… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
I’m Lil, a 1st year PhD student based at the downtown department in Cambridge and at Diamond Light Source. Thats not a picture of me doing any science, thats a picture of me having fun, which PhD students do sometimes.
I’m looking at climatic paleoproxies and how they can be refined, in order to be better understand out planet’s past climate, and hopefully know a … Continue reading
I’m Claire, a first year PhD student working in our Downtown department. I’m now six months in and starting to really get to grips with my project. I’m looking at nanopaleomagnetism in meteorites in order to understand their fundamental magnetic properites, and say something about the planetary body the meteorite came from.
In order to image magnetism on a nanoscale, I … Continue reading