EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award

The British scientist Luke C. Skinner has won the prestigious Outstanding Young Scientist Award for
the application of multidisciplinary palaeoceanographic studies to investigate questions such as the conditions of deep ocean water circulation and changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The Outstanding Young Scientist Award recognizes scientific achievements in any field of the Geosciences, made by a scientist who is under the age of 35 on 31 December of the year of the General Assembly .

Dr. Luke Skinner works at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Marine sediments and millennial climate change is his main field of interests.

Resumé

Current research involves the reconstruction of rapid changes in deep-water circulation (i.e. rates and sourcing) during the late Quaternary using geochemical (e.g. Mg/Ca, stable isotopes) and sedimentological (e.g. granulometry) techniques. This work includes both the calibration and application of proxies, and aims to provide a geological basis for understanding our present climate.

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/medallists/_2006/outstanding_young_scientist_award_skinner.html http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/