Biography:
I am a first year PhD student funded by NERC-DTP looking at how calcification works in molluscs and how costly shell production is. Before moving to Cambridge for my PhD, I completed a BSc degree in Geosciences and an MSc in Marine Geosciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre of Ocean Research, Germany. For my Master's thesis, I worked on analysing boron isotopes in individual foraminifera to obtain seasonal variability patterns.
Research themes
- Palaeobiology and Palaeoecology :
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Biogeochemistry, Ecology
Research Interests
My PhD is a joint project between the Earth Sciences Department and the British Antarctic Survey. It is focused on constraining the metabolic costs of shell production and maintenance in marine calcifiers and how these costs change in a changing environment (i.e., change in pH, temperature and salinity).
KeywordsGeochemistry ; microstructure |
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Collaborators
Collaborators outside this directory
- Professor Lloyd Peck - British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
Key Publications
2020
Mayk, Dennis, Fietzke, Jan, Anagnostou, Eleni, Paytan, Adina. (2020) LA-MC-ICP-MS study of boron isotopes in individual planktonic foraminifera: A novel approach to obtain seasonal variability patterns. Chemical Geology, 531. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119351