Glaciers are critical for human life—a source of drinking water, irrigation for our food, clean energy production and healthy ecosystems. This year, the United Nations is putting the spotlight on the importance of glacier preservation for World Water Day.
The following University of Victoria experts are available to media to discuss glacier preservation topics:
David Atkinson (Geography) is an expert in monitoring and predicting large-scale weather systems and the impact of extreme weather events often caused by climate change, and has put weather monitoring gear on Columbia and Nahanni icefields. He leads the BSc Climate Science degree program that trains students to work with communities to mitigate the climate crisis. (Contact: [email protected])
Jay Cullen (Earth and Ocean Sciences) is director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and an expert in chemical oceanography and the biogeochemistry of trace metals. His research explores how climate change and regional warming, including the melting of glaciers in the Arctic, impact trace metal concentrations in the ocean and related biogeochemical cycles. Currently, a PhD student in the Cullen lab is in Antarctica collecting and analyzing water samples on board the HMCS Margaret Brooke, as part of the first circumnavigation of South America and visit to Antarctica by a Royal Canadian Navy vessel. (Contact: [email protected])
Sophie Norris (Geography) is an expert in glacial erosion and constraining past glacier and ice sheet responses to global climatic change. She uses a wide array of geochronological, mapping and computer modelling tools to quantify the rate of landscape change. (Contact: [email protected])
