Dr Sev Kender

Associate Professor of Earth Sciences

Research Group Website

I am a palaeoceanographer interested in the changes to Earth's climate and oceanography through the Phanerozoic, how these changes have been influenced by orbital, tectonic and volcanic variations, and how these impacted marine and terrestrial life. My research has largely focussed on microfossil, isotopic, and sedimentological evidence preserved in marine sediment cores to understand environmental and climatic changes across major climate transitions. These include carbon isotope excursions and OCEs from the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Palaeogene, ice sheet expansions during the Eocene-Oligocene transition, the middle Miocene Climate Transition, the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, and Antarctic environmental changes since the de-glacial. I carry out my research using established and novel environmental proxies which include: foraminiferal stable isotopes and trace metals; sediment major elements and mercury; radiogenic neodymium isotopes of marine sediment and fish teeth; organic biomarkers.

2017–to date Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter

2014–2017 Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, Department of Geography
2013–2014 Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Leicester, Department of Geology
2008–2013 Palaeoceanographer/Team Leader, British Geological Survey
2004–2007 PhD Micropalaeontology and Palaeoceanography, University College London
2002–2003 MSc Micropalaeontology, University College London
1998–2001 BSc Geology, University of Leicester

Professional Memberships

Honorary Research Associate of the British Geological Survey

Editor of the Journal of Micropalaeontology

NERC Peer Review College
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy