Ahoy! Glacier Ahead: An Oceanographer’s Journey to the Edge of the Ice. We know not everyone was able to join us in person for our Walker Ammes Lecture this past week, so we wanted to be sure to share the recording with you. You can watch the lecture recording on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/uwpubliclecture. This recording will be available for the next two weeks. 

On Tuesday, October 19th, at 7:30 P.M., Professor Fiamma Straneo, co-Director of the Polar Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and UW Oceanography alumni will be giving a public lecture in 120 Kane Hall, here at the UW! Her talk, “Ahoy! Glacier ahead: an oceanographer’s journey to the edge of the ice,” is part of the Walker-Ames Lecture Series, and will detail her quest to overcome the obstacles preventing the full understanding of how ice sheets respond to warming climates by utilizing “a collaborative, team science effort which spans across the natural sciences and engineering and includes local, indigenous knowledge.” Straneo’s research, which involved everything from helicopters to snow mobiles, brought her to the edge of glaciers, and in the end, enabled the development of improved climate models, and will be a crucial tool in the collaborative effort to understand our changing seas.