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Personal profile
Research interests
My research interests are to document and understand the processes that govern climate on time scales ranging from the modern day back through hundreds of thousands of years. To do this research I use geochemical techniques, with an emphasis on radioactive elements including uranium series isotopes and radiocarbon. These elements are particularly valuable as they have a wide range of decay rates and geochemical properties and can be analysed in geologic materials such as corals, marine sediments and seawater.
Through a combination of field work (see the cruise blog link for an example) and lab work (see lab website link) I have been tackling questions relating to:
- Timing of Pleistocene climate change events
- Palaeoclimate reconstructions
- Deep-sea coral paleo-biogeography
- Impact of weathering on the ocean and climate
- Biomineralization
- Development of new geochemical proxies for past climate conditions
- Chemical tracers of ocean circulation
Research Groups and Themes
- Cabot Institute Water Research
- Cabot Institute Food Security Research
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
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Research output
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The Southern Ocean’s Role in Carbon Exchange During the Last Deglaciation
Burke, A. & Robinson, L., Feb 2012, In: Science. 335, 6068, p. 557 - 461Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
264 Citations (Scopus) -
Abrupt changes in high-latitude nutrient supply to the Atlantic during the last glacial cycle
Hendry, K., Robinson, L., Meredith, M. P., Mulitza, S., Chiessi, C. M. & Arz, H., 2012, In: Geology. 40, 2, p. 123 - 126Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
34 Citations (Scopus) -
Accumulation of remineralised carbon and nutrients in the mid-depth Atlantic during Heinrich Stadial 1 and the Younger Dryas
Stewart, J. A., Robinson, L. F., Rae, J. W. B., Pratt, N., Chen, T., Ferreira, M. L. D. C., Burke, A., Li, T. & van de Flierdt, T., 1 Apr 2026, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 679, 13 p., 119866.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 8 Finished
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A deep-sea perspective on coral resilience in a changing world
Robinson, L. F. (Principal Investigator) & Hendy, E. (Principal Investigator)
9/01/23 → 8/01/26
Project: Research
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Exploring preferential 234U dissolution as a weathering tracer using the glacial tills
Robinson, L. F. (Principal Investigator)
31/03/20 → 30/03/22
Project: Research
Datasets
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Thorium concentrations in seawater and sediments at the West Greenland margin, collected during cruise DY081, 2017
Rowland, G. (Creator), Rowland, G. H. (Contributor), Hendry, K. (Contributor), Robinson, L. F. (Contributor), Annett, A. (Contributor), Ng, H. C. (Contributor), Zhou, Y. (Contributor), mcmanus, J. (Contributor), Sherrell, R. (Contributor), Brearley, A. (Contributor) & Li, T. (Contributor), Zenodo, Feb 2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14822900, https://zenodo.org/records/14822900
Dataset
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Drake Passage deep-sea coral U-Th and 14C data for Southern Ocean corals
Li, T. (Contributor), Chen, T. (Creator), Robinson, L. (Creator), Burke, A. (Contributor), Spooner, P. (Creator), Li, T. (Contributor), Chen, T. (Creator), Robinson, L. (Contributor), Robinson, L. (Contributor), Burke, A. (Contributor) & Spooner, P. (Creator), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 2020
DOI: 10.5285/72ee3175-0a64-43b0-9308-b488979a59e9, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01213
Dataset
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Trace element and boron isotopic composition of Drake Passage deep-sea corals
Stewart, J. (Creator), Rae, J. (Creator), Spooner, P. (Creator), Robinson, L. (Creator), Littley, E. (Contributor), Cole, C. (Contributor), Stewart, J. (Contributor), Rae, J. (Creator), Spooner, P. (Creator), Robinson, L. (Contributor), Robinson, L. (Contributor), Littley, E. (Contributor) & Cole, C. (Contributor), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 2020
DOI: 10.5285/ee141bb8-ecc2-4305-9978-05fe9521f10a, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01214
Dataset
Activities
- 1 Fellowship awarded competitively
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ERC Starting Grant - Reconstructing abrupt Changes in Chemistry and Circulation of the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for global Climate and deep-water Habitats.
Robinson, L. F. (Recipient)
1 Oct 2011 → 1 Oct 2016Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively