{"id":265,"date":"2016-06-04T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldandpalaeo.wordpress.com\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2020-03-26T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:46:46","slug":"dr-matthew-pound","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/dr-matthew-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Matthew Pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/matt-pound.png\" alt=\"Matt Pound\" width=\"355\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I am interested in how climates and environments have changed through geological time. Focussing on the last 65 million years I use fossilised remains of plants, fungi and plankton to reconstruct the environments these organisms would have inhabited and the ambient climate during their lifetimes. Creating large datasets of fossil information I produce global maps of vegetation, climate, soil and lake distributions that have been incorporated into climate model studies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">My current research is looking at the Eocene &#8211; Oligocene Transition, when Antarctic ice sheets first grew, and the Miocene epoch with its warmer than modern global climate. My current field sites are Cyprus and Derbyshire, UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=irkPYswAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-staff\/p\/matthew-pound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am interested in how climates and environments have changed through geological time. Focussing on the last 65 million years I use fossilised remains of plants, fungi and plankton to reconstruct the environments these organisms would have inhabited and the ambient climate during their lifetimes. Creating large datasets of fossil information I produce global maps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/dr-matthew-pound\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Matthew Pound&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}