Dr James Barnet

Associate Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3688

Email

jsb24@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am a paleoceanographer who specialises in the application of foraminiferal isotopic (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O, δ¹¹B) and trace element (Mg/Ca, B/Ca) proxies to understand the evolution of Earth's climate and carbon cycle in the geological past. I have acquired a particular interest and expertise in Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and early Paleogene (Paleocene-Eocene) climate change and carbon-cycling.

I am working with Dr James Rae within the St Andrews Isotope Group (STAiG). My current active project involves creating orbital-resolution trace element and δ¹¹B records spanning the past 100 million years from multiple deep-ocean sediment cores recovered from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans. I am also co-supervising two Masters projects with Prof. Dick Kroon focused on applying trace element proxies at higher resolution to understand climate change and ocean acidification during the late Maastrichtian warming event and early Paleocene Dan-C2 event.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Can a 62 million-year-old ‘hyperthermal’ event hold the clues to our uncertain future climate?

  Barnet, J. S. K., 26 Nov 2024, In: Geology Today. 40, 6, p. 228-235 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Geological evolution of the Hampshire Basin (southern England) during a global climate transition from ‘hothouse’ to ‘coolhouse’ in the Palaeogene

  Barnet, J. S. K., 29 Mar 2023, In: Geology Today. 39, 2, p. 54-61 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Warming, acidification, and calcification feedback during the first hyperthermal of the Cenozoic—The Latest Danian Event

  Harbich, M., Barnet, J. S. K., Rae, J. W. B. & Kroon, D., 7 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geology. Early View, 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry

  Meckler, A. N., Sexton, P. F., Piasecki, A. M., Leutert, T. J., Marquardt, J., Ziegler, M., Agterhuis, T., Lourens, L. J., Rae, J. W. B., Barnet, J., Tripati, A. & Bernasconi, S. M., 1 Jul 2022, In: Science. 377, 6601, p. 86-90 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262)

  Arreguín-Rodríguez, G. J., Barnet, J. S. K., Leng, M. J., Littler, K., Kroon, D., Schmidt, D., Thomas, E. & Alegret, L., 15 Jun 2021, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 572, 110410.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Resource potential of one of Earth's final remaining frontiers: the Siberian Platform

  Steiner, B. M. & Barnet, J. S. K., 26 Jan 2021, In: Geology Today. 37, 1, p. 18-22 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Unravelling the complex geological evolution of one of Earth's final remaining frontiers: East Siberia

  Barnet, J. S. K. & Steiner, B. M., 26 Jan 2021, In: Geology Today. 37, 1, p. 12-17 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years

  Westerhold, T., Marwan, N., Drury, A. J., Liebrand, D., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Barnet, J. S. K., Bohaty, S. M., De Vleeschouwer, D., Florindo, F., Frederichs, T., Hodell, D. A., Holbourn, A. E., Kroon, D., Lauretano, V., Littler, K., Lourens, L. J., Lyle, M., Pälike, H. & Röhl, U. & 4 others, Tian, J., Wilkens, R. H., Wilson, P. A. & Zachos, J. C., 11 Sept 2020, In: Science. 369, 6509, p. 1383-1387 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Coupled evolution of temperature and carbonate chemistry during the Paleocene-Eocene; new trace element records from the low latitude Indian Ocean

  Barnet, J. S. K., Harper, D. T., LeVay, L. J., Edgar, K. M., Henehan, M. J., Babila, T. L., Ullmann, C., Leng, M. J., Kroon, D., Zachos, J. C. & Littler, K., 1 Sept 2020, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 545, 15 p., 116414.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A high‐fidelity benthic stable isotope record of Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene climate change and carbon‐cycling

  Barnet, J. S. B., Littler, K., Westerhold, T., Kroon, D., Leng, M. J., Bailey, I., Röhl, U. & Zachos, J. C., 14 May 2019, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 34, 4, p. 672-691 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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