Julian A. Dowdeswell

Julian A. Dowdeswell (born 18 November 1957)[1] is a British glaciologist and is the Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and a Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.[2]

Professor

Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian Dowdeswell
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forWork on the form and flow of glaciers and ice caps and their response to climate change, and the links between former ice sheets and the marine geological record, using a variety of satellite, airborne and shipborne geophysical tools.
Awards
Scientific career
Fieldsglaciology
InstitutionsScott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Thesis[www.spri.cam.ac.uk/graduate/theses/ Remote Sensing Studies of Svalbard Glaciers] (1984)

Education

Dowdeswell graduated with a BA in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1980, and studied for a master's degree at INSTAAR in the University of Colorado and for a Ph.D. in the Scott Polar Research Institute.[3]

Career

He started his career as a lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He subsequently went on to work as a Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol and then to the University of Cambridge in 2001. He became the director of the Scott Polar Research Institute in 2002. He is also a professorial fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.[3]

His research focuses on the form and flow of glaciers and ice caps and their response to climate change, and the links between former ice sheets and the marine geological record, using a variety of satellite, airborne and shipborne geophysical tools.[2]

In 2019 Professor Dowdeswell is Chief Scientist on the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019, which aims to:

  • investigate the ice shelves around the Weddell Sea and, in particular, the Larsen C Ice Shelf from which a giant iceberg broke off in July 2017
  • document the rich and little-studied marine life of the western Weddell Sea ecosystem
  • attempt to locate and survey the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’, which was trapped and crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.[4][5]

Awards
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References
  1. DOWDESWELL, Prof. Julian Andrew, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. "Professor Julian A. Dowdeswell". Scott Polar Research Institute. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. "Professor Julian Dowdeswell". Geographical Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. "The Expedition - Weddell Sea Expedition". Weddell Sea Expedition. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  5. "Unprecedented international scientific expedition to Weddell Sea announced". Toucan Moon. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  6. "IASC MEDAL 2014". International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  7. "Awards and Funds winners". The Geological Society of London.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Keith Richards		 Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute
2002–		 Succeeded by
incumbent
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