Dr. Anais Orsi

Biography

Anais Orsi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in polar climate science, focusing on fieldwork in significant locations, innovative lab work, and modeling community interactions to quantify the understanding of polar climate variability over decadal to millennial scales. Orsi's research addresses the risks associated with current global warming, highlighting the polar regions' crucial role in the Earth’s climate system, which are changing dramatically due to anthropogenic climate change. One of her key challenges is the lack of sufficient data to accurately describe climatology trends in these areas. Orsi employs various temperature proxies, including ice cores and isotopes, to develop constrained temperature histories and analyze the mechanisms driving observed climate variability. Her future work aims to expand temperature databases and improve climate reconstructions while utilizing new proxy development techniques. She is primarily engaged in investigating the mechanisms driving modern changes in Arctic humidity, exploring Katabatic winds in Antarctica, and developing new absolute dating techniques for ice cores.

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