Submitted by Dr C.M. Martin-Jones on Fri, 11/02/2022 - 09:23
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February), a celebration of women and girls in science led by UNESCO and UN-Women.
We celebrate by bringing together stories from women researchers across our Department, highlighting the variety of roles within Earth Sciences.
We asked our researchers what pieces of equipment or items they rely on for their everyday research – whether they spend most of their time collecting data in the lab, field or via computer models. A selection of their contributions are listed below - you can read the full story on our blog.
Dr Emily Stevenson, Environmental Geochemist
Emily studies how Earth’s major rivers move carbon around our planet’s surface and eventually into the sea. Emily’s fieldwork takes her to remote areas of the Arctic and tropics in order to sample and profile the chemistry of river waters.
Dr Rachael Rhodes, Ice Core Scientist
Rachael is an ice core scientist who studies bubbles of ancient air and chemical impurities trapped within polar ice cores to reconstruct past changes in the Earth’s climate. Her work helps us understand how the climate system works and might respond to human induced warming.
Lizzy Steell, PhD student in palaeobiology
Lizzy studies the evolutionary history of birds called passerines, a group which includes almost half of all bird species. Lizzy uses a range of tools to make high-resolution 3D models of bird skeletons that she the compares with living and fossil birds to unravel their evolution.