Maureen Raymo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maureen Raymo

Paleoclimatologist

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1959

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: geologist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Maureen E.
Raymo is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist.
She is the Bruce C.
Heezen/Lamont Research Professor and the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.Raymo has done pioneering work on ice ages, the geologic temperature record, and climate, examining and theorizing about global cooling and warming and transitions in ice age cycles.
Her work underlies fundamental ideas in paleoceanography including the uplift weathering hypothesis, the "41,000-year problem", the Pliocene sea-level paradox, and the Lisiecki-Raymo d18O stack.Among other awards and honors, Raymo became in 2014 the first woman to win the Wollaston Medal for geology, which had been awarded for 183 years at the time.
She was described in her nomination as "..
one of the foremost and influential figures in the last 30 years".