Amy King
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Amy King
Post Doctoral Researcher
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. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Bauska, Thomas K. ORCID 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. ORCID record for Thomas K. Bauska, King, Amy C.F. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Rhodes, Rachael H., Rowell, Isobel F., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCID 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. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Vladimirova, Diana O. ORCID record for Diana O. Vladimirova, Tetzner, Dieter R. ORCID record for Dieter R. Tetzner, Emanuelsson, B. Daniel ORCID record for B. Daniel Emanuelsson, Chellman, Nathan, Dixon, Daniel A., Goosse, Hugues, Grieman, Mackenzie M., King, Amy C.F. ORCID 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. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Epifanio, Jenna A., Martin, Kaden, Vladimirova, Diana, Pryer, Helena, Doyle, Emily, Schmidt, Axel, Humby, Jack D. ORCID record for Jack D. Humby, Rowell, Isobel F., Nehrbass-Ahles, Christoph, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID 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. ORCID record for A.C.F. King, Tetzner, D.R. ORCID 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. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Gacitúa, Guisella, Pedro, Joel B., King, Amy Constance Faith ORCID 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. ORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Allen, Claire S. ORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Etourneau, Johan, King, Amy C.F. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Severi, Mirko, Winton, Holly ORCID record for Holly Winton, Mueller, Juliane, Crosta, Xavier, Peck, Victoria L. ORCID 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 ORCID 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. ORCID record for A.C.F. King, Thomas, E.R. ORCID record for E.R. Thomas, Pedro, J.B., Markle, B., Potocki, M., Jackson, S.L. ORCID 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 ORCID record for Amy King, Giorio, Chiara, Wolff, Eric, Thomas, Liz ORCID 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. ORCID record for Amy C.F. King, Giorio, Chiara, Wolff, Eric, Thomas, Liz ORCID 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 ORCID record for Amy King, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCID 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
2024
Listen to ancient air escaping from polar ice cores at Royal Society
News 2 July, 2024
Hold polar ice at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
News 29 April, 2024
Ice on show at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Event 2 July, 2024
Antarctic ice explains dip in CO2 levels
News 5 March, 2024
2021
Ice Core Gas Lab
Facility
Immersive science-art exhibition opens at Glasgow Science Centre
News 29 September, 2021
2019
Celebrating International Day of Women & Girls in Science
News 11 February, 2019
2015
Ice core aquisition and analysis
Facility
- Committee Member, Ice Core Young Scientists (ICYS)