Eelco Rohling (scientist)

Eelco Rohling (born 1963, Heiloo) is a Dutch-born geologist specialising in ocean and climate change. He currently is Professor at The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), and has a secondary affiliation at the University of Southampton (UK).
== Academic career and research ==
Rohling studied Geology at Utrecht University (BSc, 1984; MSc, 1987; PhD, 1991). He works on ocean and climate change through Earth history, with specific interest in abrupt natural climate changes in the past that may provide context to current climate change. Rohling was awarded the American Geophysical Union Maurice Ewing Medal for advances in the quantification of past sea-level variations and climate sensitivity. Most notably, Rohling's group and their international collaborators discovered how sea-level variations were recorded in detail in the chemical composition of microfossil shells in sea-floor sediments from the Red Sea, which they then used to develop a continuous sea-level record over the last 550,000 years. This record revealed the rates of rise for more than 120 events of global ice-volume reduction, where the rate of rise was known previously for only 1 of these events. Rates of sea-level rise of more than 3 meters per century were found during the last interglacial, the last time sea level (because of natural reasons) reached levels higher than today. The findings were also used to quantify the radiative feedback of ice sheets in climate change, which helped place tighter bounds on the sensitivity of temperature to changes in the radiative balance of climate, or climate sensitivity. Rohling's work furthermore advanced understanding of environmental change in the Mediterranean region (including North Africa) and its role in driving the period development of anoxic conditions in Mediterranean deep waters, which caused the deposition of organic-rich sediments called Sapropel|sapropels, as well as interactions between climate change and human (and animal) evolution, dispersal, and societal changes. Rohling has approached these research topics as part of a broader portfolio, which includes ongoing (modern) changes and the urgency and means for society to address modern climate change. 
A list of the major publications underpinning these statements is given below.
Rohling has also published three public-oriented books: The Oceans: a Deep History, The Climate Question: Natural Cycles, Human Impact, Future Outlook, and Rebalancing Our Climate: The Future Starts Today.
== Editorships ==
* Founding Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Open Climate Change, Oxford University Press (2020–Present)
* Editor, AGU, Reviews of Geophysics (2010–2021)
* Editor, AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography (2006–2009) (& Associate Editor 2001–2005) 
* Guest editor/associate editor: 
** AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology (2019-20, Miocene issue)
** AGU, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|Paleoceanography (2018-19, R.C. Thunell memorial issue)
** Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2017-18, H. Elderfield memorial issue)
** Marine Micropalaeontology 40 (2000, Forams’98 issue)
** Marine Geology 153 (1999, R. Kidd & C. Vergnaud-Grazzini memorial issue)
== Awards and honors ==
2021 American Geophysical Union Maurice Ewing Medal
2019 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
2017 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2012 Australian Laureate Fellowship|Australian Laureate Fellow
2010 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
2008 Correspondent (overseas Fellow of Dutch nationality), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science.
Category:1963 births 
Category:Dutch geologists
Category:Utrecht University alumni