Eloise Littley is a postdoc in the MERS group at ICTA-UAB with a two year fellowship in the Maria de Maeztu unit of excellence program. She has a lifelong interest in climate and the environment, growing up in the British countryside. In 2015, she graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Geoscience. Here she began to focus her work on oceanic and coastal systems, looking at nutrient dynamics, redox and marine pollution in her undergraduate thesis. Her PhD, with the STAiG group at the University of St Andrews, examined the role of the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean in abrupt climate change during the last glacial period. Using boron isotope and trace element techniques she was able to build a comprehensive picture of CO2 storage, ocean circulation and sea ice dynamics in the region.