Post-doctoral Associate

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences,

Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA

Phone: 732-932-6555 ext 255

Fax: 732-932-8578

Email: lear@imcs.rutgers.edu

January 1st 2004 -

January 2001 - December 2003

Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Cardiff University

Post-doctoral Associate, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USA.

November 2000

June 1997

Ph.D. (Cantab) Chemical Oceanography. Cambridge University, UK. "Evolution of Cenozoic ocean composition and temperature from foraminiferal trace element proxies". Thesis advisors: Prof. Harry Elderfield and Dr Paul Wilson.

B.A. (Oxon) First Class. Earth Sciences, Oxford University, UK.

1997-2000

1995-1996

NERC grant for PhD

Shell UK Bursary

Bateman Scholarship (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

College Scholarship, College Geology Prize, College Exhibition (University College, Oxford)

Teaching experience

Cambridge University, UK: Demonstrator for undergraduate geology field courses and practical classes. Tutor for first and second year undergraduates in earth sciences and marine chemistry.

October-December 2001

February 2000

Participation in RV Oceanus cruise OC377 investigating Holocene climate variability

Participation in Ocean Drilling Program Leg 199 (Paleogene Equatorial Transect) as inorganic geochemist

Participation in the RV Sonne EXCO II cruise to investigate off-axis low temperature fluid flow and core-top palaeoceanography in an age/depth transect to 8 Ma on the eastern flank of the East Pacific Rise at 14 degrees South.

Memberships

American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America

Advisors

Graduate advisors: Harry Elderfield and Paul Wilson. Post-doc advisor: Yair Rosenthal

Lear C.H., Y. Rosenthal and J.D. Wright (in press) The closing of a seaway: Ocean water masses and global climate change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Lear C.H., H. Elderfield and P.A. Wilson (2003) A Cenozoic seawater Sr/Ca record from benthic foraminiferal calcite and its application in determining global weathering fluxes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 208 69-84.

Lear C.H., Y. Rosenthal and N. Slowey (2002) Benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-paleothermometry: A revised core-top calibration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66 3375-3387.

Lear C.H., H. Elderfield and P.A. Wilson (2000) Cenozoic deep-sea temperatures and global ice volume from Mg/Ca in benthic foraminiferal calcite. Science 287 269-272.

Lear, C.H., Wilson, P.A., Shackleton, N.J., and Elderfield, H. (2000) Palaeotemperature and ocean chemistry records for the Palaeogene from Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca in benthic foraminiferal calcite. GFF 122, 93-93 Part 1.