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Paula Sankelo
PhD candidate

Room: 414, Gregory Building
Telephone: +44 (0) 141 333 4817
Fax: +44 (0) 141 330 4817
Email: Paula.Sankelo@ges.gla.ac.uk
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Paula Sankelo
 
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Research title

Biomarkers in snow and ice archives.

Summary of research

In my PhD project I will analyze biomarkers deposited via atmospheric transport and stored in snow or ice. During year 2009 I will receive training in organic geochemistry methods in the new Glasgow Molecular Organic Geochemistry Laboratory (G-MOL). Together with my supervisors I'm planning a field research campaign for spring 2010, to collect new ice and / or samples for my research. Possible field work areas include Japan, Svalbard and Greenland.

Personal background

I graduated as MSc in Physics in May 2008, from the University of Helsinki. I wrote my Master's thesis ("Melt pond coverage and temporal evolution at drifting station Tara in summer 2007", unpublished) in the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, under supervision of Dr Jari Haapala.

I spent the academic year 2002-2003 studying Arctic Geophysics in the University Centre on Svalbard, Norway. I had undergraduate summer jobs as a research assistant in Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory and Finnish Meteorological Institute. I also have a MA in Finnish Literature, completed in the University of Helsinki in January 2008.

Supervisors

Dr James Bendle
Dr Derek Fabel
Dr Jemma Wadham (University of Bristol)

Recent research grants | View all grants >>

Bendle, J. and Sankelo, P. 2009. Mapping inputs of plant biomarkers to snow and ice archives: a novel tool for palaeoclimatology - research in Hokkaido, Japan, £2,000 (The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation).

Bendle, J. and Sankelo, P. 2009. Mapping inputs of plant biomarkers to snow and ice archives: a novel tool for palaeoclimatology, £2,200 (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland).

Sankelo, P. 2009. A travel grant to attend Observing the Arctic: A Window to climate change. International summer school, Svalbard, Norway 27. June - 4. July 2009, £1000 (European Space Agency).

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