Dr. Rebecca Kearney
Haus
C,
Raum
322 (Büro)
Telegrafenberg
14473
Potsdam
Wissenschaftliche Interessen:
- Late Quaternary geochronology - tephrochronology, radiocarbon, Bayesian statistical age modelling
- High-resolution palaeoenvironmental records
- The temporal and spatial expression of past abrupt climatic oscillations and environmental responses
- Development and use of tephrostratigraphic records to refine age uncertainties in palaeoenvironmental records
- Construction of past eruption history from the Anatolian region
- Response of palaeolithic humans to abrupt climatic and environmental change
Karriere:
2021 – present (full time): Researcher (Postdoc) TephroMed project, GFZ, Potsdam
2020 – 2020 (full time, 6 months): Research Assistant (Postdoc) UP-NORTH project, University College London, London
2013 – 2015 (part time): Laboratory Research Assistant, POSTGLACIAL project, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
Werdegang / Ausbildung:
2015 - 2020: DPhil Archaeological Science, University of Oxford, Oxford
Thesis title "Understanding past rapid climate change through reducing chronological uncertainty". Supervisors, Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Dr. Richard Staff and Dr. Paul Albert.
2012 - 2013: MSc Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
2009 - 2012: BSc Physical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
Projekte:
- TephroMed project, GFZ, Potsdam
- Project aim: To synchronise the important high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records of the Dead Sea and Lake Van using tephrochronology.
- Techniques: cryptotephra, visible tephra, major, minor and trace geochemistry
- UP-NORTH project, University College London, London. Website: http://www.upnorthproject.org
- POSTGLACIAL project, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham