Curriculum vitae
Southern Ocean palaeoceanography across glacial terminations, with an emphasis on multiproxy reconstructions, reproducible chronology and equitable Antarctic field partnerships.
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Short biocontent/cv.yaml · profile.bio.short
Sahana Aster Kōwhai is a fictional palaeoclimatologist whose research reconstructs Southern Ocean change from marine sediment archives.
content/cv.yaml — the profile.bio.short and profile.focus scalars, rendered with the file's own inline grammar (**bold**, _italic_, [text](url)). The same two strings are what scripts/build-cv-data.mjs turns into LaTeX for the PDF.
Appointmentscontent/cv.yaml · appointments[]
- Associate Professor of PalaeoclimatologyŌtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New ZealandKārearea University, School of Earth and Ice Studies
- Cross-appointed affiliate of the Tideglass Research Cooperative.
- Senior Lecturer in Marine Geologynipaluna Hobart, AustraliaAster Coast University, Koru School of Marine RecordsJul 2016 – Jan 2021
content/cv.yaml — appointments[], 2 entries in file order, newest first as written. Keys read: title, org, place, dates, detail, url, items, announced. 1 of 2 entries carries an items list, shown as the bullets under the organisation.
Educationcontent/cv.yaml · education[]
- Ph.D. in Marine GeologyCanberra, AustraliaAster Institute for Earth Records
- Thesis: Foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Southern Ocean warming across Termination I.
- M.Sc. in Earth Sciences (First Class Honours)Cape Town, South AfricaKōwhai Coast University2008 – 2009
- B.Sc. in Geology and OceanographyChennai, IndiaTideglass Ocean Institute2005 – 2008
content/cv.yaml — education[], 3 entries. Keys read: title, org, place, dates, items. The classification in each degree line (cum laude, 110/110) is part of the title string in the file, not added here.
Teachingcontent/cv.yaml · teaching[]
- Kārearea UniversityCourse coordinator and lecturer · Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand · 2021 – Present
| Course | Programme | Topics | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEOL 273 | B.Sc. Geology | Palaeoclimate archives; proxy calibration | 18 |
| GEOL 472 | B.Sc. (Hons) | Marine cores; age-depth modelling | 18 |
| OCEN 405 | M.Sc. Oceanography | Southern Ocean circulation; uncertainty | 20 |
content/cv.yaml — teaching[], 1 entry holding 3 courses in its rows[] table. Each heading line is that entry's org, title, place and dates; each row below it is one row of its rows[], with keys Course, Programme, Topics, Credit points — and those keys, in the order the file writes them, are also the columns of the same table in the printed CV.
Kārearea University: 3 rows. Column names and order are read from each table's first row; the build refuses later rows whose shape differs, so a local term such as points never needs a machinery edit.
Supervisioncontent/cv.yaml · supervision
Current supervision: projects span marine geochemistry, chronology and open polar data.
- Doctoral candidatesPrimary supervisor for two; co-supervisor for two4
- M.Sc. and honours researchersCompleted and current research dissertations9
content/cv.yaml — supervision, written as a map: the note paragraphs above, thenentries[], 2 rows with keys title, count, detail. The counts in the right-hand column are the count field verbatim, open-ended (4, 9) exactly as the file writes them.
Awards and scholarshipscontent/cv.yaml · awards[]
- Early Career Research Excellence AwardKārearea Earth Forum2019
- Tideglass Visiting FellowshipCambridge, United KingdomTideglass Research Cooperative2017
content/cv.yaml — awards[], 2 entries with keys title, org, dates, announced, place. 0 of 2 entries carry an items list.
Leadership and representationcontent/cv.yaml · leadership[]
- Co-chair, Open Polar Data Working GroupTideglass Research Cooperative2024 – Present
- Faculty representative — field notePacific research partnerships committee2022 – 2024
content/cv.yaml — leadership[], 2 entries with keys title, org, dates, announced. It is an ordinary section of the file, and the printed CV prints every section unless the record says otherwise. This one carries printed: false, which is the whole answer to keeping a section on the site and off the PDF.
These sections exist in content/cv.yaml and this page does not render them: strands, service, projects, fieldwork, outreach. The list is derived from the file's own top-level sections minus the ones rendered above. Linked sections have their own pages. Unlinked sections have no dedicated page.
Languagescontent/cv.yaml · languages[]
- TamilNative
- EnglishFluent
- te reo MāoriIntermediate learner
content/cv.yaml — languages[], 3 entries with keys title, detail, in file order. The levels are the file's own words (Native, Fluent, Intermediate learner), not a CEFR scale.