Dr. Emilie Beaudon is an ice core paleoclimatologist whose research focuses on extracting multi-millennium records of wildfires, mineral dust and trace metals atmospheric contamination within deep ice cores retrieved from polar and alpine glaciers. Her multi-proxy approach to paleoenvironmental reconstructions employs a broad array of analytical techniques to characterize the ice chemistry and determine the source of englacial impurities. The goal of her Ice Core Geochemistry and Climate Change (IC³) research program is to provide a spatial and temporal perspective on the current man-made alteration of the atmospheric composition and supply new scientific results with meaningful impacts for science, society, and decision-making. Emilie and the IC3’s ambition is to work in synergy with her SES and OSU colleagues to lead international and trans-disciplinary projects, inherent to the nature and breadth of climate research.

A geoscientist by training, Emilie has been conducting glaciology field research on ocean-atmosphere-anthroposphere-cryosphere linkages in polar and low latitudes regions, working in Adélie Land (East Antarctica), the European High Arctic (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Island), the European Alps, and the Peruvian Andes. Before joining the OSU Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group (L. Thompson’s lab) as a postdoctoral fellow, she earned her Ph.D. at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland), investigating the environmental signal contained in snow, firn and multi-century ice core records from Svalbard. Prior to her graduate studies, she held the position of manager of the Glaciology Laboratory at the Dumont D’Urville station in Adélie Land and became the 10^th French woman to overwinter in Antarctica.