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Ian took a degree in Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), staying on to do a PhD in thunderstorm electrification processes. Following this he moved to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he worked on marine meteorology, boundary layer clouds, and air-sea interaction for 8 years. Since 2002 he has worked at the University of Leeds, where he is now Professor of Boundary Layer Processes. His research focuses on problems in air-sea interaction, turbulent processes, and Arctic climate.
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Matthieu is a researcher at Meteo France/Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques (CNRM), leading a research team on air-sea coupling and air-ice-sea interactions. His research mainly focuses on climate predictability in the polar regions, initialization of the ocean-sea ice state in subseasonal and seasonal forecasting systems, understanding coupled processes at the air-ice-sea interface, and improving their representation in coupled models used for climate and weather predictions. He is a member of the Steering Group of the Polar Prediction Project and a member of YOPP Modelling Task Team. He has experience of field campaigns in Greenland, the Beaufort sea, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay.
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Jonny is interested in polar weather and climate processes, particularly coupled processes involving the crysophere. He is currently developing diagnostics to evaluate the ECMWF IFS model in the polar regions. Before joining ECMWF in 2017, Jonny was an AXA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading. His research focused on Arctic cyclones, sea ice prediction, and polar climate processes. Before this he was a postdoc at the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). He received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2011.
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Anna is a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Knowledge Exchange, and European Space Agency (ESA) Research Fellow, working in the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds. Anna’s primary field of expertise is Earth observation of the Polar regions, where she has gained expertise in a wide range of Earth observation data sources and processing methods including the quantitative techniques of satellite radar altimetry and satellite radar interferometry. She has used satellite Earth Observation data to write journal papers on ice speed, grounding line location, ice elevation change, and calving front migration.
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Thomas is in an expert in climate analysis, modelling, and prediction from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. He received his PhD in atmospheric physics from the Institute for Marine Research, Kiel, Germany, and then went on to work for 10 years in the research department of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in the UK. Thomas is currently head of the Climate Dynamics section at the AWI and full professor for physics of the climate system at the University of Bremen. He is also spokesperson of AWI’s research programme and serves as the chair of the Polar Prediction Project of WMO’s World Weather Research Programme. Since 2016 Thomas has been coordinating the EU project APPLICATE.
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Erik is a research professor at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and the University of Bergen, Norway. He graduated with a PhD on polar lows and extreme weather in the Arctic in 2007. In recent years his interests have expanded to include climate services and seasonal forecasting in addition to polar weather. He is involved in the new Norwegian ALERTNESS project, which is led by MET Norway and aims to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic.
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Linus did his Masters in meteorology at Uppsala University and his PhD at Stockholm University on ensemble weather prediction. Shortly after finishing his PhD in 2009 he joined ECMWF. During his first years there he worked on initialisation of the ocean in seasonal forecasts and later on sea-ice modelling. In 2012 he started work on diagnostics, and his main areas of research are predictability, extreme weather, and model climatology and variability; areas that are all relevant for weather predictions of Polar regions.
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Don studies the geophysics of sea-ice, with particular emphasis on electromagnetic, thermodynamic, and morphological properties. The central goal of his research is deceivingly simple to state: follow the photons. He seeks to understand the interaction of solar radiation with sea-ice, including the role of sea-ice albedo feedback in the Arctic climate system. Sunlight impacts the heat budget of the ice and primary productivity in the ice and upper ocean. His interests also include the mass balance of sea-ice cover, with an emphasis on the summer melt cycle. He has participated in numerous field experiments including a year-long drift experiment and a trans-Arctic expedition. He is a Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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Jessica began her scientific career studying salmon migration at the University of Washington, where she also took a public speaking and science communication course created by graduate students for graduate students. She became passionate about science communication and went on to become the instructor of the course as well as to serve on the board of directors for the program that manages it. Now as the Web Manager / Communications Officer of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), she helps Arctic researchers and stakeholders communicate across disciplinary boundaries and form collaborations to solve the big problems in Arctic research. She’ll be at PPS to share some outreach and science communication techniques, as well as help you perfect your frostbytes.
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Doug works at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre. He researches seasonal to decadal predictability, especially the physical processes and sources of skill. Doug is co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Seasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP), and of the Decadal Climate Prediction Panel (DCPP). He is currently developing the Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project (MIP), a new CMIP6 MIP that will investigate the causes and consequences of polar amplification.
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Gunilla’s research interests range from atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence and clouds to global scale circulation. Based at the University of Stockholm in Sweden, she develops and applies numerical models for small-scale atmospheric processes and studies the effect of these processes on atmospheric circulation patterns. Gunilla is also involved in the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Task Team on Modelling and Education.