The Story of Sea Ice with Dr. Julienne Stroeve

The Story of Sea Ice with Dr. Julienne Stroeve


In this specific lesson, Dr. Julienne Stroeve explains her research with MOSAiC in studying Arctic sea ice thickness. Using 40 years of satellite observations, she can track how quickly sea ice volume is declining.

This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org). 

 


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About the Presenter

Julienne Stroeve is a senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, specializing in remote sensing of the crysophere. She is also affiliated with the University of Manitoba during a seven-year tenure there as a Canada C150 Chair, and also as a Professor at University College London. Her research groups focus on improving sea ice retrievals using satellites, the impacts of sea ice loss on extreme weather events and northern communities, and future projections of ice conditions. She regularly conducts fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctic to collect validation data for sea ice algorithms as well as deploy buoys and moorings. Stroeve’s work is regularly featured in documentaries, and at policy meetings. She is passionate about informing policy makers and the general public about the urgency of limiting global warming to less than 2°C.

Additional Resources

Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.

In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.

 

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