Amy King

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Amy King

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Amy King

Biography

Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, measuring past climate from tiny, ancient, ice bubbles entombed in the Antarctic ice sheet. Current projects and roles:

– Team member on ‘REWIND’ ice core drilling project, drilling a new high-resolution ice core in field seasons 24/25 and 25/26. Leading on deployment of firn-air analytical system and development of analytical system for carbon dioxide.
– Team member of Beyond Epica Oldest Ice (BE-OI) consortium, drilling the oldest continuous ice core record ever retrieved at 1 Million years old, part of the team measuring chemical climate markers using the British Antarctic Survey ‘Continuous Flow Analysis’ system.
– Lead on development, staff training and analysis of ‘Total Air Content’ analytical system at the British Antarctic Survey Gas Analysis Lab, a developing proxy for past ice sheet elevation.
– Lead on Ice Core Forum, bringing together a consortium of ice core (and related) researchers from across Cambridge research institutes in monthly meetings and seminars

Research/Education Overview:

Aug 2019 – July 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, British Antarctic Survey, UK. Initiating and working in the ice core gas analysis lab at the British Antarctic Survey. Developing a new, highly-precise, dry extraction analytical system for CO2 and C isotopes in ice core samples.

May 2019 – Aug 2019: Research Assistant, WACSWAIN project, processing Skytrain ice core. University of Cambridge, Dept. of Earth Sci, UK.

Oct 2015 – May 2019: PhD, ‘Organics in Ice: Novel organic compounds in ice cores for use in palaeoclimate reconstruction’. University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry and British Antarctic Survey, UK.

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015: MSc Polar and Alpine Change, University of Sheffield, UK and University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Svalbard.

Oct 2010 – Oct 2014: BSc (Hons) (Int) Geology and Physical Geography, University of Leeds, UK, and University of Queensland, Australia.

 

Research interests

Collaborations

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2024

King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Bauska, Thomas K. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, Brook, Edward J., Kalk, Mike, Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Wolff, Eric W., Strawson, Ivo, Rhodes, Rachael H., Osman, Matthew B.. (2024) Reconciling ice core CO2 and land use change following New World-Old World contact. Nature Communications, 15 (). 9 pp. 10.1038/s41467-024-45894-9

Grieman, Mackenzie M., Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Hoffmann, Helene M., Bauska, Thomas K. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Rhodes, Rachael H., Rowell, Isobel F., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Wolff, Eric W.. (2024) Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nature Geoscience, 17 (). 9 pp. 10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8

2023

Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Vladimirova, Diana O. ORCIDORCID record for Diana O. Vladimirova, Tetzner, Dieter R. ORCIDORCID record for Dieter R. Tetzner, Emanuelsson, B. Daniel ORCIDORCID record for B. Daniel Emanuelsson, Chellman, Nathan, Dixon, Daniel A., Goosse, Hugues, Grieman, Mackenzie M., King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Sigl, Michael, Udy, Danielle G., Vance, Tessa R., Winski, Dominic A., Winton, V. Holly L., Bertler, Nancy A.N., Hori, Akira, Laluraj, Chavarukonam M., McConnell, Joseph R., Motizuki, Yuko, Takahashi, Kazuya, Motoyama, Hideaki, Nakai, Yoichi, Schwanck, Franciéle, Simões, Jefferson Cardia, Gaudie Ley Lindau, Filipe, Severi, Mirko, Traversi, Rita, Wauthy, Sarah, Xiao, Cunde, Yang, Jiao, Mosely-Thompson, Ellen, Khodzher, Tamara V., Golobokova, Ludmila P., Ekaykin, Alexey A.. (2023) Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years. Earth System Science Data, 15 (). pp. 10.5194/essd-15-2517-2023

