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Alia KhanWe are excited to announce that Council member Alia Khan will be representing APECS as a member of the AntarcticClimate21 (AntClim21) Scientific Research Programme of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). This programme will aim to understand Antarctic environment change over the 21st Century thru quantification of Antarctic climate variability, climate model verification for the Antarctic region, and Antarctic climate projection to 2100 AD.  Alia is excited to serve in this role for the next 2 to 3 years. Alia is a new member of the APECS Council and currently a PhD student at the University of Colorado – Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.  She has completed two field seasons in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.  The first during her MS as a member of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Stream Team, measuring stream-flow and water quality of ephemeral glacier fed streams.  This past year she began her doctoral research looking at black carbon transport and deposition in the dry valleys.  She is interested in local and long-range transport of anthropogenic pollutants to pristine areas and their resulting impacts on the environment, and more specifically, using black carbon as a tracer of human impact in the dry valleys.  She is interested in black carbon impacts on surface albedo of snow and ice, as well as changes to water quality.  Thanks to the flexibility of a NSF-Graduate Research Fellowship, and supportive collaborative partners, her other field sites include the Nepalese Himalaya and Svalbard.  Alia is very interested in effective communication of polar science to the public, such as her NYT ‘Scientists at Work’ Blog during her first Antarctic field season: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/author/alia-khan/.

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