I am a PhD student at British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences (C-CLEAR DTP). My PhD ‘isotopic approaches to unravelling export and recycling processes in the Southern Ocean’ explores the impacts of nutrient input from ice melt on biogeochemical cycling and carbon export around the Antarctic Peninsula, using silica isotopes as a tool to examine the interdependence of the silica and carbon cycles. My work involves water sampling and chemical analysis, sediment trap analysis, and faecal pellet incubation experiments to determine the nature of carbon and silica in different dissolved and particulate forms. My work falls mostly under the BIOPOLE project, with some work on the Rothera Time Series sediment trap.

My project is supervised by Clara Manno, Kate Hendry, and Helen Williams. I am a part of the Ecosystems and Polar Oceans groups at BAS.

Career

MSc Climate Change- University of East Anglia (2021-2022)

BSc Environmental Sciences- University of East Anglia (2018-2021)

1. Biogeochemical processes in polar ecosystems

   BIOPOLE studies how climate change is affecting the release of nutrients from the polar regions, and their redistribution around the world’s oceans.

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1. World Oceans Day at the National Maritime Museum

   Find out what it takes to carry out vital climate research in some of the toughest conditions in the world. British Antarctic Survey scientists will be bringing both our expertise and our equipment to the National Maritime Museum this June, giving explorers of all ages a taste of what it’s like to be a polar scientist.

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