peter wadhams

A meeting with “the Elvis of sea ice science”

Posted by jossg - 12 September 2011 at 9:08am - 0 Comments

Two crew members get their first sight of sea ice from the bow of the Arctic Sunrise, in waters off Arctic Svalbard

A few months ago I took the train down from London to Cambridge with my colleague Frida Bengtsson, who is leading this expedition, so that we could meet up with Professor Peter Wadhams. As head of the University’s ‘Polar Ocean Physics Group’, it’s fair to say Peter knows a thing or two about Arctic sea ice. Friends at Greenpeace like to call him ‘the Elvis of sea ice science.’

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