I am a geochemist at the University of Southampton, based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton. After a BSc in Geology at Van Mildert College, Durham, I worked for four years in the tech industry in London before returning to science in the form of a master’s in Oceanography at the university of Southampton. That led into a PhD in palaeoclimate and geochemistry at Southampton along with the British Antarctic Survey and a thesis titled “West Antarctic ice-rafted debris: Sources, signals and signatures of past ice sheet dynamics” with Steve Bohaty, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand,and Paul Wilson.
After four years investigating the past extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet via marine sediments, I swapped the frozen South for the balmy tropics, where I now analyse the geochemistry of reef-forming corals as a postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC-funded Microns2Reefs project, under Gavin Foster.