Babette Hoogakker

I joined Heriot-Watt University in 2017. Before this I worked as a postdoc at several institutions.

2011- 2016 (& maternity leave and working part-time) NERC Fellowship "Deep ocean oxygen concentrations and efficiency of the biological pump". Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, collaborating with Prof Ros Rickaby. Development of new, and improvement of existing, proxy methods to reconstruct past oxygen contents in seawater, using the calcite tests of marine fossil unicellular organisms. 

2003 - 2009 (including maternity leave and working part-time) PDRA Quaternary Quest (PI Elderfield PI), PACLIVA & Isaak Newton Trust (PI McCave) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. This included syntheses of marine (benthic foraminifera stable isotopes and sedimentary carbonate) and terrestrial (pollen) data, to contribute to understanding of regulation of atmospheric CO2 on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change (QQ). Furthermore, I developed of time series data on deep-water current strength in order to assess overflow variability and vigour of thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic during the Holocene and Marine Isotope Stage 3 on decadal to millennium time scales.