Staff profile

My research focusses on investigating the patterns and processes affecting climate and environmental changes in the past. This work has included the analysis of marine, lake and peat sequences to understand climate changes recorded in the oceans and on land over the most recent periods of Earth history. I’m particularly interested in ocean/ice-sheet and land/ocean interactions across a range of timescales (from decades to millions of years), and how the low and high latitude climate systems might be connected and responsible for global climate change.

In a new set of projects, my research team is tackling new biological (seabird) records of Antarctic sea ice, detailed further below. I usually employ organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies, which allow investigation of past changes in ocean and lake temperature, hydrology, vegetation change, and predator diets. On-going research projects include:

• Reconstructing Antarctic sea ice environments from the last glacial period to the present day (the last ~40,000 years)
• Reconstructing sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day (the last 5 million years).
• 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 recently led 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 Antarctic sea ice environments from the last glacial period to the present day (the last ~40,000 years)

This work seeks to better understand how Antarctic sea ice environments have changed through time, with a focus on the expansion and then contraction of sea ice associated with the last glacial cycle. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and the Leverhulme Trust, this work uses a novel approach: using the preserved diets of the Antarctic seabird the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) to reconstruct past prey distributions and sea ice environments. The project team includes 4 PhDs, 3 research associates, and collaborators in the School of Biosciences (Durham University) and the British Antarctic Survey. The work builds on earlier projects examining marine sediment evidence for changing ice sheet / ocean interactions as the Antarctic ice sheet retreated from it’s maximum extent during the last glacial.

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.

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, seabird stomach-oil deposits) 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

• 2025: EU-HORIZON Project (as Co-I) "Past to Future (P2F): Towards fully palaeo-informed climate projections" (led by Anna von der Heydt and Lucas Lourens, University of Utrecht; total award: ~€15m)
• 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)

Chapter in book

• Biomarkers as palaeoceanographic proxies
  Rosell-Melé, A., & McClymont, E. (2007). Biomarkers as palaeoceanographic proxies. In C. Hillaire-Marcel, & A. de Vernal (Eds.), Proxies in late cenozoic paleoceanography (441-490). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1572-5480%2807%2901016-0

