CV


Employment 

University of St Andrews, Sept 2013 - present
Lecturer in Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
California Institute of Technology, March 2012 – present
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Global Environmental Science
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2012
Postdoctoral Investigator and visiting researcher at University of Bristol
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sept. 2006 – Apr. 2007; May 2010 – Sept. 2011
Graduate Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2007 – April 2010
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow


Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joint Program in Oceanography, Cambridge/Woods Hole, MA, 2006-2011
·  Thesis: Constraining Circulation Changes Through the Last Deglaciation with Sedimentary 231Pa/230Th and Deep-Sea Coral Radiocarbon
·  Thesis advisors: Drs. Laura Robinson and Olivier Marchal
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2002-2006
·  Bachelor of Arts in Geology and Mathematics; Magna Cum Laude
·  Highest Honors in Geology
·  Thesis: The Effect of the Monsoon on Coccolithophorid Productivity in the Bay of Bengal
·  Thesis advisors: Drs. Heather Stoll and David Dethier

Awards and Honors

Stanback Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, 2011
Best Student Paper at 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography, 2010                       
Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Paleoceanography, 2010           
Student Travel Grant, Goldschmidt Conference, 2010
NSF Graduate Fellow, 2007-2010
Phi Beta Kappa, 2006
Sigma Xi, 2006 

Peer-reviewed Publications

Thiagarajan, N., Gerlach, D., Roberts, M., Burke, A., McNichol, A., Jenkins, W., Subhas, A., Thresher, R., and Adkins, J. (2013 ) Movement of deep-sea coral populations on climatic timescales. Paleoceanography. DOI: 10.1002/palo.20023
Longworth, B.E., Robinson, L.F., Roberts, M.L., Beaupre, S.R., Burke, A., and Jenkins, W.J. (2013). Carbonate as sputter target material for rapid 14C AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 294, Pages 328–334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2012.05.014
Auro, M., Robinson, L.F., Burke, A., Bradtmiller, L.I., Fleischer, M.Q., and Anderson, R.F.  (2012). Improvements to 232-thorium, 230-thorium, and 231-protactinium analysis arising from GEOTRACES intercalibration, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 10: 464-474.
Burke, A., and L.F. Robinson (2012). The Southern Ocean’s role in carbon exchange during the last deglaciation. Science, 335 (6068): 557-561.
Bhatia, M. P., Das, S. B., Kujawinski, E. B., Henderson, P., Burke, A., and Charette, M. A. (2011).  Seasonal evolution of water source contributions to subglacial outflow: Insight from a new isotope-mixing model. Journal of Glaciology, 57 (205): 929-941.
Burke, A., Marchal, O., Bradtmiller, L., Francois, R., and McManus, J. (2011). Application of an inverse method to interpret 231Pa/230Th observations from marine sediments. Paleoceanography, 26, PA1212, doi:10.1029/2010PA002022.
McIntyre, C. P., Burton, J., Burke, A., Robinson, L. F., McNichol, A. P., Jenkins, W. J., von Reden, K. F., and Roberts, M. L. (2011). Rapid radiocarbon analysis of coral and carbonate samples using a continuous-flow accelerator mass spectrometry (CFAMS) system. Paleoceanography, 26, PA4212, doi:10.1029/2011PA002174.
Burke, A., Robinson, L.F., McNichol, A.P., Jenkins, W. J., Scanlon, K. M., and Gerlach, D.S. (2010). Reconnaissance dating: a new radiocarbon method applied to assessing the temporal distribution of Southern Ocean deep-sea corals. Deep-Sea Research I, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.07.010.
Bockheim, J. G., Kurz, M.D., Soule, S. A., and Burke, A. (2009). Genesis of active sand-filled polygons in lower and central Beacon Valley, Antarctica.  Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 20(3): 295-308.
Gilbert, L. A., and Burke, A. (2008). Depth-shifting cores incompletely recovered from the upper oceanic crust, IODP Hole 1256D, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q08O11, doi:10.1029/2008GC002010.
Stoll, H.M., Arevalos, A., Burke, A., Ziveri, P., Mortyn, P.G., Shimizu, N. and Unger, D. (2007). Seasonal cycles in biogenic production and export in Northern Bay of Bengal sediment traps.  Deep Sea Research II, 54, 558-580.


