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Maths, Models and Melting Ice - Ep78: Emily Shuckburgh
Maths, Models and Melting Ice - Ep78: Emily Shuckburgh
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65 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge's major climate change initiative. Emily is a climate scientist and mathematician, a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy and a Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey. She leads the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks. A polar expert, she previously led a UK national research programme on the Southern Ocean and its role in climate. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for services to science and the public communication of science. She is co-author with HRH The Prince of Wales and Tony Juniper of the Ladybird Book on Climate Change. Further reading:Official biohttps://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/efs20Cambridge Zerohttps://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge Zero Policy Forum https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/Research-Policy-Engagement/cambridge-zero/AI4ERhttps://ai4er-cdt.esc.cam.ac.uk/ Centre for Landscape Regenerationhttps://www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/
Released:
Mar 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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