We work with explorers who live and work in icy regions to send polar postcards to inner city schools. Each postcard captures a personal tale that is relived by the lucky students who receive them.
2023
OTOSAKA
Introducing Dr. Inès Otosaka! Imagine her as an investigator, but for ice! Dr. Inès is a Lecturer at Northumbria University, working at the NERC Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling (CPOM), having worked previously at the University of Leeds. Her remarkable work revolves around analysing special data gathered by satellites and airplanes to comprehend the changes occurring in the immense ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica – these are like colossal ice mountains!
She holds a significant role as the project scientist for the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE), a large scientific collaboration where many experts join forces, much like a team of superheroes. Their combined efforts help decipher the extent of ice melt and alterations, providing crucial insights into how these changes influence sea levels. This knowledge is vital for understanding the impact of ice sheets on our planet.
Thus, Dr. Inès is not merely a scientist; she is an ice detective, unravelling the mysteries of the polar ice world and enlightening us about how it shapes our world!
NICHOLS
Meet Dr. Keir A. Nichols, a glacial geologist who's like a time-travelling detective of the ice world! Dr. Nichols is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London. He's on a fascinating mission to uncover the secrets of glaciers, especially those enormous ones in Antarctica, and figure out how they've changed over the last 20,000 years. That's like going back in time and watching glaciers in action!
He works at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, which is pretty much like the HQ for studying the Earth's icy past. Dr. Nichols is a super scholar too; he has a Ph.D. from Tulane University, a master's degree from Keele University, and a bachelor's degree from Aberystwyth University. That's a lot of learning!
Dr. Nichols' research is vital because it helps us understand how these glaciers affect the rise of sea levels in the future. It's like putting together pieces of a giant ice puzzle to protect our planet. So, he's not just a scientist; he's an ice-history detective helping us predict the future.