Nick McCave

Professor Nick McCave
Born	(1941-02-03) February 3, 1941
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Hertford College, Oxford Brown University
Awards	Shepard Medal (1995), Huntsman Medal (1999), Lyell Medal (2009)
Scientific career
Fields	Climate Change and Sedimentology

Ian Nicholas McCave (born 3 February 1941) is a British geologist, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences from 1985 to 2008 and a fellow of St John's College from 1986 to present. He is a marine sedimentologist.

Education

He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Hertford College, Oxford and Brown University (PhD).

Research summary

McCave's research looks at perturbations in the deep oceans, using evidence from marine sediments, micro-fossils combined with carbon dating, to obtain information on pre-historical climate change. McCave uses monitoring points in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean to study how the Earth's meridional heat flux is distributed by warm surface-ocean currents and cold deep-ocean currents.

Selected biography

• 1969 - 1985: Lecturer (until 1976), Reader (until 1985) at the University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences
• 1978 - 1999: Adjunct Scientist (until 1987), Guest Investigator (1999) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 1988 - 1998: Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
• 1985 - 2008: Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge

Other professional activities

• 1992 -1996: President of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
• 2003 - 05: Member of the Steering Committee for NERC's Rapid Climate Change programme
• 2001 and 2008: Member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise panels for Earth and Environmental Sciences

External links

• Personal web page at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge