Hodell, David
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David Hodell is a marine geologist and paleoclimatologist. He currently holds the position of Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Clare College. He is the current Director of the Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research. Previously, he taught at the University of Florida from 1986–2008, earning the rank of full professor in geological sciences. Hodell was also the director of the Stable Isotope Laboratory from 1996–2008.Hodell earned his Ph.D. in 1986 in oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, after earning his bachelor of arts in 1980 in geology from the University of Vermont. In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and became a recipient of the Milutin Milankovic Medal in 2018 awarded by the European Geophysical Union.
His research focuses on high-resolution paleoclimate records from marine and lacustrine sediments and, more recently, speleothems to better understand past climate dynamics. Field programs involve recovering sediment cores from selected lakes and ocean basins throughout the world and range from simple missions utilizing inflatable boats and hand-operated coring equipment to complex campaigns that utilize oceanic research vessels or lake drilling platforms. For the latter, he is actively involved in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP). His research using deep-sea sediments has been concentrated geographically on the North and South Atlantic Oceans, with the aim of integrating marine sediment, terrestrial and ice core records. The objective is to build marine sediment analogs to the polar ice cores to study ocean-atmosphere linkages and the relative timing, phasing, and interhemispheric coupling mechanisms of climate change between the polar regions. His work using lake sediment cores and speleothems is centered in Mesoamerica, Cambodia and India. The objective is to reconstruct Holocene climate change and, specifically, to explore how climate change may have affected ancient civilisations such as the Maya, Khmer and Indus Valley.
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