Prof Andrea Burke

Prof Andrea Burke

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 4015
Email
ab276@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research areas

Climate Change and what we can learn from the environmental history of our planet

My research focuses on the forcings and mechanisms of climate and carbon cycle change through geochemical records and modellling of past climatic events. My group makes geochemical measurements on samples from ice cores, corals, and marine sediment cores to understand the forcings and responses of the Earth system on timescales ranging from recent history to millions of years ago. My research interests are wide ranging: from volcanic forcing of climate with implications for the climate sensitivity to sulfate aerosols, to ocean circulation and biogeochemical changes, with implications for carbon cycling and benthic ecosystem resilience.

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PhD supervision

  • MeganÌýPelly
  • MauricioÌýSantos-Andrade
  • CelesteÌýSmith
  • MengwenÌýYang

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Svensson, A., Vettoretti, G., Lin, J.-M., Sinnl, G., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P., Rasmussen, S. O., Vinther, B., Hvidberg, C., Kjær, H. A., Gkinis, V., Cook, E., Lohmann, J., Melcher, J. O., Halkjær, S., Kipfstuhl, S., Wilhelms, F., Adolphi, F., Fischer, H. & Bigler, M. & 17 others, Sigl, M., Landais, A., Bouchet, M., Klüssendorf, A., Parrenin, F., Mulvaney, R., Wolff, E., Burke, A., Innes, H., Severi, M., Buizert, C., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N., Wensman, S., Beer, J., Oyabu, I. & Muscheler, R., 1 Mar 2026, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 375, 21 p., 109755.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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    Innes, H., Hutchison, W., Sigl, M., Crick, L., Abbott, P. M., Bigler, M., Chellman, N. J., Davies, S. M., Kutterolf, S., McConnell, J. R., Severi, M., Sparks, R. S. J., Svensson, A., Wolff, E. W., Rae, J. W. B. & Burke, A., 22 Feb 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 6, 11 p., 137.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Fischer, H., Burke, A., Rae, J. W. B., Sugden, P. J., Erhardt, T., Twarloh, B., Hörhold, M., Freitag, J., Markle, B., Severi, M., Hansson, M., Savarino, J., Pryer, H., Doyle, E. & Wolff, E., 3 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Geoscience. Online, 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Yu, Y., Sugden, P., Steele, R. C. J., Nuruzzama, M. & Burke, A., 6 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. Early View, 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Trudgill, M., Rae, J. W. B., Whiteford, R., Adloff, M., Crumpton-Banks, J., Van Mourik, M., Burke, A., Cuperus, M., Corsetti, F., Doherty, D., Gray, W., Greenop, R., Hong, W.-L., Lepland, A., McIntyre, A., Neiroukh, N., Rose, C. V., Ruhl, M., Saunders, D. & Siri, M. M. F. R. & 5 others, Steele, R. C. J., Stüeken, E. E., West, A. J., Ziegler, M. & Greene, S. E., 14 Jul 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 11 p., 6471.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Shankle, M. G., MacGilchrist, G. A., Gray, W. R., de Lavergne, C., Menviel, L. C., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 17 Sept 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 13 p., 8279.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Hutchison, W., Sugden, P., Burke, A., Abbott, P., Ponomareva, V. V., Dirksen, O., Portnyagin, M. V., MacInnes, B., Bourgeois, J., Fitzhugh, B., Verkerk, M., Aubry, T. J., Engwell, S. L., Svensson, A., Chellman, N. J., McConnell, J. R., Davies, S., Sigl, M. & Plunkett, G., 7 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122, 1, 10 p., e2416699122.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Colombier, M., Bonifacie, M., Brenna, M., Burke, A., Cimarelli, C., Cronin, S. J., Delmelle, P., Dingwell, D. B., Hess, K.-U., Huebsch, M., Kula, T., Latu'ila, F., Lavallée, Y., Mann, G. W., Mather, T. A., Paredes-Mariño, J., Plank, T., Scheu, B., Sun, Y.-J. & Taracsák, Z. & 5 others, Tegtmeier, S., Thivet, S., Toohey, M., Ukstins, I. & Wu, J., 1 Dec 2025, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 671, p. 119690 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Xu, C., Jurikova, H., Nuber, S., Steele, R. C. J., Trudgill, M. D., Barker, S., Lear, C. H., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 29 Jan 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 2, 13 p., e2023GC011228.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P. M., Behrens, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Óladóttir, B. A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J. T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B. & Sigl, M., 10 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 194.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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