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Sea Level Research Unit (SLRU)

  • Sea Level Research Unit

    • Members

    • Global sea-level change

      Our research in this area develops and applies a wide range of methods of palaeo-environmental reconstruction (field, laboratory, microfossil, isotopic, experimental and analytical techniques) with a range of modelling approaches to understand earth / ice sheet / ocean / sea level / climate interactions since the Last Glacial Maximum and particularly during the last thousand years.

    • Ice sheet contributions to sea-level change

      This combines field-based evidence, from terrestrial and oceanic records, and numerical modeling to constrain the contributions of past and present ice sheets.

    • Policy-relevant sea-level research and outreach

      This has always been an area of our research, with early projects, in the 1980s, providing quantitative estimates of current land uplift and subsidence in mainland Great Britain supported by both geological and oceanographic data.

SLRU, established in 1987, specialises in inter-disciplinary basic and applied research funded from a wide range of sponsors, including research councils, the U.S. Geological Survey, conservation organisations, Government, business and commerce. Our research covers a wide range of temporal and spatial scales: from interglacial/glacial cycles through to the present; and global through to very local-scale changes.

The sections below illustrate the main themes of our research, though most individual projects integrate different elements and approaches from two or more of these:

Our main research themes are:

  • Global sea-level change
  • Ice sheet contributions to sea-level change
  • Policy-relevant sea-level research and outreach
  • Seismic and tsunami hazards

Contact Details

Durham University
Department of Geography
Lower Mountjoy
South Road, Durham
DH1 3LE, UK

Tel: 0191 3341800
Fax: 0191 3341801

geog.dept@durham.ac.uk