Kate Sinclair

 

Full Name: Kate Sinclair

Position: Post Doctoral Fellow in Ice Core Research

Contact details

Email: K.Sinclair
Phone: +64-4-570 4646

Qualifications

1997: BA, Geography; 1999: MSc (1st class honours), Physical Geography; 2002: Postgraduate Diploma, Natural History Film Making and Communication; 2009: PhD, Glaciology/Snow Science

Areas of expertise

Business Development: Biosecurity accreditation
Geochemist: Geochronology/Stable Isotopes
Geochemist: Global Environmental Change
Geochemist: Stable Isotope Chemistry
Geochemist: Trace Element Geochemistry
Palaeoclimate: Ice core analyses
Palaeoclimate: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Technical: Data analysis
Technical: Field Work
Technical: Ion Chromatography
Technical: Isotope mass spectrometry

Professional activities

International Glaciological Society: Member
New Zealand Snow and Ice Research Group: Member
American Geophysical Union: Member
Canadian Geophysical Union: Member

Major publications

Lafreniere, M.J.; Sinclair, K.E. 2011 Snowpack and precipitation chemistry at a high altitude site in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of hydrology, Online first: doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.09.007

Sinclair, K.E.; Marshall, S.J.; Moran, T.A. 2011 A Lagrangian approach to modelling stable isotopes in precipitation over mountainous terrain. Hydrological processes, 25(16): 2481-2491; doi:10.1002/hyp.7973

Sinclair, K.E.; Bertler, N.A.N.; Trompetter, W.J. 2010 Synoptic controls on precipitation pathways and snow delivery to high-accumulation ice core sites in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres, 115: D22112, doi:10.1029/2010JD014383

Sinclair, K.E.; Marshall, S.J. 2009 Engaging students in atmospheric science : a university-high school collaboration in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of geoscience education, 57(2): 128-135

Sinclair, K.E.; Marshall, S.J. 2009 Temperature and vapour-trajectory controls on the stable-isotope signal in Canadian Rocky Mountain snowpacks. Journal of glaciology, 55(191): 485-498

Sinclair, K.E.; Marshall, S.J. 2008 Post-depositional modification of stable water isotopes in winter snowpacks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Annals of glaciology, 49(1): 96-106

Moran, T.A.; Marshall, S.J.; Evans, E.C.; Sinclair, K.E. 2007 Altitudinal gradients of stable isotopes in lee-slope precipitation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Arctic, Antarctic, and alpine research, 39(3): 455-467

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