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Dr Sev Kender

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) Grant BUS002c, 2023. £2.47 Million to Co-Investigator Sev Kender (£5.69 Million total). Entrepreneurial Culture (Geotracer Facility and Environmental Monitoring).

• NERC NEIF Facility Grant 2586.1022, 2022, £18,900. Principal Investigator. Sediment provenance and hydrological cycle impacts on biota in Australia during Oceanic Anoxic Events.

• NERC NEIF Facility Grant 2398.0421, 2021, £39,900. Principal Investigator. Oceanographic and biotic changes in Australia during Oceanic Anoxic Events.

• NERC NEIF Facility Grant 2258.0420, 2020, £18,900. Principal Investigator. Understanding the causes and consequences of palaeoenvironmental change in the high latitudes during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event.

• Leverhulme Fellowship, 2020, £43,000. Principal Investigator. Assessing the long term stability of retreating Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.

• ERC Synergy Grant, 2019, €11.75 Million. Co-Investigator. Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity – SEACHANGE.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1915-0619, 2019, £30,000. Principal Investigator. Oceanographic and vegetation changes across the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in NW Europe and the Arctic.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1914-0619, 2019, £7,700. Principal Investigator. Deep sea biotic responses during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 2 in the southern high latitudes.

• Royal Society Research Grant RGS\R2\180441, 2019, £19,919. Principal Investigator. The impact of mass volcanism on climate and biota during past rapid CO2 release events.

• Collaborative Antarctic Science Scheme grant CASS-147, 2018, ca. £20,000 (approximate cost to take part in the Antarctic expedition). Principal Investigator. Characterisation of modern foraminifera and ostracods of Ryder Bay, Marian Cove and Borgen Bay (Antarctic Peninsula), and reconstruction of palaeoclimatic changes over the Holocene.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1856-1118, 2018, £32,000. Principal Investigator. Investigating Paleogene strata from the tropical low-latitudes; using geochemistry and biostratigraphy to reveal new insights into the impacts of past global warming events.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1740-0517, 2017, £30,500. Co-Investigator. Reconstructing upwelling, nutrient supply, and the efficiency of the biological pump in the Bering Sea since the middle Pleistocene, using diatom silicon isotope records.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1413-1113, 2016, £30,000. Principal Investigator. Investigating sea ice and Bering Sea palaeoceanography during the middle Pleistocene global climatic shift.

• Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund, 2016, £25,750. Co-Investigator.  Quantifying Earth System Sensitivity in a high-CO2 world.

• NERC Directed Grant NE/N004795/1, 2015, £67,570. Principal Investigator. Miocene development of the Asian monsoon and oceanographic response in the Bay of Bengal.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant IP-1547-0515, 2015, £39,000. Principal Investigator. North Sea Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maximum: carbon release rates and environmental impacts.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant, 2014, £55,750. Co-Investigator. Determining if changes in the position of the Southern Westerly Wind belt impact the South.

• NERC Directed Grant NE/M017370/1, 2014, £37,926. Principal Investigator. IODP Expedition 351, Philippine Sea: Neogene NW Pacific Deep Water Circulation.

• National Biomolecular Analytical Facility Grant, 2014, £5,500. Principal Investigator. Southern Ocean climate since the Last Glacial Maximum: Using novel ancient DNA and micropalaeontology techniques to constrain foraminiferal diversity changes.

• NERC NIGFSC Facility Grant, 2014, £44,000. Principal Investigator. Pliocene–Pleistocene Paleoceanography and Climate History of the Bering Sea – IODP Expedition 323.