Dr. Daniel Burt

Since 2024-11 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend, Belgium

2024-06 to 2024-09 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

2020-01 to 2024-06 PhD Candidate at the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg, Germany

2017 - 2020 MSc Integrated Climate System Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2013 - 2017 BSc (Hons) Marine Science, University of the Highlands and Islands, United Kingdom

I am an ocean biogeochemist specialising in the carbon and nitrogen cycles, their variability and interactions with climate. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Past, Present and Future Marine Climate Change Group of Dr Peter Landschützer at the Flanders Marine Institute in Oostende, Belgium. This follows a short postdoctoral researcher position with the Ocean Biogeochemistry group of Prof. Dr Tatiana Ilyina of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany after completing my Doctorate of Natural Sciences with the International Max Planck Research School for Earth System Modelling.

In my current postdoctoral position, I am working towards the reconstruction of ocean heat and carbon fluxes and transport in the Southern Ocean from existing sparse and unevenly distributed in-situ observations and satellite-based data products as part of the European AI4PEX project. My recent doctoral studies focused on the latest Permian climate-state in advance of the End-Permian Mass Extinction as part of the German Research Foundation research group: TERSANE II.

My approach to research is driven by a deep curiosity about the natural world and a commitment to advancing our understanding of critical biogeochemical processes. I believe in the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of diverse methodologies to tackle complex scientific questions. My mission is to advance research into carbon and nitrogen cycling and their roles in the Earth system by leveraging a combination of observations, modelling, and machine learning-based approaches.

Burt, D.J., Fröb, F. and Ilyina, T. (2021) The Sensitivity of the Marine Carbonate System to Regional Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement. Frontiers in Climate. 3:624075. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2021.624075

Day, J.G., Burt, D.J., Achilles-Day, U.E.M. and Stanley, M.S. (2015) Future algal biofuels: implications of environmental temperature on production strain selection. International Journal of Ambient Energy, 36 (5), pp. 248-252, doi: 10.1080/01430750.2013.864584