Dr. Louise Sime - Profile
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Biography
I am a permanent NERC British Antarctic Survey research scientist, working on ice core and Quaternary climate science. Most of my research focuses on understanding ice core observations by using climate models. This joint observation-model approach can help us understand past climate.
Stable water isotopes (deuterium and oxygen-18) in ice record represent a key long-term temperature record. Using the stable water isotope enable Met Office Hadley Centre HadAM3 model helps interpret these isotope records in ice cores.
Other scientific interests include developing new numerical methods to help us understand: where to drill cores; how to sample the cores (in prep); and what we gain from having more than one ice core.
A recent research highlight looked at interglacial climates in East Antarctic Ice Cores. This suggests that we may have previously underestimated the climate senstivity of Antarctica.
I was the recipient of the Laws Prize in 2010.
