Biography

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)

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