Our research
RSES has several specialised research groups and teams within our three research areas: Climate and Ocean Geoscience, Geochemistry, and Geophysics.
Our research is aimed at understanding nutrients, trace metals and carbon cycling in the present and past oceans.
The Climate and Fluid Physics group carries out research on climate, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics problems relevant to Earth.
We fuse observations with physical models to understand Earth's interior and how it shapes the surface, from mantle convection and dynamic topography to sea level and groundwater.
Tracing the evolution, composition and interaction of Earth systems with trace elements and isotopes.
The Earth Systems Geochemistry group determines and quantifies the geochemical interactions and feedbacks between rocks, water, the atmosphere and life.
This group utiliizes high resolution mass spectrometry to understand earth processes and climate at the micron scale.
Research in geodynamics and environmental geodesy encompasses all aspects of deformation of the solid Earth and its fluid envelope.
Experimental Petrology uses a laboratory-based experimental approach combined with field observations to study the Earths' origin, evolution and mineral wealth.
Brocks Geobiology researches the biological processes in deep time from the origin of life to mysterious ecosystems in Earth's earliest oceans and events.
The Jacob research group works on a range of top-level topics in low and high pressure geochemistry and mineralogy.
The Palaeoenvironments Group specialise in environmental reconstruction on times scales that range from thousands to millions of years.
The Seismology & Mathematical Geophysics group studies planetary interiors and the physics of earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, using observational and theoretical seismology to image the planet and to detect natural and man-made events.