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Dr. Andy
Henderson Postdoctoral Scientist |
| I joined the lab in September 2004 after completing my Ph.D at University College London. I am a broadly trained palaeolimnologist whose expertise lays in isotope geochemistry, with research interests in climate variability on a number of different timescales. I use a variety of isotope proxies (biogenic silica, carbonate and organics) to decipher lake sediment records in order to understand how past variability determines present-day climate conditions. Explanation of these archives provides the insight needed to anticipate the full range of possible earth system behaviour that may occur in the future. We are now more dependent than ever on the record of past climate changes for a true understanding of the climate system and lake sediments are unrivalled archives of environmental change, as they represent relatively continuous depositional environments in a continental setting from which high-resolution records can be obtained. Such palaeolimnological approaches have begun to elucidate our understanding of past climate changes. | |
updated 09/30/2005