Nick McCave
Ian Nicholas McCave 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.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, Reader at the University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences
- 1978 - 1999: Adjunct Scientist, Guest Investigator 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 of the International Council for Science.
- 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