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RICE Early Career Researchers & Students

Students and early career researchers play a fundamental role in generating top quality science and provide the energy and enthusiasm for successful field and laboratory campaigns. As with our project collaborators, the RICE project involves students and young scientists from around the world. 
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Current RICE PhD Students


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Marius Simonsen
PhD Candidate - Centre for Climate and Ice, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Marius is working with Paul Vallelonga and Helle Kiaer on this thesis:Stability of interglacial climate from polar ice cores .

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James Lee
PhD Candidate - Oregon State University, USA
James is working with Ed Brook on measuring high precision methane measurements and developing the RICE age scale

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Yang Jiao
PhD Candidate - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yang Jiao is working Dongqi Zhang on the interpretation of major ion data and atmospheric modelling.


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Aja Ellis
PhD Candidate - John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Australia
Aja is working with Ross Edwards on a thesis titled: History and evolution of atmospheric nanoparticles during the Holocene and Anthropocene.

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Elena Korokikth
PhD Candidate - Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA
Elena is working with Paul Mayewski on the analysis and interpretation of high resolution Laser Ablation ICP-MS analysis

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Giovanni Baccolo
PhD Candidate - University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Giovanni is working with Barbara Delmonte on his thesis: Antarctic ice cores and aeolian mineral dust: late Holocene climate variability in peripheral West and East Antarctica

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Abhijith Ulayottil Venugopal
PhD Candidate - Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science

Abhijith is working with Nancy Bertler and Giovanni Cortese on his thesis: Antarctic ice cores and aeolian mineral dust: late Holocene climate variability in peripheral West and East Antarctica

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Lukas Eling
PhD Candidate - Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science
Lukas is working with Nancy Bertler and Rob McKay on his thesis: Antarctic Holocene climate variability – drivers and consequences as captured by the RICE ice core

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Dan Lowry
PhD Candidate - Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science
Dan is working with Nick Golledge and Nancy Bertler on his thesis: Holocene drivers of ocean / ice shelf change as quantified through sensitivity modelling experiments using the ACCESS-OEP and PISM coupled models

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Katelyn Johnson
PhD Candidate - Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science
Katelyn is working Nancy Bertler and Rob McKay on her thesis: Reconstructing Holocene Ice-Ocean Interactions in the Ross Sea Region



RICE Early Career Researchers (ECR's)

The researchers listed below are early career scientists (less than 5 years post-PhD) who are actively involved in the RICE project.
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Dr. Peter Neff
Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Rochester, USA
Peter completed his dissertation titled Rare Earth Element studies of aerosol composition, transport and provenance from the Roosevelt Island ice core, Ross Sea region, Antarctica at Victoria University of Wellington under the supervision of Nancy Bertler. Peter is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester in the US, working with Dr. Vasilii Petrenko.

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Dr. TJ Fudge
Post-Doctoral Researcher- Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, USA

T.J.'s interests lie in ice core depth-age scales, glacier sliding, paleo ice flow conditions, glacier mass balance, and snow and firn densification. T.J. is part of the RICE dating team.

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Dr. Helle Astrid Kjær
Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Helle is hired as a postdoc under the European Research Concil (ERC) synergy grant Ice2Ice (www.ice2ice.eu). The project aims to understand the complex feedback between sea ice and land ice. For the RICE project Helle analyses the continuous flow data for Ca, pH, conductivity and particles and is part of the dating team

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Dr. Viorela Gabriela Ciobanu
Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gabriela's research interest is the reconstruction of past atmospheric conditions by extraction and analysis of air bubbles from polar ice cores. As part of the RICE project, her goal is to reconstruct the stable carbon isotope evolution in atmospheric CO2 (δ13C) archived in the RICE ice core.  In addition, she is working on the 17O isotopic abundance in photolysed CO2 samples.

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Dr. Jonathan Kingslake
Assistant Professor - Columbia University, USA
Jonny's research interests lie in the measurement and interpretation of radar measurements.

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Dr. Spruce Schoenemann
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, USA
Spruce research interests lie in the measurement and interpreation of δ17O excess from ice cores.

​RICE MSc Students

The students listed below are undertaking MSc projects
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Hannah Brightley
MSc Student, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science. Hannah is with Nancy Bertler on her thesis "Paleoclimate reconstruction of the Little Ice Age conditions in Antarctica as captured in the RICE ice core".

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Donna Kalteyer
MSc student Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA. Teye is working with Andrei Kurbatov on the analysis and identification of tephra layers.



Undergraduate Students

The students listed below are undertaking MSc and undergraduate projects
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David Clemens-Sewall
Undergraduate Student, Dartmouth University, USA. 
David is working with Bob Hawley on the measurement and interpretation of borehole temperature data. David deployed to the field in 2013/14 and 2014/15 to log the RICE borehole.



Former Students Involved in RICE Research

The students listed below are former graduate students who have contributed to the RICE project.
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Dr. Daniel Emanuelsson
Formerly PhD student working with Nancy Bertler at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science, New Zealand
Daniel submitted his thesis: 'High resolution stable isotope temperature reconstruction of the past 2,000 years from the Roosevelt Island ice core'. Daniel participated in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 field seasons and  the 2013 and 2014 ice core processing campaigns.

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Dr. Holly Winton
Formerly a PhD student working with Ross Edwards at the John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Australia
Holly recently completed her thesis on: Impact of biomass burning emissions and dust on soluble iron deposition to Australian waters, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica'. Holly participated the 2012/13 field season and the 2014 core processing campaign. Holly is now a  Post-Doctoral Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey, UK.

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Dr. Andrea Tuohy
Formerly a PhD student working with Nancy Bertler at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science. Andrea recently completed her dissertation titles Heavy Metal pollutants in snow and ice from Roosevelt Island, Antarctica. Andrea participated in the 2011/12 field season and 2013 ice core processing campaign. Andrea is now working as Environmental Specialist for Tonkin and Taylor in New Zealand.

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Dr. Peter Neff
Formerly a PhD student working with Nancy Bertler at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science. His thesis focused on the analysis and interpretation of Rare Earth Elements. Peter participated in the 2012/13 field season and the 2013 and 2014 core processing campaigns. Peter is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester in the US, working with Dr. Vasilii Petrenko.

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Tom Beers, MSc
Formerly a MSc student working with Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA. His thesis focused on the analysis and interpretation of trace element concentrations. Tom participated in the 2011/12 RICE field season and the 2013 core processing campaign.

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Bradley Markle, MSc
Formerly a MSc student working with Nancy Bertler at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington. His thesis focused on the analysis and interpretation of major ion and trace element concentrations from Gwan Ice Piedmont, Southern Victoria Land. Brad participated in the 2010/11 RICE field season. Brad is now  PhD student with Eric Steig at the University of Washington.


 RICE Student Interns

The students listed below conducted internships with the RICE project.
Please note we are currently updating this information.
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