Prof Andrea Burke

Prof Andrea Burke

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 4015
Email
ab276@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Climate Change and what we can learn from the environmental history of our planet

My research focuses on the forcings and mechanisms of natural climate and carbon cycle change through geochemical records of past climatic events. My group makes geochemical measurements on samples from ice cores, corals, and marine sediment cores to understand the forcings and responses of our climate system on timescales ranging from recent history to millions of years ago.

You can read more about my research at my website: https://www.drandreaburke.com/

PhD supervision

  • Megan Pelly
  • Mauricio Santos-Andrade
  • Celeste Smith
  • Mengwen Yang

Selected publications

  • Open access

    Bipolar volcanic ice-core synchronization of the entire last glacial period  

    Svensson, A., Vettoretti, G., Lin, J.-M., Sinnl, G., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P., Rasmussen, S. O., Vinther, B., Hvidberg, C., Kjær, H. A., Gkinis, V., Cook, E., Lohmann, J., Melcher, J. O., Halkjær, S., Kipfstuhl, S., Wilhelms, F., Adolphi, F., Fischer, H. & Bigler, M. & 17 others, Sigl, M., Landais, A., Bouchet, M., Klüssendorf, A., Parrenin, F., Mulvaney, R., Wolff, E., Burke, A., Innes, H., Severi, M., Buizert, C., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N., Wensman, S., Beer, J., Oyabu, I. & Muscheler, R., 1 Mar 2026, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 375, 21 p., 109755.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact

    Innes, H., Hutchison, W., Sigl, M., Crick, L., Abbott, P. M., Bigler, M., Chellman, N. J., Davies, S. M., Kutterolf, S., McConnell, J. R., Severi, M., Sparks, R. S. J., Svensson, A., Wolff, E. W., Rae, J. W. B. & Burke, A., 22 Feb 2025, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 6, 11 p., 137.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination

    Fischer, H., Burke, A., Rae, J. W. B., Sugden, P. J., Erhardt, T., Twarloh, B., Hörhold, M., Freitag, J., Markle, B., Severi, M., Hansson, M., Savarino, J., Pryer, H., Doyle, E. & Wolff, E., 3 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Geoscience. Online, 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Overcoming polyatomic interferences in sulfur isotope analysis using MC-ICP-MS

    Yu, Y., Sugden, P., Steele, R. C. J., Nuruzzama, M. & Burke, A., 6 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. Early View, 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

    Trudgill, M., Rae, J. W. B., Whiteford, R., Adloff, M., Crumpton-Banks, J., Van Mourik, M., Burke, A., Cuperus, M., Corsetti, F., Doherty, D., Gray, W., Greenop, R., Hong, W.-L., Lepland, A., McIntyre, A., Neiroukh, N., Rose, C. V., Ruhl, M., Saunders, D. & Siri, M. M. F. R. & 5 others, Steele, R. C. J., Stüeken, E. E., West, A. J., Ziegler, M. & Greene, S. E., 14 Jul 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 11 p., 6471.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific

    Shankle, M. G., MacGilchrist, G. A., Gray, W. R., de Lavergne, C., Menviel, L. C., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 17 Sept 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 13 p., 8279.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    The 1831 CE mystery eruption identified as Zavaritskii caldera, Simushir Island (Kurils)

    Hutchison, W., Sugden, P., Burke, A., Abbott, P., Ponomareva, V. V., Dirksen, O., Portnyagin, M. V., MacInnes, B., Bourgeois, J., Fitzhugh, B., Verkerk, M., Aubry, T. J., Engwell, S. L., Svensson, A., Chellman, N. J., McConnell, J. R., Davies, S., Sigl, M. & Plunkett, G., 7 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122, 1, 10 p., e2416699122.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    The role of submarine volcanism in atmospheric chemistry

    Colombier, M., Bonifacie, M., Brenna, M., Burke, A., Cimarelli, C., Cronin, S. J., Delmelle, P., Dingwell, D. B., Hess, K.-U., Huebsch, M., Kula, T., Latu'ila, F., Lavallée, Y., Mann, G. W., Mather, T. A., Paredes-Mariño, J., Plank, T., Scheu, B., Sun, Y.-J. & Taracsák, Z. & 5 others, Tegtmeier, S., Thivet, S., Toohey, M., Ukstins, I. & Wu, J., 1 Dec 2025, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 671, p. 119690 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    A rapid, simple, and low-blank pumped ion-exchange column chromatography technique for boron purification from carbonate and seawater matrices

    Xu, C., Jurikova, H., Nuber, S., Steele, R. C. J., Trudgill, M. D., Barker, S., Lear, C. H., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 29 Jan 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 2, 13 p., e2023GC011228.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period

    Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P. M., Behrens, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Óladóttir, B. A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J. T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B. & Sigl, M., 10 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 194.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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