Ros Rickaby

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Ros Rickaby
Born
Rosalind Emily Majors Rickaby

(1974-06-29) 29 June 1974 (age 50) [1]
Education Berkhamsted School for Girls
Haileybury College
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Marine Biogeochemistry [2]
Institutions University of Oxford
Thesis Planktonic foraminiferal Cd/Ca : a new perspective on Southern Ocean palaeoproductivity  (1999)
Doctoral advisor Harry Elderfield
Website www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/rosalind-rickaby/ OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Rosalind Emily Majors Rickaby is a professor of biogeochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford [3] [2] and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. [4] [5]

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Education

Rickaby was educated at Berkhamsted School for Girls and Haileybury College. [1] She received her Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student at Magdalene College in 1995 and her PhD [6] from the University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 1999, under the supervision of Harry Elderfield. [7]

Career and research

After her PhD, Rickaby went on to complete two years of post-doctoral research at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, working with Daniel P. Schrag. [8] Rickaby began as a faculty member of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford following her postdoc at Harvard. Her research centers around paleoceanography and biogeochemical cycling in the oceans through deep time, with a focus on using fossil shells of marine micro-organisms as proxies to reconstruct past climate change. [2] [3] [9] [8] Her research group uses a variety of geochemical methods, including the analysis of trace element and isotopic ratios, to understand the biochemical behavior of paleoproxies, such as coccolithophores. [7] [2] She is also an author of the book Evolution's Destiny: Co-evolving Chemistry of the Environment and Life along with Bob Williams. [10]

Awards and honours

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