Kate Sinclair is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the New Zealand Ice Core Programme. She is working on developing a chronology of climate and atmospheric circulation from an Antarctic ice core drilled at the Whitehall Glacier, Ross Sea Region. Kate’s main focus is on understanding climatic changes in polar regions on decadal to century-long time scales, but she is also interested in alpine glaciology and contemporary processes in mountain systems.

Kate completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she studied stable isotope stratigraphies in Rocky Mountain snowpacks. Her interest in polar science began in 1998, when she visited the Dry Valleys, Antarctica for her Masters fieldwork. She returned to the continent in 2002 to tutor a graduate course in Antarctic Studies; assisted with a field programme on Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic) in 2006, and is looking forward to drilling a new ice core in coming seasons with the N.Z. programme.