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Deep Sea exploration with the RV Southern Surveyor
11 January – 1 February 2008

Voyage 01/08 11Jan-1Feb 08 reports from the ship >view Exploring the Deep Sea Learn about the voyage objectives, meet the voyagers >more Seeing Underwater With the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) >more

Dr Jess Adkins
Principal Investigator
California Institute of Technology

I am a chemical oceanographer interested in using trace metals as tracers of environmental processes. Most of my current work is centered around the geochemical investigation of past climates. I am primarily concerned with the last few glacial/interglacial cycles that span a few hundred thousand years. It is in this time range that we have both a relatively accurate and precise understanding of age models (though they are always improving) together with large climatic shifts that require mechanistic explanation. In particular, we have an amazing record of the rapidity and magnitude of climate change from polar ice cores.

As an oceanographer, I try to understand the coupled ocean/atmosphere system during climatic shifts by monitoring the deep ocean's behavior. Much of my work to date has focused on developing a new climate archive, deep-sea corals, that has the potential to revolutionize the types of information we can obtain about oceanographic climate change.

See Dr Jess Adkin's full profile and CV.

Modified: 10/01/08

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