Speakers

Below you can find out more information about the speakers from our APECS World Summit 2018! They are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

• Renuka Badhe

  European Polar Board, Netherlands

  Session: Keynote (18 June from 10:00 - 10:30)

  Bio: To be added soon

• Joao Canario

  University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Session: Terrestrial (18 June from 14:00 - 15:30)

  Bio: João Canário has a degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry. His career has been mainly focused on the fate and biogeochemistry of trace-elements in the environment and more recently he has been working on the chemical characterization of permafrost soils and waters from permafrost thaw lakes. He is executive member of the Portuguese Polar Program, IASC Council Member and the Portuguese delegate at the IASC Terrestrial Working Group. Dr. Canário is Principal Researcher at the Centre of Structural Chemistry and Invited Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering/Instituto Superior Técnico, both from the University of Lisbon. He is also external researcher at the Centre D’études Nordiques at University Laval and Adjunct Graduate Faculty Member at Trent University, both in Canada. Since April 2017 he is the chair of the Pan-Arctic Program T-MOSAiC (t-mosaic.com).

• Mathieu Casado

  Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

  Session: Climate (18 June from 14:00 - 15:30)

  Bio: To be added soon

• Joel Fiddes

  University of Oslo, Norway / WSL Institute for snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), Switzerland

  Session: Data Management (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Joel Fiddes is an SNF Research Scholar working on a project to develop data assimilation techniques for cryosphere models together with the Department of Geography at the Unversity of Oslo.

• Øystein Godøy

  Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway / Svalbard Integrated Earth Observing System (SIOS)

  Session: Data Management (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Øystein Godøy has been working with satellite remote sensing since he was a student. His main area of interest is optical sensors and extraction of information on clouds and surface characteristics like snow and sea ice as well as surface radiative fluxes. He is also involved in measurement sites for surface radiative fluxes in the Arctic.

  Starting with the International Polar Year (2007-2009) he got interested in interdisciplinary distributed data management and is now sharing the working time between remote sensing and data management. He is actively involved in national and international data management activities through development of research infrastructures nationally (e.g. NORMAP and NMDC) as well as internationally through WMO (Global Cryosphere Watch) and through SAON/IASC related activities.

• Thomas Jung

  Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

  Session: Climate (18 June from 14:00 - 15:30)

  Bio: To be added soon

• Nanna Karlsson

  Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark

  Session: Fieldwork Planning (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Nanna B. Karlsson is a senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Her work focuses on ice-flow dynamics, ice-penetrating radar, and the coupling of observations and numerical methods. She is interested in icy bodies in Greenland, Antarctica and on Mars. She has participated in numerous expeditions to Greenland and Antarctica, and she considers data collection to be an integral part of her scientific work.

• Stefan Kern

  Center of Excellence for Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP), Germany

  Session: Keynote (18 June from 09:30 - 10:00)

  Bio: Stefan Kern received the Diploma degree in meteorology from the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, in 2001. In Bremen he worked for the EU-project SEALION led by Peter Lemke. Since 2001, he has been with the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, where he first worked at the Institute of Oceanography. Here he worked for the EU-project MARSAIS led by J. Johannessen before he continued on several post-doc positions from German National Funding (ANTCOPOL, SFB512). In 2010 he joined the Center of Excellence for Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) becoming a service employee / scientist at the Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC). Here he is responsible basically for data products from satellite remote sensing. His main research interest is remote sensing of the marine cryosphere, and evaluation and uncertainty assessment for climate data records.

• Ian Meiklejohn

  Rhodes University, South Africa

  Session: Terrestrial (18 June from 14:00 - 15:30)

  Bio: Ian Meiklejohn is Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, South Africa. Many of the answers to the vexing questions around global environmental change are most likely to be found in the Polar Regions and his research interests include global early-warning systems and the interactions of geomorphology with climate and biota in the Antarctic and Arctic. He has participated in fifteen expeditions to the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, as well as an expedition to the Swedish Arctic. Ian has supervised almost 40 PhD's and Masters graduates, with ten from the Antarctic in the past five years. He is one of two hundred invited persons who are part of the Campaign for the poles and is the South African Delegate to SCAR.

• Rahul Mohan

  National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa

  Session: Fieldwork Planning (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Rahul Mohan received the Masters degree in Geology from the Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and the Ph.D. degree in Geology – Oceanic micropaleontology from the same University (BHU) while working at the National Institute of Oceanography in Indo-German project Quarterny upwelling and climate in the Indian Ocean - working on biogenic fluxes in the Northern Indian Ocean. He took a post-doc at BHU and later joined National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa in 2003 as a Scientist. His interest included response and ecology of coccolithophores and marine diatoms from the Southern Indian Ocean. Currently, he is managing the Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctic scientific projects. His group works on Past Climate and Oceanic variability. They have interest in climate records from Antarctic Lakes and Southern ocean with keen interest to understand the linkages between Southern ocean and the Arctic utilizing proxies. He has interest in Outreach and is also involved in educating school and University kids on polar regions and is a member of CBET, SCAR.

• Joseph Nolan

  European Polar Board, Netherlands

  Session: Panel (18 June from 16:45 - 17:45)

  Bio: To be added soon

• Burcu Ozsoy

  Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

  Session: Keynote (18 June from 09:00 - 09:30)

  Bio: Dr. Burcu Ozsoy, Director of Polar Research Center, completed her PhD, in consultancy of Steve Ackley – sea ice geophysicist and co-chairman of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) program on Antarctic Sea ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt). She joined the US Antarctic Expedition on ODEN Cruise in 2006 to conduct in situ ASPeCt sea ice observations. She also obtained various type of Remote Sensing products for validation and comparison with local observations. Her PhD focused on Estimation of Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness from Surface and Space Borne Altimetry, and she tried to contribute to observe the Southern Ocean in her publications as well as during her PhD. She co-organized and joined the 2016 Turkish – Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition again to study sea ice geophysics. She served as the scientific leader of both first national Turkish Antarctic Expedition (TAE-I) and second national Turkish Antarctic Expedition (TAE-II). During the second expedition, there was 15 projects running simultaneously. Other than her experiences on expeditions, she is a lecturer at Istanbul Technical University Maritime Faculty. She offers, Marine Environment Protection and Maritime Remote Sensing Applications courses directly related to her PhD study, in the faculty. The highlighted parts of these two courses are “Conveyor Belt, importance of Polar Regions, Sea ice conditions for Maritime transportations, importance of sea ice observations, ASPeCt sea ice observations and how to conduct, Remote Sensing as tool for vast regions to detect changes as well as to have long term time series, etc.”. International Maritime Organization (IMO) is also working on publishing Polar Code for ships which sail in icy waters especially in Polar Regions. She is heavily involved in joining meetings about the Polar Code nationally and internationally. Finally, she is the part of Horizon 2020 SPICES project team which comprises 14 organizations that are European leaders and among the world leaders in the field of satellite remote sensing as applied to Polar sea ice monitoring and forecasting.

• Julia Schmale

  Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

  Session: Fieldwork Planning (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Julia Schmale is an atmospheric scientist working at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland. She has multiple years of experience in planning, conducting and analyzing field experiments on various platforms at both poles and in alpine areas. Her research focuses on climate effects of aerosol particles, especially in extreme environments. During her PhD (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany) she participated in the International Polar Year flight campaigns over Greenland. Together with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the British Antarctic Survey she conducted aerosol observations from the research station on Bird Island, Southern Ocean. She has also worked on snow-albedo effects of mineral dust and soot on Central Asian glaciers. And, Julia recently circumnavigated Antarctica to study aerosol-cloud interactions. In addition, Julia is a member of the Short-lived climate forcers expert group of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme and represents Switzerland in the Atmospheric Working Group within IASC.

• Jamey Stutz

  Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Session: Fieldwork Planning (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: Jamey is a PhD student in the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. He has participated in five Antarctic field seasons, involving detailed field work planning and field experience across the continent. Through these field seasons, he has worked with the large international POLENET project and two smaller glacial geology field teams. His current research aim is to understand the long-term thinning history of the David Glacier by providing precise chronological ages for glacial erratics left stranded on mountains adjacent to the glacier. He completed field work in December 2018 and will share his perspective on field planning as well as learnings from past seasons.

• Warwick Vincent

  Université Laval, Canada

  Session: Environmental / scientific policy in the polar regions (18 June from 11:00 - 12:30)

  Bio: To be added soon

• Kirsten Werner

  Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

  Session: Climate (18 June from 14:00 - 15:30)

  Bio: To be added soon