Journal Article

• The foraging distribution and habitat use of chick-rearing snow petrels from two colonies in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
  Honan, E. M., Wakefield, E. D., Phillips, R. A., Grecian, W. J., Prince, S., Robert, H., Descamps, S., Rix, A., Hoelzel, A. R., & McClymont, E. L. (2025). The foraging distribution and habitat use of chick-rearing snow petrels from two colonies in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Marine Biology, 172(7), Article 109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-025-04657-w
• Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
  Rubbelke, C. B., Bhattacharya, T., Farnsworth, A., Valdes, P., McClymont, E. L., & Ford, H. (2025). Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58792-5
• A circumpolar review of the breeding distribution and habitat use of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), the world’s most southerly breeding vertebrate
  Francis, J., Wakefield, E., Jamieson, S. S. R., Phillips, R. A., Hodgson, D. A., Southwell, C., Emmerson, L., Fretwell, P., Bentley, M. J., & McClymont, E. L. (2025). A circumpolar review of the breeding distribution and habitat use of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), the world’s most southerly breeding vertebrate. Polar Biology, 48(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-024-03336-8
• Ocean warming, icebergs, and productivity in the Gulf of Alaska during the Last Interglacial
  Sánchez Montes, M. L., McClymont, E. L., Asahi, H., Stoner, J., Moy, C. M., Gleghorn, S., & Lloyd, J. M. (2025). Ocean warming, icebergs, and productivity in the Gulf of Alaska during the Last Interglacial. Frontiers in Earth Science, 12, Article 1485521. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1485521
• Seasonal resource tracking and use of sea-ice foraging habitats by albatrosses and large petrels
  Wakefield, E. D., McClymont, E. L., Carneiro, A. P. B., Croxall, J. P., González-Solís, J., Granroth-Wilding, H. M. V., Thorne, L., Warwick-Evans, V., Wood, A. G., Xavier, J. C., & Phillips, R. A. (2025). Seasonal resource tracking and use of sea-ice foraging habitats by albatrosses and large petrels. Progress in Oceanography, 230, Article 103334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103334
• Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?
  Annan, J. D., Hargreaves, J. C., Mauritsen, T., McClymont, E., & Ho, S. L. (2024). Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?. Climate of the Past, 20(9), 1989-1999. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1989-2024
• Paleoclimate data provide constraints on climate models' large-scale response to past CO2 changes
  Lunt, D. J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brierley, C., Haywood, A., Inglis, G. N., Izumi, K., Kageyama, M., Kaufman, D., Mauritsen, T., McClymont, E. L., Salzmann, U., Steinig, S., Tierney, J. E., Zhao, A., & Zhu, J. (2024). Paleoclimate data provide constraints on climate models' large-scale response to past CO2 changes. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01531-3
• Controls on Sr/Ca, S/Ca, and Mg/Ca in Benthic Foraminifera: Implications for the Carbonate Chemistry of the Pacific Ocean Over the Last 350 ky
  Lawson, V. J., Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S. C., Lambert, J., Linsley, B. K., Bu, K., Clementi, V. J., Elmore, A., & McClymont, E. L. (2024). Controls on Sr/Ca, S/Ca, and Mg/Ca in Benthic Foraminifera: Implications for the Carbonate Chemistry of the Pacific Ocean Over the Last 350 ky. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(8), Article e2024GC011508. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gc011508
• South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution
  Wilkin, J. T. R., Kender, S., Dejardin, R., Allen, C. S., Peck, V. L., Swann, G. E. A., McClymont, E. L., Scourse, J. D., Littler, K., & Leng, M. J. (2024). South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 43(1), 165-186. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-165-2024
• The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene
  Burton, L. E., Haywood, A. M., Tindall, J. C., Dolan, A. M., Hill, D. J., McClymont, E. L., Ling Ho, S., & Ford, H. L. (2024). The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene. Climate of the Past, 20(5), 1177-1194. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1177-2024
• Probing the exchange of CO2 and O2 in the shallow critical zone during weathering of marl and black shale
  Roylands, T., Hilton, R. G., McClymont, E. L., Garnett, M. H., Soulet, G., Klotz, S., Degler, M., Napoleoni, F., & Le Bouteiller, C. (2024). Probing the exchange of CO2 and O2 in the shallow critical zone during weathering of marl and black shale. Earth Surface Dynamics, 12(1), 271-299. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-271-2024
• Plio‐Pleistocene Southwest African Hydroclimate Modulated by Benguela and Indian Ocean Temperatures
  Rubbelke, C. B., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Burls, N. J., Knapp, S., & McClymont, E. L. (2023). Plio‐Pleistocene Southwest African Hydroclimate Modulated by Benguela and Indian Ocean Temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(19), Article e2023GL103003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103003
• Composition of planktonic foraminifera test-bound organic material and implications for carbon cycle reconstructions
  Paoloni, T., Hoogakker, B., Navarro Rodriguez, A., Pereira, R., McClymont, E. L., Jovane, L., & Magill, C. (2023). Composition of planktonic foraminifera test-bound organic material and implications for carbon cycle reconstructions. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Article 1237440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1237440
• Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change
  McClymont, E. L., Mackay, H., Stevenson, M. A., Damm-Johnsen, T., Honan, E. M., Penny, C. E., & Cole, Y. A. (2023). Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(7), 991-1024. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3559
• Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
  McClymont, E., Ho, S.-L., Ford, H., Bailey, I., Berke, M., Bolton, C., De Schepper, S., Grant, G., Groeneveld, J., Inglis, G., Karas, C., Patterson, M., Swann, G., Thirumalai, K., White, S., Alonso-Garcia, M., Anand, P., Hoogakker, B., Littler, K., Petrick, B., …Tangunan, D. (2023). Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Reviews of Geophysics, 61(3), Article e2022RG000793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022rg000793
• Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications
  Grant, G. R., Williams, J. H. T., Naeher, S., Seki, O., McClymont, E. L., Patterson, M. O., Haywood, A. M., Behrens, E., Yamamoto, M., & Johnson, K. (2023). Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications. Climate of the Past, 19(7), 1359-1381. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1359-2023
• Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments
  Smith, J. A., Callard, L., Bentley, M. J., Jamieson, S. S., Sánchez-Montes, M. L., Lane, T. P., Lloyd, J. M., McClymont, E. L., Darvill, C. M., Rea, B. R., O'Cofaigh, C., Gulliver, P., Ehrmann, W., Jones, R. S., & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments. The Cryosphere, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1247-2023
• A multiproxy approach to long-term herbivore grazing dynamics in peatlands based on pollen, coprophilous fungi and faecal biomarkers
  Davies, A., Harrault, L., Milek, K., McClymont, E., Dallimer, M., Hamilton, A., & Warburton, J. (2022). A multiproxy approach to long-term herbivore grazing dynamics in peatlands based on pollen, coprophilous fungi and faecal biomarkers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 598, Article 111032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111032
• Plio-Pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the Gulf of Alaska and its impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet development
  Sánchez Montes, M., Romero, O., Cowan, E., Müller, J., Moy, C., Lloyd, J., & McClymont, E. (2022). Plio-Pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the Gulf of Alaska and its impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet development. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(7), Article e2021PA004341. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004341
• Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits
  McClymont, E. L., Bentley, M. J., Hodgson, D. A., Spencer-Jones, C. L., Wardley, T., West, M. D., Croudace, I. W., Berg, S., Gröcke, D. R., Kuhn, G., Jamieson, S. S., Sime, L., & Phillips, R. A. (2022). Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits. Climate of the Past, 18(2), 381-403. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-381-2022
• Orbital and Suborbital‐Scale Variations of Productivity and Sea Surface Conditions in the Gulf of Alaska During the Past 54,000 Years: Impact of Iron Fertilization by Icebergs and Meltwater
  Romero, O. E., LeVay, L. J., McClymont, E. L., Müller, J., & Cowan, E. A. (2022). Orbital and Suborbital‐Scale Variations of Productivity and Sea Surface Conditions in the Gulf of Alaska During the Past 54,000 Years: Impact of Iron Fertilization by Icebergs and Meltwater. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004385. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004385
• Planktonic foraminifera organic carbon isotopes as archives of upper ocean carbon cycling
  Hoogakker, B., Anderson, C., Paoloni, T., Scott, A., Grant, H., Keenan, P., Mahaffey, C., Blackbird, S., McClymont, E., Rickaby, R., Poulton, A., & Peck, V. (2022). Planktonic foraminifera organic carbon isotopes as archives of upper ocean carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 13, Article 4841. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32480-0
• Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice
  McClymont, E. L., Bentley, M. J., Hodgson, D. A., Spencer-Jones, C. L., Wardley, T., West, M. D., Croudace, I. W., Berg, S., Gröcke, D. R., Kuhn, G., Jamieson, S. S. R., Sime, L. C., & Phillips, R. A. (2022). Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice. PAGES Magazine, 30(2), 82-83. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.30.2.82
• The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data
  Judd, E. J., Tierney, J. E., Huber, B. T., Wing, S. L., Lunt, D. J., Ford, H. L., Inglis, G. N., McClymont, E. L., O’Brien, C. L., Rattanasriampaipong, R., Si, W., Staitis, M. L., Thirumalai, K., Anagnostou, E., Cramwinckel, M. J., Dawson, R. R., Evans, D., Gray, W. R., Grossman, E. L., Henehan, M. J., …Zhang, Y. G. (2022). The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data. Scientific Data, 9(1), Article 753. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01826-0
• Geological Society Scientific Statement: What the Geological Record Tells Us About Our Present and Future Climate
  Lear, C., Anand, P., Blenkinsop, T., Foster, G., Gagen, M., Hoogakker, B., Larter, R., Lunt, D., McCave, N., McClymont, E., 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), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-239
• Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas
  Spencer-Jones, C. L., McClymont, E. L., Bale, N., Hopmans, E., Schouten, S., Muller, J., Abrahamsen, E., Allen, C., Bickert, T., Hillenbrand, C., Mawbey, E., Peck, V., Svalova, A., & Smith, J. (2021). Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas. Biogeosciences, 18(11), 3485-3504. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3485-2021
