Anna Nele Meckler is a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bergen, and is also affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
She specialises in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, and leads multiple grants to develop new techniques to reconstruct past temperatures, most importantly clumped isotope thermometry.
By analysing speleothems Meckler's team can identify how past levels of CO2 in the atmosphere correlate with temperature changes, which gives essential knowledge for predicting future climate change.
[1] Following her Master of Geoecology at the University of Bayreuth, Meckler completed her PhD dissertation in paleo-oceanography in 2006 at ETH Zurich, with Gerald Haug and Daniel Sigman as her supervisors.
[2] She continued to work there as a postdoctoral researcher, and then spent two years at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at California Institute of Technology, followed by a year as a guest researcher at the University of Oslo, and a second period at ETH Zurich, where she held a Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.