New Professorship in Climate Geology
Welcome Heather Stoll, Professor of Climate Geology!
Heather Stoll received her Bachelors degree in 1994 from Williams College, before obtaining her doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1998. She was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oviedo, Spain, before being appointed to the faculty at the same institution in 2000. In 2001 she was then appointed Assistant Professor of Geoscience at Williams College, Williamstown, USA, and received tenure in 2007 before re-joining the University of Oviedo, where she has been a Professor in the Department of Geology since 2010.
Heather Stoll's interests are centered on understanding earth's climate history over the last tens of millions of years, with a particular emphasis on past variations in atmospheric CO2. She uses novel geochemical tools to address fundamental aspects of past climate variability and its interplay with biological productivity in the ocean and the global carbon cycle. She develops and applies diverse methodologies and couples these with experimental studies as well as conceptual and mathematical modelling approaches in order to examine key facets of climate-organismal-carbon cycle interactions. Her research spans both the marine and terrestrial realms, and time periods ranging from the Holocene to the Cretaceous. With a track record of innovation in both teaching and research.
The appointment of Heather Stoll as Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences will add crucial strength in paleoclimatology. Building on the mantra that “the past is the key to the present”, Heather Stoll will address pressing questions of societal relevance concerning links between atmospheric CO2 and climate, as well as biological adaptations to changing climate.