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Affiliation: University of Utah
Event Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Location: Bldg 33, room A128
Time: 11:00 AM
Mathematics of Ice to Aid Global Warming Forecasts
Polar sea ice is both an indicator and regulator of climate change. It also serves as a primary habitat for microbial communities, sustaining marine food webs. A new understanding of how salt water flows through sea ice promises to improve forecasts of how global warming will affect earth's icepacks, and how polar ecosystems may respond. Related advances in understanding electrical properties will help in monitoring ice thickness. Video from a 2007 Antarctic expedition will be shown.
Bio:
Kenneth M. Golden is a Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Ken developed an interest in the polar regions in high school, where he studied passive microwave images of Antarctic sea ice at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (w/ J. Zwally). He then worked at CRREL (w/ S. Ackley) on radar propagation in sea ice while completing undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics at Dartmouth College. Ken received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Courant Institute of NYU in 1984. Prior to moving to Utah in 1991, he was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers. Ken has given over 200 invited lectures at conferences and universities on six continents, and has held visiting positions at Stanford and at institutions in France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, and Hong Kong.
Posted or updated: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Editor: Paul Przyborski
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