Through the Integrated Early Jurassic Timescale and Earth System project (JET), a multi-faceted, international programme of research on the functioning of the Earth system, new data from the
old Mochras core will be combined with data from a new core to provide an understanding of global change and quantify the roles of tectonic, palaeoceanographic, and astronomical forcing on
hyperthermal (and hypothermal) events at this key juncture in Earth history.