Publications

Ivanovic, R.F.; Flecker, R.; Gutjahr, M.; Valdes, P.J. (2013) First Nd isotope record of Mediterranean-Atlantic water exchange through the Moroccan Rifian Corridor during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 368, 163-174. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.010.

Ivanovic, R.F.; Valdes, P.J.; Gregoire, L.J.; Flecker, R.; Gutjahr, M. (2013) Sensitivity of modern climate to the presence, strength and salinity of Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange in a global General Circulation Model. Climate Dynamics, available Online First. doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1680-5.

Ivanovic, R.F.; Valdes, P.J.; Flecker, R.; Gregoire, L.J.; Gutjahr, M. (2013) The parameterisation of Mediterranean–Atlantic water exchange in the Hadley Centre model HadCM3, and its effect on modelled North Atlantic climate. Ocean Modelling, 62, 11-16. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.11.002.

Ivanovic, R.F. Did Mediterranean Outflow Water affect global climate during the Messinian? (2012) PhD Thesis, Univeristy of Bristol, UK. [pdf]

Dunkley-Jones. T.; Ivanovic, R.F.; Ridgwell, A.; Lunt, D.; Maslin, M. A.; Valdes, P. J. & Flecker, R. (2010) Methane Hydrate Instability: A View from the Palaeogene. In McGuire, B. and Maslin, M. A. (eds), Climate Forcing of Geologic and Geomorphological Hazards. Wiley-Blackwell (2013). doi:10.1002/9781118482698.ch12, ISBN 9780470658659.

Ivanovic, R.F. & Freer, J.E. (2009) Science versus politics: truth and uncertainty in predictive modelling, Hydrological Processes, 23(17), 2549-2554. doi:10.1002/hyp.7406.

Ivanovic, R.F.; Valdes, P.J.; Flecker, R.; Gutjahr, M. (submitted, under revision) Modeling global-scale climate impacts of the late Miocene Messinian Salinity Crisis. Paleoceanography.

Selected Oral Presentations

Did Mediterranean Outflow Water affect global climate during the Messinian Salinity Crisis?
Invited seminar given at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA (Dec 2012).
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Did Mediterranean Outflow Water affect global climate during the Messinian Salinity Crisis?
Invited oral presentation given at the Univeristy of Leeds, Leeds, UK (Nov 2012).
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Can Nd tell us about Mediterranean Outflow Water?
Presented at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry conference, Montreal, Canada (June 2012).
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North Atlantic warmth: Does it matter how we model Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange?
Presented at the Paleo-Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP), Crewe, UK (May 2012).
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Did closure of the Mediterranean affect global climate?
Presented at the American Geophyscial Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (Dec 2011).
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Mission au Maroc, or 'There and Back Again'.
Presented to the BRIDGE research group, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK (Oct 2011).
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How important is the Mediterranean-Atlantic gateway for global climate?
Invited seminar given at the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Sciences and technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan (Oct 2011).
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Can Nd isotopes tell us about the Messinian Salinity Crisis?
Presented at the Joint RCMNS-RCANS Interim Colloquium, Salamanca, Spain (Sept 2011).
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Finding the cause & consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Invited seminar given at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, UK (Sept 2011).
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Did the Messinian Salinity Crisis affect global climate?
Presented at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (Apr 2011).
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Gateway Flows and Global Climate: Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange.
Presented to the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK (Oct 2010).
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Miocene Milieu: 'Musings on the Messinian Salinity Crisis'.
Presented at the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Urbino, Italy (July 2010).
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The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange and Global Thermohaline Circulation.
Presented to the BRIDGE research group, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK (Feb 2010).
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Poster Presentations

Is d180 variability correlated with ENSO?
Presented at the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Open Science Meeting, Goa, India (Feb 2013)
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Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange: Can Nd isotopes tell us about the Messinian Salinity Crisis?
Presented at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria (Apr 2011)
[Poster] [Abstract]

Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic water exchange and global thermohaline circulation during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Presented at the Cioppino Conference, Urbino, Italy (July 2010).
[Poster] [Abstract]

Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange and global thermohaline circulation during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: A combined model-data approach.
Presented at the cross-departmental Geo-Poster Session, University of Bristol, UK (Mar 2010).
[Poster]

Outreach Presentations

The Great Environment Debate: The Science of Climate Change
A brief presentation to sixth form students (aged 16-18 years old) from a variety of secondary schools local to Bristol. The presentation was on the science of climate change (Nov 2012).
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G-20-S Summit: Solving climate change.
A presentation to sixth form students (aged 16-18 years old) from a variety of Bristol (UK) secondary schools. The presentation was on climate change - identifying the problems and finding the solutions - and was part of the Access to Bristol scheme (Feb 2010).
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Climate Change: Challenging the Way We Think.
A presentation to sixth form students (aged 16-18 years old) at Clifton College, Bristol, UK. the presentation was on research in geography and academia (Oct 2010) and was apparently enjoyed very much.
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Climate Change, Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise.
A presentation to primary school children (aged 8-12 years old) at Cabot Primary School, Bristol, UK (Feb 2010).
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