Ros Rickaby
{{short description|Professor of Biogeochemistry}}
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| birth_name = Rosalind Emily Majors Rickaby
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| fields = Marine Biogeochemistry
| workplaces = University of Oxford
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| education = Berkhamsted School for Girls
Haileybury College
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
| thesis_title = Planktonic foraminiferal Cd/Ca : a new perspective on Southern Ocean palaeoproductivity
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| thesis_year = 1999
| doctoral_advisor = Harry Elderfield
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Rosalind Emily Majors Rickaby OBE FRS is a professor of biogeochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford{{Cite web|url=https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/rosalind-rickaby/|title=Department of Earth Sciences » Ros Rickaby|website=earth.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-21}}{{Google scholar id}} and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ros-rickaby|title=Wolfson College, Oxford|website=wolfson.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-21}}{{Cite web|title=Rosalind Rickaby - University College Oxford - Rosalind Rickaby|url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/academics/rosalind-rickaby/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=University College Oxford|language=en-GB}}
Education
Rickaby was educated at Berkhamsted School for Girls and Haileybury College. 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{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21407756430003606|title=Planktonic foraminiferal Cd/Ca : a new perspective on Southern Ocean palaeoproductivity|first= Rosalind Emily Mayors|last=Rickaby|date=1999|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.624523}}|website=cam.ac.uk|oclc=1065285117}} from the University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 1999, under the supervision of Harry Elderfield.{{Cite news|url=https://honors.agu.org/winners/rosalind-e-rickaby/|title=Rosalind E. Rickaby - Honors Program|work=Honors Program|access-date=2018-11-21|language=en-US}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://honors.agu.org/winners/rosalind-e-rickaby/|title=Rosalind E. Rickaby|publisher=American Geophysical Union}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uomr-odr031109.php|title=Oxford's Dr. Rosalind Rickaby receives 2009 Rosenstiel Award|date=March 11, 2009|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science}} 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. She is also an author of the book Evolution's Destiny: Co-evolving Chemistry of the Environment and Life along with Bob Williams.{{Cite book|last=Williams|first=R J P|last2=Rickaby|first2=Ros|date=2012|title=Evolution's Destiny|language=en|doi=10.1039/9781849735599|isbn=978-1-84973-558-2}}
= Awards and honours =
- 2008: Awarded the European Geosciences Union Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist
- 2009: Awarded the University of Miami's 36th Rosenstiel Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsmas.miami.edu/about-us/rosenstiel-award/past-recipients/2009-recipient/|title=2009 Recipient|website=rsmas.miami.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-29}}
- 2010: Awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal for significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist{{Cite news|url=https://honors.agu.org/winners/rosalind-e-rickaby/|title=Rosalind E. Rickaby - Honors Program|work=Honors Program|access-date=2018-11-29|language=en-US}}
- 2012: Awarded the Gast lectureship for outstanding contributions to geochemistry{{Cite web|url=http://www.eag.eu.com/awards/gastlectureship/|title=Paul Gast Lecture « European Association of Geochemistry|website=eag.eu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-29}}
- 2016: Awarded the Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society from 2016–2021{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/rosalind-rickaby-13219/|title=Welcome|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-11-21}}
- 2017: Awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal for contributions to soft rock studies{{cite web |url=https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/2017/03/ros-rickaby-awarded-lyell-medal/ |title=Ros Rickaby awarded Lyell Medal |date=March 1, 2018 |publisher=University of Oxford}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Award-Winners-Since-1831/Lyell-Medal|title=The Geological Society of London - Lyell Medal|website=geolsoc.org.uk|access-date=2018-11-29}}
- 2022: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS){{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2022/05/new-fellows-2022/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Royal Society}}
- 2023: Awarded the Science Innovation Award - Nicholas Shackleton Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry{{Cite web|url=https://www.eag.org/awards/science-innovation-award/|title=Science Innovation Award « European Association of Geochemistry|website=eag.eu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2025-01-29}}
- 2025: Awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to biogeochemistry.{{cite news |last1=Hardy |first1=Ben |title=New Year Honours list for Oxfordshire in full for 2025 |url=https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24823679.new-year-honours-list-oxfordshire-full-2025/ |access-date=7 January 2025 |work=This is Oxfordshire |publisher=Newsquest Media Group}}
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7P9UlWtRs | title=Public Lecture October 2019: Joint lecture with Royal Society of Chemistry - Ros Rickaby | website=YouTube | date=27 November 2019 }}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uN75OV1V4Q | title=EAG 2023 N. Shackleton Science Innovation Medal Lecture by Rosalind Rickaby | website=YouTube | date=18 August 2023 }}
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Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:British women earth scientists
Category:21st-century British earth scientists
Category:21st-century British chemists
Category:21st-century British women scientists
Category:Fellows of University College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford