Emilie Beaudon

Emilie Beaudon is an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on paleoclimatology and geochemistry, particularly using ice cores to study climate and environmental changes. She specializes in analyzing pollution transport pathways, mineral dust records, and paleofire histories in high-altitude regions like the Tibetan Plateau, Himalayas, and the Peruvian Andes.

Education: PhD (Chemistry) from University of Oulu (Finland, 2013); MSc (Earth Sciences) from Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France, 2004). Her postdoctoral work at the Byrd Polar Research Center (2013) explored atmospheric contamination in remote regions using high-resolution geochemical techniques.

Research interests include:

• Paleoenvironmental reconstruction via ice cores
• Climate variability and human-induced pollution impacts
• Mineral dust provenance and paleowind patterns
• ENSO and monsoon dynamics
• Fire history and radiative forcing

Her work combines elemental, isotopic, and black carbon analyses to trace environmental changes over centuries. Recent studies highlight increasing fire activity in Alaska, industrial-era pollution in the Himalayas, and ENSO influences on Peruvian ice fields.

Awards: 2013 Byrd Polar postdoctoral fellowship.

Labs/Teams: Member of the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group at Ohio State University.