• Mg/Ca-Temperature Calibration of Polar Benthic foraminifera species for reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf
  Mawbey, E. M., Hendry, K. H., Greaves, M. J., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Spencer-Jones, C. L., McClymont, E. L., Vadman, K. J., Shevenell, A. E., Jernas, P. E., & Smith, J. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.05.027
• Long-term patterns of hillslope erosion by earthquake-induced landslides shape mountain landscapes
  Wang, J., Howarth, J. D., McClymont, E. L., Densmore, A. L., Fitzsimons, S. J., Croissant, T., Grocke, D. R., West, M. D., Harvey, E. L., 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), Article eaaz6446. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz6446
• Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures
  Sánchez-Montes, M., McClymont, E., Lloyd, J., Müller, J., Cowan, E., 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. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-299-2020
• Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago
  McClymont, E., Ford, H., Ho, S.-L., Tindall, J., Haywood, A., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M., Littler, K., Patterson, M., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A., Risebrobakken, B., Schepper, S. D., Swann, G., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J., Weijst, C. V. D., White, S., …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. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1599-2020
• The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review
  Naafs, B., Inglis, G., Blewett, J., McClymont, E., Lauretano, V., Xie, S., Evershed, R., & Pancost, R. (2019). The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review. Global and Planetary Change, 179, 57-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.05.006
• Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History
  Berg, S., Melles, M., Hermichen, W., McClymont, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc008054
• Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia
  Frith, N., Hilton, R., Howarth, J., Gröcke, D., Fitzsimons, S., Croissant, T., Wang, J., McClymont, E., Dahl, J., & Densmore, A. (2018). Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia. Nature Geoscience, 11(10), 772-776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0216-3
• Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial
  Barlow, N., McClymont, E., Whitehouse, P., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Woodroffe, S., Bentley, M., Callard, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D., Horrocks, J., Lloyd, J., Long, A., Margold, M., Roberts, D., & Sanchez-Montes, M. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 11, 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0195-4
• A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa
  Caley, T., Extier, T., Collins, J., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L., Malaizé, B., Rossignol, L., Souron, A., McClymont, E., Jimenez-Espejo, F., García-Comas, C., Eynaud, F., Martinez, P., Roche, D., Jorry, S., 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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0309-6
• Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond
  Fischer, H., Meissner, K., Mix, A., Abram, N., Austermann, J., Brovkin, V., Capron, E., Colombaroli, D., Daniau, A.-L., Dyez, K., Felis, T., Finkelstein, S., Jaccard, S., McClymont, E., Rovere, A., Sutter, J., Wolff, E., Affolter, S., Bakker, P., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J., …Zhou, L. (2018). Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond. Nature Geoscience, 11, 474-485. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0
• Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma
  Petrick, B., McClymont, E., Littler, K., Rosell-Melé, A., Clarkson, M., Maslin, M., Röhl, U., Shevenell, A., & Pancost, R. (2018). Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.054
• Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean
  Müller, J., Romero, O., Cowan, E. A., McClymont, E. L., Forwick, M., Asahi, H., März, C., Moy, C. M., Suto, I., Mix, A., & Stoner, J. (2018). Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean. Geology, 46(4), 307-310. https://doi.org/10.1130/g39904.1
• Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives
  Inglis, G. N., Naafs, B. D. A., Zheng, Y., McClymont, E. L., Evershed, R. P., & Pancost, R. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.029
• Highly variable Pliocene sea surface conditions in the Norwegian Sea
  Bachem, P. E., Risebrobakken, B., De Schepper, S., & McClymont, E. L. (2017). Highly variable Pliocene sea surface conditions in the Norwegian Sea. Climate of the Past, 13(9), 1153-1168. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1153-2017
• Are spherulitic lacustrine carbonates an expression of large-scale mineral carbonation? A case study from the East Kirkton Limestone, Scotland
  Rogerson, M., Mercedes-Martin, R., Brasier, A., McGill, R., Prior, T., Vonhof, H., Fellows, S., Reijmer, J., McClymont, E., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.007
• Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids
  Naafs, B., Inglis, G., Zheng, Y., Amesbury, M., Biester, H., Bindler, R., Blewett, J., Burrows, M., del Castillo Torres, D., Chambers, F., Cohen, A., Evershed, R., Feakins, S., Gallego-Sala, A., Gandois, L., Gray, D., Hatcher, P., Honorio Coronado, E., Hughes, P., Huguet, A., …Pancost, R. (2017). Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 208, 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.038
• Low-frequency Pliocene climate variability in the eastern Nordic Seas
