Svetlana Radionovskaya

Sveta is a research fellow in Quantitative Environmental Sciences at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences; and an Honorary researcher in Paleoceanography at the British Antarctic Survey. She uses marine sediment cores, and in particular foraminifera geochemistry such as stable isotopes, trace metal analysis and radiocarbon, to investigate climatic variations on 10s- 100,000s years timescales.

Sveta earned her PhD from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Her thesis explored The Role of the Ocean in Climate Changes and Atmospheric CO2 Variability during the last glacial cycle, with a particular emphasis on marine sediment cores retrieved from the North and South Atlantic. More recently, Sveta has been focusing on cores recovered from the Southern Ocean and circum-Antarctic seas. Her primary research interests include, but are not limited to, the role of the ocean in controlling and modulating the carbon cycle through changes in ocean circulation and biogeochemistry; ocean- ice sheet interactions and the impact of ocean forcing on past- and future- ice sheet melt, particularly around Antarctica; past hydroclimate variations and their impact on human societies; and geochemical proxy development.