Emilie Capron

Short presentation

My research aims at providing a global dimension to ice core datasets by linking them to other archives and to modeling exercises, to go toward a comprehensive understanding of the climate dynamics across the past 150 thousand of years (ka). This central scientific focus of my research tackles important questions in the context of Climate Change and its future impacts on socio-economic and natural systems:

(1) What is the response of the different components of the Earth System to the warmer-than-preindustrial climate of the Last Interglacial (116-129 ka)?

(2) What is the sensitivity of polar ice sheets to large glacial-interglacial climatic transitions, also referred to as Glacial Terminations?

(3) What are the processes responsible for the initiation and propagation of the abrupt climate changes across the last glacial period observed in Greenland ice cores (~10-116 ka)?

Using a multi-archive approach requires overcoming the major challenge of defining robust and coherent age models amongst the various archives, this represents the second focus of my research

CV

Previous employment & Education

2013-2019: NERC Research Scientist (paleoclimatologist), British Antarctic Survey (UK).
2010-2013: Postdoctorate Researcher, British Antarctic Survey (UK).
2007-2010: PhD, “Climatic informations and chronological constraints inferred from the air trapped in polar ice cores”, LSCE, Université de Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines (France).
2006-2007: Master (Second year) Climate-Environment Interaction, UVSQ (France).
2004-2006: Master (First year) Physics and Chemistry of Planet and Earth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France).
2004-2002: Bachelor in Geosciences, Université de Savoie (France)

Distinctions, awards:

• British Antarctic Survey Honorary Researcher, since 2019.
• Early-Career Scientist Award of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 2019.
• DFF-Mobilex Grant for the ANA-Clim project, Niels Bohr Institute (detached from BAS), 2016-2017.
• Early-Career Ambassador of the European Association of Geochemistry, 2016.
• Research Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 2013-2017.
• European Geosciences Union Young Scientist Travel Award, 2013.
• PhD Award « Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire », 2011.
• Merit Fellowship, Université Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines, 2007.
• Internship Fellowship (3 months) from Region Rhone Alpes, 2006.