Antarctica: Exploration Under The Ice – with Prof Siegert
Event Location:
Skempton Building South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX
public in-person lecture
Explore the significance of recent subglacial research on climate change and hear about our speaker’s upcoming Antarctic expedition - his fourth!
Professor Martin Siegert - Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Cornwall), University of Exeter; previously co-Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial.
30Professor Siegert is a polar scientist who uses airborne and ground-based geophysics to explore the subglacial environment of Antarctica, and to understand how the ice sheet has changed in the past and how it may change in the future. He has undertaken three Antarctic expeditions and has been the UK lead on over a dozen international scientific exploration programmes across the continent. He has published over 300 papers, has written/edited nine books and has convened five major international conferences concerning Antarctic exploration.
He is Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Cornwall) and is responsible for the strategic development of the University of Exeter's activities in Cornwall. Martin joined the University of Exeter in November 2022. Previously, he was co-Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, and Head of the School of Geosciences and Assistant Principal for Climate Change and Energy at the University of Edinburgh.
Event image courtesy of Professor Siegert
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