Alayne Street Perrott
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Alayne Street Perrott

Alayne Perrott(Born October 29, 1950), is a British Climatologist, and an Emeritus professor currently working at Swansea University[1]. She is from Nantgaredig, Wales, United Kingdom. She specializes in Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnology, tropic Palaeoenvironments, and long-term changes in the tropic’s carbon cycle.

Education

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She went to the University of Cambridge where she received her bachelor's honors degree(1968-1971) and her PhD (1973-1976). She then went to the University of Colorado Boulder where she received her MA (1971-1973)[2].

Career

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After finishing her master's program she became a Visiting Scholar at Addis Ababa University. After 3 years of receiving her master's, Alayne started to work at Oxford University. From October 1976 to September 1980 she worked as Department Demonstater. She then became a lecturer beginning in October 1980 to December 1995. During this period she also became a Fellow of St Hilda’s College at Oxford[3]. Alayne would then become a Supernumerary Fellow at Oxford in 1995. She is still a fellow even after departing from Oxford University that same December and became a professor at Swansea University. From January 1995 to October 2016, Alayne was a research professor but then became an emeritus professor from October 2016 to the present year.

During her career, she received 3 certifications. She received a Chartered Geographer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from the Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales from the Learned Society of Wales, in 2017[4].

Publications

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Alayne has 176 articles published from 1980 to the present day. 5 of her 176 publications have even reached over 500 hundred citations. Those five are Abrupt climate fluctuations in the tropics: the influence of Atlantic Ocean circulation[5] with 508 citations, Climatic changes in the western United States since 18000 yr BP[6] with 570 citations, Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years: observations and model simulations[7] with 699 citations, Milankovitch forcing of fluctuations in the level of tropical lakes from 18 to 0 kyr BP[8] with 855 citations, and Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change[9] with 3012 citations.[10]

  1. ^ "Swansea University Faculty page". Swansea UNiversity. September 25, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  2. ^ Perrott, Alayne (May 2011). "Alayne Street Perrott Linkden".
  3. ^ "Emeritus, Honorary and Supernumerary Fellows | St Hilda's College Oxford". www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  4. ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Alayne Street-Perrott". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  5. ^ Street-Perrott, F. Alayne; Perrott, R. Alan (February 1990). "Abrupt climate fluctuations in the tropics: the influence of Atlantic Ocean circulation". Nature. 343 (6259): 607–612. doi:10.1038/343607a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  6. ^ "‪Climatic changes in the western United States since 18,000 yr BP‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  7. ^ COHMAP Members (1988-08-26). "Climatic Changes of the Last 18,000 Years: Observations and Model Simulations". Science. 241 (4869): 1043–1052. doi:10.1126/science.241.4869.1043.
  8. ^ Kutzbach, John E.; Street-Perrott, F. Alayne (September 1985). "Milankovitch forcing of fluctuations in the level of tropical lakes from 18 to 0 kyr BP". Nature. 317 (6033): 130–134. doi:10.1038/317130a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  9. ^ Woolf, Dominic; Amonette, James E.; Street-Perrott, F. Alayne; Lehmann, Johannes; Joseph, Stephen (2010-08-10). "Sustainable biochar to mitigate global climate change". Nature Communications. 1 (1): 56. doi:10.1038/ncomms1053. ISSN 2041-1723.
  10. ^ "Alayne Street-Perrott". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-11-29.