Cameron Wake

Cameron Wake is a member of the Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space and the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. Dr. Wake's research interests center on the development of climate records through the recovery and analysis of ice cores. Over the past 20 years he has been involved in research expeditions to Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, China, Pakistan, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, and Antarctica. He is currently leading research programs, funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, to develop high resolution, multi-parameter ice core paleoclimate records from glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Canadian Arctic.

He is also involved in the AIRMAP  project, which seeks to improve understanding of New England’s changing climate and air quality and investigate the links among air quality and human health in New England. As part of the Northeast Climate Impact Assessment (NECIA), he co-lead two research papers detailing past and future climate change in the US Northeast, and served as lead editor for a series of 14 papers produced by NECIA scientists that have been published is a special issue of Adaptation and Mitigation of Global Change.