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Position | Departmental responsibilities | Research Interests | Publications | Further information

Position

Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences

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Departmental responsibilities

Teaching: Year 1 - Environmental Systems and Cycles. Year 3 – Oceanography and Micropaleontology. Year 4 and MSc in Earth System Science – Frontiers in Earth Science and Stable Isotopes in Earth Systems Science.

Admin: Departmental Exams Officer; Director of Research.

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Research Interests

The application of Isotope geochemistry to the study of a diverse range of questions in Earth Science, mainly concerning the past evolution of the surface Earth. Current broad directions include:

• the links between continental weathering, ocean chemistry and climate;
• the past oxygenation state of the oceans - from the Holocene Mediterranean to the Archean global ocean;
• tracking past ocean circulation and heat transport using radiogenic isotopes;
• development of transition metal isotope systems as monitors of past trace element nutrient cycling in the ancient ocean

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Publications

Link to Prof Derek Vance on the University's on-line database of research outputs (opens in a new window)

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Further information

Prof Derek Vance is a member of the Geochemistry Research Group at Bristol, as well as of the BIG (Bristol Isotope Group)