Dr Rachael Rhodes
- Assistant Professor
- Honorary Researcher, British Antarctic Survey
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- 09/2019- present Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 01-08/2019 Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK.
- 2015–2018 Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. Horizon 2020 Marie Sklowdowka-Curie Individual Fellowship:"Sea ice across Dansgaard-Oeschger events in Greenland”. Mentor: Prof. Eric Wolff
- 06-09/2015 Ice Core Laboratory Analyst, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.
- 2011-2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA. Supervisor: Prof. Edward J. Brook
- 2012 Ph.D. Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Thesis title: Insights into Late Holocene climate of the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica, from high resolution ice core chemistry. Supervisors: Dr. Nancy A.N. Bertler and Prof. Joel A. Baker
- 2007 MGeol (Hons) Environmental Geology (International) (1st class), University of Leeds, UK
Research
ice cores; abrupt climate change; methane biogeochemistry; ice core chemistry; sea ice reconstructions; continuous ice core gas measurement; chemical transport modelling
Current projects:
Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice - search for Antarctica's oldest continuous ice core to solve the riddle of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
FETCH4 - Fate, Emissions and Transport of Methane in past and modern atmospheres, including a new Greenland SE Dome drilling.
REWIND (formerly SIWHA) - Sea Ice and Westerly winds during the Holocene in coastal Antarctica, to better constrain oceanic CO2 uptake.
WACSWAIN - Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, currently investigating ice sheets dynamics in glacial period using Nd-Sr isotopes for dust provenance.
PhD Students
Ivo Strawson, completed 2024. Now at Oregon State University
Qinggang Gao (co-supervisor, lead: Louise Sime, BAS), completed 2024. Now at University of Melbourne
Piers Larkman (co-supervisor, lead: Pascal Bohleber, AWI). awaiting viva 2024. Now at AWI
Rachel Diamond (co-supervisor, lead: Louise Sime, BAS), current
Megan Melpas (co-supervisor, lead: Markus Frey, BAS), current
Masters Students
Yvan Bollet (2021), Cian McAuley (2021), Quan Gan (2023, co-supervisor, lead: Francesco Muscitiello, Geography) Jack Saville (2023), Daniel Clarke (2024), Ryan Simpson (current)