Sea ice research biographies

Jonathan Bamber - Bristol Glaciology Centre, University Bristol.
Email:
j.bamber@bristol.ac.uk
Interested in remote sensing of sea ice characteristics and understanding the interaction of sea ice with the rest of the climate system, with a particular focus on the Arctic.

Mike Bell - Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM), Met Office.
Interested in ocean and sea-ice modelling and data assimilation. Manager of FOAM group and of ESA funded study in "Synergistic use of remote sensing data in coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere model data assimilation".

Mark Brandon - Earth Sciences, OU.
Email: m.a.brandon@open.ac.uk
Interested in polar oceangraphy. Particularly sea ice and its effect on the upper ocean. Also interested in coupled physical and biological polar ocean problems. For more details see http://www3.open.ac.uk/Earth-Sciences/people/26.shtml

William Connolley - BAS.
Email: wmc@bas.ac.uk
Climate modelling, sea ice dynamics with GCMs, especially EVP in HadCM3.
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/seaice/

Finlo Cottier - Marine Physics Group, SAMS.
Interests in brine inclusion, distribution and drainage from sea ice including the microstructure and brine channel development. Currently working in high latitude fjords and the effect of sea ice cover on the modification of enclosed bodies of water.
www.sams.ac.uk

Chris Durman - Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office.
Interested in GCM modelling of the polar regions and response of the polar regions to climate change.

Danny Feltham - CPOM, UCL.
Email:
Daniel.Feltham@cpom.ucl.ac.uk
Interested in mathematical models and process studies of sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics. Especially anisotropic sea ice rheology, relating rheology to observations, granular flow in the MIZ, and modelling of melt ponds.
For more details see www.cpom.org.

Jonathan Gregory, Met Office Hadley Centre & CGAM, Dept. Meteorology, University of Reading.
Interests in the role of sea ice in climate and climate change, and in the development of the sea ice component of Hadley Centre climate models.
http://www.cgam.nerc.ac.uk/~jonathan/

Edward Hanna - Geography, Sheffield.
Email: ehanna@sheffield.ac.uk
Interested in satellite and in situ, including historic, observations of sea ice; links of monthly-decadal Arctic sea-ice cover with Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance and other Arctic ice caps/glaciers; sea ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions and climatic couplings.

Paul Holland - CPOM, UCL.
Email:
p.holland@cpom.ucl.ac.uk
Interests include numerical modelling of fluid flow, frazil ice formation and plankton population dynamics. Currently interested in ice shelf-ocean interactions. For more details see www.cpom.org

Matt Huddleston - Long-Range Forecasting Development, Hadley Centre, Met Office.
Email: matt.huddleston@metoffice.com
Interests in sea ice models, ice thickness data, assimilation, predictability, teleconnections, seasonal forecasting.

Ann Keen - Hadley Centre, Met Office.
Interested in modelling and validation of sea-ice in coupled CGMs, primarily for climate change studies.

John King - British Antarctic Survey.
Interests include observations of air-sea-ice interaction, the representation of sea ice processes in large scale models and the impact of sea ice variability on climate.

Seymour Laxon, CPOM, UCL.
Email:
enquiries@cpom.ucl.ac.uk
Interested in satellite altimeter retrievals of sea ice thickness, sea ice modelling and polar geodesy. For more details see www.cpom.org

Alison McLaren - Hadley Centre, Met Office.
Interested in sea ice models that are used in coupled climate models.

Kim Partington - Vexcel UK.
Iinterests include sea ice observations for operational and climate-related applications.
For more details see: www.vexcel.co.uk

Nick Rayner - Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.
Develops globally complete multi-decadal data sets of sea ice and SST for climate applications; interested in understanding the components of and removing inhomogeneities from the historical record and in data archaeology.

Ian Renfrew - British Antarctic Survey.
Email: i.renfrew@bas.ac.uk
Interests: Air-Sea-Ice interactions, observations and modelling of the atmospheric boundary layer over the sea ice zone, dynamics and thermodynamics of polynyas and their role in modifying both the atmosphere and the ocean.
For more information: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/ire

Jeff Ridley - Hadley Centre, Met Office.
Email: jeff.ridley@metoffice.com
Interests: Development of sea-ice and land-ice sub-models in GCMs, including their validation from observations. Polar region climate change, particularly the mechanisms for oceanic and atmospheric coupling and heat transport.

Peter Sammonds - Earth Sciences/CPOM, UCL.
Email: p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk
Interest: Modelling sea ice dynamics, sea ice physics, laboratory and ice tank experiments.
For more details see: www.earthsci.ucl.ac.uk/people/sammonds/

John Turner - British Antarctic Survey.
Email: J.Turner@bas.ac.uk
Interested in the representation of sea ice in climate models, the relationships between sea ice extent and the climate at coastal stations, satellite remote sensing of sea ice and long term variability and change of sea ice extent and concentration.
For more details see http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/john.turner/

Peter Wadhams - Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group, Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, University of Cambridge, and SAMS.

Andrew J. Willmott - Department of Mathematics, Keele University.
Research fields include the modelling of polynyas and the water mass transformation processes that take place within them. Included in these topics is the use of granular materials to describe frazil ice. Also the impact of sea ice on large-scale ocean circulation and climate.
See http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ma/gfd/

Grae Worster - Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
Email: grae@esc.cam.ac.uk
I am interested in the coupled interactions between phase change and fluid flow, including the thermodynamics and fluid dynamics associated with the formation and evolution of sea ice. A particular aspect of these dynamics is the development of brine channels, which form the main conduits for the drainage of dense, highly saline brine from sea ice into the underlying ocean. I have developed mathematical models of convection in and from sea ice guided by and tested against laboratory experiments and used to interpret field data, which I am also involved in obtaining.
For details of publications, see http://www.itg.cam.ac.uk/people/grae/