We have a YouTube Channel!!
Please do visit our brand new YouTube channel by clicking in here. We will upload the recorded videos of our seminar series in it. You can watch Drs Tom Hart and Isla Myers-Smith past seminars there.
OUPF Fall 2020 Seminar Series
Do join us this Fall term with our online seminar series!! Seminars take place every Wednesday afternoon and are announced in Oxford Talks, our website, and our mailing list. Please find more information on the individual events in our events page or at the bottom of our Home Page. 14 October (16h BST) Speaker: Dr Tom …
Warming Temperatures Are Driving Arctic Greening
As Arctic summers warm, Earth’s northern landscapes are changing. Using satellite images to track global tundra ecosystems over decades, a new collaborative study involving the University of Oxford and global institutions across the world, found the region has become greener, as warmer air and soil temperatures lead to increased plant growth. For the expanded story, …
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Sea-ice-free Arctic makes permafrost vulnerable to thawing
New research, published in Nature, led by scientists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences, and at the Geological Survey of Israel, provides evidence from Siberian caves suggesting that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean plays an essential role in stabilising permafrost and its large store of carbon. More info on …
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Russia – UK International Programme Call Launched – Deadline 20/01/2020
The British Embassy in Moscow and Consulate General in Ekaterinburg now invite bids for projects commencing in the 2020-2021 financial year. For further details please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/call-for-bids-2020-2021
A Baptism of Ice – Fieldwork Training in Svalbard
This blog was originally published on the Evidently Scientifical blog – a group of Oxford PhD students exploring science of the environment and climate, as well as PhD life. For more stories visit evidentlyscientifical.wordpress.com 1: Longyearbyen, with the glacier Longyearbreen just visible looming over the town. By Georgia Hole , PhD student in the School …
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New study changing our understanding of deep-ocean process key to regulating Earth’s climate
Dr Helen Johnson, Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Oxford, has co-authored a new international study that has found that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, a deep-ocean process that plays a key role in regulating Earth’s climate, is primarily driven by cooling waters west of Europe. Contrary to the prevailing …
Arctic Ocean Freshwater Content and Its Decadal Memory of Sea‐Level Pressure
Arctic freshwater content (FWC) has increased significantly over the last two decades, with potential future implications for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation down stream. We investigate the relationship between Arctic FWC and atmospheric circulation in the control run of a coupled climate model. Multiple linear lagged regression is used to extract the response of total …
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Emergence of deep convection in the Arctic Ocean under a warming climate
Oxford University Polar Forum members Helen L. Johnson and Yves Plancherel publish with Camille Lique in Climate Dynamics. The Arctic Basin was found to become seasonally ice-free, when modelled in response to a 4-time increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Read the abstract on our publications page.
Effects of sea ice on Arctic biota: an emerging crisis discipline
Dr Marc Macias-Fauria and Professor Eric Post publish a new article on the direct and indirect effects of Arctic sea ice (ASI) on biological process on land and at sea.