Tim Atkinson: In charge of the Bloomsbury Isotope facility. Research interests centre around the applications of chemistry and physics to problems in hydrology, hydrogeology, Quaternary geology and palaeoclimate, and geomorphology.

Charlie Bristow: Focuses on studying modern sedimentary environments, measuring rates of sedimentation and erosion and using that information to interpret ancient sedimentary rocks.

Paul Bown: Research focuses upon aspects of Calcareous nannoplankton (calcareous-scale-bearing, phytoplanktonic algae) over a variety of timescales including the Jurassic (to present), the K-T boundary and the Eocene, the later particularly in cores recently recovered from Tanzania.

Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel: Early evolutionary history of planktonic foraminifera. Refinement of the biostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Mesozoic foraminifera of Tethys and the Middle East. Tertiary larger foraminifera of the eastern Mediterranean and the Far East.

Jonathon Holmes: Interested in Holocene climate variability in lake and ocean sediments, recently including the development of Mg/Ca palaeothermometry to deep-sea ostracods. Jonathon is also an editorial board member for Journal of Paleolimnology and is responsible for co-ordinating the climate change programme within the ECRC and teaching on the Ostracod Analysis Short Course. He is also the co-director of the MSc in Quaternary Science (with RHUL).

Mike Kaminski: Micropaleontologist specialising in agglutinated benthic foraminifera from the Mesozoic to present.

Jackie Lees: Nanoplankton geochemistry

Mark Maslin: Mark specialises in stable isotopes and palaeoceanography. His current studies include: Onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, Mid-Pleistocene Revolution, Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events, rapid climate changes during the Eemian and Holocene, oceanographic changes of the Angolian-Benguela current system since the Miocene, stability and causes of failure of the Amazon Fan and other continental slopes, Amazonia climate, vegetation change and marine geohazards.

Sandra Nederbragt: Interested in the use of cretaceous foraminifera as a geochemical proxy, and also in the use of varved/high sedimentation rate archives as recorders of Holocene high-frequency climate variability.

Kevin Pickering: Interested in the process of slope failure/turbidity currents over a range of timescales.

Stuart Robinson: Research interests include Mesozoic palaeoceanography, palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments; impacts of major environmental change; carbon cycle perturbations (including oceanic anoxic events); application of stable isotopes to stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental analysis. He sailed on ODP Leg 198 and IODP Expedition 303 and was previously a Staff Logging Scientist for IODP.

Juergen Thurow: Member of the NERC IODP committee. Currently interested in using organic-rich sediments (terrestrial and oceanic) to address palaeoclimatic issues particularly in varved or high-resolution archives. 

Alex Dickson: 2nd year PhD student interested in palaeoclimatic variability during marine isotope stage 11, particularly in regard to oceanic carbon cycle dynamics and eustatic sea level changes related to fluctuations in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Tom Dunkley Jones: 3rd year PhD student studying calcareous nannoplankton dynamics across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, primarily from coastal Tanzania and then extending to comparative sections in Indonesia, Italy and the Pacific.

Heather Cheshire: 4th year PhD student looking at laminated sedimentary archives from the Gulf of California over the MIS1-3 period. She has also worked on records from the Cariaco Basin and from the Iberian margin.

Sev Kender: 3rd year PhD student studying planktonic and benthic foraminifera from the Congo Fan, offshore West Africa. Looking at palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography in the East Atlantic during the Oligocene to Midddle Miocene.

Matthew Owen: 1st year PhD student investigating the relationships between large-scale submarine mass movements and climate change during the Plio-Plesitocene in the North Atlantic.

George Swann: 3rd year PhD student working on developing novel proxies such as diatom oxygen and silicon isotopes for application to palaeoceanographic problems. These are being applied to a number of environments such as the North West Pacific and Lake Baikal.