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American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maureen E. "Mo" Raymo (born 1959) is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist. She was the Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School,[1](July 2020-June 2023)[2], Director of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Director of the Lamont–Doherty Core Repository at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.[3] She is the first female climate scientist and first female scientist to head the institution.[4] She also planned, led, and taken part in several scientific missions that have required months at sea and on land.
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
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Awards | Wollaston Medal, Milutin Milankovic Medal |
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Fields | Paleoclimatology |
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Raymo has done pioneering work on ice ages, the geologic temperature record, and climate, examining and theorizing about global cooling and warming and transitions in ice age cycles. Her work underlies fundamental ideas in paleoceanography including the uplift weathering hypothesis, the "41,000-year problem", the Pliocene sea-level paradox, and the Lisiecki-Raymo δ18O stack.[5][6][7][8]
Among other awards and honors, Raymo became in 2014 the first woman to win the Wollaston Medal for geology, which had been awarded for 183 years at the time. She was described in her nomination as ".. one of the foremost and influential figures in the last 30 years".[9]