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"The present is the key to the past"
Uniformitarianism; James Hutton
..can the past also be the key to the future?
Dr. Daniel Hill
Post-Doctoral Researcher
I am currently employed by the British Geological Survey and am on secondment to the Sellwood Group for Palaeoclimatology at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. I am interested in what causes, drives and impacts changes in the Earth System. My tools of choice are physical models of the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere, ice sheets and any others I can get my hands on. Of particular interest is the Pliocene, as it provides us with an excellent, well studied palaeoclimate with which to understand the workings of the Earth in warmer than modern conditions. It also showcases the last great reorganisations of the Earth System prior to the introduction of anthropogenic climate forcing.
Having studied at the University of Leeds for an undergraduate Masters in Physics with Astrophysics, I moved to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) for my PhD. Supervised by Alan Haywood, Richard Hindmarsh and Paul Valdes at the University of Bristol, I studied the ice sheets of the Pliocene. After producing the first physical models of the Pliocene cryosphere and contributing the ice sheets to the PRISM3D palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, I took a position as a BAS Higher Scientific Officer, developing and testing the BAS Ice Sheet Model (BASISM), before moving to my current position.
email: dahi@bgs.ac.uk
web: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~eardjh/
