Professor of Glaciology
University of BristolAntarctica, Earth Observation, Geoscience, Glaciers, Greenland, Ice Sheets, Melting Ice, Oceans, Satellite Remote Sensing
Jonathan Bamber is a Professor of Glaciology and Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol. He is an expert on the ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland - and their contribution to sea level. He also has more than 35 years’ experience of remote sensing, mapping, monitoring and recording the shifts in land ice patterns across the polar regions. He has published extensively in the general field of geodesy, covering the mapping of the surface topography of the Earth, sea level variations in time and space, and measuring mass exchange between the land and oceans due to melting of land ice and the hydrological cycle. Jonathan has published more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics and has been acknowledged as a Highly Cited Researcher for the last two years by the Institute for Scientific Information. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the only non-North American recipient in his science discipline. He has also served as President of the European Geosciences Union. In 2020, the government of the British Antarctic Territory named a glacier after Bamber in recognition of his contribution to Antarctic research. Jonathan holds a BSC in Physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Glaciology and Remote Sensing from the University of Cambridge. Accomplishments: 2016 - Elected President, European Geosciences Union 2018 - 2020 - Named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 200 scientists in geosciences worldwide 2019 - Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union Publications: 09/01/2020 - Can We Resolve the Basin鈥怱cale Sea Level Trend Budget From GRACE Ocean Mass?, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 16/01/2020 - Sea level budgets should account for ocean bottom deformation, Geophysical Research Letters 27/01/2020 - Complex evolving patterns of mass loss from Antarctica’s largest glacier, Nature Geoscience 12/06/2020 - CryoSat Ice Baseline-D validation and evolutions, The Cryosphere 25/06/2020 - Measuring the location and width of the Antarctic grounding zone using CryoSat-2, The Cryosphere You can find out more about Jonathan on his University of Bristol staff profile at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jonathan-Bamber-5ae88269-7462-4eb3-a793-36833a74bfcd/ Jonathan can be found on Twitter at @jlbamber.
Climate Change, Data Science, Earth Observation, Glaciology, Hydrology, Satellites, Science Communication, Water Resources
Sarah Cooley鈥檚 research focuses on dynamic hydrologic change using satellite data. She is particularly interested in global water resources, Arctic surface hydrology and Arctic coastal change and its impact on communities. Her research uses new satellite technologies, including both NASA and commercial satellite data to study a wide range of topics including global water storage variability, shorefast sea ice breakup, Arctic lake area dynamics, and pan-Arctic river ice breakup. She has also participated in numerous field campaigns across Greenland, Northern Canada and Alaska. Her current research is funded by NASA Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Among her many accolades, Cooley was a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a NASA New Investigators Program in Earth Science Awardee. Cooley has a PhD in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences from Brown University, an MPhil in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BS in geophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University as part of the inaugural cohort of Stanford Science Fellows.