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Lost a major scientist recently but hers is a name that is not as well known as it should be. From the UK Telegraph:
Saskia Jelgersma
Saskia Jelgersma, who has died aged 82, was a Dutch geologist who revolutionised the investigation of sea-level changes, developing a methodology that is now employed by all serious researchers; the field is central to the ongoing debate about the potentially devastating consequences of global warming.

She was best known for her doctoral thesis on Holocene Sea Level changes in the Netherlands, published in 1961 in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of The Netherlands. The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years of the Earth�s history � the time since the end of the last ice age. Saskia Jelgersma presented her data in the form of a curve, showing that sea levels rose sharply until about 4000 BC. By then the ice caps on North America and Scandinavia had melted, so the rate of sea level rise slowed.
She was given an award for her lifetime of work:
For her contributions to coastal and sea-level science Saskia Jelgersma was awarded the Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal. The medal was presented to her at a 1997 symposium in Amsterdam on �Sea Level and science fiction�. The title was hers and reflected her disdain for the sea level projections of the IPCC which, in her view, were based on computer models bereft of empirically-based geological evidence.
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