Glaciers
Connected to everything we know
I am a glaciologist, adventurer and writer
Glaciers are connected to everything we know – our atmosphere, our oceans, croplands, even towns and cities, by their roaring white rivers, vibrant communities of microscopic life and gleaming expanses of ice and snow which shape our climate.
We change them, they change us.
Biography
I am glacier biogeoechemist and writer, educated at the Universities of Cambridge (B.A/M.A.) and Bristol (PhD), where I first fell in love with glaciers. My academic research is field-based and has taken me to most of the icy corners of our Earth, including glaciers in Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya. I’ve been fortunate to have been supported by many incredible teams of researchers and have won several prestigious national awards for my research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. I am particularly interested in glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. I have written over 100 academic journal articles, one academic book and have recently finished my first book for a wide audience - Ice Rivers.
Ice Rivers
Ice Rivers is my first book for a wide audience, published by Penguin Press (Allen Lane) in May 2021 and Princeton University Press in September 2021. You can find out more by clicking the button below.
