2014-2016: University of Florida, USA
Post-doctoral research associate, with Dr. Ellen Martin
2009-2013: Imperial College London, UK
Ph.D. in Isotope Geochemistry and Paleoclimatology
2002-2006: Cardiff University, Wales, UK
MESci Master in Earth Science
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
8/2013-10/2013 Research Assistant working Quaternary sediments from the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctic, under the supervision of Dr. Tina van de Flierdt and associated with Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
1/2009-3/2009 Assistant Geological Laboratory Technician under the supervision of Dr. Mike Curtis and Dr. Mike Flowerdew, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge UK
9/2008-1/2009 Assistant Marine Geologist under the supervision of Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand and Dr. Claire Allen, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge UK
RESEARCH SKILLS and FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
Fieldwork experience: sailed as marine geologist on IODP Site Survey cruise JR298 (Jan-Feb 2015) with the British Antarctic Survey, to the Western Antarctic Peninsula continental margin and the Bellingshausen Sea
Laboratory skills: rock crushing, magnetic mineral separation, heavy liquid mineral separation, sediment core splitting, visual down-core characterisation of sediment cores, sediment grain-size analyses, sediment magnetic susceptibility analyses, counting and picking foraminifera for stable isotope analyses, diatom settling and assemblage reconstructions, wet leaching of sediments (ferromanganese coatings, opal and calcium carbonate removal), visual microscopy and characterisation of mineral grains and clasts in sand, acid digestion and flux fusion digestion of rocks and sediments in clean labs, iron precipitation, ion chromatographic separation of rare earth elements and strontium in sediments, rocks and ores in clean labs
Analytical skills: solid sample preparation and analysis of strontium isotopes from sediments, rocks and ores by TIMS (Triton); analysis of neodymium isotopes from sediments, rocks and ores by MC-ICP-MS (Nu Plasma); analyses of major and minor and oxides elemental concentrations in marine sediments using ICP-AES and ICP-MS; some limited experience of analyses of argon isotopes from mineral grains by gas mass spectrometry
Software skills: Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator, ArcGIS, ISOPLOT, SigmaPlot
MEETINGS
Ocean Leadership Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium, Washington DC, 2015
Lead proponent and chair of AGU session at the 2014 Fall Meeting – Session Title: Cenozoic through Modern Climate and Glacial Records and Processes at High-Latitude Margins (2 Oral and 1 Poster session)
UK Workshop on Pliocene Climate, UK, 2013
IODP UK Early Career Workshop, UK, 2013
IODP Leg 318 Post-cruise Meeting, UK, 2011
IODP Leg 318 Sampling Party, USA 2010
UK Polar Network Meeting, UK, 2010
Conference attendance:
AGU 2014, 2012 (USA)
ICP, 2013 (Spain)
ISAES, 2011 (UK)
Goldschmidt 2011, 2012 (Czech,, Canada)
ACE, 2009 (Canada)
Other:
Visting Scholar at LDEO, Columbia University, 2010, 2013
FUNDING and AWARDS
Awarded an Antarctic Science Bursary Grant for £5000 for fieldwork experience in the Southern Ocean
Awarded £172 to attend 2nd UK Workshop on Pliocene Climate in Bristol, 2013
Awarded a £350 to attend the 11th International Conference on Paleoceanography in 2013, Barcelona
Awarded £250 by the Geochemistry Group of the Geological Society of London to attend Goldschmidt, 2012, in Montreal
Attended and won Best Poster prize at UK Polar Network Workshop ‘Investigating Variability in Polar Climates: Past, Present and Future’ in March, 2010
Awarded £500 to attend the 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography in 2010 (declined)
Awarded £200 by the Imperial Trust Fund for conference attendance
Dr. Carys Patricia Falco (Cook) 