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Paul Nicholas Pearson

Paul Nicholas Pearson

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
19378
World Ranking
1123
National Ranking
115

Overview

Paul Nicholas Pearson is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Engineering as well. Their expertise covers several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics encompass geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, drilling and well engineering, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geological and geophysical studies, and geological formations and processes.

Paul Nicholas Pearson has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past (2020), published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons (2021), published in Climate of the Past
  • Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone (2021), published in Science
  • Revisiting the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum "Carbon Cycle Conundrum" With New Estimates of Atmospheric pCO2 From Boron Isotopes (2020), published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent collaborators of Pearson include:

  • Bridget S. Wade
  • Tom Dunkley Jones
  • Bradley N. Opdyke
  • Isabella Premoli Silvá
  • Isabella Raffi

The common venues for Pearson's publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Micropalaeontology
  • Nature Communications
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Martin R. Palmer

  • Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale

    Bridget S. Wade;Paul Nicholas Pearson;William A. Berggren;William A. Berggren;Heiko Pälike

  • Are we now living in the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Alan Smith;Tiffany L. Barry

  • Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Peter V. Ditchfield;Joyce Singano;Katherine G. Harcourt-Brown

  • A revised tropical to subtropical Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal zonation

    William A. Berggren;William A. Berggren;Paul Nicholas Pearson

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Gavin L. Foster;Bridget S. Wade

  • Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

    Eleni Anagnostou;Eleanor H. John;Kirsty M. Edgar;Gavin L. Foster

  • Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene Epoch

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Bart E. van Dongen;Christopher J. Nicholas;Richard D. Pancost

  • The Miocene: The Future of the Past

    M. Steinthorsdottir;M. Steinthorsdottir;H. K. Coxall;A. M. de Boer;M. Huber

  • Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

    Caroline Helen Lear;Trevor R. Bailey;Paul Nicholas Pearson;Helen Kathrine Coxall

  • Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

    Marcus Gutjahr;Andy Ridgwell;Philip F Sexton;Eleni Anagnostou

  • Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

    Rampal S. Etienne;Bart Haegeman;Tanja Stadler;Tracy Aze

  • Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species’ Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics

    Thomas H. G. Ezard;Thomas H. G. Ezard;Tracy Aze;Paul Nicholas Pearson;Andy Purvis

  • A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data.

    Tracy Aze;Thomas H. G. Ezard;Andy Purvis;Helen Kathrine Coxall

  • Microstructural and geochemical perspectives on planktic foraminiferal preservation: “Glassy” versus “Frosty”

    Phillip Francis Sexton;Paul A. Wilson;Paul Nicholas Pearson

  • Atlas of eocene planktonic foraminifera

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Richard K. Olsson;Brian T. Huber;C. Hemleben

  • Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Reconciling proxies and models

    Christopher J. Hollis;Kyle W. R. Taylor;Luke Handley;Richard D. Pancost

  • Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

    J Zalasiewicz;M Williams;R Fortey;Alan Smith

  • Middle eocene seawater pH and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Martin R. Palmer

  • Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry

    David M Evans;Navjit Sagoo;Willem Renema;Laura J. Cotton

  • Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene Epoch: Reply

    PN Pearson;BS Wade

Frequent Co-Authors

Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London
Helen K. Coxall
Helen K. Coxall Stockholm University
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
William A. Berggren
William A. Berggren Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brian T. Huber
Brian T. Huber National Museum of Natural History
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Richard K. Olsson
Richard K. Olsson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
Paul R. Bown
Paul R. Bown University College London
Caroline H. Lear
Caroline H. Lear Cardiff University

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