Member Since 1985
Liz L. Sikes
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Liz Sikes’ studies the influence of the Southern Ocean on atmospheric CO2 and the interconnection between global carbon cycling, ocean circulation and climate change. She applies light stable isotopes, radiocarbon and organic biomarker compounds (e.g. alkenones) to paleoceanographic applications. She has been on 16 oceanographic voyages; 7 in the Southern Ocean, 3 as chief scientist. She received the AGU Emiliani Lecture in 2020 and the SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research in 2022.
Professional Experience
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Distinguished Professor
2001 - Present
Education
MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
Doctorate
1990
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2024
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Received December 2020
Lecture Title:
The Southern Ocean’s role in glacial cycles: Engine not caboose?
Lecture Title:
The Southern Ocean’s role in glacial cycles: Engine not caboose?
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Deglacial Carbon Escape From the Northern Rim of the Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean regulates atmospheric CO2 and Earth's climate as a critical region for air‐sea gas exchange, delicately poised between bei...
April 20, 2024
Rapid Loss of CO2 From the South Pacific Ocean During the La...
February 18, 2020
Assessing the Spatial Origin of Meltwater Pulse 1A Using Oxy...
December 13, 2019
AGU Abstracts
The Influence of Aged Indo-Pacific Waters in the Southeast Indian Ocean Since the Last Glacial Maximum
WHAT DRIVES GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CO<SUB>2</SUB> CYCLES? NEW INSIGHTS FROM DATA AND MODELING PERSPECTIVES POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2024
Natalie Umling, Elisabeth L. Sikes, Nathalie Goodk...
The Southern Ocean is thought to play an outsized role in regulating atmospheric CO2 and Earths climate on millennial and centennial timescales. An ab...
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Propagation of Deglacial Changes in Water Mass Sourcing and Deep Ocean Carbon Storage in the Southern Indian Ocean During the Last Glacial Termination
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION FROM PAST TO FUTURE: INSIGHTS FROM MULTIPLE APPROACHES I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 09 december 2024
Cassandre Stirpe, Tom Williams, Ellen E. Martin, E...
Changes in deep ocean circulation are hypothesized to have played a role in the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere during the last glac...
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CO2 storage in the Glacial deep Southeastern Indian Ocean and CO2 outgassing across the last deglaciation tracked with Benthic foraminiferal δ13C
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION FROM PAST TO FUTURE: INSIGHTS FROM MULTIPLE APPROACHES II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 09 december 2024
Elisabeth L. Sikes, Natalie Umling, Ryan Glaubke, ...
The Southern Ocean (SO) is an important area for ocean-atmosphere CO2 equilibration, as the principal location where the wind driven component of ther...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2021
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Canvassing Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Emiliani Lecture Committee
2016 - 2019
Associate Editor
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
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