there also ocean acidification? Current research at Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews The STAiG Lab University of St Andrews in collaboration with School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh will find out...

New paper on benthic foram turnover across the earliest Paleocene Dan-C2 event (just 150-300 kyr after the K/Pg boundary) finally out! No evidence for major carbonate dissolution at Walvis Ridge ODP 1262, questioning the event as a global hyperthermal.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1c~Ro73N~2rp…

Saw this while descending Ben Lui through Glen Cononish near Tyndrum last night! Thought it was a shooting star at first then it burst into an incredible fireball heading diagonally downwards! Never seen anything like it. Wonder where it landed... #meteorite #Scotland #highlands

Thank you to BASC & The Scottish Farmer for raising awareness ahead of #TickBitePreventionWeek which starts tomorrow. The article warns that infected ticks are especially prevalent in the New Forest, Thetford Forest & in the Scottish Highlands.
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Huge congratulations to James on the publication of his book 'The New Forest: Geology and Fossils'. We're so pleased to see former Brock students succeed in their chosen career! 👏

My second book is finally published! This one focuses on the geological evolution and fossils of the New Forest and surrounding area in southern England, where I grew up.

I have a limited number of copies available at a special author discount, which can be signed upon request.

Delighted to have two review papers out with my friend and former colleague Benedikt Steiner, covering the geology and resource potential of the #Siberian #Platform (East Siberia, Russia) based on a comprehensive literature review spanning over a decade:

xplore.global/new-journal-ar…

Out today in Science Magazine, CSM's @Kate_Littler and former CSM PhD student James Barnet explore Earth's climate over the past 66 million years using marine microfossils and isotopic analyses! 🌎🔬🌎 science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #geology #science

Delighted to be involved with this paper, just out in Science, which details climate and carbon cycle evolution at unprecedented resolution over the past 66 Myr (Cenozoic Era), providing many important insights for our future anthropogenic climate:

science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

What an epic new #climate record of the last 66 million years - produced by so many ECORD scientist with colleagues from all over the world #CENOGRID check this out #iodp 👇…-sciencemag-org.plymouth.idm.oclc.org/content/369/65…

International researchers, including 8 UK scientists, have used #IODP sediment cores to reconstruct 66 Ma of Earth’s climate record with unprecedented resolution. Today in Science Magazine
science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.112…
Dr Anna Joy Drury Dr James Barnet David Hodell @Kate_Littler Vittoria Lauretano