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Overview

Jane E. Francis is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia and has a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work concentrates particularly on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Ecology, and areas related to Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The primary topics of research covered by Jane E. Francis include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Significant recent publications highlight the breadth of their research. Selected papers include:

  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth, 2020, Nature
  • Bathymetry constrains ocean heat supply to Greenland's largest glacier tongue, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing, 2020, The Cryosphere

Jane E. Francis has frequently published in venues such as:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Scientific Data
  • Nature
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Antarctic Science

Their collaborative work involves contributions with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Robert D Larter
  • Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
  • Boris Dorschel
  • Julian A. Dowdeswell
  • Romain Millan

Best Publications

  • Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic

    Lawrence A. Frakes;Jane E. Francis;Jozef I. Syktus

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • A guide to Phanerozoic cold polar climates from high-latitude ice-rafting in the Cretaceous

    L. A. Frakes;J. E. Francis

  • A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond

    M.C. Kennicutt;S.L. Chown;J.J. Cassano;D. Liggett

  • Cretaceous and early Tertiary climates of Antarctica: evidence from fossil wood

    Jane E Francis;Imogen Poole

  • Australian cretaceous terrestrial faunas and floras: biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications

    M.E. Dettmann;R.E. Molnar;J.G. Douglas;D. Burger

  • Purbeck–Wealden (early Cretaceous) climates

    P. Allen;K.L. Alvin;J.E. Andrews;D.J. Batten

  • Pangea : paleoclimate, tectonics, and sedimentation during accretion, zenith, and breakup of a supercontinent

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  • Introduction. Pliocene climate, processes and problems.

    Alan M Haywood;Harry J Dowsett;Paul J Valdes;Daniel J Lunt

  • Are there pre-Quaternary geological analogues for a future greenhouse warming?

    Alan M. Haywood;Andy Ridgwell;Daniel J. Lunt;Daniel J. Hill

  • Maastrichtian stratigraphy of Antarctica

    J.A. Crame;J.E. Francis;D.J. Cantrill;D. Pirrie

  • Fossil plants from the Pliocene Sirius Group, Transantarctic Mountains; evidence for climate from growth rings and fossil leaves

    Jane E. Francis;Robert S. Hill

  • 100 Million Years of Antarctic Climate Evolution: Evidence from Fossil Plants

    J.E. Francis;A.C. Ashworth;D.J. Cantrill;J.A. Crame

  • Jurassic climates as inferred from the sedimentary and fossil record

    A. Hallam

  • Latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: Palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

    Vanessa C. Bowman;Jane E. Francis;Rosemary A. Askin;James B. Riding

  • Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

    Johann P Klages;Ulrich Salzmann;Torsten Bickert;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand

  • Responses of some Southern Hemisphere tree species to a prolonged dark period and their implications for high-latitude Cretaceous and Tertiary floras

    Jennifer Read;Jane Francis

  • Cretaceous–Tertiary High-Latitude Palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica

    J. E. Francis;D. Pirrie;J. A. Crame

  • Late Cretaceous winter sea ice in Antarctica

    Vanessa C. Bowman;Jane E. Francis;James B. Riding

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis

    I Allison;NL Bindoff;R Bindschadler;PM Cox

  • Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current

    Daniel J. Hill;Alan M. Haywood;Paul J. Valdes;Jane E. Francis

  • Chapter 8 From Greenhouse to Icehouse – The Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica

    J.E. Francis;S. Marenssi;R. Levy;M. Hambrey

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Neubauer
Stefan Neubauer University of Oxford
Ulrich Salzmann
Ulrich Salzmann Northumbria University
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
David Chew
David Chew Trinity College Dublin
Gernot Nehrke
Gernot Nehrke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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