Dr Alexander W. Tudhope
 

[Research Interests] [Collaborators] [Projects] [Recent Publications
 

University of Edinburgh
Phone: + 44 (0)131 650 8508
           + 44 (0)131 650 4842
Fax:    + 44 (0)131 668 3184
Email: sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk
School of GeoSciences,
Grant Institute,
University of Edinburgh,
Kings Buildings,
West Mains Road,
Edinburgh EH9 3JW.
Scotland, U.K.

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Research Interests
My current research interests include 
  1. Palaeoclimatology/palaeoceanography in general
  2. Controls on variability in the El Niño Southern Oscillation 
  3. Tropical climate variability on annual to glacial-interglacial timescales
  4. Annually-banded corals as environmental recorders ('coral-palaeoclimatology')
  5. Science and technology of submerged coral drilling http://www.marine.usf.edu/coraldrilling/coralhome.html
  6. Processes of reef growth

Coring a massive Porites coral in Papua New Guinea.


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Research Collaborators:
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban 
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville
Department of Geological Sciences, University California Santa Barbara
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC


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Current Projects:
  1. Variability in the El Niño Southern Oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle from analysis of living and fossil corals in Papua New Guinea (NERC funded)
  2. ENSO and decadal climate variability over the past 250 years in the central Pacific from analysis of annually-banded massive corals (NERC funded)
  3. Coral community variation and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the mid-Holocene, Papua New Guinea (NSF funded through John Pandolfi, Smithsonian Institution)

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Selected Recent References:
  1. Tudhope, A.W., Chilcott, C.P., McCulloch, M.T., Cook, E.R., Chappell, J., Ellam, R.M., Lea, D.W., Lough, J.M., Shimmield, G.B., (2001). Variability in the El Nino-Southern oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle. Science, 291, 1511-1517.  Full text  Abstract Data.
  2. Wild, F.J., Jones, A.C., and Tudhope, A.W.  2000, Investigation of luminescent banding in solid coral:  the contribution of phosphorescence.  Coral Reefs, 19, 132-140.
  3. Tudhope, A.W., Buddemeier, R.W., Chilcott, C.P., Berryman, K.R., Fautin, D.G., Jebb, M., Lipps, J.H., Pearce, R.G., Scoffin, T.P., and Shimmield, G.B., 2000. Alternating seismic uplift and subsidence in the late Holocene at Madang, Papua New Guinea: Evidence from raised reefs.  Jour. Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 105, (B6), 13797-13807
  4. McCulloch, M.T., Tudhope, A.W., Esat, T.M., Mortimer, G.E., Chappell, J., Pillans, B., Chivas, A.R., and Omura, A., 1999. Coral record of equatorial sea-surface temperatures during the penultimate deglaciation at Huon Peninsula.  Science, 283, 202-204.
  5. Guzmán, H.M., and Tudhope, A.W., 1998.  Seasonal variations in skeletal extension rate and stable isotopic (13C/12C and 18O/16O) composition in response to several environmental variables in the Caribbean reef coral Siderastrea siderea.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 166, 109-118
  6. Klein, R.,  Tudhope, A.W., Chilcott, C.P., Pätzold, J., Abdulkarim, Z., Fine, M., Fallick, A.E., and Loya, Y.  1997.  Evaluating southern Red Sea corals as a proxy record for the Asian monsoon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 148, 381-394.
  7. Matthews, B.J.H., Jones, A.C., Theodorou, N.K., and Tudhope, A.W.  1996. Excitation-emission-matrix fluorescence spectroscopy applied to humic acid bands in coral reefs.  Marine Chemistry, 55, 317-332.30. 
  8. Tudhope, A.W., Lea, D.W., Shimmield, G.B., Chilcott, C.P. and Head, S., 1996. Monsoon climate and Arabian Sea coastal upwelling recorded in massive corals from southern Oman.  Palaios, 11, 347-361.29. 
  9. Allison, N., Tudhope, A.W., and Fallick, A.E.  1996.  A study of the factors influencing the stable carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of Porites lutea coral skeletons, Phuket, South Thailand. Coral Reefs, 15, 43-57.28. 
  10. Tudhope, A.W., Shimmield, G.B., Chilcott, C.P., Jebb, M., Fallick, A.E., & Dalgleish, A.N., 1995. Recent changes in climate in the far western equatorial Pacific and their relationship to the Southern Oscillation; oxygen isotope records from massive corals, Papua New Guinea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 136-34, 575-590.
For reprints or further information contact: sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk.

Last Updated: Wednesday  20th February  2002, by ST