Katherine Richardson, PhD
Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Sustainability Science Centre (Denmark); Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (Denmark)
Katherine, in polar fleece and in front of a blurry ocean, laughs into the camera.
What’s the work that you do?
I study interactions between climate and ocean ecosystems and biodiversity with a focus on plankton and what these interactions mean for carbon stocks and flows in the Earth System.
What keeps you going?
Curiosity and good colleagues! Not to mention the satisfaction of “solving a puzzle”, i.e. answering a research question!
What’s your message to the world?
It’s not enough to do science and produce research results! We scientists also have to be able to place our research – like a piece of a puzzle – in the context of the Earth System and to demonstrate how our research can contribute to societal transformation.
Organisation: Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Sustainability Science Centre (Denmark); Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society (Denmark)
Nationality:
Denmark