  Risebrobakken, B., Andersson, C., De Schepper, S., & McClymont, E. (2016). Low-frequency Pliocene climate variability in the eastern Nordic Seas. Paleoceanography, 31(9), 1154-1175. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015pa002918
• Sea surface temperature variability in the Norwegian Sea during the late Pliocene linked to subpolar gyre strength and radiative forcing
  Bachem, P., Risebrobakken, B., & McClymont, E. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.024
• Origin and preservation of bacteriohopanepolyol signatures in Sphagnum peat from Bissendorfer Moor (Germany)
  Talbot, H., McClymont, E., Inglis, G., Evershed, R., & Pancost, R. (2016). Origin and preservation of bacteriohopanepolyol signatures in Sphagnum peat from Bissendorfer Moor (Germany). Organic Geochemistry, 97, 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.04.011
• Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific
  McClymont, E., Elmore, A., Kender, S., Leng, M., Greaves, M., & Elderfield, H. (2016). Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography, 31(6), 895-913. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016pa002954
• Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution
  Kender, S., McClymont, E., Elmore, A., Emanuel, D., Leng, M., & Elderfield, H. (2016). Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications, 7, Article 11970. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11970
• Variation in the diet of killer whales Orcinus orca at Marion Island, Southern Ocean
  Reisinger, R., Gröcke, D., Lübcker, E., McClymont, E., Hoelzel, A., & Nico de Bruyn, P. (2016). Variation in the diet of killer whales Orcinus orca at Marion Island, Southern Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 549, 263-274. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11676
• The δ18O stratigraphy of the Hoxnian lacustrine sequence at Marks Tey, Essex, UK: implications for the climatic structure of MIS 11 in Britain
  Tye, G., Sherriff, J., Candy, I., Coxon, P., Palmer, A., McClymont, E., & Schreve, D. (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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2840
• Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska
  Gulick, S., Jaeger, J., Mix, A., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C., Berbel, G., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Davies, M., Drab, L., Dottori, F., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Ge, S., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L., März, C., …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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512549112
• Antarctic Intermediate Water properties since 400 ka recorded in infaunal (Uvigerina peregrina) and epifaunal (Planulina wuellerstorfi) benthic foraminifera
  Elmore, A., McClymont, E., Elderfield, H., Kender, S., Cook, M., Leng, M., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.013
• Changing surface water conditions for the last 500 ka in the Southeast Atlantic: Implications for variable influences of Agulhas leakage and Benguela upwelling
  Petrick, B., McClymont, E., Marret, F., & van der Meer, M. (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. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015pa002787
• Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water
  Peck, V., Allen, C., Kender, S., McClymont, E., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.002
• Late Pliocene upwelling in the Southern Benguela region
  Petrick, B., McClymont, E., Felder, S., Rueda, G., Leng, M., & Rosell-Melé, A. (2015). Late Pliocene upwelling in the Southern Benguela region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 429, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.042
• A combined biogeochemical and paleobotanical approach to study permafrost environments and past dynamics
  Ronkainen, T., Väliranta, M., McClymont, E., 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2763
• Preferential degradation of polyphenols from Sphagnum - 4-isopropenylphenol as a proxy for past hydrological conditions in Sphagnum-dominated peat
  Schellekens, J., Bindler, R., Martínez-Cortizas, A., McClymont, E., Abbott, G., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.12.003
• Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage
  Roberts, J., McCace, I., McClymont, E., Kender, S., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Matano, R., Hodell, D., & Peck, V. (2014). Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.004
• Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation
  Ronkainen, T., McClymont, E., Tuitilla, E.-S., & Väliranta, M. (2014). Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation. Holocene, 24(7), 828-841. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614530442
• Persistent warmth across the Benguela upwelling system during the Pliocene epoch
  Rosell-Melé, A., Martínez-Garcia, A., & McClymont, E. (2014). Persistent warmth across the Benguela upwelling system during the Pliocene epoch. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 386, 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.041
• Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Tropical Pacific mean state
  Sadekov, A., Ganeshram, R., Pichevin, L., Berdin, R., McClymont, E., Elderfield, H., & Tudhope, A. (2013). Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Tropical Pacific mean state. Nature Communications, 4(11), Article 2692. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3692
• Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition
  McClymont, E., Sosdian, S., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.04.006
• Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE)
