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Lauren Burton

Lauren Burton

  • Email: eeleb@leeds.ac.uk
  • Thesis title: The importance of CO₂ forcing in the Pliocene and its implications for the future
  • Supervisor: Professor Alan Haywood, Dr Aisling Dolan, Dr Daniel Hill, Dr Julia Tindall

Profile

I am a fourth-year PhD student in the School of Earth and Environment researching the climate of the Pliocene epoch (~3 million years ago) and its relevance to future climate change. I am part of the Earth Surface Science Institute and the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, and funded by the NERC Panorama DTP. 

I helped to develop the experimental design of the third phase of the Pliocene Modelling Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP3) and sit on the advisory board as the Early Career Representative.

Alongside my PhD I am a Communications and Engagement Intern at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures. I lead on the ‘Ask A Climate Researcher’ series and continue to run climate engagement events at the University.

Research interests

My research considers the role of CO₂ forcing in the Pliocene and its implications for the future, as well as what this means for using the Pliocene as an ‘analogue’ for our warmer future. 

Teaching

  • SOEE5540 – Climate Change: the Physical Science Basis
  • SOEE5860 – Physical Climate Change, Impacts and Mitigations

Presentations

2023

2022

Qualifications

  • MSc Climate Change, University of East Anglia
  • BA Geography, University of Oxford

Research groups and institutes

  • Palaeo@Leeds
  • Earth Surface Science Institute
  • Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science