Friends of Hocken Collections Talk - Why care about sea ice?

Professor Pat Langhorne – New Zealand’s foremost sea-ice scientist with a specific focus on ice physics.

The increasing focus on climate change is reflected in the first of the talks for this year. Dr Pat Langhorne, New Zealand’s foremost sea-ice scientist – with a specific focus on ice physics - will be the speaker on Wednesday, 17th March.

She writes: ‘Satellites began monitoring the sea ice-covered area of the ocean in the late 1970s (just as I started my PhD). Over the ensuing four decades Arctic sea ice has changed dramatically. What has happened to sea ice in the Antarctic during this time? And what about sea ice thickness? Has it changed in the Arctic? What about the Antarctic? Over the last 40 years other things have changed too. I will give a personal perspective on the changing attitudes of the scientific establishment, and of the general public, with regard to polar research.’

As always the lecture begins at Hocken at 5.30. You are welcome to come for light refreshments at 5.00 - tell, and bring, your friends.