CPOM Staff based at UCL
Katharine Giles
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Katharine Giles is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CPOM. Her research involves using data from the ESA satellites, ERS1 & 2 and Envisat, to study trends sea ice freeboard/thickness in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans, and to study the Arctic Ocean dynamic topography. She has also been involved with ESA working on the calibration and validation activities for the CryoSat satellite. During 2007, Katharine participated in fieldwork in both the Arctic and Antarctic, spending two weeks in April camping on an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean, and six weeks in September and October on a ship in the Antarctic sea ice. Her web blog from the Antarctic field work can be found at here. Katharine is also interested in science communication and spent 3 months in 2006 presenting the Faraday Lecture, about Climate Change and alternative energy sources, to teenagers around the UK and in Asia.
Katharine obtained a 1st Class M.Sci. in Earth and Space Science from University College London in 2000. She was awarded a Dean's Commendation and the Matthews Prize for Excellence in Geophysics. Katharine was award a Ph.D. in Space and Climate Physics from University College London in 2005 for a thesis entitled Radar and Laser Altimeter Measurements over Arctic Sea Ice.