Martijn Woltering

Martijn Woltering (RECS 2009) is a Ph.D. candidate in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the development on sedimentary processes and new methods to reconstruct past climate using biomarkers from Lake Sediments. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Analytical Chemistry in the Netherlands where at one of his internships at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research he worked on the research involving potential iron fertilization of the southern ocean as a way to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. After obtaining his Bachelors degree he worked for as a Research Assistant at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in oceanography, biogeochemistry and climate reconstructions. He decided to go back to grad school and obtained a Master degree in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota, a very interdisciplinary program focused on combining the knowledge of biology, chemistry, geology and policy in his research and produced a ~75,000 year temperature record from sediment cores from Lake Malawi. This lead to pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Minnesota.