11 Facts About Gideon Henderson

Gideon Mark Henderson FRS was born on 1968 and is a British geochemist whose research focuses on low-temperature geochemistry, the carbon cycle, the oceans, and on understanding the mechanisms driving climate change.

Gideon Henderson went to Altwood Church of England School in Maidenhead, graduated in earth sciences from Hertford College, Oxford, and gaining a PhD at St John's College, Cambridge supervised by Professor Sir Keith O'Nions.

Gideon Henderson is a senior research fellow at University College, Oxford, and an Oxford Martin Expert at the Oxford Martin School.

Gideon Henderson's research relies on the application of trace element and isotope variations in nature to understand processes in the surface-Earth system, particularly in ocean, climate, and carbon systems.

Gideon Henderson's work makes extensive use of the isotopes created by decay of natural uranium to assess the rates and timing of environmental processes.

Gideon Henderson has been a pioneer in the use of novel isotope systems, particularly lithium, calcium, cadmium, and barium isotopes.

Gideon Henderson's work uses the record of past climate captured by the chemistry of sediments and stalagmites to understand processes in the climate system that are hard to understand from present climate alone.

Gideon Henderson led the group that wrote the 2017 Royal Society report, "Future Ocean Resources".

Gideon Henderson was a founding director of the Oxford Geoengineering programme, and a member of the steering committee for the NERC Public Dialogue on Geoengineering.

Gideon Henderson's work led to the rejection of many proposed mechanisms of glacial-interglacial CO2 cycles and to the realisation that these are driven by processes in the southern ocean.

Gideon Henderson bridged the gap between modellers and geochemists in developing ocean circulation calculations that mimic proxy data and leading a new international initiative to understand ocean compositions.