Ian Nicholas McCave (born 3 February 1941) is a British geologist, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences from 1985 to 2008 and a fellow of St John's College from 1986 to present. He is a marine sedimentologist.
Education He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Hertford College, Oxford and Brown University (PhD).‘McCAVE, Prof. (Ian) Nicholas’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
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
External links Personal web page at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge