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NERC Coevolution of Life and the Planet Spring School 2012
Palaeoenvironmental Research

During the school, there are 20 UK-based academics gave of their time to guide fieldwork, give lectures and participate in evening discussions. In the picture below are all the academics involved in the school, thank for their contribution and effort we had a very fruitful experience! We have their names and possible the links to the ppt of the talks below!
Picture
Field Course lecturers
Stuart Robinson
Graham Shields-Zhou
David Kemp
Fieldwork
Dorset 2012: Jurassic to Cretaceous, Marine to Nonmarine:
Palaeoenvironmental research tools

Invited Lecturers Name
Tim Lenton
Graham Shields-Zhou
Mike Benton

Richard Twitchett
J. Alistair Crame
Andrew Smith
Rob Newton
Gavin Foster
Harry Bryden
John Prytherch
Penny Johnes
Toby Tyrrell
Nina Rothe
Veerle Huvenne
Kevin Oliver
Matt Mowlem
Stephanie Henson
Topics of their talks
Revolutions that made the Earth
Part 1: Earth's climate record;  Part 2: Quantifying Palaeoclimate
Part1: Origins of modern biodiversity; Part 2: Disparity and comparative phylogenetics
Part 1: Mass extinctions/events and recoveries; Part 2: Palaeoecological analysis
Evolutionary history of the polar regions
Quantification of the rock and fossil records: why the record matters
Water column redox proxies
The ins and outs of reconstructing CO2 in the geological past
Observing the Oceans
Ocean/Atmosphere Exchange
Land-Ocean Interactions
Ocean biogeochemistry
Deep Seas
Seafloor habitat
Ocean Modelling
Ocean Technology
Oceanography Lab Work
Most of these presentations you can download from webpage of NERC Earth System Sciences Spring School (ES4) 2012. Here we will provide a few to download which are not on ES4 page. Please see the highlighted topics!
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