11 January 2023
\n \n \n \nAn interview with Elsa Panciroli from the Department of Earth Sciences, a palaeontologist who uses X-ray tomography and digital visualisation to understand the anatomy and growth of the first mammals and their closest relatives.
\n \n\n \n \n15 December 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years, as part of a multi-institutional agreement supporting cutting-edge research in the science of weather and climate prediction.
\n \n\n \n \n23 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThis year\u2019s funding totals \u20ac636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were successful this year.
\n \n\n \n \n17 November 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite, which shed light on early solar system conditions and support the theory that meteorites catalysed the emergence of life on Earth.
\n \n\n \n \n2 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAn exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled researchers to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.
\n \n\n \n \n27 October 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford palaeobiologists, working with researchers at the University of Warsaw and University College London, have shed new light on the evolution of lizards using a fossil discovery from Scotland, in research published in the journal Nature.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, USA, has found existing models of sea-level rise, based on our understanding of how Earth\u2019s ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere, could be incorrect. The team's findings could have significant implications for future predictions of global sea-level rise.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nClare Ballantyne, who graduated from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences last summer, is one of four women selected from over 6000 people, to form the team responsible for managing the historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.
\n \n\n \n \n16 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe earliest-known fruit-eating bird was an early bird called Jeholornis that lived 120 million years ago, and it may have helped contribute to the spread of the plants that dominate the world today.
\n \n\n \n \n20 July 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Rosalind Rickaby, Chair of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, takes a look at the way climate has naturally fluctuated over geological time, and compares that with the situation we face today, where climate change is disrupting this natural order and posing significant challenges such as extreme heatwaves.
\n \n\n \n \n15 July 2022
\n \n \n \nA collaboration between Earth Sciences palaeobiologists from the University of Oxford and University College London has shed new light on one of the earliest-known salamanders, from a rock first discovered in the 1970s.
\n \n\n \n \n14 June 2022
\n \n \n \nBen Igielman, DPhil student in palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences, writes about the new Jurassic World film in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2022
\n \n \n \nIn all, eight scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All but one are from departments in MPLS Division.
\n \n\n \n \n25 March 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research by a multi-institution team including the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge has found strong evidence that dinosaurs from the spinosaurid family swam underwater to search for prey.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Chris Ballentine, Professor Tamsin Mather and Professor Gideon Henderson join 13 other geochemists receiving the fellowship this year from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. The award was established in 1996 to honour outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field.
\n \n\n \n \n10 February 2022
\n \n \n \nScientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system\u2019s icy moons.
\n \n\n \n \n19 January 2022
\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor of Palaeobiology, Erin Saupe, is one of 9 UK recipients of the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, in recognition of her work using the fossil record to understand how species respond to environmental changes over both long and short timescales.
\n \n\n \n \n5 January 2022
\n \n \n \nA new Nature Climate Change paper highlights the urgency of emission reductions and emphasises the need for social and environmental integrity. There are clear risks of getting net zero wrong. If interpreted right and governed well, net zero can be an effective frame of reference for climate action.
\n \n\n \n \n23 December 2021
\n \n \n \nDepleted oil fields are one of the targets for carbon dioxide burial and related technology development. New research from the Department of Earth Sciences, published in Nature, shows that subsurface microbial activity may make this type of carbon burial target more complex than originally thought.
\n \n\n \n \n7 December 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth \u2013 which also may hint at the likelihood of complex life on other planets.
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