Professor Erin McClymont

Contact Professor Erin McClymont (email at erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

My research focusses on the development and application of organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies to reconstruct past environmental and climate change. This work encompasses the analysis of marine, lake and peat sequences to understand the signals recorded in the oceans and on land over the most recent periods of Earth history. I research ocean/ice-sheet and land/ocean interactions across a range of timescales (from decades to millions of years), and investigate how the low and high latitude climate systems might be connected and responsible for global climate change. On-going research projects include:

• Reconstructing sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day (the last 5 million years).
• Reconstructing abrupt climate changes since the last glacial maximum (c. 25,000 years ago).
• Testing new organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies for past environmental change

In 2013 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (£70,000) in recognition of my research profile. I am a member of the NERC Peer Review College, an Editor for the EGU Journal Climate of the Past, a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Quaternary Science, and currently lead an international working group (PlioVAR) seeking to synthesise and integrate globally distributed climate records during the warmth of the Pliocene epoch ~3-5 million years ago.

Reconstructing sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day

This work seeks to understand how ocean cooling and circulation change might have affected or responded to the expansion of continental ice-sheets over the last 5 million years (spanning the Pliocene and Quaternary). This has included assessing patterns of ocean temperature change in the North Atlantic, Nordic Seas, North Pacific, equatorial Pacific, Southwest Pacific, the Subantarctic Atlantic and Southeast Atlantic. Using a multi-proxy approach, it has even been possible to evaluate the role played by such environmental changes on deep-sea fauna. In 2013 I sailed to the Gulf of Alaska as part of the international science party of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP, Expedition 341) to recover new sediment sequences which detail ocean-ice sheet-tectonics interactions reaching back into the Miocene. I am also working on new temperature records from the South-east Atlantic from IODP Expedition 361.

Reconstructing abrupt climate changes (decades, centuries) since the last glacial maximum (c. 25,000 years ago).

This work seeks to constrain the response of different parts of the climate system to the development and then retreat of extensive ice sheets in Antarctica and the northern hemisphere (e.g. over North America and Europe). We have shown that even the tropical Pacific can be impacted by the loss of the ice sheets in the mid and high latitudes, having identified rapid warming events and evolving ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns. Ongoing work also seeks to understand more direct interactions between the oceans and ice-sheets by analysing sediments in West Greenland, the Gulf of Alaska, and in Antarctica, where the inputs of ice-sheet meltwater and icebergs to the ocean can be directly compared to records of temperature, productivity, and sea ice.

Testing new organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies for past environmental change.

The biomarker approach has been widely applied to reconstruct sea surface temperatures through geological time, but the organic compounds contained with sediments potentially provide a rich history of changes in vegetation, production and degradation of organic matter, and carbon storage and reworking in catchments. Using new archives (e.g. fen peats, high latitude lakes) and testing calibrations using modern samples (e.g. in the Southern Ocean) we are refining and applying new techniques to gain a more detailed understanding of climate impacts across a range of environments.

Research Interests

• Quaternary Environmental Change
• Palaeoceanography
• Palaeoclimate
• Organic geochemistry (biomarkers)
• Marine ecosystems
• Land-ocean interactions
• Ocean-ice sheet interactions
• Marine sediments

