Andrea Dutton

Andrea Dutton, a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she studies paleoclimate, sedimentology, carbonate geochemistry, and paleo-oceanography. Her research centers on sea level changes during interglacial periods to predict future sea level rise.

Early life and education Andrea Dutton was born in Fairfax, Virginia and spent most of her childhood in Atlanta, Georgia and Westport, Connecticut. Dutton graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut in 1991. There she learned a lot about public speaking on scientific topics, which stimulated her attention to scientific communication in her future work. In 2003, Dutton returned to academic study and earned an M.S. (2000) and a Ph.D. (2003) in Geological Sciences from the University of Michigan. She continued her research as a Postdoctoral Scholar (two years) and then Research Fellow (four years) at the Australian National University (ANU).

Career and research Dutton was an Assistant, then Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida from 2011 to 2019, and now is a Full Professor of Geology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. For her Ph.D., Dutton researched paleoclimate between the Cretaceous and Eocene periods in the Antarctic Peninsula. She has explored the shores of Italy, Australia, America, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Seychelles, and Mexico to obtain data from fossilized coral reefs.

When assessing sea level fluctuations, Dutton studies the geochemistry, geophysics and biology of each reef. Dutton primarily focuses on sea level rise from 125,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to today's. She studies sea level rise throughout the world, including Florida, the Seychelles Islands, and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. One of her research objectives is to determine when the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed in the past to help us understand when and how this may occur in the future.

Awards and honors

MacArthur Fellow Fulbright Scholar (2019–20) Faculty Fellow of the Thompson Earth Institute 2016 Global Fellow at University of Florida Rolling Stone Magazine's "25 People Shaping the Future in Tech, Science, Medicine, Activism and More" 2015 Faculty Fellow of the Florida Climate Institute

Public engagement Andrea Dutton often shares the results of her research work with the public outside the scientific community. Climate communication has been something that Dutton has emphasized since her teaching experiences at the Saint Anne's School in Brooklyn, New York. She has shared her research to the general public through a variety of media forums such as: The New York Times: Gillis, Justin. (2017). The Sea Level Did, in Fact, Rise Faster in the Southeast U.S Forecast: Climate Conversations with Michael White NPR: Greene, David. (2018) U.S. Faces 'Immediate Threat" From Climate Change, Report Says. The Washington Post: Mooney, Chris (2015). Why the Earth's past has scientists so worried about sea level rise. The Atlantic: Lieberman, Amy (2016). Preparing for the Inevitable Sea-Level Rise The Wall Street Journal: Dutton, Andrea. Mann, Michael. (2018) Water is Rising Because It's Getting Warmer

Publications

A Dutton, K Lambeck (2012) Ice volume and sea level during the last interglacial (Science). A Dutton, AE Carlson, AJ Long, GA Milne, PU Clark, R DeConto, BP Horton, S Rahmstorf, ME Raymo (2015) Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods (Science). F Antonioli, L Ferranti, A Fontana, A Amorosi, A Bondesan, C Braitenberg, A Dutton, G Fontolan, S Furlani, K Lambeck, G Mastronuzzi, C Monaco, G Spada, P Stocchi (2009) Holocene relative sea-level changes and vertical movements along the Italian and Istrian coastlines (Quaternary International). M Greaves, N Caillon, H Rabaubier, G Bartoli, S Bohaty, I Cacho, L Clarke, M Cooper, C Daunt, M Delaney, P DeMenocal, Andrea Dutton, Stephen Eggins, Henry Elderfield, Dieter Garbe-Schoenberg, Ethan Goddard, D Green, J Groeneveld, D Hastings, E Hathorne, K Kimoto, Gary Klinkhammer, Laurent Labeyrie, David W Lea, Tom Marchitto, MA Martínez-Botí, Peter Graham Mortyn, Y Ni, Dirk Nürnberg, G Paradis, L Pena, Terrence Quinn, Y Rosenthal, Ann Russell, T Sagawa, Sindia Sosdian, L Stott, K Tachikawa, E Tappa, R Thunell, PA Wilson (2008) Interlaboratory comparison study of calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems). A Dutton, KC Lohmann, WJ Zinsmeister (2002) Stable isotope and minor element proxies of Eocene climate and Seymour Island, Antarctica (Paleoceanography).

For a more complete list of Dutton's peer-reviewed publications see her Google Scholar Profile.