Vicki Taylor
@vickitaylor.bsky.social
Expert washer of mud. A palaeoceanographer, often found on a microscope with a paintbrush in hand or fixing a mass spec. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Clumped Isotopes at Univeristy of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
Reconstructed 10 °C upper ocean meridional temperature gradient during the early Eocene but significant proxy-model differences, especially in the Southern Ocean, persist.
Seasonal upper ocean temperatures from coccolith clumped isotopes and a proxy-model comparison for the late Early Eocene Climatic Optimum
The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) is a time interval of great interest to the paleoclimate community due to the overall hot temperatures and po…
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January 24, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Reconstructed 10 °C upper ocean meridional temperature gradient during the early Eocene but significant proxy-model differences, especially in the Southern Ocean, persist.
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A new view on past climate in the North Atlantic 🌊
MARUM-study uses clumped‑isotope geochemistry on ultra‑pure fossil phytoplankton to reconstruct 16 million years of ocean temperatures. Read more here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/clumped-i...
MARUM-study uses clumped‑isotope geochemistry on ultra‑pure fossil phytoplankton to reconstruct 16 million years of ocean temperatures. Read more here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/clumped-i...
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 AM
A new view on past climate in the North Atlantic 🌊
MARUM-study uses clumped‑isotope geochemistry on ultra‑pure fossil phytoplankton to reconstruct 16 million years of ocean temperatures. Read more here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/clumped-i...
MARUM-study uses clumped‑isotope geochemistry on ultra‑pure fossil phytoplankton to reconstruct 16 million years of ocean temperatures. Read more here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/clumped-i...
❄️ Marked by the onset of large scale Antarctica glaciation, the EOT marks a key pivot point in Cenozoic climate history towards the development of the modern climate system. ❄️
Don’t miss our EGU session on ‘Decoding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition’ in the marine and terrestrial realm.
Don’t miss our EGU session on ‘Decoding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition’ in the marine and terrestrial realm.
Session CL1.1.4
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January 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
❄️ Marked by the onset of large scale Antarctica glaciation, the EOT marks a key pivot point in Cenozoic climate history towards the development of the modern climate system. ❄️
Don’t miss our EGU session on ‘Decoding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition’ in the marine and terrestrial realm.
Don’t miss our EGU session on ‘Decoding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition’ in the marine and terrestrial realm.
☀️❄️🌡️ From hot to cold: Advances in reconstructing and modelling Cenozoic ocean and terrestrial temperatures ☀️❄️🌡️
Don’t miss our EGU session focussing on robust reconstructions of past temperatures and new approaches for addressing the challenges associated with past temperature reconstructions.
Don’t miss our EGU session focussing on robust reconstructions of past temperatures and new approaches for addressing the challenges associated with past temperature reconstructions.
Session CL1.1.5
www.egu26.eu
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
☀️❄️🌡️ From hot to cold: Advances in reconstructing and modelling Cenozoic ocean and terrestrial temperatures ☀️❄️🌡️
Don’t miss our EGU session focussing on robust reconstructions of past temperatures and new approaches for addressing the challenges associated with past temperature reconstructions.
Don’t miss our EGU session focussing on robust reconstructions of past temperatures and new approaches for addressing the challenges associated with past temperature reconstructions.
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🚨 New vacancy🚨
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Vacature — PhD developing reconstructions for storms in a warmer climate
Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!
werkenbij.vu.nl
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🚨 New vacancy🚨
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
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For the first time, scientist discovered that the large up-and-downs in oxygen isotopes of the mid Oligocene were primarily driven by large temperature changes in the abyssal ocean and not, as previously assumed, to enormous changes in ice volume in Antarctica. 3/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oligocene deep ocean oxygen isotope variations primarily driven by temperature - Nature Geoscience
Large benthic oxygen isotope fluctuations in the Oligocene Southern Ocean primarily represent deep water temperature changes, suggesting the Antarctic ice sheet volume was relatively stable, according to a clumped isotope record.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 AM
For the first time, scientist discovered that the large up-and-downs in oxygen isotopes of the mid Oligocene were primarily driven by large temperature changes in the abyssal ocean and not, as previously assumed, to enormous changes in ice volume in Antarctica. 3/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paper Alert❗️We present the first Oligocene record of orbital variability in abyssal ocean temperature based on benthic foraminiferal clumped isotopes. Temperature changes up to 4 degrees C with a 110 kyr pacing, indicating Antarctic ice-volume at this time was less dynamic than previously thought.
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Paper Alert❗️We present the first Oligocene record of orbital variability in abyssal ocean temperature based on benthic foraminiferal clumped isotopes. Temperature changes up to 4 degrees C with a 110 kyr pacing, indicating Antarctic ice-volume at this time was less dynamic than previously thought.
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By measuring the proportion of the heavy oxygen isotope in deep ocean marine calcite, scientist can understand climate variability in the geological past.
This is measured on the fossil shells of microscopic organisms that have lived on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years ago. 🧪🌊 1/3
This is measured on the fossil shells of microscopic organisms that have lived on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years ago. 🧪🌊 1/3
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 AM
By measuring the proportion of the heavy oxygen isotope in deep ocean marine calcite, scientist can understand climate variability in the geological past.
This is measured on the fossil shells of microscopic organisms that have lived on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years ago. 🧪🌊 1/3
This is measured on the fossil shells of microscopic organisms that have lived on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years ago. 🧪🌊 1/3
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Interested in improving our knowledge of climate by looking into the past? In the Pliocene the earth was hotter than today, but carbon dioxide was "about the same".
Come work with us in 2026 looking at where this crucial information comes from, and how to make it better during an M2 internship.
Come work with us in 2026 looking at where this crucial information comes from, and how to make it better during an M2 internship.
Are you looking for a master's internship (5-6 months)?
Constraining tropical planktonic foraminifera depth habitats in a (past) high-CO2 world 🥵🌎
Come to @climatecerege.bsky.social, south of France☀️🇫🇷
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025.
Start: Jan-Mar 2026.
More info👇
nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/fdAEGQXkwA...
Constraining tropical planktonic foraminifera depth habitats in a (past) high-CO2 world 🥵🌎
Come to @climatecerege.bsky.social, south of France☀️🇫🇷
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025.
Start: Jan-Mar 2026.
More info👇
nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/fdAEGQXkwA...
stage_M2_Suarez-Ibarra.pdf
Nuage - le Nuage de l'OSU Pytheas
nuage.osupytheas.fr
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Interested in improving our knowledge of climate by looking into the past? In the Pliocene the earth was hotter than today, but carbon dioxide was "about the same".
Come work with us in 2026 looking at where this crucial information comes from, and how to make it better during an M2 internship.
Come work with us in 2026 looking at where this crucial information comes from, and how to make it better during an M2 internship.
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Recalibrating the past 100 million years on a unified, accurate and precise timescale? 🕰️ That is the aim of the ambitious TIMES project. Read more about the Kick-Off meeting here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Kick-off-...
August 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Recalibrating the past 100 million years on a unified, accurate and precise timescale? 🕰️ That is the aim of the ambitious TIMES project. Read more about the Kick-Off meeting here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Kick-off-...
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New paper! Check out @zifeiyang.bsky.social gorgeous data from M2 glaciation (3.3Ma) - stunning Melonis Mg/Ca temperature records allow us to be confident about ice growth, but this was not like later glaciations following iNHG, we think gateways were more important: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major sea level fall during the Pliocene M2 glaciation - Nature Communications
This study refines benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry to reduce uncertainties to ±0.2-0.3 °C, which was then applied in Atlantic and Pacific sediment cores to reconstruct Mid-Pliocene M2 gla...
www.nature.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New paper! Check out @zifeiyang.bsky.social gorgeous data from M2 glaciation (3.3Ma) - stunning Melonis Mg/Ca temperature records allow us to be confident about ice growth, but this was not like later glaciations following iNHG, we think gateways were more important: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Luz Maria from MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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August 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Next week at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Luz Maria from MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany.
Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
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🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
www.uni-bremen.de
June 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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Our researchers have conducted a groundbreaking analysis of prehistoric plankton 🔬
They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis.
Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis.
Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our researchers have conducted a groundbreaking analysis of prehistoric plankton 🔬
They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis.
Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis.
Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
The Pacific Highs remain an under-explored treasure trove of information on past warm climates. Coordinated international efforts are the framework within which these archives can be best explored to address urgent and societally relevant questions regarding future climate change scenarios.
Pacific Highs: A Treasure Trove of Past Warm Climate Archives
Questions remain on how the Pacific shaped and/or responded to regional and global climate change, including impacts on marine ecosystems
Pacific Ocean sediments hold important information about ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The Pacific Highs remain an under-explored treasure trove of information on past warm climates. Coordinated international efforts are the framework within which these archives can be best explored to address urgent and societally relevant questions regarding future climate change scenarios.
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Fully funded PhD project “Changing life and changing ocean in the Oligocene icehouse” available through TREES Doctoral Research Programme. Project details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/cha...
Deadline 20th January 2025.
#NERC #PhD #TREESDLA
Deadline 20th January 2025.
#NERC #PhD #TREESDLA
December 8, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Fully funded PhD project “Changing life and changing ocean in the Oligocene icehouse” available through TREES Doctoral Research Programme. Project details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/cha...
Deadline 20th January 2025.
#NERC #PhD #TREESDLA
Deadline 20th January 2025.
#NERC #PhD #TREESDLA
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Very proud of this one!
Well done Tim et al!
#Oligocene #Miocene #Antarctica #IceAges #Oceanography #U1406 #Expedition342
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well done Tim et al!
#Oligocene #Miocene #Antarctica #IceAges #Oceanography #U1406 #Expedition342
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eccentricity pacing and rapid termination of the early Antarctic ice ages - Nature Communications
High fidelity benthic foraminifera oxygen isotope records reveal that variations in Earth’s orbit are the primary pacemaker of change in early Antarctic ice ages and caused these ice ages to sometimes...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Very proud of this one!
Well done Tim et al!
#Oligocene #Miocene #Antarctica #IceAges #Oceanography #U1406 #Expedition342
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well done Tim et al!
#Oligocene #Miocene #Antarctica #IceAges #Oceanography #U1406 #Expedition342
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If you want to be in both the *hottest* and *coolest* session at this year’s Goldschmidt Conference in Chicago submit your abstract to 13g! Deadline fast approaching
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conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
February 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
If you want to be in both the *hottest* and *coolest* session at this year’s Goldschmidt Conference in Chicago submit your abstract to 13g! Deadline fast approaching
conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
Are you working on Cenozoic-Mesozoic climate data or modelling? If so, there is still time to submit an EGU abstract to CL1.1.4 'Past warm climate lessons for the future' tinyurl.com/CL114
January 10, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Are you working on Cenozoic-Mesozoic climate data or modelling? If so, there is still time to submit an EGU abstract to CL1.1.4 'Past warm climate lessons for the future' tinyurl.com/CL114