Colin Goldblatt, University of Victoria

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Victoria profile.

Latest papers

An early origin of oxygenic photosynthesis delays the Great Oxidation.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
Thermal performance of ecosystems: Modeling how physiological responses to temperature scale up in communities.
Journal of theoretical biology · 2024
The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth's Habitability.
Geophysical research letters · 2022 · senior author

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Climate, past, present, and future: water, clouds, and aerosols
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$58,000
Developing methods and tools for the science applications of the new Canadian satellite high-altitude aerosols, water vapour and clouds (HAWC)
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$234,455
University of Victoria Climate Modelling Laboratory: Supercomputing for Climate Science in the Big Data era
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$146,214

All 5 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

An early origin of oxygenic photosynthesis delays the Great Oxidation.

Horne JE, Goldblatt C, Kump L

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0094 PMID: 40770997

02

Thermal performance of ecosystems: Modeling how physiological responses to temperature scale up in communities.

Febvre C, Goldblatt C, El-Sabaawi R

Journal of theoretical biology2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111792 PMID: 38513968

03

The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth's Habitability.

Olson S, Jansen MF, Abbot DS, Halevy I, Goldblatt C

Geophysical research letters2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1029/2021gl095748 PMID: 35864818

04

Marine oxygen production and open water supported an active nitrogen cycle during the Marinoan Snowball Earth.

Johnson BW, Poulton SW, Goldblatt C

Nature communications2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01453-z PMID: 29105659

05

The Astrobiology Primer v2.0.

Domagal-Goldman SD, Wright KE, Adamala K, Arina de la Rubia L, Bond J, Dartnell LR, Goldman AD, Lynch K, Naud ME, Paulino-Lima IG, Singer K, Walther-Antonio M, Abrevaya XC, Anderson R, Arney G, Atri D, Azúa-Bustos A, Bowman JS, Brazelton WJ, Brennecka GA, Carns R, Chopra A, Colangelo-Lillis J, Crockett CJ, DeMarines J, Frank EA, Frantz C, de la Fuente E, Galante D, Glass J, Gleeson D, Glein CR, Goldblatt C, Horak R, Horodyskyj L, Kaçar B, Kereszturi A, Knowles E, Mayeur P, McGlynn S, Miguel Y, Montgomery M, Neish C, Noack L, Rugheimer S, Stüeken EE, Tamez-Hidalgo P, Imari Walker S, Wong T

Astrobiology2016

DOI: 10.1089/ast.2015.1460 PMID: 27532777

06

Comment on "Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations".

Goldblatt C

Science (New York, N.Y.)2016First author

DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6976 PMID: 27387943

07

Habitability of waterworlds: runaway greenhouses, atmospheric expansion, and multiple climate states of pure water atmospheres.

Goldblatt C

Astrobiology2015First author

DOI: 10.1089/ast.2014.1268 PMID: 25984919

08

The runaway greenhouse: implications for future climate change, geoengineering and planetary atmospheres.

Goldblatt C, Watson AJ

Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2012First author

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0004 PMID: 22869797

Climate, past, present, and future: water, clouds, and aerosols

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Goldblatt, Colin

Keywords: climate modelling; clouds; water vapour; palaeoclimate; remote sensing; aerosols; geoengineering

$58,000

Developing methods and tools for the science applications of the new Canadian satellite high-altitude aerosols, water vapour and clouds (HAWC)

Co-investigatorNSERC2024Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Huang, Yi Y

Keywords: aerosol; climate change; climate feedback; climate modelling; cloud; earth observing satellite; extreme weather; radiative forcing; water vapour; weather prediction

$234,455

University of Victoria Climate Modelling Laboratory: Supercomputing for Climate Science in the Big Data era

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Goldblatt, Colin

$146,214

Atmospheric evolution: from early Earth to exoplanets

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Goldblatt, Colin

Keywords: Astrobiology; Atmospheric evolution; Climate change; Earth system science; Exoplanets; Geobiology; Geochemistry; Palaeoclimate; Precambrian Earth; Terrestrial planets

$258,000

Evolution of the atmospheres of Earth and Earth-like planets

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Goldblatt, Colin

$222,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Rana El-Sabaawi

Biology

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Goldblatt, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "An early origin of oxygenic photosynthesis delays the Great Oxidation." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Climate, past, present, and future: water, clouds, and aerosols" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]