Nick McCave

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Professor Nick McCave
Born (1941-02-03) February 3, 1941 (age 84)
Nationality British
Alma mater Hertford College, Oxford
Brown University
AwardsShepard Medal (1995), Huntsman Medal (1999), [1] Lyell Medal (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Climate Change and Sedimentology

Ian Nicholas McCave (born 3 February 1941) is a British geologist, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences from 1985 to 2008 and a fellow of St John's College from 1986 to present. He is a marine sedimentologist.

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Education

He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Hertford College, Oxford and Brown University (PhD). [2]

Research summary

McCave's research looks at perturbations in the deep oceans, using evidence from marine sediments, micro-fossils combined with carbon dating, to obtain information on pre-historical climate change.

McCave uses monitoring points in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean to study how the Earth's meridional heat flux is distributed by warm surface-ocean currents and cold deep-ocean currents.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Laureates". www.huntsmanaward.org.
  2. ‘McCAVE, Prof. (Ian) Nicholas’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
Academic offices
Preceded by Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
1988 - 1998
Succeeded by
Preceded by Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge
1985 - 2008
Succeeded by