Peter Wadhams Explained
| Peter Wadhams |
| Honorific Suffix: | ScD |
| Birth Date: | 1948 5, df=yes |
| Workplaces: | University of Cambridge |
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| Awards: | Polar Medal Add Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences 1990, W S Bruce Medal (Royal Societyof Edinburgh) 1977. |
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Peter Wadhams ScD (born 14 May 1948) is emeritus[1] professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Groupin the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on sea ice.
Career
Wadhams has been the leader of 40 polar field expeditions.[2]
Wadhams advocates for the use of climate engineering to mitigate climate change.[3]
Attempting to estimate when the Arctic Ocean will be "ice-free", Wadhams in 2014 predicted that by 2020 "summer sea ice to disappear,"[4] [5] Wadhams and several others have noted that climate model predictions have been overly conservative regarding sea ice decline.[6]
In 2021, Wadhams is the Chairman of Science Committee for Extreme E.[7]
Honours and awards
- 1977 W. S. Bruce Medal for his oceanographic investigations, especially in studying the behaviour of pack ice near Spitsbergen, the North Pole and off east Greenland.[8]
- 1987 Polar Medal.
- 1990 Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Research | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
- Web site: Professor Peter Wadhams . Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics . . 10 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171208155922/http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/p.wadhams/ . 8 December 2017 . dead .
- Geoengineering May Be Our Best Chance to Save Sea Ice . 13 November 2012 . Scientific American . Nature America . 10.1038/scientificamerican1212-12 . 10 August 2015 .
- News: Craig Medred . Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report . 9 January 2021 . . 2 November 2014 . "By 2020, one would expect the summer sea ice to disappear. By summer, we mean September. ... (but) not many years after, the neighboring months would also become ice-free." Wadhams later clarified that by "ice-free" he did not exactly mean the Arctic was going to look like the Baltic Sea in summer..
- News: Sarah Knapton . Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by September 2016 - they were wrong . 9 January 2021 . . 8 October 2016 . Prof Wadhams, a leading expert on Arctic sea ice loss, has recently published a book entitled A Farewell To Ice in which he repeats the assertion that the polar region would free of ice in the middle of this decade.. .
- Overland . J. E. . Wang . M. . 129474241 . 10.1002/grl.50316 . When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free? . Geophysical Research Letters . 40 . 10 . 2097 . 2013 . 2013GeoRL..40.2097O .
- Web site: Extreme e - the Electric Odyssey.
- Web site: Archived copy . 2016-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161020114617/http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~rsgs/awardsandmedals/wsbruce.pdf . 2016-10-20 .
