Prof Andrea Burke

Professor

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 climate and carbon cycle change through geochemical records and modellling 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 the Earth system on timescales ranging from recent history to millions of years ago. My research interests are wide ranging: from volcanic forcing of climate with implications for the climate sensitivity to sulfate aerosols, to ocean circulation and biogeochemical changes, with implications for carbon cycling and benthic ecosystem resilience.

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

PhD supervision

Molly Peek
Mauricio Santos-Andrade
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.
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Co-ordinated shifts in deep-water formation and Gulf Stream migration during abrupt climate changes
Zhu, F., Carter-Champion, A., Wharton, J. H., Bracamontes-Ramírez, J., Burke, A., de Menocal, P. B., Fairman, D., Keigwin, L. D., Marchitto, T. M., Papachristopoulou, E., Rae, J. W. B., Rosenthal, Y., Zhao, N. & Thornalley, D. J. R., 11 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. 17, 1, 4966.
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Electron probe microanalysis of extremely fine-grained tephras: new protocols and insights for analyses at the 1 µm scale
Smith, C., Hutchison, W., Buisman, I., Law, S., Lawson, I., Streeter, R. & Burke, A., 25 Sept 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Quaternary Science. Early view, 21 p.
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Precise dating of the 686 ± 2 CE Newberry Pumice eruption and insights into 7th century volcanism from cryptotephra and sulfur isotopes in Greenland ice
Innes, H. M., Hutchison, W., Sigl, M., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N. J., Jensen, B. J. L., Sliwinski, J. T. & Burke, A., 1 Sept 2026, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 387, 16 p., 110036.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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