Staff profiles
Richard LevyGeneral Manager Science Futures
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology
- MSc, Geology
- Masters in Science Teaching, Curriculum and Instruction
- PhD, Geoscience
Areas of expertise
- Paleoclimate: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
- Geology: Antarctic geology
- Geology: Cenozoic stratigraphy
- Geology: Micropaleontology
- Geology: Paleoclimatology
- Geology: Paleoenvironmental Studies
- Geology: Paleontology
- Geology: Stratigraphy
- Geology: Team Leader / Project Management
- Paleontology: Biochronology
- Paleontology: Biostratigraphy
- Paleontology: Dating
- Paleontology: Paleoclimatology
- Paleontology: Paleoecology
- Paleontology: Paleoenvironment determination
- Paleontology: Palynology
- Paleontology: Stratigraphy
- Paleontology: Timescale development
- Technical: Field Work
- Technical: Data analysis
- Public relations: education
- Public relations: science communication
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Millennial-scale variability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Early Miocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(39): 8 p.. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2304152120. 8 p.
- East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability during the middle Miocene Climate Transition captured in drill cores from the Friis Hills, Transantarctic Mountains, Geological Society of America Bulletin 135(5/6): p. 1503-1529. DOI: 10.1130/B36531.1. p. 1503-1529
- Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections, Nature Geoscience 12(2): p. 132-137. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0284-4. p. 132-137
- East Antarctic ice sheet most vulnerable to Weddell Sea warming, Geophysical Research Letters 44(5): 2343-2351. DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072422. 2343-2351
- Dynamic Antarctic ice sheet during the early to mid-Miocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(13): p. 3459-3464. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516130113. p. 3459-3464
- Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(13): p. 34533458. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.151603113. p. 34533458
- Southern Ocean phytoplankton turnover in response to stepwise Antarctic cooling over the past 15 million years, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(25): p. 6868-6873. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600318113. p. 6868-6873
- The multi-millennial Antarctic commitment to future sea-level rise, Nature 526(7573): p. 421-425. DOI: 10.1038/nature15706. p. 421-425
- Late Neogene climate and glacial history of the Southern Victoria Land coast from integrated drill core, seismic and outcrop data, Global and Planetary Change 80: p. 61-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.10.002. p. 61-84
- Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations, Nature 458(7236): p. 322-328. DOI: 10.1038/nature07867. p. 322-328
- Thinking outside the zone : high-resolution quantitative diatom biochronology for the Antarctic Neogene, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 260(1/2): p. 92-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.020. p. 92-121