Date: Thursday 7 July 2016

Time: 19.30

Title: Using a model to understand ocean acidification in the past and present

Speakers Ross Whiteford

Overview

Ocean acidification occurs when carbon dioxide enters the ocean. This is currently happening due to human activities, and has happened in the past due to the eruption of large volumes of magma. To try and work out exactly what happened during one of these events, and how comparable this is to the modern day, we use a mathematical model of the carbon cycle.

Bio – My name is Ross Whiteford. I’m a first year PhD Researcher at the University of Southampton, with the PhD Title: ‘Cenozoic CO2: Chance History or Inevitable Outcome?’ – looking at how and why carbon dioxide has varied over the last 60 million years. I studied for my undergraduate MSci Geology, also at Southampton.

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