The Earth’s paleoclimate record offers the opportunity to identify the range of climate states that the Earth can adopt and allows an examination of the atmospheric dynamics that have steered these changes.
A program of paleoclimate research in the School of Earth and Evironment centres on:
- the Quaternary history and dynamics of global monsoon regimes
- climate and tectonic interactions in eastern Africa and the northern margins of the Tibetan Plateau
- loess deposition and atmospheric dust–climate interactions over East Asia
- the dynamic paleoclimatology of the westerlies of the Southern Hemisphere.
Aspects of this work have been used for mineral exploration and groundwater resource assessment.
The research program involves collaboration with:
- Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Department of Geology, Cornell College, Iowa, USA
- Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China
- Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
- Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