Research Grants

• 2020: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (as PI) "ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a novel biological archive (ANTSIE)" (total award: €1,999,929)
• 2020: Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award (as PI) “Unlocking evidence for Antarctic sea-ice evolution from a novel biological archive” (total award £998,204)
• 2017: NERC (as Co-I) “Carbon export by erosion of the biosphere: the role of earthquake-triggered landslides” (total award: £401,020, PI: R.G. Hilton, Durham University) 
• 2016: NERC (as Co-I) "Assessing the role of oceanic forcing in West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum" (total award: £460,165, PI: J. Smith, British Antarctic Survey)
• 2016: NERC-Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Award (as PI) "The response of the Agulhas Leakage system to Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution" (total award: £25,000)
• 2013: Research Council of Norway Standard Grant (as Co-I) “Ocean Controls on high-latitude Climate sensitivity - a Pliocene case study” (total award: NOK 9,000 (~£1m), PI: B. Risebrobakken, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
• 2013: NERC-IODP Directed Award (as sole investigator) “Southern Alaska margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 341)” (total award ~£9,000)
• 2013: NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Award (as P.I.) "Reconstruction of Plio-Pleistocene South West Pacific Intermediate Water Circulation" (£8500 in kind)
• 2012: NERC (as P.I.) "Reconstructing intermediate water temperature response to Pliocene - Pleistocene climates" (total award: £246,000)
• 2010: Academy of Finland (as Co-I) "Biomarkers: a new potential method to study highly humified peat components" (total award: €239,000, PI: M. Valiranta, University of Helsinki)
• 2010: NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Award (as P.I.) "Evolving sea surface temperatures in the south-east Atlantic through the Pliocene and Pleistocene" (£11,000 in kind)
• 2007: NERC New Investigators Award (as sole investigator) "The millennial-scale response of the tropical Pacific to changing climate boundary conditions" (£60,000)
• 2003: NERC Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility Award (as Co-I) "High precision U^K₃₇' and δ¹³C_alkenone analyses" (£46,800 in kind, PI: J.M. Lloyd, Durham University)

Research Groups

Department of Geography

• Catchments and Rivers
• Hazards and Surface Change
• Sea Level, Ice and Climate

Research Projects

Department of Geography

• Reconstructing Intermediate Water Temperature Response to Pliocene - Pleistocene Climates

Selected Publications

Chapter in book

• Rosell-Melé, A. & McClymont, E.L. (2007). Biomarkers as palaeoceanographic proxies. In Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography. Hillaire-Marcel, C. & de Vernal, A. Amsterdam Oxford: Elsevier. 441-490.