2022

Hoffmann, Helene M., Grieman, Mackenzie M., King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Epifanio, Jenna A., Martin, Kaden, Vladimirova, Diana, Pryer, Helena, Doyle, Emily, Schmidt, Axel, Humby, Jack D. ORCIDORCID record for Jack D. Humby, Rowell, Isobel F., Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Wolff, Eric W.. (2022) The ST22 chronology for the Skytrain Ice Rise ice core – Part 1: A stratigraphic chronology of the last 2000 years. Climate of the Past, 18 (). 17 pp. 10.5194/cp-18-1831-2022

2021

King, A.C.F. ORCIDORCID record for A.C.F. King, Tetzner, D.R. ORCIDORCID record for D.R. Tetzner. (2021) Exploring novel ice-core proxies for paleoclimate reconstruction in the sub-Antarctic. Past Global Changes Magazine, 29 (). pp. 10.22498/pages.29.1.36

Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Gacitúa, Guisella, Pedro, Joel B., King, Amy Constance Faith ORCIDORCID record for Amy Constance Faith King, Markle, Bradley, Potocki, Mariusz, Moser, Dorothea Elisabeth. (2021) Physical properties of shallow ice cores from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. The Cryosphere, 15 (). 14 pp. 10.5194/tc-15-1173-2021

2019

Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Etourneau, Johan, King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Severi, Mirko, Winton, Holly ORCIDORCID record for Holly Winton, Mueller, Juliane, Crosta, Xavier, Peck, Victoria L. ORCIDORCID record for Victoria L. Peck. (2019) Antarctic sea ice proxies from marine and ice core archives suitable for reconstructing sea ice over the past 2000 years. Geosciences, 9 (). 33 pp. 10.3390/geosciences9120506

King, Amy Constance Faith ORCIDORCID record for Amy Constance Faith King. (2019) ‘Organics in ice’: Novel organic compounds in ice cores for use in palaeoclimate reconstruction. University of Cambridge, PhD thesis

King, A.C.F. ORCIDORCID record for A.C.F. King, Thomas, E.R. ORCIDORCID record for E.R. Thomas, Pedro, J.B., Markle, B., Potocki, M., Jackson, S.L. ORCIDORCID record for S.L. Jackson, Wolff, E., Kalberer, M.. (2019) Organic compounds in a sub-Antarctic ice core: A potential suite of sea-ice markers. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (). pp. 10.1029/2019GL084249

King, Amy ORCIDORCID record for Amy King, Giorio, Chiara, Wolff, Eric, Thomas, Liz ORCIDORCID record for Liz Thomas, Roverso, Marco, Schwikowski, Margit, Tapparo, Andrea, Bogialli, Sara, Kalberer, Markus. (2019) Direct injection liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry for determination of primary and secondary terrestrial and marine biomarkers in ice cores. Analytical Chemistry, 91 (). pp. 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05224

King, Amy C.F. ORCIDORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Giorio, Chiara, Wolff, Eric, Thomas, Liz ORCIDORCID record for Liz Thomas, Karroca, Ornela, Roverso, Marco, Schwikowski, Margit, Tapparo, Andrea, Gambaro, Andrea, Kalberer, Markus. (2019) A new method for the determination of primary and secondary terrestrial and marine biomarkers in ice cores using liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry. Talanta, 194 (). pp. 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.10.042

2018

Giorio, Chiara, Kehrwald, Natalie, Barbante, Carlo, Kalberer, Markus, King, Amy ORCIDORCID record for Amy King, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Wolff, Eric W., Zennaro, Piero. (2018) Prospects for reconstructing paleoenvironmental conditions from organic compounds in polar snow and ice. Quaternary Science Reviews, 183 (). pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.007

  • Beyond Epica Oldest Ice (BE-OI) https://www.beyondepica.eu/en/
  • REWIND ice core project https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/siwha/#about
  • ‘The Little Ice Age CO2 drop: Natural, Anthropogenic or Artefact?’ – Antarctic Science Bursary Award 2020-2022
  • ‘Organics in ice cores’: Novel organic compounds in ice cores for use in palaeoclimate reconstruction – PhD Scholarship 2015-2019