Dr Morten Andersen
Senior Lecturer
- andersenm1@cardiff.ac.uk
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Overview
Research Interests
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Earth’s chemical evolution
- Paleoclimate
- Isotope Geochemistry
Biography
Academic positions
2020- present: Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University
2016- 2020: Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University
2013-16: Senior Scientist, Institute of Geochemistry & Petrology, ETH-Zürich
2011-12: Postdoctoral NERC Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences, Uni. Bristol
2009-10: Danish Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Earth Sciences, Uni. Bristol
2007-8: Marie-Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Earth Sciences, Uni. Bristol
2006-07: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Geochemistry & Petrology, ETH-Zürich
2002-06: PhD in Earth Sciences ‘The Precise Measurement of Uranium-Series Isotopes in the Marine Environment: A Direct Chronology of Multiple Sea-Level High-Stands for the Last 600 Thousand Years and Arctic Ocean Circulation’Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH-Zürich
2000-02: Master of Science in Geology by Research ‘The Crystallisation and Genesis of RE-pegmatites, Evje-Iveland, southern Norway’University of Copenhagen
1996-2000: Bachelor of Science, Department of Geology, University of Copenhagen
Publications
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I am a geologist with broad research interests in understanding the evolution of Earth and the solar system. My main research tool is isotope geochemistry using novel isotopic proxies for addressing major scientific questions such as the geochemical evolution Earth and Pleistocene climate changes.
Much of my work focus on using uranium isotopes as a tracer of geochemical surface processes characterizing the global geochemical redistribution of uranium on Earth to quantify long-term global biogeochemical cycling and understand links with terrestrial weathering processes and oxygenation of the surface Earth. I am also using the decay products of the uranium isotopes to study a range of processes important for paleoclimate reconstruction, including uranium-series dating of fossil corals for sealevel reconstruction, continental weathering rates and its impact on ocean biogeochemistry.