Virginia Ettwein
I am part of the department's team of skilled research and technical experts. I split my time between the Geofacilities SRF (where I oversee the Earth Sciences Microscope and Imaging Suite of research-grade petrological microscopes and imaging equipment, and advise and assist with sample prep across the wider Geofacilities Labs), and the ICP Suite SRF (where I provide research and technical expertise for solution-based elemental analysis using the inductively coupled plasma instruments).
Areas of particular expertise:
Light microscopy and imaging
Major and trace element analysis
Ocean sediments
Micropalaeontology
High precision work
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1874-6079
Academic background:
Ph.D. (2005) The Effective Moisture History of the Amazon Basin for the Last 40,000 Years, Reconstructed from ODP Site 942 (Leg 155) on the Amazon Fan. (Supervisor: Prof. Mark Maslin, Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL, UK.)
M.Sc. Quaternary Science (2000) Examining the Effects of the Intensification of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation on Productivity Within the Benguela Upwelling System: A Study Using Diatoms and Nitrogen Isotopes (ODP Site 1083, Leg 175). (Supervisors: Prof. Mark Maslin and Dr. Cathy Stickley Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL/ Centre for Quaternary Research, RHUL, UK.)
B.Sc. (hons) Geography (1998) A Palaeolimnological (diatom) Investigation of Eutrophication at Upper Talley Lake, Wales. (Supervisors: Prof. Laurence Carvalho and Prof. Tim Allott, Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL.)