  Candy, I., & McClymont, E. (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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2632
• Co-variation of crenarchaeol and branched GDGTs in globally-distributed marine and freshwater sedimentary archives
  Fietz, S., Huguet, C., Bendle, J., Escala, M., Gallacher, C., Herfort, L., Jamieson, R., Martínez-Garcia, A., McClymont, E., Peck, V., Prahl, F., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.05.020
• Silicic acid biogeochemistry in the Gulf of California: Insights from sedimentary Si isotopes
  Pichevin, L., Ganeshram, R., Reynolds, B., Prahl, F., Pedersen, T., Thunell, R., & McClymont, E. (2012). Silicic acid biogeochemistry in the Gulf of California: Insights from sedimentary Si isotopes. Paleoceanography, 27(2), Article PA2201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011pa002237
• Sea-surface temperature records of Termination 1 in the Gulf of California: challenges for seasonal and inter-annual analogues of tropical Pacific climate change
  McClymont, E., Ganeshram, R., Pichevin, L., Talbot, H., van Dongen, B., Thunell, R., Haywood, A., Singarayer, J., & Valdes, P. (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, Article PA2202. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011pa002226
• Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat
  McClymont, E., Bingham, E., Nott, C., Chambers, F., Pancost, R., & Evershed, R. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.004
• Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs
  Pancost, R., McClymont, E., Bingham, E., Roberts, Z., Charman, D., Hornibrook, E., Blundell, A., Chambers, F., Lima, K., & Evershed, R. (2011). Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs. Organic Geochemistry, 42(10), 1279-1287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.003
• 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
  Rosell-Melé, A., Balestra, B., Kornilova, O., McClymont, E., 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1488
• Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southEast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11
  Dickson, A., Leng, M., Maslin, M., Sloane, H., Green, J., Bendle, J., McClymont, E., & Pancost, R. (2010). Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southEast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11. Paleoceanography, 25, Article PA3208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009pa001830
• Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue
  Martínez-Garcia, A., Rosell-Melé, A., McClymont, E., Gersonde, R., & Haug, G. (2010). Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue. Science, 328(5985), 1550-1553. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1184480
• Stable isotopes and organic geochemistry in peat: Tools to investigate past hydrology, temperature and biogeochemistry
  McClymont, E., 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
• Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs
  Bingham, E., McClymont, E., Väliranta, M., Mauquoy, D., Roberts, Z., Chambers, F., Pancost, R., & Evershed, R. (2010). Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs. Organic Geochemistry, 41(2), 214-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.06.010
• Oceanic Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 11 interglacial
  Dickson, A., Beer, C., Demsey, C., Maslin, M., Bendle, J., McClymont, E., & Pancost, R. (2009). Oceanic Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 11 interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 2(6), 428-433. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo527
• The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow: A reply to the comment of Bjorn Roebroek.
  McClymont, E., Mauquoy, D., Yeloff, D., Broekens, P., van Geel, B., Charman, D., Pancost, R., Chambers, F., & Evershed, R. (2009). The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow: A reply to the comment of Bjorn Roebroek. Holocene, 19(7), 1094-1097. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609345086
• Expansion of subarctic water masses in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans and implications for mid-Pleistocene ice sheet growth
  McClymont, E., Rosell-Mele, A., Haug, G., & Lloyd, J. (2008). Expansion of subarctic water masses in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans and implications for mid-Pleistocene ice sheet growth. Paleoceanography, 23, Article PA4214. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008pa001622
• The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow, UK
  McClymont, E., Mauquoy, D., Yeloff, D., Broekens, P., van Geel, B., Charman, D., Pancost, R., Chambers, F., & Evershed, R. (2008). The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow, UK. Holocene, 18(6), 991-1002. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608093537
• Benefits of freeze-drying sediments for the analysis of total chlorins and alkenone concentrations in marine sediments
  McClymont, E., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.01.006
• A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands.
  Charman, D., Blundell, A., & ACCROTELM Members - including McClymont, E. (2006). A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22, 209-221
• Alkenone and coccolith records of the Mid-Pleistocene in the south-east Atlantic: Implications for the UK37' index and south African climate
  McClymont, E., Rosell-Melé, A., Giraudeau, J., Pierre, C., & Lloyd, J. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.06.024
• Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition
  McClymont, E., & Rosell-Melé, A. (2005). Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Geology, 33(5), 389-392. https://doi.org/10.1130/g21292.1

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