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
MSCA Fellowship - N Weitzel - Utilising palaeobotanical data to calibrate the response of vegetation to carbon dioxide in Earth system models
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2024 to 30/09/2026
Detection And Attribution Of Climate Change And Climate Sensitivity Using Paleoclimatic Observations And Simulations
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/06/2024 to 31/12/2024
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
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
Modelling the physical and biogeochemical causes of OAE2
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
Investigating the uncertainties surrounding the future of extreme extratropical cyclones, specifically in the North Atlantic Ocean
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
12/07/2012Deglacial rapid sea level rises caused by ice-sheet saddle collapses
Nature
Recent publications
23/04/2025An integrative framework reveals widespread gene flow during the early radiation of oaks and relatives in Quercoideae (Fagaceae)
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
Atmospheric and Oceanic Pathways Drive Separate Modes of Southern Hemisphere Climate in Simulations of Spontaneous Dansgaard‐Oeschger‐Type Oscillations
Geophysical Research Letters
Back to an ice-free future
Science Advances
Evaluating migration hypotheses for the extinct Glyptotherium using ecological niche modeling
Ecography
Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia
Plant diversity
Related people
Professor Dan Lunt
Professor of Climate Science
School of Geographical Sciences
Dr Alexander Farnsworth
Senior Research Associate
School of Geographical Sciences
Dr Caitlyn Witkowski
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow
School of Earth Sciences
Dr Nils Weitzel
Marie Curie Research Fellow
School of Geographical Sciences