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Jennifer Pike

Professor Jennifer Pike

Head of School
Reader

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Overview

Interests

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

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  • Leventer, A., Crosta, X. and Pike, J. 2010. Holocene marine diatom records of environmental change. In: Smol, J. P. and Stoermer, E. F. eds. The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. 2nd ed.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 400-422.

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Research

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.

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)

Contact Details

Email PikeJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75181
Campuses Main Building, Room 2.50, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT