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Current Research

Dr. Emilie Beaudon is an ice core paleoclimatologist whose research focuses on extracting multi-millennium records of wildfires, mineral dust and trace metals atmospheric contamination within deep ice cores retrieved from polar and alpine glaciers. Her multi-proxy approach to paleoenvironmental reconstructions employs a broad array of analytical techniques to characterize ice chemistry and determine the source of englacial impurities. The goal of her Ice Core geoChemistry and Climate Change (IC⁴) research program is to provide a spatial and temporal perspective on the current man-made alteration of the atmospheric composition and supply new scientific results with meaningful impacts for science, society, and decision-making. 

Dr. Beaudon is currently leading an NSF-CAREER project investigating how environmental changes have favored the transport of aerosols towards the High Arctic over the last millennium.

Previous Research

As the recipient of the Byrd Polar Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Beaudon joined the Ice Core Paleoclimatology research group (led by Prof. Lonnie Thompson) in 2013. Her postdoctoral work has been oriented towards the determination of changes in pollution transport pathways to remote areas of the globe. She applied high-resolution geochemical techniques (e.g.: ICP-SF-MS) to several ice cores mostly from the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas to determine the magnitude of the atmospheric contamination affecting the Third Pole region over the past 500 years and persisting into the 21st century.

Before joining the BPCRC, Emilie earned her Ph.D. at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland), investigating the environmental signal contained in snow, firn and multi-centennial ice core records from Svalbard and Jan Mayen (High Arctic).