About
I am a GCRF Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. I study climate‒biogeochemistry interactions in past, present and future environments and specialise in the geochemical analysis of biomarkers (‘molecular fossils’). Biomarkers are organic compounds derived from a biological source organism and can be preserved in the sedimentary record for millions of years. I have applied a biomarker approach to reconstruct climate and environmental change throughout Earths history. My research brings together extensive multidisciplinary expertise and I work across disciplinary boundaries with environmental scientists, climatologists, ecologists, botanists, and Earth system modellers.
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The primary focus of my research is on past climate states (“paleoclimates”) and climate variability therein. Paleoclimates provide us which rich evidence of how climate processes operated across a range of CO2 concentrations. They also provide insights into the known (and unknown) feedbacks that may operate in the future. I am currently funded via a Royal Society Fellowship and lead the DETECT project ('Destabilisation of the terrestrial biosphere in warm climates'). Other ongoing research includes a NERC Large Grant that aims to improve our understanding of climate and ice sheet sensitivity in a warmer world and a Royal Society Research Grant that will reconstruct freshwater methane cycling during the last 10,000 years.
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Biography
Dr Gordon Inglis is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Principal Research Fellow within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.
2023-ongoing: Principal Research Fellow, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
2020-2024: Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
2019-2020: Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
2015-2018: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol
2011-2015: PhD, Organic Geochemistry, University of Bristol
2007-2011: BSc (Hons), Earth Science, University of Glasgow
Prizes
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2020)
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences (FELS) Dean’s Award for Research (2020)
- 2023 Pieter Schenk Award (2023)