I am a paleoceanographer interested in glacial-interglacial climate change and the role of the ocean in major climate transitions.

I am excited to announce that I have joined the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as of April, 2021 as an Assistant Scientist!

Before starting at WHOI, I was a Lamont Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, working with Sidney Hemming and Steve Goldstein. There, I reconstructed past ocean circulation in the Cape Basin using sediments collected on IODP Expedition 361.​

During graduate school, I worked with Jess Adkins, John Eiler, and Andrew Thompson at Caltech. I combined precise geochemical measurements on fossil deep-sea corals with simple physical models of the ocean in order to understand changes in ocean circulation in the past.

​My research incorporates our current understanding of modern ocean physics as a basis for interpreting geochemical tracers.

shines @ whoi . edu
266 Woods Hole Rd, MS #25
Woods Hole, MA 02543
508 . 289 . 3483
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