I am a researcher in paleoclimate modelling at the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney. I am interested in using climate models to reconstruct past warm climates from ‘deep time’. I have previously created simulations of the Eocene-Oligocene transition (34 million years ago) when the Antarctic ice sheet first formed, and the Early Eocene (55 million years ago), super-warm greenhouse world. I am extending this work to investigate snapshots of the Oligocene and Miocene (~30 and ~15 million years ago). These climates act as great analogues of future climate change, spanning a wide range of CO2 levels and global temperatures that we may encounter in the 21st century.