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Dr Jenny Pike

Dr Jenny Pike

Head of School
Reader

Email
pikej@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 5181
Campuses
2.50, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

Overview

Interests

  • Marine diatoms
  • ice-ocean interactions
  • Antarctic palaeoclimate
  • isotopes from biogenic silica
  • sub-annual to millennial-scale palaeoceanography

Biography

  • Reader in Earth and Environmental Sciences – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2013-present)
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (1997-2013)
  • UK Ocean Drilling Program Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Southampton, UK (1996-1997)
  • PhD – Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton (1996)
  • BSc Geology – University of Birmingham (1991)

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I use marine diatoms to investigate ocean history on seasonal to millennial timescales.  In the high latitudes, ocean surface diatom assemblages are sensitive to changes in their environment and I exploit this sensitivity to reconstruct past changes in, for example, the concentration or duration of sea ice.

I use the oxygen isotopes preserved in the biogenic silica cell wall of the marine diatoms as a proxy for glacial discharge (volume of meltwater and glacial ice entering the coastal ocean form the land).  I am also interested in the variations in diatom species morphology in response to environmental change.

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