Rate My Professor Nancy Bertler

Bertler's research focuses on paleoclimatology, utilizing ice cores from coastal Antarctic regions to reconstruct past climate variability, sea ice dynamics, and ice sheet responses, particularly in the Ross Sea sector. As Chief Scientist, she led the multinational Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) project, which produced an 83,000-year ice core record published in 2020 in Climate of the Past. Other significant publications include 'Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice' (2021, Nature Geoscience), 'Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP' (2023, Nature Communications), and 'Aeolian dust and diatoms at Roosevelt Island (Ross Sea, Antarctica) over the last 2 millennia' (2025, Climate of the Past). She has authored or co-authored 39 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to international efforts like the International TransAntarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE). Bertler received the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2011 and the Blake Leader Award from the Sir Peter Blake Trust in 2016 for her leadership in climate research and environmental advocacy. Her work has advanced global understanding of Antarctic climate history and its implications for future sea-level rise and climate modeling.