Martha Gibson

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Northumbria working on Miocene climate reconstructions and fungal biogeography.

My expertise lies in palaeobotanical-based climate modelling, evaporite palynology, Palaeozoic Euramerican palynology and palaeobotany of the North Sea basin and adjacent areas, and wall ultrastructure analysis of gymnosperm pollen grains .

ancient pollen

We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown will involve

But what will the climate crisis mean for the relatively mild UK? To find out, we reconstructed the climate at a specific point in the distant past, an era when volcanoes had pumped about as much carbon into the atmosphere as exists today.

February 11, 2022