Karen Helen Wiltshire

Karen Helen Wiltshire is an Irish and German Climate and Marine Scientist. She is Professor of Climate Science at Trinity College Dublin.

Her career has spanned leadership roles in major international scientific institutions - GKSS Geesthacht, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, University of Groningen, Netherlands and the Max Planck Institute of Limnology, Germany. In her research capacity she rescued the renowned North Sea "Helgoland Roads Time Series" linking the immense data set to international data bases and models and showing marine ecosystem change due to climate and environmental factors.

She studies the North Sea and the Arctic shelf seas to determine how climate change and increased use by humans are affecting the structure and functions of the various coastal ecosystems, and the extent to which the organisms living there can adapt to change.

Recent affiliations:
Professorial Fellow, Trinity College Dublin https://www.tcd.ie/secretary/fellows-and-scholars/fellowship/#kwiltshire.
Professor of Climate Science
Climate Chair, Faculty of STEM
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, AWI.
Vice-Director of Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Director of Biological Station Helgoland und Wadden Sea Station Sylt. AWI -Head of PACES TOPIC COASTS. Head of Shelf Sea Systems Ecology (since 2009).
Professor of Shelf Sea Ecology University