Professor Paul Valdes
B.Sc.(Lond.), D.Phil.(Oxon.)
Current positions
Professor of Physical Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
NSFGEO-NERC Solving the enigma of the Miocene South Asian monsoon conundrum. An analog to our future
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2023 to 31/12/2025
Phanerozoic biodiversity in Space and time
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
17/05/2021 to 16/05/2024
Tipping Points in the Earth System
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/09/2019 to 31/08/2023
8086 NE/S001743/1 Carbon Cycling in a warming world - GEOG
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/02/2019 to 31/03/2023
The evolution of vegetation and biodiversity change during the Paleogene and early Neogene
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
09/01/2017 to 08/07/2021
Thesis supervisions
Modelling the Northern Hemisphere Climate and Ice Sheets during the Last Deglaciation
Supervisors
The relationship between the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and coastal sea level in CMIP5 models
Supervisors
Projecting the Reoccurrence of Major Caribbean Hurricanes under the Paris Agreement Goals
Supervisors
Modelling Last Interglacial Stable Water Isotopes in Greenland Ice Cores
Supervisors
Evaluating CMIP6 simulations of historical Sahelian precipitation variability and potential links to future projections
Supervisors
Evolution of Cyanobacteria Through Geological Time
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
12/07/2012Deglacial rapid sea level rises caused by ice-sheet saddle collapses
Nature
Recent publications
09/01/2023100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world
Current Biology
Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly
Nature Geoscience
Limits of oxygen isotope palaeoaltimetry in Tibet
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs
Current Biology
Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha
Nature
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School of Geographical Sciences
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School of Geographical Sciences