Rate My Professor Erin McClymont

Professor Erin McClymont is Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Her research focuses on investigating the patterns and processes affecting climate and environmental changes in the past. She specializes in Quaternary environmental change, palaeoceanography, palaeoclimate, organic geochemistry using biomarkers, marine ecosystems, land-ocean interactions, and ocean-ice sheet interactions. McClymont analyzes marine, lake, and peat sequences to understand climate changes recorded in oceans and on land over timescales from decades to millions of years. She explores connections between low- and high-latitude climate systems responsible for global climate change. Employing biomarker proxies, she reconstructs past changes in ocean and lake temperature, hydrology, vegetation, and predator diets. Current projects include reconstructing Antarctic sea ice environments from the last glacial period to the present day (the last 40,000 years), sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day (the last 5 million years), and testing new organic geochemistry biomarker proxies for past environmental change. She leads the ANTSIE project, funded by the European Research Council and Leverhulme Trust, reconstructing Antarctic sea ice using seabird archives.