Journal Article

• Lear, C.H., Anand, P., Blenkinsop, T., Foster, G., Gagen, M., Hoogakker, B., Larter, R., Lunt, D., McCave, N., McClymont, E.L., Pancost, R., Rickaby, R., Schultz, D., Summerhayes, C., Williams, C. & Zalasiewicz, J. (2021). Geological Society Scientific Statement: What the Geological Record Tells Us About Our Present and Future Climate. Journal of the Geological Society 178(1).
• Sánchez-Montes, M.L., McClymont, E.L., Lloyd, J.M., Müller, J., Cowan, E.A., Zorzi, C. & de Vernal, A. (2020). Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures. Climate of the Past 16(1): 299-313.
• McClymont, E.L., Ford, H., Ho, S.-L., Tindall, J., Haywood, A.M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M. A., Littler, K., Patterson, M., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A. C., Risebrobakken, B., Schepper, S. De, Swann, G. E. A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J. E., Weijst, C. van der, White, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Baatsen, M.L.J., Brady, E.C., Chan, W.-L., Chandan, D., Feng, R., Guo, C., von der Heydt, A.S., Hunter, S., Li, X., Lohmann, G., Nisancioglu, K.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Peltier, W.R., Stepanek, C. & Zhang, Z. (2020). Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago. Climate of the Past 16(4): 1599-1615.
• Wang, J., Howarth, J.D., McClymont, E.L., Densmore, A.L., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Groecke, D.R., West, M.D., Harvey, E., Frith, N.V., Garnett, M.H. & Hilton, R.G. (2020). Long-term patterns of hillslope erosion by earthquake-induced landslides shape mountain landscapes. Science Advances 6(23): eaaz6446.
• Mawbey, Elaine M., Hendry, Katharine H., Greaves, Mervyn J., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard, Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., McClymont, Erin L., Vadman, Kara J., Shevenell, Amelia E., Jernas, Patrycja E. & Smith, James A. (2020). Mg/Ca-Temperature Calibration of Polar Benthic foraminifera species for reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 283: 54-66.
• Berg, S., Melles, M., Hermichen, W. D., McClymont, E.L., Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A. & Kuhn, G. (2019). Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(1): 260-276.
• Naafs, B.D.A., Inglis, G.N., Blewett, J., McClymont, E.L., Lauretano, V., Xie, S., Evershed, R.P. & Pancost, R.D. (2019). The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review. Global and Planetary Change 179: 57-79.
• Caley, T., Extier, T., Collins, J.A., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L., Malaizé, B., Rossignol, L., Souron, A., McClymont, E.L., Jimenez-Espejo, F.J., García-Comas, C., Eynaud, F., Martinez, P., Roche, D.M., Jorry, S.J., Charlier, K., Wary, M., Gourves, P., Billy, I. & Giraudeau, J. (2018). A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa. Nature 560(7716): 76-79.
• Frith, N., Hilton, R.G., Howarth, J.D., Gröcke, D.R., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Wang, J., McClymont, E.L., Dahl, J. & Densmore, A.L. (2018). Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia. Nature Geoscience 11(10): 772-776.
• Müller, Juliane, Romero, Oscar, Cowan, Ellen A., McClymont, Erin L., Forwick, Matthias, Asahi, Hirofumi, März, Christian, Moy, Christopher M., Suto, Itsuki, Mix, Alan & Stoner, Joseph (2018). Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean. Geology 46(4): 307-310.
• Inglis, Gordon N., Naafs, B. David. A., Zheng, Yanhong, McClymont, Erin L., Evershed, Richard P. & Pancost, Richard D. (2018). Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 224: 249-261.
• Barlow, N.L.M., McClymont, E.L., Whitehouse, P.L., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Woodroffe, S.A., Bentley, M.J., Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D.J.A., Horrocks, J.R., Lloyd, J.M., Long, A.J., Margold, M., Roberts, D.H. & Sanchez-Montes, M.L. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience 11: 627-634.
• Petrick, B., McClymont, E.L., Littler, K., Rosell-Melé, A., Clarkson, M.O., Maslin, M., Röhl, U., Shevenell, A.E. & Pancost, R.D. (2018). Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492: 12-21.
• Fischer, H., Meissner, K.J., Mix, A.C., Abram, N.J., Austermann, J., Brovkin, V., Capron, E., Colombaroli, D., Daniau, A-L., Dyez, K.A., Felis, T., Finkelstein, S.A., Jaccard, S.L., McClymont, E.L., Rovere, A., Sutter, J., Wolff, E.W., Affolter, S., Bakker, P., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Barbante, C., Caley, T., Carlson, A.E., Churakova, O., Cortese, G., Cumming, B.F., Davis, B.A.S., de Vernal, A., Emile-Geay, J., Fritz, S.C., Gierz, P., Gottschalk, J., Holloway, M.D., Joos, F., Kucera, M., Loutre, M-F., Lunt, D.J., Marcisz, K., Marlon, J.R., Martinez, P., Masson-Delmotte, V., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Raible, C.C., Risebrobakken, B., Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Saleem Arrigo, J., Sarnthein, M., Sjolte, J., Stocker, T.F., Velasquez Alvárez, P.A., Tinner, W., Valdes, P.J., Vogel, H., Wanner, H., Yan, Q., Yu, Z., Ziegler, M. & Zhou, L. (2018). Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond. Nature Geoscience 11: 474-485.
• Rogerson, M., Mercedes-Martin, R., Brasier, A.T., McGill, R.A.R., Prior, T.J., Vonhof, H., Fellows, S.M., Reijmer, J.J.G., McClymont, E.L., Billing, I., Matthews, A. & Pedley, M. (2017). Are spherulitic lacustrine carbonates an expression of large-scale mineral carbonation? A case study from the East Kirkton Limestone, Scotland. Gondwana Research 48: 101-109.
• Roberts, J., McCace, I.N., McClymont, E., Kender, S., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Matano, R., Hodell, D.A. & Peck, V.L. (2017). Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 474: 397-408.
• Bachem, Paul E., Risebrobakken, Bjørg, De Schepper, Stijn & McClymont, Erin L. (2017). Highly variable Pliocene sea surface conditions in the Norwegian Sea. Climate of the Past 13(9): 1153-1168.
• Naafs, B.D.A., Inglis, G.N., Zheng, Y., Amesbury, M.J., Biester, H., Bindler, R., Blewett, J., Burrows, M.A., del Castillo Torres, D., Chambers, F.M., Cohen, A.D., Evershed, R.P., Feakins, S.J., Gallego-Sala, A., Gandois, L., Gray, D.M., Hatcher, P.G., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Hughes, P.D.M., Huguet, A., Kononen, M., Laggoun-Defarge, F., Lahteenoja, O., Marchant, R., McClymont, E., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Ponton, C., Pourmand, A., Rizzuti, A.M., Rochefort, L., Schellekens, J., De Vleeschouwer, F. & Pancost, R.D. (2017). Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 208: 285-301.
• Risebrobakken, B., Andersson, C., De Schepper, S. & McClymont, E.L. (2016). Low-frequency Pliocene climate variability in the eastern Nordic Seas. Paleoceanography 31(9): 1154-1175.
• Kender, S., McClymont, E.L., Elmore, A.C., Emanuel, D., Leng, M.J. & Elderfield, H. (2016). Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications 7: 11970.
• Talbot, H.M., McClymont, E.L., Inglis, G.N., Evershed, R.P. & Pancost, R.D. (2016). Origin and preservation of bacteriohopanepolyol signatures in Sphagnum peat from Bissendorfer Moor (Germany). Organic Geochemistry 97: 95-110.
• McClymont, E.L., Elmore, A.C., Kender, S., Leng, M.J., Greaves, M. & Elderfield, H. (2016). Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography 31(6): 895-913.
• Bachem, P.E., Risebrobakken, B. & McClymont, E.L. (2016). Sea surface temperature variability in the Norwegian Sea during the late Pliocene linked to subpolar gyre strength and radiative forcing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 446: 113-122.
• Tye, G.J., Sherriff, J., Candy, I., Coxon, P., Palmer, A., McClymont, E.L. & Schreve, D.C. (2016). The δ18O stratigraphy of the Hoxnian lacustrine sequence at Marks Tey, Essex, UK: implications for the climatic structure of MIS 11 in Britain. Journal of Quaternary Science 31(2): 75-92.
• Reisinger, R.R., Gröcke, D.R., Lübcker, E.L., McClymont, E.L., Hoelzel, A.R. & Nico de Bruyn, P.J. (2016). Variation in the diet of killer whales Orcinus orca at Marion Island, Southern Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 549: 263-274.
• Ronkainen, T., Väliranta, M., McClymont, E.L., Biasi, C., Salonen, S., Fontana, S. & Tuittila, E.-S. (2015). A combined biogeochemical and paleobotanical approach to study permafrost environments and past dynamics. Journal of Quaternary Science 30(3): 189-200.
• Elmore, A.C., McClymont, E.L., Elderfield, H., Kender, S., Cook, M.R., Leng, M.J., Greaves, M. & Misra, S. (2015). Antarctic Intermediate Water properties since 400 ka recorded in infaunal (Uvigerina peregrina) and epifaunal (Planulina wuellerstorfi) benthic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 428: 193-203.
• Petrick, B.F., McClymont, E.L., Marret, F. & van der Meer, M.T.J. (2015). Changing surface water conditions for the last 500 ka in the Southeast Atlantic: Implications for variable influences of Agulhas leakage and Benguela upwelling. Paleoceanography 30(9): 1153-1167.
• Petrick, B., McClymont, E.L., Felder, S., Rueda, G., Leng, M.J. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2015). Late Pliocene upwelling in the Southern Benguela region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 429: 62-71.
• Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C., Berbel, G.B., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Davies, M.H., Drab, L., Dottori, F., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Ge, S., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L., März, C., Matsuzaki, A., McClymont, E.L., Moy, C., Müller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ridgway, K., Romero, O., Slagle, A., Stoner, J., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Worthington, L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R. & Swartz, J. (2015). Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(49): 15042-15047.
• Peck, V.L., Allen, C.S., Kender, S., McClymont, E.L. & Hodgson, D. (2015). Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water. Quaternary Science Reviews 119: 54-65.
• Schellekens, J., Bindler, R., Martínez-Cortizas, A., McClymont, E.L., Abbott, G.D., Biester, H., Pontevedra-Pombal, X. & Buurman, P. (2015). Preferential degradation of polyphenols from Sphagnum - 4-isopropenylphenol as a proxy for past hydrological conditions in Sphagnum-dominated peat. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 150: 74-89.
• Rosell-Melé, A., Martínez-Garcia, A. & McClymont, E.L. (2014). Persistent warmth across the Benguela upwelling system during the Pliocene epoch. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 386: 10-20.
• Ronkainen, T., McClymont, E.L., Tuitilla, E.-S. & Väliranta, M. (2014). Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation. The Holocene 24(7): 828-841.
• Candy, I. & McClymont, E.L. (2013). Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE). Journal of Quaternary Science 28(4): 343-348.
• Sadekov, A.Y., Ganeshram, R., Pichevin, L., Berdin, R., McClymont, E.L., Elderfield, H. & Tudhope, A.W. (2013). Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Tropical Pacific mean state. Nature Communications 4(11): 2692.
• McClymont, E.L., Sosdian, S.M., Rosell-Melé, A. & Rosenthal, Y. (2013). Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Earth-Science Reviews 123: 173-193.
• Fietz, S., Huguet, C., Bendle, J.A., Escala, M., Gallacher, C., Herfort, L., Jamieson, R., Martínez-Garcia, A., McClymont, E.L., Peck, V.L., Prahl, F.G., Rossi, S., Rueda, G., Sanson-Barrera, A. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2012). Co-variation of crenarchaeol and branched GDGTs in globally-distributed marine and freshwater sedimentary archives. Global and Planetary Change 92-93: 275–285.
• McClymont, E.L., Ganeshram, R.S.S., Pichevin, L.E., Talbot, H.M., van Dongen, B.E., Thunell, R.C., Haywood, A.M., Singarayer, J.S.S. & Valdes, P.J. (2012). Sea-surface temperature records of Termination 1 in the Gulf of California: challenges for seasonal and inter-annual analogues of tropical Pacific climate change. Paleoceanography 27(2): PA2202.
• Pichevin, L.E., Ganeshram, R.S.S., Reynolds, B., Prahl, F.G., Pedersen, T.F.F., Thunell, R.C. & McClymont, E.L. (2012). Silicic acid biogeochemistry in the Gulf of California: Insights from sedimentary Si isotopes. Paleoceanography 27(2): PA2201.
• Rosell-Melé, A., Balestra, B., Kornilova, O., McClymont, E.L., Russell, M., Monechi, S., Troelstra, S. & Ziveri, P. (2011). Alkenones and coccoliths in ice-rafted debris during the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic: implications for the use of UK37' as a sea surface temperature proxy. Journal of Quaternary Science 26(6): 657-664.
• Pancost, R.D., McClymont, E.L., Bingham, E.M., Roberts, Z., Charman, D.J., Hornibrook, E.R.C., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Lima, K.L.H. & Evershed, R.P. (2011). Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs. Organic Geochemistry 42(10): 1279-1287
