Sea Level in the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period: Unveiling Earth's mantle Effects. This project aims to revise our understanding of sea-level change in the mid-Pliocene warm period, a period that closely mi

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Sea Level in the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period: Unveiling Earth's mantle Effects. This project aims to revise our understanding of sea-level change in the mid-Pliocene warm period, a period that closely mirrors the high greenhouse gas levels we anticipate in the coming decades, by looking into solid-Earth contributions. It does so by utilising innovative variational data-assimilation methods that are developed for Geosciences, which enable the assimilation of various observational datasets into models, to reconstruct Earth’s mantle evolution. By connecting mid-Pliocene’s surface movement to other geological observables of various periods, we are able to generate and validate a benchmark for future studies of global sea-level rise and climate change.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 3706 - Geophysics. Lead: Dr Siavash Ghelichkhan