User:NotSoLeo/Maureen Raymo

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Maureen Raymo fell in love with the ocean when she was just 7 years old. It was then that she developed the idea to become an oceanographer, so she could study the ocean.

When interviewed about her life outside of her research, Maureen expressed a deep passion for travel and reading literature by William Morris'. In fact, Maureen had featured a piece of one of Morris's botanical artworks in her home (phys.org).

Maureen attended Brown University in Rhode Island. Brown being the place she prosperously attained a Bachelor of Science in Geology in the year 1982. Afterward, Raymo attended Columbia University in New York where she received a Master of Arts in Geology in 1985 and a Master in Philosophy (Geology) in 1988. Furthermore, Maureen received a Ph.D. in Geology in 1989.

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Raymo was one of the principal investigators working alongside other researchers in a multi-institution project on the PLIOMAX Project, which aimed to clarify sea level estimates from the mid-Pliocene period [moraymo projects]. The PLIOMAX Project was a five-year research project funded by the US National Science Foundation, and has published numerous papers on their findings regarding climate changes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene periods [pliomax]. The funding budget for this project was $4,249,966 [Columbia]. Her website details that the goal of the PLIOMAX project seeks to expand data on ice sheets and crustal deformation models for future references on climate studies [moraymo projects].

The "Raymo-Chamberlin Hypothesis" was a working idea that suggested Earth's cooling climate from the past 40 million years was instigated by a significant drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) due to progressed chemical weathering in mountainous regions [eurekalert].

In 1995, Raymo served as a Co-Chief Scientist in the "Ocean Drilling Program Leg 162," in which multiple different drilling sites were created. These drilling sites, south of Iceland, had high-quality samples of sediment, called "core samples." These core samples allowed the research team to gather the first ever insight into the evolution of "sub-Milankovitch climate cycles," which relates to the idea that the Earth experiences long-term climate changes in correlation with it's changing distance and angle from the sun, which was thought to potentially be the reason for the beginning and ends of Ice Ages. The only problem with these Milankovitch cycles is that they do not account for the rapidly increasing temperature, due to the excessive presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the Industrial Revolution.