Nick McCave

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).

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