David Hodell is Woodwardian Professor of Geology and Director of the Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Clare College.
He is a geochemist who studies Earth’s past climate. He has led many drilling expeditions of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and field excursions to collect marine and lake sediment cores and speleothems for palaeoclimate reconstructions. His research has demonstrated how past climate change affected ancient civilisations, such as the Maya and Indus Valley. He has also made key contributions to understanding the Ice Age cycles of the Quaternary and their relationship to Earth’s orbit -- for which he was awarded the Milutin Milanković Medal of the European Geophysical Union. More recent work has focused on the causes of rapid (millennial) climatic changes during the Quaternary using the extraordinary sedimentary archive preserved below the seafloor of the Iberian margin.
He is a fellow of the Geological Society of London, American Geophysical Union, and American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences.
Professional position
- Woodwardian Professor of Geology and Director, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Subject groups
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biogeochemical cycles, Climate sciences, Geochemistry, Geology
