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Details for Professor Martin Siegert
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| Name | Professor Martin Siegert | ||||||
| Job title | Visiting Professor in Geographical Sciences |
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| Department | School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol |
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| Out-of-hours contact details | home07780 703 008 | ||||||
| Qualifications | B.Sc.(R'dg), Ph.D.(Cantab.), FRSE | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Co-Chair of Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) programme. Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth). Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching. Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of the Quaternary Research Association. Member of the International Glaciological Society. Member of the American Geophysical Union. Member of the Association of University Teachers. |
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| Keywords | null Antarctica null null null null null null |
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| Areas of expertise | My research addresses key scientific issues in Glaciology and Quaternary Science. I am responsible for the development of three important subjects: Antarctic subglacial lakes; modelling the Quaternary history of the Eurasian Arctic; and the measurement of ice-sheet stratigraphy in Antarctica. My work with Antarctic subglacial lakes is pioneering. On this topic I have published three articles in Nature. My research has resulted in the development of a major new international and multidisciplinary research area, and has received widespread media coverage. My research on the history of the Eurasian Arctic has been a focal point of two EU programmes, and the subject of a single authored text entitled 'Ice sheets and Late Quaternary environmental change' published by John Wiley in March 2001. Through my research on ice-sheet stratigraphy I have discovered ice more than 100,000 years old near the surface of Antarctica and shown how ice accumulation history can be calculated. |
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| Media experience | The Material World, BBC Radio 4 (9 December 1999). On recent developments in the exploration of Lake Vostok The Material World, BBC Radio 4 (10 January 2002). On further developments in the exploration of Lake Vostok BBC 1 Breakfast news (6 December 2001); BBC 1 6 O Clock News, interview on Lake Vostok. This feature was also broadcast on BBC World TV, and on BBC Radio 1, 4 and 5-live throughout 6 December 2001. |
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