Dr Thomas Bauska
- Royal Society University Research Fellow
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- Royal Society University Research Fellow, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK (2019-present)
- Postdoc, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2015-2018)
- Postdoc, CEOAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (2014-2015)
- Ph.D., Geology with minor in Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA (2013)
- B.S., Geophysical Sciences with honors, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2007)
Research
The overarching goal of my research is to use the climate and carbon cycle variability of the past to inform projections of the future. I reconstruct past changes in the carbon cycle by measuring the concentration and isotopic composition of greenhouse gases trapped in polar ice cores. More recently, I have been working on developing new methods for measuring the δ18O, δ17O and δD of water in hydrated minerals and fluid inclusions to understand past changes in the hydrological cycle.