Staff profile

2021 - present: Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences

 

2017 - 2021: PhD student at Durham University (IAPETUS DTP Studentship)

PhD Title - Tracking the millennial-scale glacial palaeoceanography of the Baltic Sea Basin and Western Greenland: Insight from osmium isotopes.

 

2013 - 2017: MSci Natural Sciences with Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Geography at Durham University, (First Class honours)

• Geochemistry
• Glaciology
• Oceanography
• Quaternary climate

Journal Article

• Gong, D., Liu, Z., Zhou, C., Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., He, W., & Qin, Z. (2024). Carboniferous–Permian interglacial warming and volcanism temporally linked to the world's oldest alkaline lake deposit of the Fengcheng Formation, NW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 654, Article 112441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112441
• Ownsworth, E., Moros, M., Lloyd, J., Bennike, O., Jensen, J. B., Blanz, T., & Selby, D. (2024). Multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Skagerrak from the Lateglacial to Middle Holocene. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 53(3), 360-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12652
• Lim, D., Xu, Z., Kim, J., Wang, W., Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Yin, R., & Chang, T. (2024). Enhanced volcanic activity and long-term warmth in the middle Eocene revealed by mercury and osmium isotopes from IODP Expedition 369 Site U1514. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 627, Article 118565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118565
• Percival, L., Ownsworth, E., Robinson, S., Selby, D., Goderis, S., & Claeys, P. (2023). Valanginian climate cooling and environmental change driven by Paraná-Etendeka basalt erosion. Geology, 51(8), 753-757. https://doi.org/10.1130/g51202.1
• Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Lloyd, J., Knutz, P., Szidat, S., Andrews, J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2023). Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108082
• Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Ottley, C. J., Unsworth, E., Raab, A., Feldmann, J., Sproson, A. D., Kuroda, J., Faidutti, C., & Bücker, P. (2019). Tracing the natural and anthropogenic influence on the trace elemental chemistry of estuarine macroalgae and the implications for human consumption. Science of the Total Environment, 685, 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.263