Conference Presentations (* denotes oral presentation)


Burke, A. (invited)*, Adkins, J.F., Ferrari, R., Robinson, L.F., Stewart, A.L., and Thompson, A.F.  Radiocarbon and Overturning Circulation in the Glacial Southern Ocean. 11th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Sitges, Spain, September 2013.
Burke, A.*, Adkins, J.F., Gaillardet, J, Holmes, R.M., McClelland,J.W., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Robinson, L.F., Spencer, R.G.M., and Voss, B.M.  Constraining the modern riverine sulfur isotopic budget. Goldschmidt Conference, Florence, Italy, August 2013.
Burke, A.*, Robinson, L.F., and Adkins, J.F.  Glacial and deglacial radiocarbon in the Drake Passage. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2012.
Burke, A.*  and Robinson, L.F. Modern and deglacial radiocarbon depth profiles from the Southern Ocean.  Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
Burke, A.*, Robinson, L.F., and White, N.J. Mixing of radiocarbon from high-latitude oceans through the atmosphere and ocean during the last deglaciation. Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2011.
Burke, A., and Robinson L. F., Deep-sea coral reconstructions of Southern Ocean radiocarbon through the last deglaciation. 10th International Conference on Paleoceanography, San Diego, CA, August 2010.
Burke, A.*, and Robinson, L.F. Southern Ocean radiocarbon through the last deglaciation as reconstructed from deep-sea corals.  Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN, June 2010.
Burke, A., Robinson, L.F., McNichol, A.P., Jenkins, W. J., and Gerlach, D.S. Radiocarbon age-surveys of Southern Ocean deep-sea corals.  20th International Radiocarbon Conference, Kona, HI, May 2009.
Burke, A., Robinson, L.F., McNichol, A.P., Jenkins, W. J., and Gerlach, D.S.  A rapid radiocarbon method for age-surveys of Southern Ocean deep-sea corals.  AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2008.
Burke, A.*, Marchal, O., and Francois, R. Application of an inverse method to interpret 231Pa/230Th observations from marine sediments.  Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, CA, June 2008.
Burke, A.*, Marchal, O., and Francois, R.  North Atlantic abyssal circulation during Heinrich Event 1.  AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
Burke, A., Stoll, H., Vance, D., Arevalos, A., and Shimizu, N.  Glacial/Interglacial variations in the range of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and the resulting changes in paleoproductivity in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2007.
Burke, A., Arevalos, A., Zeren, S., Ziveri, P., Shimizu, N., and Stoll, H.M. Coccolith chemistry as a proxy of coccolithophorid productivity response to monsoon cycles. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2005.
Burke, A. , Arevalos, A.,  Zeren, S., Stoll, H.M. and Ziveri, P.   Monsoon-induced changes in coccolithophorid primary productivity in the Bay of Bengal.  Northeastern Section Meeting of Geological Society of America, Saratoga Springs NY, March 2005.  

Invited Talks

·  University of California-Santa Barbara Department Seminar, Nov. 2013
· Plenary session on “Reading the paleo-record: From proxy development to application” at the 11th International Conference on Paleoceanography in Sitges, Spain, Sept. 2013
· Paleo-environment Seminar at the University of Southern California, Mar. 2013
·  Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Isotope seminar, Mar. 2013
· Caltech/Jet Propulsion Lab Forum on the Southern Ocean, Aug. 2012
· Mass-Spectrometry and Isotope Geochemistry seminar at Imperial College London, Jan. 2012

Field Campaigns

Drake Passage Research Cruise NBP11-03, May 2011 – June 2011
            ·  Sorted and catalogued deep-sea coral fossils and biological specimens from dredges, collected seawater samples for radiocarbon analyses, measured seawater alkalinity
Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Dec 2007 – Jan 2008
· Collected rock samples for cosmogenic isotope dating, dug soil and permafrost pits and made stratigraphic cross-sections, assisted with collection of LIDAR data                       
St. John’s, US Virgin Islands, Jan 2004
            · Mapped a fringing coral reef, identified coral and algal species, created bathymetric and substrate maps




 

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