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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Geology,Polar Research |
| Keywords | Geomorphology, Geochronology, Paleoclimatology, Glacial History, Arctic |
| Honours and awards | 2020: Humboldt Research Award 2020: Smith College Kahn Fellowship on Climate Change 2017: Robert Horton Geology Lecture, Albion College 2017: UMass Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creativity 2016: Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union 2015: Eduard Suess Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2015: Tyndall History of CO2 Lecture, American Geophysical Union 2015: 23rd Annual Gregory Lecture, Univ of Southampton 2011: UMASS S.F. Conti Faculty Research Fellowship 2002: Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Amherst |
| Institution | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Institute | Department of Geosciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Martin Melles | Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Universität zu Köln, Köln |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2020 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Brigham-Grette is a leading international paleoclimatologist. She has made substantial contributions to our current understanding of the Earth´s climatic history, in particular in the Arctic. She is a key player in developing international geosciences, for instance as heads of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project and the US Polar Research Board. During her stay in Germany, she focuses on the publication of results recently obtained in northeastern Russia and on the development of new research projects jointly with several German collaborators. |