Today officially marks the last day of my Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Leeds, but we are a long way from the end of the research program that has emerged from my time with PlioMIP. I have a little more time to wrap up my lab work here, delayed by COVID-19 and supply issues caused by Brexit, before I will be heading to the University of Adelaide to start a four-year Ramsay Fellowship! During my time at the Leeds I have taken on two leadership roles, on the steering committee of PlioMIP3 (website coming) and the Neogene Terrestrial Climate group within PlioMioVAR. I will be continuing in both these roles as I move to the School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. I will also be continuing my exploratory palaeocloud investigations, with testing existing proxies for their capacity to reconstruct cloud. New to the position, I will be investigating possible bias in proxies for winter temperature in the Arctic, and I am planning to get back up to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago next year with PoLAR-FIT to find sites that fill the gaps in late Pliocene data-model comparison. I also hope to apply my past experience in palaeofire reconstructions to the current work to understand more of Australia's palaeoecological past with Jon Tyler .
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