Timothy Naish
Professor
Paleoclimate
Antarctic Research Centre
New Zealand
Biography
Tim Naish is a New Zealand glaciologist. He is the Director of the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.[1] He has written about the collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf. In 2002, between January 31 and March 7 the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed and broke up. Tim Naish warned that the ice shelf of Weddell Sea is imperiled, and if the temperature rises by 3 °C, the ice shelves of Antarctica will become thinner. “These are dramatic changes” – said Tim Naish. In 2009, Professor Naish was awarded a New Zealand Antarctic Medal (NZAM) for services to Antarctic climate science.
Research Interest
Paleoclimate, Quaternary research, Antarctica, ANDRILL
Publications
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McKay, R.M., Barrett, P.J., Levy, R.S., Naish, T.R., Golledge, N.R., and Pyne, A., (2016). Antarctic Cenozoic climate history from sedimentary records: ANDRILL and beyond. Philosophical.Transactions of the Royal Society A, 374: 20140301.
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Levy, R., Harwood, D., Florindo, F., Sangiorgi, F., Tripati, R., von Eynatten, H., Gasson, E., Kuhn, G., Tripati, A., DeConto, R., Fielding, C., Field, B., Golledge, N., McKay, R., Naish, T.R., Dunbar, G., and the SMS Science Team, (2016). Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113: 3453-3458.
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Crampton, J.S., Cody, R.D., Levy, R., Harwood, D., McKay, R., Naish, T.R., (2016). 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): 6868-6873.
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Golledge, N.R., Levy, R.H., McKay, R.M., and Naish, T.R., East Antarctic ice sheet most vulnerable to Weddell Sea warming (2017) Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (5), pp. 2343-2351. doi:10.1002/2016GL072422
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Golledge, N.R., Thomas, Z.A., Levy, R.H., Gasson, E.G., Naish, T.R., McKay, R.M., Kowalewski, D.E. and Fogwill, C.J., (2017). Antarctic climate and ice-sheet configuration during the early Pliocene interglacial at 4.23 Ma. Climate of the Past, 13(7), pp.959-975.