• McClymont, E.L., Bingham, E.M., Nott, C.J., Chambers, F.M., Pancost, R.D. & Evershed, R.P. (2011). Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat. Organic Geochemistry 42(11): 1420-1435.
• Dickson, A.J., Leng, M.J., Maslin, M.A., Sloane, H.J., Green, J., Bendle, J.A., McClymont, E.L. & Pancost, R.D. (2010). Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southEast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11. Paleoceanography 25: PA3208.
• Bingham, E.M., McClymont, E.L., Väliranta, M., Mauquoy, D., Roberts, Z., Chambers, F.M., Pancost, R.D. & Evershed, R.P. (2010). Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs. Organic Geochemistry 41(2): 214-220.
• McClymont, E.L., Pendall, E. & Nichols, J. (2010). Stable isotopes and organic geochemistry in peat: Tools to investigate past hydrology, temperature and biogeochemistry. PAGES news 18(1): 15-18.
• Martínez-Garcia, A., Rosell-Melé, A., McClymont, E.L., Gersonde, R. & Haug, G. (2010). Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue. Science 328(5985): 1550-1553.
• Dickson, A.J., Beer, C.J., Demsey, C., Maslin, M., Bendle, J.A., McClymont, E.L. & Pancost, R.D. (2009). Oceanic Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 11 interglacial. Nature Geoscience 2(6): 428-433.
• McClymont, E.L., Rosell-Mele, A., Haug, G. & Lloyd, J.M. (2008). Expansion of subarctic water masses in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans and implications for mid-Pleistocene ice sheet growth. Paleoceanography 23: PA4214.
• McClymont, E.L., Mauquoy, D., Yeloff, D., Broekens, P., van Geel, B., Charman, D.J., Pancost, R.D., Chambers, F.P. & Evershed, R.P. (2008). The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow, UK. The Holocene 18(6): 991-1002.
• McClymont, E.L., Martinez-Garcia, A. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2007). Benefits of freeze-drying sediments for the analysis of total chlorins and alkenone concentrations in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 38(6): 1002-1007.
• Charman, D. J., Blundell, A., ACCROTELM Members & (ELM as ACCROTELM Member) (2006). A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 209-221.
• McClymont, E.L., Rosell-Melé, A., Giraudeau, J., Pierre, C. & Lloyd, J.M. (2005). Alkenone and coccolith records of the Mid-Pleistocene in the south-east Atlantic: Implications for the UK37' index and south African climate. Quaternary Science Reviews 24(14-15): 1559-1572.
• McClymont, E.L. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2005). Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Geology 33(5): 389-392.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• McClymont, Erin L., Haywood, A.M. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2017). Towards a marine synthesis of late Pliocene climate variability. Past Global Changes Magazine 25(2): 117.
• Rosell-Melé, A., McClymont, E.L., Dekens, P.S., Dowsett, H., Haywood, A.M. & Pelejero, C. (2015). Multiproxy approach to reconstruct the Pliocene climate. PAGES Newsletter 23(1): 29.
• McClymont, E.L., Dekens, P., Dowsett, H., Dupont, L., Haywood, A.M., Rosell-Melé, A. & Salzmann, U. (2015). Pliocene climate variability over glacial-interglacial timescales (PlioVAR) working group. PAGES Magazine 23(2): 82.
• McClymont, E.L., Maerz, C. & IODP Expedition 341 Science (2013). Expedition 341 Southern Alaska margin interactions of tectonic, climate and sedimentation. Integrated Ocen Drilling Program UK newsletter 38: 8-11.

Report

• IODP Expedition 341 Scientists (2014). Southern Alaska Margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation.
• Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J. & the Expedition 341 Scientists (2014). The Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Expedition 341, Southern Alaska Margin. Expedition 341 of the riserless drilling platform Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), to Valdez, Alaska (USA) Sites U1417–U1421 29 May–29 July 2013. College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program).

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Supervises

• Ms Mateja Ogric
• Mr Tobias Roylands
• Ms. Eleanor Honan
• Miss Thale Damm-Johnsen

Selected Grants