Laura Robinson (scientist)
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Laura Frances Robinson | |
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| Born | November 1976 (age 49–50)[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol Caltech Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Thesis | Pleistocene climate chronology and ocean circulation in the Bahamas using U-series nuclides (2002) |
Laura Frances Robinson (born November 1976) is a British geochemist. She is a professor of geochemistry at the University of Bristol. She makes use of geochemistry to study the processes that govern the climate. In particular, Robinson studies radioactive elements, as these can be analysed in geological materials. She was awarded the 2010 President's Award of the Geological Society of London.[2]
Robinson was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, where she studied natural sciences. She moved to the University of Oxford for her graduate studies, where she investigated pleistocene climate chronology.[3] After completing her doctorate, Robinson moved to California.[4] She was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology. At Caltech, worked alongside Jess Adkins on deep sea corals. The research took her on a cruise in the North Atlantic ocean, where she journeyed in a submarine to undersea mountains. On this trip she collected fossils from the sea floor. She studied 16,000 year old coral fossils from the Southern Ocean.[4] This experience inspired her to explore how the Atlantic Ocean changed during climate transitions.[4] She moved to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she was made Associate Scientist.
