Staff profile

Third-year PhD student with the wider ANTSIE (ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution) project: a collaboration with Durham University and the British Antarctic Survey, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust and European Research Council. The project aims to reconstruct summer sea-ice variability in the eastern Weddell Sea over the last 60,000 years using snow petrel stomach oil deposits. These lipid-rich regurgitations build up on ice-free nesting sites, providing information not only about snow petrel diet, but about Antarctic sea-ice environments at the time. These results will ultimately inform future climate predictions and ecosystem modelling.

Supervisors: Professor Erin L. McClymont, Professor Mike Bentley, Dominic Hodgson (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge).

Journal Article

• McClymont, E. L., Mackay, H., Stevenson, M. A., Damm-Johnsen, T., Honan, E. M., Penny, C. E., & Cole, Y. A. (2023). Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(7), 991-1024. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3559