In this special lecture on oceans and geoengineering, we were joined by the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist, Professor Peter Wadhams, and the University of Bath’s Dr Jun Zang.
Professor Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist, with 40 years of research in sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic.
He is the author of numerous publications on the dynamics and thermodynamics of sea ice, sea ice thickness, waves in ice, icebergs, ocean convection and kindred topics. He has led 46 research expeditions to the polar seas, working from ice camps, icebreakers, and aircraft, and has also worked extensively from Arctic submarines where he used multi-beam sonar to measure ice topography and carried out six voyages to the North Pole from 1971 to 2007.
Dr Jun Zang is Reader and the Deputy Director of Centre for Infrastructure, Geotechnics and Water Engineering (IGWE) in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.
She is leading one of the world leading groups working on investigating violent wave impact on coastal and offshore structures, developing marine renewable energy, and developing advanced numerical methods for accurately modelling coastal and urban flooding and wave-structure interaction.
This event was chaired by Deputy Director of the Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Bath, Dr Philippe Blondel.
This event is part of ‘Our oceans: A deep dive’ – a new public event series seeking to explore the world’s oceans and what climate change, maritime trade and strategic conflict mean for their future. Learn more about the series: https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/our-oceans-a-deep-dive/
