Nick McCave
{{Short description|British geologist (born 1941)}}
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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.
Education
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.{{reference needed|date=November 2024}}
Selected biography
- 1969 - 1985: Lecturer (until 1976), Reader (until 1985) at the University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences
- 1978 - 1999: Adjunct Scientist (until 1987), Guest Investigator (1999) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 1988 - 1998: Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- 1985 - 2008: Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge
Other professional activities
- 1992 -1996: President of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
- 2003 - 05: Member of the Steering Committee for NERC's Rapid Climate Change programme
- 2001 and 2008: Member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise panels for Earth and Environmental Sciences
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110927181439/http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/People/Academic%20Staff/49-professor-nick-mccave Personal web page at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge]
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Category:People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey
Category:Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia