We investigate the drivers and impacts of climate change, as well as studying how and why changes occur in the climate system.

Climate change affects every aspect of the global environment we live in. Rising temperatures, sea level rise, drought, flooding, ecosystem shifts, and extreme weather events are all hallmarks of 21st Century climate change which communities are experiencing right now. Our changing environment impacts many of the resources and services which we most value as a society: transportation, wildlife, food agriculture, ecosystems, water, energy, and human health.

Bringing together a diverse team of collaborative and interdisciplinary scientists to tackle the biggest questions and problems surrounding climate change, we seek solutions to the climate crisis. We work across three main domains:

• fundamental observations and understanding of changes in the climate system, how and why climate change occurs or has done so in the past
• the physical and human-influenced drivers that cause climate change
• the impacts of changing climate including climate-change effects on the planet and on humans.

Our collective strength is in our ability to view and understand climate change across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Through our research we employ skills in resolving the palaeoclimatological record of the planet and the geomorphological history of the Earth surface. We make key historical and modern observations, and feed data to constrain and make future projections of changes in the Earth System.

Our research spans multiple themes including:

• generating multi-proxy records of past climate change
• investigating changes in the cryosphere and sea-level rise impacts
• the representation of key processes (e.g. dust and erosion, surface and groundwater hydrology) in land surface models
• the sensitivity of water resources to a changing climate
• climate risk and resilience.

It is our ultimate goal that our research informs policy and planning, helping shape the global response to climate change, at local levels (e.g. One Planet Cardiff) and on the global stage (IPCC).