Nick McCave

He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Hertford College, Oxford and Brown University (PhD). ==Research summary==

McCave's research looks at perturbations in the deep oceans, using evidence from marine sediments, micro-fossils combined with carbon dating, to obtain information on pre-historical climate change. McCave uses monitoring points in the North Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean to study how the Earth's meridional heat flux is distributed by warm surface-ocean currents and cold deep-ocean currents. == Selected biography ==

• 1969 - 1985: Lecturer (until 1976), Reader (until 1985) at the University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences • 1978 - 1999: Adjunct Scientist (until 1987), Guest Investigator (1999) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • 1988 - 1998: Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge • 1985 - 2008: Woodwardian Professor of Geology, University of Cambridge == Other professional activities ==

• 1992 -1996: President of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) of the International Council for Science (ICSU). • 2003 - 05: Member of the Steering Committee for NERC's Rapid Climate Change programme • 2001 and 2008: Member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise panels for Earth and Environmental Sciences ==References==