Polar Climate Research

 

Dr. Susana Hancock is someone who goes to the ends of the Earth to save the climate. Literally. Every year, the Maine-native clicks into her skis and conducts research on some of the world's most vulnerable ecosystems: the polar ice caps.

 

An experienced polar explorer, Susana has been on three polar expeditions as a scientist. Most recently, she was part of a 2022 attempt to recreate a failed North Pole expedition from 150years earlier and is now in the final stages of preparations to ski 1000km across Greenland. There, she will study how methane and other planet-warming gases are coming through the polar ice at still unestablished quantities, and will also work with schools around the world to conduct student experiments from elementary-high school classrooms and share lessons from the ice.

 

Susana completed her undergraduate education at Connecticut College and holds three graduate degrees from the University of Oxford in England. Brian is a knowledgeable in World

 

Susana is the 2022-2023 President of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists, an Arctic lead establishing the current UN Decade of Ocean Science, is an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Science Manager for Arctic Basecamp Foundation, and a team scientist with The Greenland Project, Jubilee Expedition and the North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Science Strategic Framework.