Anna Wåhlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-6476) is a Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Her research focus is in the field of Polar Oceanography, mostly in the Southern Ocean. Specifically, her research investigates several aspects of dynamics of polar seas, including physical oceanography, ocean circulation, topographic effects, ice shelf melt processes and air-sea-ice interaction. When Wåhlin was appointed professor in 2015, she became Sweden’s first female full Professor of Oceanography. She is project leader for Sweden’s national AUV infrastructure funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Between 2015 and 2017, Wåhlin was co-chair of the joint Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and SCOR initiative Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). She is an Associate Editor of the journal Advances in Polar Science and member of the IOW scientific advisory board (2016-2019). Her awards include being a Fulbright Scholar (2007-2008), receiving a Crafoord Research Stipend from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (2010), being a SCAR visiting professor (2013) and receiving the Albert Wallin science prize from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences (KKVS) in Gothenburg 2018.
Dr Rob Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is a physical oceanographer who uses observations and numerical model simulations to research shelf sea and deep ocean fluid dynamics. As part of TARSAN Team, he will use autonomous underwater vehicles to diagnose turbulent mixing rates and the flow of water masses into and out of the ice-shelf cavities.
Dr. Martin Truffer is a Professor in the Department of Physics and the Geophysical Institute at University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. He is a geophysicist interested in subglacial processes and ice-ocean interaction, using a variety of geophysical tools. As part of TARSAN Team, he will be responsible for drilling boreholes through the Dotson and Crosson Iceshelves, which will be used to retrieve sediment cores and install through-ice ocean moorings.
Guilherme is tagging Weddell and elephant seals to obtain important information about the water in the eastern Amundsen Sea. The tags collect conductivity, temperature and depth (i.e., CTD profiles) when seals are diving, potentially in places and during periods when research may be very difficult, such as close to Thwaites Glacier during winter. With a background in veterinary medicine, ecology and statistics, Guilherme is interested in the environmental changes that are affecting Thwaites Glacier and, potentially, also affecting the animals living around in the Amundsen Sea.
Iain Wheel is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. He will be applying Elmer/Ice and HiDEM models to investigate ice shelf and ice-cliff [in]stability.
Jonathan Adams is a PhD student and a researcher on the GHC project.
C. Rosie Williams's role within the project is centered around working with Robert Arthern on the ice-sheet model WAVI at BAS. They will support the effort to couple the ocean model MITgcm with the ice model, and run forward simulations. Using Bayesian methods with the ensemble of model runs provides an improved assessment of the probable contribution to sea level from Thwaites Glacier during the 21st century.
