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Women play a critical role in fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctica, but the vast majority of them report negative experiences while undertaking this research. Here’s how we can fix the problem.
Liquid water below the ice determines how fast an ice stream flows. As the ice sheet gets thinner, more of that salty groundwater could rise.
Antarctic research has historically been a bastion of men from Europe and North America. Only now is the field opening up to women and people of colour. And there’s a way to go yet.
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Assistant Professor of Geophysics and Hydrologic Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Marine Biologist in Polar Marine Ecology and Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Director of the Arctic Centre, Umeå University
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania